ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL RESEARCH LITERATURE –
VALL Presentation March 20th, 2003 by Charlotte Beck
A HIGHLY SELECTIVE BIB/WEBLIOGRAPHY
RESOURCES:
Getting started on a variety of Medical and Health topics use the UBC Library Life Sciences Libraries Subject
Guides. From UBC LIBRARY home page select branches on the blue banner and go to Life Sciences Libraries
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/resources/subjects.html for a listing of web and internet resources etc.
Medical topics including Consumer Health
http://medlineplus.gov/ and take the tour at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/tour.html
Also See links to Consumer Health from UBC Life Sciences Libraries Subject Resources page
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/resources/subjects.html
Evidence based Healthcare
SackettDL. Evidence based medicine, what it is and what it isn’t. BMJ. 1996 Jan 13;312(7023):71-2 [available free
from http://bmj.com] then click “search/archive”
Also see links to Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) from UBC Life Sciences Libraries Subject Resources page
http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/resources/subjects.html
Freely available resources on the web
Pubmed incorporating Medline from National Library of Medicine with full text links to free electronic material
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
http://highwire.stanford.edu
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Continuing education and useful tutorials
Available from the Health Libraries Association of B.C. website at http://www.hlabc.bc.ca/tutorial.html
Publishing trends
Curran, C. The medical journal meets the internet. Firstmonday. 2002 June; 7, (6) at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/curran/index.html
Buckley, Chad et al. Electronic publishing of scholarly journals: a bibliographic essay of current issues. Issues in
Science and Technology Librarianship Spring 1999 at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-spring/article4.html
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page=0
Archiving
The move to Open Access archiving is explained in Peter Suber’s article online at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm or in print College and Research Libraries News. 2003 February;
64: 92-94, 113