Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Medical and Health Resources on the Internet

Guest Speaker: Pat Anderson, Dentistry Library, pfa@umich.edu
May 6, 1999; Brower General Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

All the Links, None of the Lecture

Introduction

Where Did the Web Come From?
- World Brain: http://art-bin.com/art/obrain.html
- Memex: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/vbush/
- Ted Nelson: http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/
- Project Xanadu: http://www.xanadu.net/
- Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
- WWW: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
- Alper, Joseph "Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop." Science 281 (5384) (18 Sept. 98), 1784-1786. [About: http://cha-cha.berkeley.edu]
What is an URL?
- http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/U/URL.html
- http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html
Where is it? (Geographic Codes): http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt
Acronym Finder: http://www.mtnds.com/af/
Who watches the watchers? QuackWatch??: http://www.quackwatch.com/
Netiquette. Arlene Rinaldi's The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette: http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/
Viruses & Hoaxes.
- Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT): http://www.cert.org/
- Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC): http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/
- Hoaxes: History & Background: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

Skills: General

Browser Management Tips
- BrowserWatch: http://browserwatch.internet.com/browsers.html. Includes Plug-In Plaza: http://browserwatch.internet.com/plug-in.html.
- Other Plug-In Sources:
  - Apple Donuts (& Sherlock): http://www.apple-donuts.com/ Mac only
  - Netscape Browser Plug-Ins: http://home.netscape.com/plugins/index.html
  - PlugIns.com: http://www.plugins.com/

Skills: Search Engines

About Search Engines in General
- http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/ ??
- Search Engine Watch: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
General Purpose Search Engines
- Browsing: Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/
- Boolean: Hotbot: http://www.hotbot.com
- Simple Search:
  - Excite: http://www.excite.com/
  - Altavista: http://www.altavista.com
Health Science Search Engines
- About HS Search Engines
  - The Megasite Project: http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite
- My Favorites
  - Browsing:
    - HealthWeb: http://healthweb.org/.
    - OMNI: http://www.omni.ac.uk/.
  - Boolean: Medical World Search: http://www.mwsearch.com/. (Allows boolean search construction)

Skills: Evaluation

About Evaluation
- Kim P, Eng TR, Deering MJ, Maxfield A. Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review. BMJ 318 1999:647-649. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7184/647
- Jadad A, Gagliardi A. Rating health information on the Internet: Navigating to knowledge or Babel? JAMA 1998 279:611-614. http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_279/no_8/jrv71042.htm
- Wyatt JC. Commentary: measuring quality and impact of the world wide web. BMJ 1997 314:1879-1882. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7098/1879
Evaluation Tools
- Anderson PF, Allee N, et al. The Megasite Project: http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite/
- Grove S, Anderson PF, Hill S, Allee N. Web site evaluation checklist. (c)1998. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/articles/evalr1.pdf
Standards & Guidelines
- HONcode: http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
- FDA and the Internet: Advertising and promotion of medical products. 1996. http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/transcript1096/fdainet.html
Design
- Yale CAIM Style Manual: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html
- Anderson PF. Internet cookies: How edible are they? Health Care on the Internet 1998 2(1):91-98. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/articles/cookie/cookie.html
Web Accessibility
- Anderson PF. Universal accessibility to the Web: Issues involving technology. Health Care on the Internet 1998 2(2/3):153-158. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/articles/ADA.html

Issues

Issues: Costs

Walker, Thomas J., (entomologist at University of Florida). Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals. American Scientist (Sept/Oct 1998, pp.463-471). http://www.amsci.org/amsci/articles/98articles/Walker.html
Harnad, Stevan "On-line Journals and Financial Fire Walls." Nature 395 (10 Sept. 98), 127-128. [About: http://xxx.lanl.gov/ and http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/]
American Research Libraries (ARL). "Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources" http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/videoconf.html

Issues: Intellectual Property

General: http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ip-primer
Copyright:
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA): http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
- Benedict: http://www.benedict.com/
Freedom of Speech vs. Trash (Blue Ribbon Campaign): http://www.eff.org/
Citing Web Resources: http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/netciteFARQ.html

