Contents for Medicine
- Starting research: reference books
- Other electronic books
- Finding articles in journals: article databases
- Finding pictures: image databases
- Special guides
- Resources on the Web
- Help from a librarian
Good Starting Places: Reference Books
Reference books are a good place to start research. They can help you find background information, choose topics, and understand concepts and terminology. To access online resources from off campus you will need a your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password; host provider students may obtain a login from the instructor or librarian.
Encyclopedias & Handbooks
Specialized encyclopedias, which cover a single subject area, have longer and more detailed treatments of subjects than either dictionaries or general encyclopedias. The best and most comprehensive online encyclopedias of medicine are the
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
and
Salem Health (online Magill's Medical Guide).
- Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Reference Handbook
- Brain Disorders Sourcebook
- Child Abuse Sourcebook
- Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
- Encyclopedia of Addictions
- Encyclopedia of Arthritis
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics
- Encyclopedia of Cancer
- Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders
- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
- The Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care
- Encyclopedia of Global Health
- Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
- Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
- Encyclopedia of Obesity
- Encyclopedia of Parkinson's Disease
- Encyclopedia of Public Health
- Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research
- Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery
- Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorcers
- Encyclopedia of the Heart and Heart Disease
- Encyclopedia of Work-related Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Issues
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
- Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
- Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health
- Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
- Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness
- Medical Imaging
- MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
- Praeger Collection on Addictions
- Encyclopedia of Trauma and Tramatic Stress Disorders
- The Oxford Companion to Medicine
- Oxford Companion to the Body
- Salem Health (Magill's Medical Guide)
Dictionaries
These dictionaries define specialized terms, identify important figures and concepts, and explain symbols.
Browse dictionaries of dentistry and dental health
Browse dictionaries of medicine, nursing, and health
Browse dictionaries of physical education and sports science
Search OneLook dictionaries of health and medicine 
Search Oxford dictionaries of health and medicine
Finding More Electronic Books
To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password. Type a word or phrase describing the subject in the search space below:
Finding Articles on Your Subject
All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a location other than Chemeketa Community College, remember to click the link marked, "Off-campus users."
- Health & Wellness Resource Center [Gale]
- This database contains over a thousand magazines and journals, many in full text. Also includes online reference books, fact sheets, pamphlets, drug information, and videos.
- CINAHL [EBSCOhost] (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- Indexes over 1,200 nursing, medical, & allied health periodicals, including hundreds of publications not included in MEDLINE. Also covers emergency medicine and biomedicine. To access new articles not yet included in the CINAHL database, use Pre-CINAHL by clicking on the "Change databases" tab. Tutorials on using CINAHL
- CINAHL Dental Search
- This version of CINAHL is set to limit results to Chemeketa dental journals. CINAHL indexes over 1,200 nursing, medical, & allied health periodicals, including hundreds of publications not included in MEDLINE. Tutorials on using CINAHL
- Health Reference Center Academic [Gale]
- Index to over over 1200 periodicals, many in full text, covering a variety of medical fields. Also includes a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, as well as drug information and patient education material. Tutorial: How to Use Gale Periodical Databases
- Nursing Resource Center [Gale]
- Nursing textbooks and journals, some in full-text, laid out to align with the Nursing process.
- MEDLINE
- The world's largest database of medicine-related abstracts, produced by the National Library of Medicine. Video tutorials: How to Use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and How to Use MEDLINE to find evidence-based research
- ScienceDirect Health College Edition Health & Life Sciences Collection
- Over 900 full-text, academic journals in the health and life sciences. Journals available in the collection are shown with a green icon (
), indicating full text. - Supplementary database page
- Access to a large number of medical databases on the Internet.
Image Databases
Britannica ImageQuest is a very large database with high quality images of all kinds of subject matter. Images have been cleared for educational use.
Images from the History of Medicine Provides access to images from the National Library of Medicine. There are approximately 70,000 images of all descriptions.
Special Guides
- The Guide for dental assisting/dental hygiene students includes lists of dental journals and more.
- The Guide for nursing students includes lists of nursing journals and more.
- The Guide for speech-language pathology assisting students includes lists of journals and more.
- The Library Resources and Skills for the Nursing Clinical contains information on research in evidence-based medicine.
Internet Sites
Search medical sites with our customized search tool, or browse the descriptions below.
Browsing List
- American Hospital Directory - http://www.ahd.com/
- Look up any acute care hospital in the United States that treats Medicare patients. The on-line directory includes many measurements of hospitals and their performance [including:] Hospital Characteristics; Services Provided; Outpatient Statistics; Financial Reports; Inpatient Utilization; Costs and Charges." Click on "Free Search" to enter the directory.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/
- The CDC is the U.S. government site of choice for information about the epidemiology specific diseases. Try the A-Z Index link, at the top of the page, for links to commonly-sought information. A sidebar on the home page also connects users to various topic areas, and a statistics area with an enormous amount of information.
- Drugs@FDA - http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm
- The official U.S. Food and Drug Administration site for information about drugs. Searchable or browsable by drug name. In addition to active ingredients and dosage information, the site gives the drug's label and approval process history.
- Healthfinder - http://www.healthfinder.gov/
- Database of reliable online health publications, clearinghouses, Web sites, self-help groups, government agencies, academic centers and nonprofit agencies. Includes a wide variety of consumer health information. Healthfinder® español contiene fuentes de informaciÓn confiables seleccionadas en español que le pueden servir de guía para tomar decisiones con relación a su salud.
- Human anatomy online - http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
- Interactive anatomy features images and animations of ten body systems. Anatomy lessons include general anatomy and the skeleton.
- Martindale's Health Science Guide and Virtual Medical Center - http://www.martindalecenter.com/Medical.html
- A vast site with links to all sorts of medical and health topics. If you have trouble finding what you are looking for, try searching for a keyword using your browser's Search command. (Note: Also includes links to a number of fascinating sites which have no relation to medicine.)
- MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
- A good source for one-stop shopping on medical topics. It has a large number carefully-selected information sources grouped together. In addition to MEDLINE, (the National Library of Medicine index to medical journals), there are dictionaries, directories, databases, links to clearinghouses, organizations, and libraries. MEDLINEplus en español: Información en español sobre salud proveniente de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud y otras fuentes de confianza. MEDLINEplus también cuenta con programas interactivos de educación de salud sobre procedimientos quirúrgicos, exámenes y trastornos médicos, y hasta una enciclopedia de salud.
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index - http://www.rxlist.com/
- This site, designed by a pharmacist, has information on over three thousand prescription drugs, including a list of the top two hundred drugs prescribed. Searchable by drug name. A description of each drug and its ingredients and information for patients is included. Also includes the searchable text of Taber's Medical Encyclopedia.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration publications
- Electronic access to searchable databases and substance abuse prevention materials that pertain to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Incluye publicaciones gratis o en linea sobre drogadiccion y alcoholismo.
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Updated: 21 March 2013
