28/August/2017
Carmelo Lafuente-Lafuente. MD, PhD.
master(at)nodo3.net
Hôpital Charles Foix
Paris, France
MEDLINE Entrez Pub Med
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
MeSH (medical controlled vocabulary) Database
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=mesh
Clinical Queries: PubMed searches for clinicians
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/clinical.html
Special Queries: topic-specific PubMed queries
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/special_queries.html
Single Citation Matcher
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch
MEDLINE Pub Med Help Page
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html
MEDLINE Pub Med Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
USA National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Databases and Electronic Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Molecular Biology Databases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi
Biomedical Research and Informatics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/biomedical.html
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)
http://hstat.nlm.nih.gov/
NLM National Telemedicine Initiative
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/telemedinit.html
Cochrane Library: Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews
http://summaries.cochrane.org
Cochrane Collaboration - Web Page
http://www.cochrane.org/
Training resources (guides, manuals, software...)
http://training.cochrane.org/
Contact and Cochrane entities (centres, review groups, networks)
http://www.cochrane.org/contact/
Searching CRD Databases
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/Homepage.asp
DARE: A database of systematic reviews and meta-analysis, plus other databases
About CRD Databases: DARE, NHS-EED, HTA
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/AboutPage.asp
ACCESSSS Home Page
https://plus.mcmaster.ca/ACCESSSS/
Meta-search of several medical databases, EBM oriented, from a single interface, by McMaster PLUS
SUMsearch 2 - Search and Main page
http://sumsearch.org/
Meta-search of main medical databases from a single interface
Search TRIP Database
http://www.tripdatabase.com
Another federated or meta-search engine of main medical databases
About TRIP
https://www.tripdatabase.com/about
Orphanet: serveur d'information sur les maladies rares et les médicaments orphelins
http://www.orpha.net/
Search Clinical Trials
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
updated information about clinical research in human volunteers
Investigators wishing to register trials
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs
Browse and search BETs
http://www.bestbets.org/database/browse-bets.php
Browse all BETs by Topic
http://www.bestbets.org/database/browse-by-topic.php
BestBETs. Best Evidence Topics - Main page
http://www.bestbets.org/
Browse and search Therapy (NNT) Reviews
http://www.thennt.com/home-nnt/
Browse and search Diagnosis (LR) Reviews
http://www.thennt.com/home-lr/
The NNT Group - Main page
http://www.thennt.com/
USA National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/
NICE home page
http://www.nice.org.uk/
NICE Guidance and Guidelines
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/
Evidence Alerts
https://plus.mcmaster.ca/EvidenceAlerts/
Needs to register
Evidence-Based Medicine Journal
http://ebm.bmjjournals.com/
Free access only to one article in each number (bi-mensual)
Revista Electronica de Medicina Intensiva
http://www.medicina-intensiva.com/
Therapeutics Letter
http://www.ti.ubc.ca/TherapeuticsLetter
Drug Assessments
http://www.ti.ubc.ca/DrugAssessments
Therapeutics Initiative - Main page
http://www.ti.ubc.ca/
AIDS
http://www.aidsonline.com/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 5.6
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org//
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 9.1
Anesthesiology
http://www.anesthesiology.org/
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 4.2
Annals of Internal Medicine
http://www.annals.org/
Free full text (PDF) of articles > 6 months. Impact Factor 2006: 14.8
Annals of Neurology
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/76507645
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 8.05
Annals of Surgery
http://www.annalsofsurgery.com/
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 7.7
Archives of Internal Medicine
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/
Free full text of originals > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 7.9
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
http://archotol.ama-assn.org/
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 1.7
Blood
http://www.bloodjournal.org/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 10.4
British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/
Free full text of articles > 1 week. Impact Factor 2006: 9.2
CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/
Complete free full text access. Impact Factor 2006: 63.3
Chest
http://www.chestjournal.org/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 3.9
Circulation
http://circ.ahajournals.org/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 10.9
Clinical Infectious Diseases
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/home.html
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 6.2
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
http://www.nature.com/clpt/
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 8,06
Emerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
Complete free full text access. Impact Factor 2006: 5.1
Gastroenterology
http://www.gastrojournal.org/
No free full text. Impact Factor 2006: 12.4
JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Free full text of articles between 6 months and 5 years. Impact Factor 2006: 23.2
Journal of Medical Internet Research
http://www.jmir.org/
Complete free full text access. Impact Factor 2009: 3.9
Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/
No free full text. Needs to register. Impact Factor 2006: 25.8
New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/
Free full text of articles > 6 months. Needs to register. Impact Factor 2006: 51.3
Pediatrics
http://www.pediatrics.org/
Free full text of "eContent" articles. Impact Factor 2006: 5.01
