Subject Links

• Address Lookups
• American Dental Association - Find A Dentist
• American Medical Association - "Doctor Finder"

Citing Electronic (& Print) Sources

• Abbreviations for journals indexed by MEDLINE & other NLM databases.
• Citing Medicine, The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
• Citing eSources -from Citation Styles Online!
• Instructions to Authors
  for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. (courtesy of the Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio)
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). See Sample References.

• Citing Styles from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • APA Style
  • MLA Style
  • Resources for Documenting Sources
• APA Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
• Citing Government Publications, Brief Guide from U. Memphis Libraries Uncle SAM
• Citing Print and Electronic Research Sources, from Weber State Univesity.
• Style/Citation Guides & Publications from the Cheng Library, William Patterson University.

• Bibliographic Management programs:
  • Cite & format papers with bibliographies:
    • EndNote Web See tutorials.
    • EndNote - purchase via EndNote or, if UU affiliate via software.utah.edu
    • Take a Workshop @ the Library

Copyright

• Know Your Copyright - from ARL, Association of Research Libraries
  • “Know Your Copy Rights—What You Can Do,” a 2007 brochure aimed at faculty and teaching assistants.
  • Using Copyrighted Works in Your Teaching—FAQ:
    • Part I: Uses in the Traditional Face-to-Face Classroom
    • Part II: Uses in the Online Classroom / Course Management System
• Copyright, the United States Copyright Office
  • Copyright Law
• Marriott Library Copyright Overview Page
• When Works Pass Into The Public Domain -from Lolly Gassoway
• For Authors:
  • Retain your rights with the SPARC® Addendum
  • Creative Commons - free tools for authors, scientists, artists, and educators to mark creative work.
  • See also our Scholary Publishing page.

Current Awareness & Health News

• CDC's In the News, from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
• CNN Interactive - Health
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine Each bibliography in this series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. From NLM, the National Library of Medicine.
• FDA - What's New, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
• MedScape (free registration required)
• Newspapers:
  • Deseret News (Utah Daily.)
  • Salt Lake Tribune (Utah Daily.)
  • Newspaper Source (Ebscohost database of newspapers.)
  • Proquest (database of newspapers.)
• NIH - News & Events, from the National Institutes of Health
• PubCrawler "is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."
• Reuters Health Information Services
• Univeristy of Utah News
  • University Health Care News
  • University of Utah Health Sciences Center Public Affairs

Databases for research. Some are restricted to University of Utah users.

• Medical & Health Sciences Databases such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SciFinder. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
• Other Databases covering Humanities, Political Science, Engineering, and more. From Marriott Library.

Dictionaries

• Biomedical:
  • Dictionary of Genetics Molecular Biology (University of Utah only)
  • Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
  • Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
  • MEDLINEplus Dictionary
  • Stedmans's Medical Dictionary (Stat!Ref)
  • Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
  • WhoNamedIt.com
  • YourDictionary.com - Medical Dictionary Links.
• Merriam Webster
• Oxford English Dictionary, OED (University of Utah only)
• Quotations
• Roget's Thesaurus
• YourDictionary.com

Directories

• AMA Doctor Finder
• Medical Specialists See also "Which Specialties are Board Certified?"
• Find a Dentist
• Hospital Directory
• MedlinePlus Directories
• NLM's DIRLINE
• Associations Unlimited University of Utah only.

Fulltext

• eBooks
• eJournals
• Fulltext Resources Eccles Health Science Library
• Library Catalog

Government Agencies, Documents & Databases

Grants

• Finding Grants (Grant seekers):
  • Community of Science^UofUtah A consortium of major research universities and national laboratories. Includes Expertise Database, grants databases, (Funding Opportunities Database) and Web versions of the Commerce Business Daily and the Federal Register. University of Utah only.
  • GrantsNet "A resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education. Free registration required."
  • The Foundation Center is an "independent nonprofit information clearinghouse" that provides evaluated information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Some services are fee-based.
  • NCRR, National Center for Research Resouces
    includes Biomedical Technology, Clinical Research and Comparative Medicine.
  • NIH, National Institutes of Health Grants & Funding Opportunities
  • NIH RePORTER
• University of Utah resources:
  • IRB, Institutional Review Board
  • Office of Sponsored Projects
  • Vice President for Research
• Help Writing Grants:
  • Foundation Center's Online Training and Quick Tutorials
  • EPA Grant-writing Tutorial - produced by Purdue University.
  • Tips on Writing Grant Proposals from EPA
• Grantmakers: see Councial on Foundations.

