- 2000 Health Observances
- Calendar listing months, weeks, days devoted to particular health topics.
- Acronyms for Health Sciences Libraries
- AMA Physician Select
- Search for information on more than 650,000 physicians in the American Medical Association.
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Certified Doctor Site
- Two choices: verification of a physician's credentials if you know the individual's name; search for specialists
by geographic area. Note: the search service covers only those physicians who have agreed to be in the database; it does not search
all certified specialists.
- American Hospital Directory
- Use the "free" search service - displays basic information on hospitals with some financial data
provided from HCFA's Public Use data files.
- Center for International Health Information
- Links to international health statistics, including public health & nutrition indicators and country profiles.
- DocFinder
- Links to state medical boards, many of which offer verification services for physician licenses. The Medical
Board of California offers the California DocFinder through this service.
- Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Health Care: Alternative Medicine, Paranormal Healing, and Related Methods
- A-Z definitions of hundreds of health related therapies, mainly focusing on those with a metaphysical or
"unnaturalistic" component. A substantial bibliography leads readers to source material for many therapies listed.
Compiled by Jack Raso, MS, RD, and published by the American Council on Science and Health.
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts(HSTAT)
- HSTAT provides access to the full-text of clinical practice guidelines
developed under the auspices of the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research (AHCPR). It also contains NIH Consensus Statements, NIH Technology
Assessments, and the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services.
- ICD-9-CM Codes
- Contains a tabular list of diseases as well as an alphabetical index with the corresponding codes.
- Instructions for Authors - need to submit a paper for publication?
- Medical College of Ohio's Mulford Library - over 2,000 journals listed
- University
of Washington - information listed mainly for public health and health services research journals.
- Merck Manual - 17th edition
- Searchable, or click the link marked Sections for a table-of-contents view.
- National Health Information Center
- See the Health Information Resource Database section for lists of consumer health groups, 1-800 numbers and clearinghouses.
- On-Line Dictionary of Medical Resources
- Half-way between a medical dictionary and a guide to medical resources on the Web. Features dictionary-style entries
for many medical terms, some with dictionary definitions, others with links to Web sites on that topic.
- Where to Write for Vital & Health Information
- How to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates for all US states.
General Reference Sources
- The Reference Shelf - from the UCSD Libraries, lists many reference sites.
- If you have a specific reference question for the Biomedical or Medical
Center Libraries, please contact us.
- If you have a question for another library at the University of California, San Diego,
try using our E-Mail Reference Services page.
Not all branches offer service by e-mail.
- Animated American Sign Language Dictionary
- Features some animations.
- AnyWho - Telephone directory service
- Lookup service for people, businesses. Use ReverseTel to find the name associated with a phone number.
- Associations Unlimited (UC Internet accounts only)
- Very large database of international associations, searchable by name, acronym,
location, SIC code, and other terms.
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Books In Print - UCSD Only
- Please use the Logout link when finished.
The commercial bookseller Amazon.com's Books
database contains much of the same information and is available for anyone to use.
- Company Lookup from CompanyLink
- Basic information on 65,000 private and public companies in "high-tech" industries.
- Contacting Congress
- Information on members of Congress for all states as well as members of Congressional
committees and subcommittees.
- Congressional Universe
- Comprehensive access to US legislative information - UC restricted.
- Currency Converter
- From Xenon Labs, the "Universal Currency Converter" can convert between nearly 70
international currencies.
- Dictionaries Online
- Index to many dictionaries on the Web, including foreign language dictionaries as well
as dictionaries of specialized terminology and jargon.
- English-Metric Measurement Converter
- Convert units of area, distance, mass, temperature and volume. Requires a Java-
enabled browser.
- International Data Base
- Census and other data for many countries, for display within your Web browser. Other
formats for getting and using the data are available - see
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbacc.html for
more information.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - UCSD Only
- Access to many news, business, legal, and general reference sources.
- Math Conversions Page
- Features unit conversions for units of: length, area, metrology, liquids, volume/capacity,
mass, velocity, acceleration, pressure, energy/work, and power.
- Merriam-Webster
- Webster's dictionary lookups.
- Pictorial Periodic Table
- Periodic table data plus search function for specific chemical and physical properties.
- San Diego Government Links
- Switchboard.Com
- Find people or businesses by name and location.
- Thomas Register
- Database of over 150,000 companies, over 5,000 of which have product catalogs online. Registration
(free) is required.
- U.S. Postal Service
- Zip code lookups, postage rates, post office locator, and more.
- UC Access Company Information Tools (UC Internet Accounts only)
- Very simplified interface to several key company research tools: BioScan®, Business News,
CorpTech®, and more. Choose "all searchable databases," and then click the "Log In" button from any UC Internet account. You can
search across all databases or one at a time.
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