Reaching Beyond MEDLINE: A Beginner's Overview of Electronic Biomedical Resources

Information professionals in the health sciences have a fantastic, readily available resource to use for locating and accessing information: MEDLINE. Many times, however, sleuthing reference librarians or informationists may find themselves looking beyond MEDLINE in order to find needed information...

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Published in:	Journal of hospital librarianship 2008-11, Vol.8 (4), p.398-410
Main Author:	Pickett, Keith M.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Bibliographic data bases Bibliographic databases Citation databases Consumer health information health science librarianship MEDLINE Web sites
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Summary:	Information professionals in the health sciences have a fantastic, readily available resource to use for locating and accessing information: MEDLINE. Many times, however, sleuthing reference librarians or informationists may find themselves looking beyond MEDLINE in order to find needed information in the fast-paced world of health science librarianship, because it does not index all of the possibly helpful literature, including book chapters, conference proceedings, and gray literature. This article seeks to list and describe several other available electronic resources, including bibliographic and citation databases, so that health science information professionals can deliver the right information to the right user ... STAT!
ISSN:	1532-3269 1532-3277