CANCER SEARCH

Cancerlit : from Webdoctor

Returns weighted list of documents but with meaningless filenames. med

CancerNet search (NCI)

CancerNet

Oncolink: search engine

Large database of information on cancer. (weighted). Allows Boolean (otherwise treats phrases as individual OR words).

NIH: cancer search

CancerNet, CancerLit.

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BioMedNet

Commercial full text service with guests allowed to search for abstracts using search engine from "Current Opinions..." journal series.

BIO-JOURNALS: Bionet journals contents search

Around 180 journals contents pages are searchable here, mostly basic biological sciences.

Fedstats

"One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics" with a search engine and index. The search engine allows sophisticated Boolean options. Results are from a range of US Federal government agencies, and might be anything from a press release or a web page, to an advertisement for a publication that you have to purchase.

Good Health Web: health organizations

Lists organisations concerned with health. Can search by web, email, gopher etc.

JOURNALS.At-HOME: journal search

"Atherosclerosis", "Hypertension", "Immunology", "Stroke", "J.Pathology", "Proc.Nat.Ac.Science". Has search engine.

Lightening hypertext of disease

Search engine for CD ROM on mechanisms of disease. Returns short summaries only, limited to 29 hits.

Medical Newsgroup Search

Search medical newsgroups. Limited Boolean and sub-string function.

MIMS Australia: pharmaceutical information

Commercial service - need to be a subscriber.

NIH Grants: search engine

This is THE avenue for searching NIH grants. As well as keywords, abstracts and Boolean combinations, it has a great, highly flexible search form with many options (by date, institution, US state, grant $ amount etc). Can then cone down on output using keywords at end of each individual project you call up.

NIH Grants: gopher search engine

Nat.Health Information Centre: patient information

Single term search only. See above for organisation details.

NOAH

"New York Online Access to Health", public funded health information searcher, not just for local resources either. currently focused on nine main health topics: Aging, AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and Tuberculosis (TB), but we plan to expand well beyond these categories."

Rxlist: search for drug names

Drug name index, returns only name of drugs if searched by generic, category. Allows wildcard+ searches.

Research-in-Surgery: gopher search

Returns list of obscure document titles. ? where from.

US Department of Health and Human Services search engines

Search databases sponsored by Office of the Secretary and other HHS agencies. Other specific search engines include:

• Program evaluation reports
• Press releases
• Consumer information

Telemedicine Inform.Exchange: DB search

Good resource. A project of the Telemedicine Research Centre. Returns detailed hyperlinked list of research projects, bibliographic references, findinog organisations.

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AMA (US) journals: search engine

All journals and news releases, back to 7/95. Retrieves abstract of article. Boolean searching including brackets.

Univ.of Calif.: search engine

"Biological, Agricultiral and Medical Internet Resources." Search by topic or keyword. A well annotated list with many subjects but not many entries under the medical ones but what it does have is well annotated. Can search by keyword or subject.

Columbia-Presbytarian Medical Centre search engine

"Biomedical Frontiers, Child Poverty News & Issues, Equipment & Core Facilities, Guide to Clinical Preventive Services,Health Sciences Library General Information, Health Sciences Library Special Collections. Health Sciences Library Archives, Health Sciences Reporter."But nothing under `nutrition' !

CRISP: Public health research gopher search

"CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) System is a major biomedical database containing information on research ventures supported by the United States Public Health Service". Returns non-alphabetical list of project descriptions, not results.

"Doctor's Guide to the Internet": search

One of the major "virtual" medical centers on the Internet. This engine searches within that resource.

Dynamed: medical information service

Search for relevant page of short lecture style notes for physicians on clinical diagnosis and management of medical conditions, which include a range of nutritional disorders. The notes vary in length between disease topics from very abbreviated to quite detailed. You can search by keyword, illness category or disease.

This is all part of a commercial physician information web site called Dynamed which requires prior registration. Although guest registration is currently free, from 1998 use of the full information data base will be fee based.

FAMILY-L search engine

Mailing list for academic family practice. This is their archives.

Health-A-to-Z

Annotated but not rated sites under but also across categories.

"Medscape" search

One of the major "virtual" medical centers on the Internet. Can combine the internal search with Medline searching if desired.

U.Michigan web pages search engine

An Excite engine, therefore concept and keyword search allowed. The results are displayed in order of displayed relevance weighting, but not clear how this is calculated. The urls are listed with only <title>contents.

Univ.Michigan Clearinghouse Guides: gopher search

Clearinghouse Guides are lengthy but not always up-to-date plain text documents, and this is the general search engine. It returns a list of relevant guides, not the urls themselves.

Search National Library Medicine (NLM) web site

Can search under medical topics/diseases or for information about their publications and products.

NIH Health Information Index

An alphabetically listed disease categorised list of which diseases are the concern of which NIH Institute, and links you to that Institute's home page (but not to material specific to that disorder. For that purpose, see the NIH web search engine).