Sources: General

IPL Reference Center
- Main Reference Page: http://www.ipl.org/ref/
- Ready Reference: http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/
Your Local Library's Home Page, or Major Public Libraries
- Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/
- New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/
- Chicago Public Library: http://www.chipublib.org/

Sources: Consumer Health

General/About
- "Navigating the Health Care System; a Resource Guide for Consumers" Healthnet (University of Connecticut Health Center Library): http://www3.uchc.edu/~uchclib/departm/hnet/
Government
- National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- NLM's free public version of Medline, PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
- NLM's MedlinePlus: Consumer Health Resources on the Internet: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
- healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Selective
- HealthWeb: Consumer Health: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/hw/consumer/
- NOAH (English and Spanish): http://www.noah.cuny.edu/
Support Groups
- Alliance of Genetic Support Groups: http://www.geneticalliance.org/
- Family Village: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/
- HealthWeb: Consumer Health: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/hw/consumer/
- National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD): http://www.rarediseases.org/
Commercial
- Dr. Koopšs: The Health Channel: http://www.drkoops.com/ or http://www.thehealthchannel.com/
- OnHealth.Com (With NEJM): http://www.onhealth.com/
- HealthAtoZ: http://www.HealthAtoZ.com/

Sources: Practitioners

HS Reference Tools
- HealthWeb: Reference Resources: http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/hw/ref/
- National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- NLM's free public version of Medline, PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
General or Print-Equivalent
- Merck Manual (temporarily unavailable): http://www.merck.com
- Carl UnCover: http://uncweb.carl.org/. $$, journal articles and TOC services.
- Journal Abbreviations Online: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/jbrowser.html
Government Resources
- World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.who.ch/
- National Institute of Health (NIH): http://www.nih.gov
- National Library of Medicine (NLM): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/
Standards, Clinical Guidelines, and Related Information
- National Guidelines Clearinghouse: http://www.guidelines.gov/
- National Health Service (UK). Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/.
- DARE (Database of Abstracts & Reviews): http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/
- Cochrane's Systematic Reviews ($$ - not accessible without subscription): http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/cochrane/cdsr.htm
- HealthWeb: Evidence-Based Health Care: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/health/hw/ebhc/
Drug Resources
- HealthWeb: Pharmacology: http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/hw/
- Micro-Medex ($$): http://www.mdx.com/
- RxList: http://www.rxlist.com/. Free quality searchable information.
- Physician's GenRX: http://www.mosby.com/Mosby/PhyGenRX/. $$ (individual or institution)
Physician-Only or Fee-Based Services
- American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/
  Finding other physicians: AMA's Physician Select at http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm.
- Medscape: http://www.medscape.com/. Registration required. Cookies.
- Physician's Home Page: http://php.silverplatter.com/. $$. Excellent accompanying CD-ROM products. "Stump the expert" Q&A.
- Medicine Online: http://www.medicineonline.net/
- Medical Matrix: http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp
CME
- AMA CME Locator: http://www.ama-assn.org/iwcf/iwcfmgr206/cme?400321230
- CMEweb: http://www.cmeweb.com/
- CyberRounds: http://www.cyberounds.com/
- Check your specialty association web page
Practice Management, Job and Employment Information
- Practice Management: American Academy of Family Physicians: http://www.aafp.org/practice/
- Health Opportunities from MedExplorer: http://www.medexplorer.com/healthopps/
- Medzilla: http://www.medzilla.com/
Health in the News
- CNN Food and Health News Page: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/
Good Examples
- The Virtual Hospital: http://www.vh.org/.
  Special strengths include radiology, pediatrics, and respiratory diseases. Both textbooks and patient education pamphlets.
- OncoLink: http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/
  All aspects of cancer, including patient resources, hospice care, therapeutic initiatives. Very special section on pediatric oncology.
- The Whole Brain Atlas: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

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Last updated May 5, 1999.
(c)1999 P. F. Anderson, pfa@umich.edu