Kids & Educators

• Kids & Educators Science pages.

Medicine

• Arbor Nutrition Guide
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• American Medical Association
• Clinical Toolbox: Clinical Tools for Patient Care
• Evicence Based Practice Tools
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
• Human Genome Project Information
• Martindale's Health Sciences Guide
  "The Virtual Medical Center" includes lists of web sources, teaching materials, tutorials, Calculators for Medical & Health Science, Nutrition and more. Arranged by broad specialty areas.
• Partners in Medicine (Housing Information.)
• Public Health Research Tools for beginning your research.
• Research Tools - Medicine for beginning your research.
• School of Medicine University of Utah
• United States Medical Licensing Examination, (USMLE)
• Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing an agency of the Utah Dept. of Commerce
• Utah Medical Practice Act Title 58 -- Chapter 67 of Utah Code.
• Utah Medical Association

Nursing

• AANA, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• ANA, American Nurses Association
• Clinical Toolbox: Clinical Tools for Patient Care
• College of Nursing University of Utah
• Evicence Based Practice Tools
• Hardin Meta Directory: Nursing
• Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioners
• Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center
• MedWeb from Emory University
• National Institute of Nursing Research from NIH
• National League for Nursing
• Nursing History from Brownson's Nursing Notes
• Research Tools for beginning your research.
• Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing
• SpringNet for Nurses, Clinical Information and more.
• State Boards of Nursing from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing
• Utah Code, search for titles:
  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact (Search for Title 58 Chapter 31d -- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact.)
  • Nurse Licensure Compact (Search for Title 58 Chapter 31c -- Nurse Licensure Compact.)
  • Nurse Midwife Practice Act (Title 58 Chapter 44a of Utah Code.)
  • Utah Nurse Practice Act (Title 58 Chapter 31b of Utah Code.)
• Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing an agency of the Utah Dept. of Commerce
• Utah Nurses Association

Reference Tools

• Author Instructions
• Citing Electronic (& Print) Sources
• Dictionaries
• Research Tools For beginning your research in nursing, medicine, pharmacy and allied health.

Rumors, Hoaxes or Bogus Information on the Web

• FDA - Food & Drug Administration
• Hoaxes from Nuketown
• Netlore: Rumors, Hoaxes & Urban Legends
  • Health & Medical Rumors & Hoaxes

Services

• Library Request & Orders, Interlibrary Loans, Document Delivery, Renewals and more.
• Reference Services - General Info
• Request a Literature Search
• Other library services

Utah Resources

• Academic Library Consortium, Utah (UALC)
• Attorney General, Utah
• Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Utah.
• Commerce, Utah Department of
• Donar Registry, Utah
• Education, Utah State Office of
• Environmental Quality, Utah Department of
• Health, Utah Department of
• Health Data, Utah Department of Health
• Human Services, Utah Department of
• Health Sciences Library Consortium, Utah. (UHSLC)
• Information and Referral Center Human Services Directory
• Labor Commission, Utah
• Libraries:
  • Academic Libraries in Utah
    • see also UALC, Utah Academic Library Consortium
  • UtahHealthnet
  • Public Libraries in Utah from utah.gov
  • UHSLC, Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium
  • Utah Library Association
  • Utah Library Division
• Licensure Utah Div. Occupation & Professional Licensure, Utah Dept. of Commerce
• Salt Lake City, Utah Official Website.
• Salt Lake Valley Health Department
• Tax Forms and Publications
• UALC, Utah Academic Library Consortium
• UHSLC, Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium
• Utah Code
  • Utah Code, Title 58 -- Occupations and Professions
• UtahHealthnet
• Utah Medical Association
• Utah Div. Occupation & Professional Licensure (DOPL)
• Utah, Official State Site
• Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia of video, audio, pictures, maps, texts, charts and graphs about Utah
• Utah County Health Department