CDC Search

Search Center for Disease Control's web documents.

CDC WONDER

Need to register first, and reregister if not used for a week. Access individual CDC data bases, not collectively. None are specifically nutritional. "Single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and even numeric public health data". Also list of health links.

NIH search

Search the National Institutes of Health web space. May return anything from lay resources of hjigh value to arcane and out of date research applications. Boolean searches allowed.

US Department of Health and Human Services search engine.

Allows Boolean searches. Refer also to: NIH search engine in next item below

NIH gopher

Starting point for the whole range of NIH library resources, including grants, literature, library etc. Has its own search engine, and some of the resources have their own as well.

WebDoctor search

Excite weighted search for keywords, but labelling of returns is not particularly helpful.

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Lists of journals indexed in Medline

Gopher list of all journals which are abstracted for Medline.

Medline Guide

Information on (but not free use of!) Ovid, Grateful Med, PaperChase, Silver Platter, MeSH.

Medical Matrix listing

List of on-line access points, but not a complete account.

Pick of the crop HEALTHGATE: advanced search Medline and EMBASE Does not require password. Advanced search offers and/or in limited fields, restriction of dates and language, age group, journal subset and article type. Returns unlimited results in batches of number you specify. Fetches abstracts en masse per page. Also has basic search.

AVICENNA: MEDLINE, AIDSLINE plus Avicenna sources

Registration required. Search by keyword(s) and article class (review, clinical trial etc.), allows Boolean and woldcards, but need to read the instructions lying behind the hyperlink at "Keywords" to know this.

Biomednet: Evaluated MEDLINE

Expert evaluations of selected articles and MeSH enhanced searches. Links to full text articles within the BioMedNet library. Medline back to 1959!

COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE: Medline

Has very attractive output formatting and advanced features for librarian users such as natural language or fuzzy logic. Users select "new entries" or specific journals abstracts from pick lists in a large table. Tracks queries and offers expansion of searches with medical subject
headings. Johns Hopkins.

HEALTHYWORLD: Medline, AIDSline, Toxline

Boolean linked drop down choices for fields. These include the normal "Search In..." specifications, as well as choice and limiters for:

• Data base years (back to 1966)
• Language
• Age groups
• Article type (editorial, controlled clinical trial etc.)
• Human or English only

HOUSECALL: Medline

Registration required. Uses using the Infotrieve service and has concept searching and help menus. Permits browsing of Mesh hierarchies.

MEDSCAPE: combined Medscape site with Medline

Need to register. Then free Medline, results returned as weighted list of titles (max.50), can only select one abstract at time.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE: Internet Grateful Med

National Library of Medicine free access to MEDLINE and a host of other literature data bases, including:

• Toxicology
• AIDS
• Cancer clinical trials
• bibliographic information.

The complete list includes:

• MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE (pre-1965, no abstracts), PREMEDLINE(immediate citations awaiting indexing), SDILINE (citations from the most recent complete month in MEDLINE)
• HISTLINE (history of medicine)
• AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS
• HSRPROJ (Health Services Research Projects)
• DIRLINE (Directory of resources providing information services)
• HealthSTAR (Health Services, Technology, Administration and Research).

You can also access this service from its home page.

NETMEDICINE

PHYNET

Concept, spelling, Boolean, related, dictionary options. No registration required.

SILVERPLATTER (via Helix Galxo)

Search options allow Boolean selection of terms within specified MEDLINE categories. This service is provided by courtesy of Glaxo's Helix Virtual Centre, and may need to enter via registration page from Helix.com

PubMed

An extension of Medline searching in that it includes some citations outside or prior to Medline indexing. The information returned regarding Medline citations is however not quite as useful as as some of the exclusively Medline search engines. "PubMed is an experimental service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to their full-text versions at publishers' Web sites. PubMed searches the 8 million citations in MEDLINE supplemented by pre-Medline citations which do not yet have MeSH index terms and by citations supplied electronically by publishers."

NCBI Genbank

Medline Subset in Molecular Genetics (~700,000 citations). Returns abstracts and mesh

ENTREZ Medline subset

The MEDLINE citations available through WWW Entrez include all citations indexed under the MeSH term "Genetics" and all of its descendants, plus other smaller subsets having to do with molecular sequences. This subset contains approximately 1.3 million citations (out of MEDLINE's approximate 7 million), almost all closely related to molecular biology.

Entrez: matching specific text

Enter entire text sections and find the original Medline citation, butonly for molecular genetics sub-set.

AIDSLINE

OVID Medline (HCN)

Commercial service.

Nlight

Combination of Medline with various other DBs. Only get the citation, not the abstract until you pay (per item).

HealthWorld

A front end to Nlight. Gives access to Medline with a complex system of several stage searching, data from several sources (including Medline, web pages, Usenet, reference books etc.). Has limited Boolean searching, web pages and usenet articles in small numbers. I have found it interesting but hard to comprehend the finer points of the search engine.

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MEDICAL MATRIX