Useful web sites by category
| Site | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| All web sites accessed 26 July 2002. FTP, file transfer protocol; URL, uniform resource locator; WWW, world wide web. These URLs are dowloadable as a Bookmarks/Favorites file from the JNNP web site (www.jnnp.com). | ||
| Searching the internet | ||
| www.google.com | • One of the largest search engines | |
| Copernic | www.copernic.com | • A free search agent that searches multiple directories and search engines |
| Archieplex | http://archie.emnet.co.uk | • FTP search agent |
| Google newsgroups | http://groups.google.com | • Newsgroup indexing service |
| Medical portals | ||
| National electronic Library for Health | www.nelh.nhs.uk | • A partnership with NHS libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients, and the public |
| TRIP database | www.tripdatabase.com | • A free searchable database of over 55 sources of high quality, evidence based information and online journals |
| Netting the Evidence | www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk | • A comprehensive resource for evidence based practice |
| BIOME | http://biome.ac.uk | • A searchable catalogue of quality internet health and biomedical resources (incorporating Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI)) |
| Doctors.net | www.doctors.net.uk | • A free news, discussion, literature, jobs, and email service for doctors in the United Kingdom |
| Medical conferences | www.medicalconferences.com | • An interactive free compendium of worldwide medical conferences |
| Journals | ||
| PubMed | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez | • Provides a searchable version of Medline with links to online journals, integrated with other protein, nucleotide, and genome databases |
| PubMed Central | http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov | • A digital archive of life sciences journal literature |
| Free Medical Journals | www.freemedicaljournals.com | • A portal dedicated to indexing and promoting free access to medical journals on the WWW |
| Zetoc | http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk | • The British Library's email service for all their journals' latest tables of contents |
| BioMed Central | www.biomedcentral.com | • An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer reviewed biomedical research |
| Textbooks | ||
| Free Books 4 Doctors | www.freebooks4doctors.com | • A portal dedicated to free access to medical books on the WWW |
| eMedicine | www.emedicine.com | • A free, WWW only textbook of medicine |
| Research resources | ||
| Current Controlled Trials | www.controlled-trials.com | • Promotes the availability and exchange of information about ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of health care |
| BioMedNet | www.bmn.com | • A portal for biological medical researchers |
| Wisdom | http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk | • A comprehensive United Kingdom research funding database |
| For patients | ||
| Patient UK | www.patient.co.uk | • A directory of United Kingdom health and disease related web sites for patients |
| Healthsites | www.healthsites.co.uk | • A portal for health related information, with sections for patients or doctors |
| MedicDirect | www.medicdirect.co.uk | • Portal for health related information for both patients and doctors |
| QuackWatch | www.quackwatch.com | • Surveillance of bogus health web sites |
| Dictionaries | ||
| Online medical dictionary | http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd | • A searchable dictionary |
| Who Named It? | www.whonamedit.com | • Dictionary of eponyms |