Health Information & Research Bodies
HEALTH INFORMATION & RESEARCH BODIES
- Canadian Centre for Occupation Health and Safety
- Cochrane Canada (Registration required)
- Canadian Healthcare Network (Registration required)
- Canadian Institute for Health Information
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario - ICES
JOURNALS
Canadian
- BC Medical Journal
- Canada Communicable Disease Report
- Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
- Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine
- Canadian Journal of Surgery
- Clinical & Investigative Medicine
- CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
- Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
- Journal of the Canadian Dental Association
International
- Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - close to 10,000 free journals
- Free Medical Journals - over 4,000 free journals
- Highwire Press - lists free online journals
- Instructions to authors in the health sciences
- Journal TOCs (UK) - over 22,000 journal TOCs are included from more than 1900 publishers
- List of Serials Indexed for Online Users - authority list for verifying journal title or journal abbreviation for journals indexed in Medline
LIBRARY CATALOGUES
- CISTI Catalogue (Ottawa)
- McMaster University Libraries
- Mohawk College Library
- University of Toronto Library
- Hamilton Public Library
MEDICAL MEETINGS
- eMedEvents
- Medical Conferences
- DocGuide - registration required
- PhysiciansCareer.com
- Conference Alerts
- Newswise - Calender of Medical Meetings
MENTAL HEALTH WEBSITES
- Internet Mental Health
- Continuing Medical Education - Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
- Depression and Primary Care (Glad-PC) - Guidelines for Adolescent Depression - Primary Care
- American Psychological Association
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Schizophrenia.com
- McMaster - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
- Canadian Mental Health Association - Ontario Chapter
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation Canada
- American Psychiatric Association
- National Empowerment Center
- Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Mental Health Recovery
- Choices in Recovery Support for Schizphrenia, Schizoaffective & Bipolar Disorders
- Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments
- HealthLine - Bipolar-Disorder and other Disorders
- Together to Live - A toolkit for addressing youth suicide in your community
- Multilanguage Brochures on Mental Health
PHARMACY
- RphWorld
- Canadian Pharmacists Association
- Epocrates Online
- MediResource: Drug Information
- Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
- Medilexicon
- Ontario Drug Formulary/Comparative Drug Index
- Ontario Drug Benefit Program - forms & applications
- Pillbox - National Library of Medicine
- RxList
PROFESSIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONS & COLLEGES
- Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses
- Canadian Liver Foundation (multi language)
- Canadian Medical Association
- Canadian Nurses Association
- College of Nurses of Ontario
- Canadian Public Health Association
- Heart & Stroke Multicultural Resources
- Ontario Medical Association
- Ontario Nurses Association
- Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
PUBLISHING GUIDELINES
Websites for Online Style Guides & Handbooks
- The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges: StyleWizard
- Green River Co. BIBME (automatically formats in MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian)
- The Hekman Library at Calvin college KnightCite (Automatically formats in MLA, APA or Chicago)
- Grammar Handbook: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Instructions for Authors
Instruction to authors in the health sciences (Website is maintained by Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio. Contains links to websites for more than 6,000 journals).
Style Guides for Citing References & Compiling Bibliographies
SELECTED FULL TEXT BOOKS
Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- Dictionary/Thesaurus
- MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
- On-Line Medical Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Your Dictionary
Anatomy
- Atlas of the Human Body (AMA)
- Gray's Anatomy
- Interactive Atlases - Digital Anatomist Project
- Lumen Learn 'Em
Miscellaneous
STATISTICS
- Population Reference Bureau
Topics include Marriage and Family, Population Estimates and Projections, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Income and Poverty, Migration, Foreign-Born Population, Children, Older Population, Political Arithmetic, Fertility, Labor
Force and Employment, and Mortality. - Centers for Disease Control - US Data and Statistics
- Disability Statistics Center - US
- Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course (NLM)
An excellent self-study course that explains a lot of the "why and why not" questions regarding health statistics. - Health Statistics (US)
- National Center for Health Statistics
- POPLINE (Johns Hopkins Center for Communication)
Coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and
population law and policy. - Statistics (NIH) - extensive list of US Health Statistics sites
- Statistics Canada
- Statistics Canada - Free Internet Publications
- WHO Global Health Observatory
- WHOSIS- Health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global Program on Evidence health Policy
- World Health Report:
An analysis of the increasingly important influence of health systems in the daily lives of people worldwide.
SPECIALIZED STATISTICS
- Disease Surveillance Online
Cancer, cardiovascular and notifiable diseases. - Basic Country Health Profiles, Summaries, 1999
Pan American health organization (includes Canadian data). - FedStats (US)
Gateway to statistics from over 100 US Federal agencies - HIV / AIDS Statistics
- National Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States 1950-1994 (Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs)