PubMed: A service of the National Library of Medicine including over 14 million citations from MEDLINE and
additional life science journals of biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Links to full text articles and other resources.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ):
This site covers medicine to musicology. It is one of the most
complete and current lists of open access (free) journals and is maintained by Lund University in Sweden.
Open the site then click on "Health Sciences".
PubMed Central: Peer-reviewed life science journal articles may be found here. This site is maintained by
the National Library of Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information. While it is full-text, not all
titles are immediately current.
BioMed Central: As an independent publishing house,
BioMed Central publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed, open access journals.
Public Library of Science (PLoS): This open access journal publisher
released its first title, PLoS Biology, in October, 2003 with more to come.
Free Medical Journals.com: Full-text articles are available for free
in this linked list of medical journals.
High Wire Press: This site hosts the journals for a number of
commercial and society publishers. Current
issures of 100-plus subscriptions-based journals are included and over 360 medical, science and technology journals can
be accessed.
SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition supports open access publishing
and related activities including independent publishers who want to start open access journals.
Budapest Open Access Initiative: BOAI is Sponsored by the Open Society Institute, this site provides open access
resources including definitions, business planning guides and links.
Eprints.org: This site promotes the posting of copies of the research article somewhere on the Internet
in a publicly accessible archive. Software is provided that can be used to archive and locate the article.
The above is a rather comprehensive list for a search database and electronic journals.
There are also a number of Medical reference books on-line that may be helpful to the researcher,
student or physician. We have listed the most important sources of these free books.
FreeBooks4Doctors: With the premise that unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will impact
medical practice, this site contains over 600 electronic books and a few are in Russian. We did discover that some of the links did not work on this
web site but there is still a tremendous amount of medical knowledge and science contained here.
The Merck Manuals Ther Merck pharmaceutical company
offers free access to its Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (17th edition), the Merck Manual of
Geriatrics (3rd edition) and the Merck Manual of Medical Information.
Clinician's Handbook of
Preventive Services The U.S. Department of Human Services has compiled this resource of
services and practices to prevent many diseases and conditions.
The National Drug Code Directory This site is from
the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and was established as an out-of-hospital drug reimbursement
program under Medicare.
Drug Information from MedLine Plus provides information on prescription
and over-the-counter drugs.
University of Iowa Family
Practice Handbook published in 2001 (4th edition) includes outpatient and inpatient medicine.
