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To determine a core database, consult the subject page that best matches your area of research.
For assistance, contact research specialist Cathy Ryan, cgryan@drew.edu, x3483 or blancast@drew.edu x3487.

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To determine a core database, consult the subject page that best matches your area of research.
For assistance, contact research specialist Cathy Ryan, cgryan@drew.edu, x3483 or blancast@drew.edu x3487.

• Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University
  

  An outstanding site for work in bioethics, with a link to the BIOETHICSLINE bibliographic database. A wide variety of online publications is also available.

• CAM on PubMed
  

  By the NIH, Office of Alternative Medicine, this source indexes information in 7 fields of alternative and complementary medicine.

• Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
  

  Digitized historical documents from the collections of Harvard University on diseases and epidemics.

• CSHP – Internet Resource List
  

  The Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University has recently launched this web site which contains an extensive, annotated list of links to health policy-related sites in New Jersey as well as nationally.

• Disability.gov
  

  Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations.

• Drug Industry Document Archive
  
• Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
  

  Information from a nonprofit foundation on evidence-based decision making for healthcare decisions. It also includes the (University of) Ottawa Decision Support Tutorial.

• Genetics Home Reference
  

  Information on genetic variations in humans that affect health. From the National Library of Medicine.

• HealthFinder.Gov
  

  Free access to reliable information for health care consumers. Health library and health information related to gender, race, and ethnicity; also specialized resources for health care workers and people with disabilities. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Illness Narrative/Pathography
  

  Lists and short reviews of illness narratives in various forms: art, film, literature. NYU’s Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database/

• IndexCat – National Library of Medicine
  

  IndexCat is a searchable digitized version of the Index-Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office covering History of Medicine from antiquity to the 1950s.

• Medical Heritage Library
  

  A subset of the Internet Archive, this collection can be browsed or searched, by subject, author, or date for its digitized content of digitized documents and films. For books, open the viewer in the left column to see the text.

• Medline Plus
  

  Health topics, drug information, medical dictionaries and directories and links to organizations, publications, and consumer health libraries. From the National Library of Medicine.

• Medline Plus: Medical Encyclopedia
  

  Containing 4000 entries on diseases, symptoms, tests and surgeries and includes illustrations, this reference is from A.D.A.M., a company accredited by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission and is also available in Spanish

• PubMed – NCBI
  

  Access to MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. These free databases index articles in the biomedical sciences, including issues related to psychology and mental health disoders. National Library of Medicine.

• Royal Society Picture Library
  

  Online database of digital images of paintings, drawings and prints held in the collections of the Royal Society, UK. “Drawings, sketches and paintings from the Royal Society’s archive collections, including botanical studies, microscopical observations, anatomical drawings, engineering plans, travel documentary photography…Images of rare published plates from the16th to 19th century, hand-picked from our extensive library of printed books and journals.”

• Science.gov : USA.gov for Science – Government Science Portal
  

  A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

• Trailblazing: Three and a half centuries of Royal Society Publishing
  

  A selection of historically significant papers by (mostly) famous scientists. Use the “find” function to search by scientist or keyword. (PDF)

• Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
  

  From the University of Chicago