Biomedical Resources Biomedical sites by subject (meta-indexes) Education-Related Resources Funding Opportunities Organizations and Associations Hospitals Clinical Skills The Connecticut Tutorials Consumer Health Information Recommended Resources from Healthnet Copyright & Intellectual Property Resources Recommended Resources Handheld Computer Resources PDA Resources

Online Library Resources Biomedical and Academic Databases Electronic Journals and Newspapers Reference Texts Library and Book Catalogs Libraries Publishers Web Sites Instructions for Authors Finding Information on the Web Search Engines Directories of Information People Finders Zip Code Look-ups Web Tutorials

Biomedical Resources

Meta Indexes: Biomedical Sites by Subject

• Medical Matrix - Ranked, peer reviewed, annotated and updated clinical medical resources
  
• MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources - Searchable collection of 8,000+ biomedical links from Emory University
  
• HealthWeb - Evaluated non-commercial resources compiled by 21 medical libraries.
• Bioterrorism websites.

• Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
• Medical schools of the world" - scroll to "World Directory of Medical Schools (.pdf files)"
• Dental schools of the U.S.
• Schools of Public Health of the World
• FREIDA - Fellowship and Residency Electornic Interactive Database Access
• Directory of medical residencies available on the web
• USMLE Guide
• CME meeting locators and resources
• Medical conferences locator
• Medical congresses locator
• LearningExpressLibrary
  

• NIH grants and funding opportunities
• Government, general, and private funding sources
• Funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences
• EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
• Grant writing guide for private and public grants

National Organizations

• American Medical Association
• American Hospital Association
• American Dental Association
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Food and Drug Administration
• National Institutes of Health
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• U.S. National Library of Medicine and other Federal WWW Resources

• World Health Organization
• Pan American Health Organization

• American Hospital Directory
• U.S. and world hospital directory
• U.S. and world hospitals on the Internet

Copyright & Intellectual Property Resources

Circular 21 - Reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians
Considering Copyright Issues - University of Connecticut Libraries
Copyright & Fair Use - Stanford University Libraries
Copyright Basics (PDF) - US Copyright Office
Copyright Compliance Guidelines for Reserve Services - University of Connecticut Libraries
Copyright in the Digital Age - A program at University of Connecticut Storrs Campus (video recording)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 Summary (PDF) - US Copyright Office
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials - University of Texas System
Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and Library Reserve Use - American Library Association
Primer on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - American Library Association
Scholar's Copyright Project - Background Briefing for the issues driving Science Commons' work in this area.
TEACH Act Toolkit - North Carolina State University Libraries
US Copyright Office

Online Library Resources

Biomedical Databases

For help searching the biomedical databases available from UCHC or UConn Storrs, please consult the schedule of library classes or contact a reference librarian at (860) 679-2942

Electronic Journals & Newspapers

• Journals on the Internet (for UCHC IP addresses only)
• Lists of Newspaper and Periodical Resources on the Internet from the Library of Congress
• Biomedicine and Health in the News - citation and summaries of articles published in the New York Times

• Electronic Texts (many restricted to UCHC IP addresses only)
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Statistical Information
  • CIA's World Factbook
  • FEDSTATS
  • Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
  • U.S. Bureau of the Census
  • World Almanac
• University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook
• English and 230+ more dictionaries

• Lyman - the catalog of UCHC with a gateway to Homer, the catalog of UConn-Storrs
• Yale Medical Library
• ReQuest Main Catalog - 230+ Connecticut academic and public libraries
  • ReQuest Serials Catalog - Click on "Database Selection" then select "reQuest Serials Cat"
• National Library of Medicine's catalog
• International list of library online catalogs

• Amazon.com
• Books in Print (For UCHC IP addresses only)

• Connecticut Libraries
• U.S. public, academic, special, and school libraries, world libraries, and related sites

• Publishers/Publisher's Catalogs

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

Consumer Health Information

• Recommended Resources from Healthnet
  

Finding Information on the Web

Search Engines

• Google
• Profusion-searches up to 9 popular search engines simultaneously
• International Search Engines

• Metaplus - a meta directory of WWW sites - search engines, lookups, news, business, financial, jobs, government, travel, entertainment, weather, and sports, etc
• DOGPILE - searches 14 web databases and numerous other Usenet news and FTP databases
• metacrawler - searches 7 web databases
• Liszt, the mailing list directory - Search Liszt's directory of over 71,000 Internet mailing lists

• Yahoo's People Search
• Yahoo's Yellow Pages
• InfoSpace - find phone numbers, street and email addresses of people, businesses, federal, state, and local government officials and agencies, and national and local weather

• U.S. Zip Code Directory

• Finding Information on the Internet
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Advanced HTML
• Yale's Web Style Guide
• Web-Based Instruction Resource Site