2006 Results 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey:
Professional/Research Medical/Health Reference
This survey was posted to Buslib-L@listserv.boisestate.edu, DIG_REF@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU,
DIG_REF@yahoogroups.com, ERIL-L@listserv.binghamton.edu, govdoc-l@lists.psu.edu,
Law-Lib@ucdavis.edu, LawLibRef@lists.washlaw.edu, LawSource@yahoogroups.com,
libref-l@listserv.kent.edu, livereference@yahoogroups.com, publib@sunsite3.berkeley.edu,
ELDNET-L@u.washington.edu, STS-L@ala.org, Medlib-L@LIST.UVM.EDU.,
medref-l@listserv.kent.edu, MEDWEBMASTERS-L@LISTSERV.ACOR.ORG, mla-healthlit-admin@mlahq.org,
MMATRIX-L@LISTSERV.ACOR.ORG, nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov, nifl-health@nifl.gov,
publib@sunsite3.berkeley.edu, CAPHIS@hslc.org, genealib@lists.acomp.usf.edu,
and LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Spring 2006.
Results
from Summer 2005 are here.
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1. What are the essential 3 print resources that you can't work without
in answering Professional Medical reference questions (e.g., for Medical
professionals -Doctors, Nurses, medical or nursing students or researchers)
questions?
- DSM-IV-TR and Principles of Internal Medicine (Harrison)
- Physician's Desk Reference (PDR)
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Essentials of Medicine (Cecil),
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Merck Manual of Medical Information
and Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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2. What are the essential 3 Free (not Government published) Web-accessible
databases that you can't work without in answering Professional Medical reference
questions (e.g., for Medical professionals -Doctors, Nurses, medical or nursing
students or researchers) questions?
- Google - http://www.google.com (Google
Scholar/Advanced Google included)
- MayoClinic Web Site - http://www.mayoclinic.com,
Free Medical Journals - http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/,
World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/en/,
The Student Doctor Network - http://www.studentdoctor.net/,
Merck Medicus - http://www.merckmedicus.com,
Merck Manual - http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp,
and Highwire Press - http://highwire.stanford.edu/
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3. What are the essential 3 (.gov) Government Published (State, Federal,
Local, International) Free Web-accessible databases that you can't work without
in answering Professional Medical reference questions (e.g., for Medical
professionals -Doctors, Nurses, medical or nursing students or researchers)
questions?
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov,
PubMed - http://www.pubmed.gov and
MedlinePlus - http://www.medlineplus.gov
- Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration - http://www.samhsa.gov/,
NLM Gateway - http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd,
NIH search--http://www.nih.gov/google/google.search.nih.html,
NCBI Entrez Databases - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi,
Healthfinder - http://www.healthfinder.gov/
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4. What are the essential 3 Fee-based Web-accessible databases that you
can't work without in answering Professional Medical reference questions
(e.g., for Medical professionals -Doctors, Nurses, medical or nursing students
or researchers) questions?
- EBSCO (HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition)- http://www.ebsco.com/
- CINAHL - http://www.cinahl.com and MEDLINE
(multiple vendors)
- BIOSIS - http://www.biosis.org/,
The Cochrane Library - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0,
Stat!Ref - http://www.statref.com/,
ScienceDirect - http://www.sciencedirect.com/
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