Radiology
http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 5.2
Cell
http://www.cell.com/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Impact Factor 2006: 29.2
Nature
http://www.nature.com/
No free full text. Needs to register. Impact Factor 2005: 26.7
Nature Genetics
http://genetics.nature.com/
No free full text. Needs to register
Nature Immunology
http://immunol.nature.com/
No free full text. Needs to register
Nature Medicine
http://medicine.nature.com/
No free full text. Needs to register
Nature Neurosciences
http://neurosci.nature.com/
No free full text. Needs to register
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Free full text of articles > 1 year. Needs to register. Impact Factor 2006: 30
American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
http://www.icmje.org
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
EQUATOR Network: good reporting of health research studies
http://www.equator-network.org
Find here the CONSORT, PRISMA, STARD and TREND guidelines and others
HighWire Homepage
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
By Stanford University
Free Online Full-text Articles
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
List of free full text access medical journals
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Updated list of free full text access medical journals
MedBioWorld: Medical Journals
http://www.medbioworld.com/med/journals/med-bio.html
Médiathèque scientifique de l'Institut Pasteur
http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/biblio/
Cancer Medicine. American Cancer Society. 2000
First Principles of Gastroenterology
http://gastroresource.com/GITextbook/En/Default.htm
Free Medical Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com
Updated list of free full text access medical books
Anatomy of the Human Body. H. Gray
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
eMedicine, from WebMD
http://emedicine.medscape.com/
HIV Insite - Main page
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
The AIDS Knowledge Base
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=KB
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th Edition - Main page
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
Table of Contents
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm
Medical Microbiology
http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/toc.htm
On-Line Biology Book
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
Principios Basicos de Investigacion Clinica
http://www.icf.uab.es/llibre/llibre.htm
SISA: Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis on Internet
http://www.quantitativeskills.com/sisa/
BiostaTGV
https://marne.u707.jussieu.fr/biostatgv/
In French. Easy to use, many tests available, based in "R"
Statistic Electronic Texbook
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
StatPages.org: Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages
http://statpages.org
Statnotes
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/statnote.htm
by G. David Garson, North Carolina State University
Surgical Treatment. Evidence Based and Problem-Oriented. 2001
The Virtual Anaesthetic Texbook
http://www.virtual-anaesthesia-textbook.com/
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
http://wheeless.belgianorthoweb.be/med.htm
BCB Banque Claude Bernard
http://www.portailmedicaments.resip.fr
Banque de données sur les médicaments (BIAM)
http://www.biam2.org/accueil.html
Centre de Référence sur les Agents Tératogènes (CRAT)
http://www.lecrat.org
European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products
http://www.emea.europa.eu
Martindale's Health Science Guide - Pharmacy
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Pharmacy.html
MedicineNet
http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
RxList
http://www.rxlist.com
USA Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/
UK NHS Center for Evidence-Based Medicine - Main page
http://www.cebm.net
The EBM Toolbox
http://www.cebm.net/toolbox.asp
Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations
http://www.cebm.net/levels_of_evidence.asp
Users' Guides to Evidence Based Practice
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp
Netting the Evidence
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=004326897958477606950%3Adjcbsrxkatm
Atrapando la evidencia
http://www.infodoctor.org/rafabravo/netting.htm
Version española de "Netting the evidence"
Core Library for Evidence Based Practice
http://www.samlib.com/EvidenceBased.aspx
Biblioteca basica para una practica basada en la evidencia
http://www.infodoctor.org/rafabravo/library.html
Version española de la "Core Library"
Medicina Basada en Pruebas
http://www.infodoctor.org/rafabravo/mbe.htm
Méthodologie et interprétation des essais thérapeutiques
http://www.spc.univ-lyon1.fr/polycop/
Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux de langue française
http://www.cismef.org
Inclus un Portail Terminologique avec traduction de mots clés médicaux français -> anglais
Karolinska Institutet Library
http://www.kib.ki.se/index_en.html
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html
Medweb. Emory University
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI)
http://omni.ac.uk/
Virtual Hospital
http://www.vh.org/
Hospital Web
http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.shtml
European Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
http://www.cordis.lu/
Multilanguage
MEDLINE plus. Health Information
http://medlineplus.gov/
Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html
Temas de Salud
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/healthtopics.html
Version española de "Health Topics"
Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Enciclopedia Médica
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/encyclopedia.html
Version española de "Medical Encyclopedia"
Tutoriales Interactivos
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorial.html
Dictionaries
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html
Drug Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition - Main page
http://www.merckhomeedition.com/
Table of Contents
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/contents.htm
Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network
http://www.cochraneconsumer.com/