Medicine Research Tools

Background or Getting Started

• Library Catalog
• Marriott Library Catalog
• NLM Gateway Search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
• NLM LOCATORplus National Library of Medicine's Online Catalog
• netLibrary
• Harrison's Online, the complete text from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and more. Updated daily.
• MD Consult
  Provides access to over 30 medical texts, articles from more than 40 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2,500 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates customized to your specialty. Requires a one-time registration for your user name & password .
• STAT!Ref Electronic Medical and Pharmacology Textbooks

Top Electronic Resources for Medicine in General:

• PubMed(with linkout to Eccles Library electronic full text journals)
• Cochrane LibraryEvidence-based Health Care data, includes the Database of Systematic Reviews.
• Harrison's Online, the complete text from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and more. Updated daily.
• MICROMEDEX Drug and Toxicology Information. University of Utah Health Sciences Center only.
• STAT!Ref Electronic Medical and Pharmacology Textbooks

Journal Articles, use:

• PubMed(MEDLINE)
• MD Consult

Selected Online Journals:

• Academic Medicine
• American Family Physician
• Archives of Internal Medicine
• BMJ
• Clinical Infectious Diseases
• CMAJ, Canadian Medical Association Journal
• JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
• MSJAMA, the Medical Student JAMA
• Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
• Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice
• Nature
• New England Journal of Medicine Send email to reference@lib.med.utah.edu for user name and password.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Science

To find statistics:

• CDC's Data & Statistics
• FDA, U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
• Faststats from NCHS
• NCHS, National Center for Health Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistical Universe A Lexis/Nexis database of statistical information from leading federal, state, private & international governmental documents. Links to selected full-text publications.
• Utah Department of Health

Selected websites:

• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Current News:
  • Clinical Alerts
    From NLM, National Library of Medicine, Clinical Alerts are findings from NIH-funded clinical trials.
  • CDC
  • FDA, U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
  • NIH, National Insitutes of Health
  • Newspapers:
    • Academic Universe
    • Newspaper Source
    • Proquest Direct Fulltext newspapers and business periodicals.
    • Utah Newspapers:
      • Deseret News
      • Salt Lake Tribune
• Medicine Subject Links from Eccles Health Sciences Library Subject Links page.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• University of Utah Medical Student Website

Helpful Tutorials:

• Finding and Using Health Statistics -An online self-study course from NLM and NICHSR.
• PubMed MEDLINE Tutorial