2006* Results 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Professional/Research Medical/Health Reference

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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?

1. DSM-IV-TR and Principles of Internal Medicine (Harrison)
2. Physician's Desk Reference (PDR)
3. 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?

1. Google - http://www.google.com (Google Scholar/Advanced Google included)
2. 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?

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov, PubMed - http://www.pubmed.gov and MedlinePlus - http://www.medlineplus.gov
2. 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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2. 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?

1. EBSCO (HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition)- http://www.ebsco.com/ 
2. CINAHL - http://www.cinahl.com and  MEDLINE (multiple vendors)
3. 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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*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.

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