Biomedical Libraries Resources

A comprehensive list of databases and web resources pertaining to medicine, health, and biological sciences

Resources marked with a are open access and freely available to anyone to use. They have been reviewed and selected by the biomedical librarians. Resources marked with a are Dartmouth subscriptions and can only be accessed on campus or at DHMC, or off campus by those with a Dartmouth NetID.

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General/Multidisciplinary Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Various resources available from the CDC
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly resources and link to Dartmouth licensed material
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in easily understandable language.
MEDLINE via Ovid
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 23 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Links to both the professional and consumer versions of this comprehensive medical resource
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings
Web of Science
Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.