Internet Resources: Medical Search Engines
Provided below is an assortment of links to medical search engines. A brief paragraph from the site's website is included below the link to provide some background information.
If there are other sites you feel belong on these pages please e-mail jbowman@facs.org.
Access Medicine
http://www.accessmedicine.com/
Searchable medical references including internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. The references are Harrison's Online, Hurst's The Heart, The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, and CMDT Online.
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research: over 140 open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.
Cinahl Information Systems
http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl/
Originally a print index to the literature of nursing and eventually allied health information, the CINAHL® database has emerged as a comprehensive and versatile guide to an exploding body of knowledge and now extends beyond the limits of a bibliographic print index.
Electronic Journals Service
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/info/ejsTitles.asp
List of 12,548 journals. Includes publisher information as well as specific information about the journal.
Embase
http://www.embase.com
More than 16 million validated biomedical and pharmacological records from EMBASE and MEDLINE.
eMedicine
http://www.emedicine.com
Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The evidence-based content, updated 24/7, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes 4 levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication.
HealthWeb
http://healthweb.org/
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries.
InfoPOEM
http://www.infopoems.com/
Organizational goal is to improve the health and lives of people by providing patient-oriented evidence that matters in a rapid and accessible form.
MD Consult
http://www.mdconsult.com/offers/pm_sur1.html/standard.html
MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals.
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com
Medscape offers integrated medical information and educational tools. Medscape's features include Physician Optimized MEDLINE, a free subscription to Medscape's MedPulse®, over 250 online CME activities, and access to more than 50 medical journals and textbooks.
Medical World Search
http://www.mwsearch.com/
The major goals of Medical World Search are to provide a search engine that operates over a selection of the most high quality medical sites on the Web and to facilitate searching by using a medical thesaurus that understands medical terminology and can thus search for related terms automatically.
MedicalMatrix
http://www.medmatrix.org
Subscription necessary site. Searches over 6000 medical websites and over 1.5 million documents.
Ovid
http://www.ovid.com/site/index.jsp
Ovid Technologies is an internationally recognized leader of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions. By providing a customizable suite of content, tools and services, Ovid supports the diverse research needs of its 13 million users worldwide—academic, medical, and corporate professionals and students seeking fast, accurate answers to important questions that help to fuel discoveries, explore topics, or research diagnoses.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.
SUMSearch
http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/cgi-bin/SUMSearch.exe
SUMSearch selects the best resources for your question, formats your question for each resource, and makes additional searches based on results.
The Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Database of journals that are free to view after a certain date past publication.
MedReviews
http://www.medreviews.com
Reviews produced from the following journals: Reviews in Urology, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders, and Reviews in Neurological Diseases.
Thomson ISI
http://www.isinet.com/
We combine authoritative information with innovative technologies to enhance our customers' ability to achieve world-class research and business results. Our databases assist professionals at every stage of research and development from discovery and analysis to product development and distribution.
Turning Research Into Practice
http://www.tripdatabase.com
The TRIP Database allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from a wide range of sources. Searching: 22,988 Evidence-Based Records; 6,427 Clinical Guidelines; 5,199 Clinical Questions & Answers; 12,091 eTextbook Articles; 83,762 Medical Images; and 4,178 Patient Information Leaflets.
Online June 15, 2011