Health Careers Opportunity Program
Internet Training Resources
Virginia Tanji, MSLS, MEd, tanji@hawaii.edu
Relevant Web Resources
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MEDLINEplus http://www.medlineplus.gov
consumer health information site from the National Library of Medicine. It includes links to databases, dictionaries, federal agencies and other associations arranged by disease condition and broad categories. An excellent starting place for basic information about a specific condition
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CDC
Health Topics A - Z http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm
Good starting point from the Centers for Disease Control of the National Institutes of Health
- HiPHIVE (Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium)
Journal Databases: use these databases to identify a potentially relevant article from the research literature
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Pubmed MEDLINE http//www.pubmed.gov
1966-present,
index to the biomedical journal literature from the National Library of
Medicine. Available for searching for free from NLM as well
as a range of other vendors. Includes journal citations with abstracts
for most citations. A few free full-text articles are available.
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Expanded Academic ASAP indexes
a range of scholarly journals ( a few from each broad discipline Includes
some full-text articles)
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- Includes 3200+ full-text journals; consider restricting to scholarly peer-reviewed journals.
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Science Direct Access over 1200 full-text scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals available for searching via Hamilton Library. http://www.hawaii.edu/serials/eserials.htm
Tutorials/Evaluating Internet Resources
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Navigating
the Web: Using Search Tools and Evaluating Resources http://healthlinks.washington.edu/help/navigating/
from the
University of Washington, Health Sciences Library, Janet G. Schnall, MS,
AHIP and Emily Hull, MLS. An excellent tutorial.
- Ask NOAH about Evidence Based Medicine http://www.noah-health.org/english/ebhc/ebhc.html See section regarding Evidence for Consumers
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Bare
Bones 101 - a tutorial created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian
at the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
- PubMed
Tutorial http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
interactive tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
Search Engines
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Google
http://www.google.com/
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SearchGov.com
http://www.searchgov.com/ new search engine, government sites only
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Updated 5/24 /02