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This page provides starting points for research by displaying the most important and useful databases, journals, books, and other reference tools, both print and electronic, in the field of Medicine and Health. Please keep in mind that this page is not comprehensive. Additional information may be found in the Life Sciences Library.

= Recommended	= Full Text Resource	= FindText Resource
= ND-Only Resource	= Free Resource	= View Full Record
= ND Catalog Record	= INSPIRE Resource

Access to these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the Notre Dame community and to individuals who use the Notre Dame Libraries' facilities. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information. Acceptable use forbids downloading contents of entire issues of a given journal title. The use of software such as scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in loss of access to these resources for the entire Notre Dame community.

Please see the ND Copyright Policies webpage for more information on the creation and use of copyrighted materials at Notre Dame.

Recommended Resources (All Resources: 54 databases | 686 e-journals )

• BioOne

  
  
  Aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.

• Entrez

  
  
  Life sciences search engine produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

• MEDLINE (EBSCO)

  
  
  MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

• PubMed

  
  

  Coverage:

  Site as viewed May 29, 1997 (rev. Apr. 29, 1998);
  "Provides access to over 12 million Medline citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals."

• SCIRUS

  
  
  A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.

Other Medicine and Health Resources

Organizations: Libraries

General and local information: Wellness

Formats: Data, statistics and survey results · Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Proceedings

Research tools: Abbreviations · Alerting services · Catalogs · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Handbooks and manuals · Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources

E-Journal Collections: Academic Press · ACS (Amer. Chemical Soc.) · American Heart Association · American Society for Microbiology · Annual Reviews · ASME (Amer.Soc.Mech.Engrs.) · BioMed Central · Blackwell Synergy · Brill Academic Publishers · Cambridge University Press · Haworth Press · HighWire Press · IngentaConnect · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · MIT Press · Nature · Open Access Journals · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Sage Publications · ScienceDirect · Springer LINK · Taylor & Francis · University of Chicago Press · Wiley InterScience