Subject
Research Guides
Biology:
Medicine and Pharmacology
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of medical & pharmacology topics.
Background Information Sources
Available in the library's reference area:
| Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary | REF R121 .D73 2003 |
| Essential Pathology, 3rd edition | REF RB111 .E856 2001 |
| Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine | REF RC41 .G35 2002 |
| Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine | REF RC46 .H333 1998 |
| Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy | REF RC55 .M4 1999 |
| Merck Manual of Medical Information | REF RC81 .M55 2003 |
| Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics | REF RM300 .G644 1996 |
| United States Pharmacopeia Dispensing Information (USP DI) | REF RM300 .U55 1997 |
| Nursing Drug Handbook | REF RM 301.12 .N87 (Annual) |
| Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) | REF RS75 .P5 (Annual) |
| Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery | REF RS403 .B8 1995 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the R-RL (Medicine), RM-RS (Pharmacology), and RT (Nursing) call number ranges.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- Health Reference Center-Academic: full-text articles on health topics.
- AccessScience: gateway to full-text articles and research updates in all areas of science.
- Open Access Journals: directory of scientific and medical journals published online.
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Biology/Science.
- PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
journal abstracts and articles from the National Library of Medicine - Medline Plus
http://medlineplus.gov/
consumer health information and links from the National Library of Medicine - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/
health and safety information from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services - Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
http://chid.nih.gov/
abstracts and information from all health-related agencies of the U.S. Government