Health Studies
- CNN Health
- Global Library of Women's Medicine
- Go Ask Alice!: a question and answer produced by Columbia University's health education programme
- Health Development Agency
- Healthfinder: guide to consumer health and human services information developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services
- HEBSWEB: web site of the Health Education Board for Scotland
- Judge: Websites for Health: guidelines for judging the quality of health information websites
- MedlinePlus: US National Library of Medicine's guide to Internet resources
- Medscape
- National Institutes of Health: 25 institutes and centres that conduct medical research in the USA
- National Library of Medicine
- NHS Executive: publications (in PDF format)
- NMAP: online resources in nursing, midwifery and allied health professions
- NursINFO: information for health professionals in the South West
- PubMed: provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations, links, etc
- Resource Guide for Life Sciences and Health Studies
- Royal College of Nursing: website including access to the RCN library catalogue
- Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation: 1999 white paper on health
- World Health Organization
Journals
Journals the library has access to are searchable from the journals web page. Full text journals of interest to Health Studies are also available from Academic Search Elite and the Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection.
- Directory of Open Access Journals: about 350 journals in all subjects in full text
- Free Medical Journals: Gives access to the full text of medical journals available free (availability ranges from 0 months - 2 years after publication), sorted alphabetically and by specialty.
Evidence-based practice
- ACP Journal Club
- Bandolier: evidenced-based health care journal
- Clinical Evidence: provides a regularly updated guide to evidence about the effectiveness of care, part of the National electronic Library for Health
- Cochrane Library: freely available evidence-based medicine database
- Effective Health Care Bulletins: bi-monthly bulletin from the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
- Evidence Based Nursing: latest issue of this research journal
- Netting the Evidence: introduction to evidence-based practice on the Internet maintained by the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield