Health Sciences Gateways and Resources
The Health Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources identified by National Science Digital Library staff as appropriate for inclusion in the Library. Many of the materials to be found here were suggested by NSDL users. The collection includes portals, sites, and resources in many areas of the health sciences, including aging, biostatistics, body systems and senses, consumer health, diseases, environmental health, epidemiology, human sexuality, nutrition, and others. Here may be found materials for health-sciences educators and learners (early childhood through graduate school), resources intended for the general public, and materials aimed at research communities devoted to the health sciences.
Details about NSDL selection criteria are provided in the NSDL Collection Development Policy. To recommend an addition or additions to the this collection, please complete NSDL's Recommend a Resource form.
The collection provides access to third-party resources; individual items must be consulted for terms of use.
A.D.A.M.%20Educational%20Products
http://www.adam.com/Our_Products/School_and_Instruction/index.html
A.D.A.M. is a commercial supplier of educational products for teaching and learning about the human body. These products use multimedia resources, such as animation, video, sound, virtual-reality models, and software tools, in com... Full description
AAPS%20PharmSciTech%20Archive
http://www.aapspharmscitech.org/
This online journal disseminates scientific and technical information on drug product design, development, evaluation, and processing to pharmaceutical scientists and the global pharmaceutical research community. This site provide... Full description
American%20Physiological%20Society%20Archive%20of%20Teaching%20Resources
http://www.apsarchive.org/Main/index.asp
This database features learning objects that have been peer reviewed for scientific accuracy and appropriate use of animals and humans for teaching life sciences and biology and physiology at all levels: K-12 education, undergradu... Full description
Anatomy%20Atlases%3A%20A%20Digital%20Library%20of%20Anatomy%20Information
http://www.anatomyatlases.org/
This collection of atlases and textbooks is intended to educate patients, healthcare providers, and students in anatomy. Topics include human anatomy, human anatomy in cross-section, microscopic anatomy, anatomy of first aid, huma... Full description
Centre%20for%20Science%20and%20Environment
http://www.cseindia.org/
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public-interest research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi, India. CSE promotes environmentally sound and equitable development strategies, with an emphasis on Indian en... Full description
DAVE%20Project%3A%20Gastroenterology
http://dave1.mgh.harvard.edu/
The DAVE Project, an acronym for Digital Atlas of Video Education, consists of a library of gastrointestinal endoscopy video clips and medical lectures and presentations, intended for the use of physicians, students, and patients ... Full description
Discover
http://discovermagazine.com/
This online version of Discover, a popular science magazine covering such topics as health and medicine, the mind and brain, technology, space, human origins, the living world, environments, physics, and mathematics, includes news... Full description
Drug%20Discovery%40Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/drugdisc/
This site provides information on drug discovery and development and news from the pharmaceutical industry. Materials include regularly updated content from online journals and symposia, news articles, and highlights from research... Full description
Free%20Animal%20Health%20Resources%20Web%20Sites
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/library/freeresources.htm
This clearinghouse page, created by the Veterinary Library at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, provides links to quality online resources related to animal health. The links are organized by topic: behavior ... Full description
Free%20Medical%20Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Free Medical Journals provides access to a collection of journals available free of charge over the internet. The collection includes several hundred journals covering a variety of topics in medicine: anatomy, cardiology, forensic... Full description
FreeBookCentre.Net
http://www.freebookcentre.net/
FreeBookCentre.Net provides links to thousands of free online books. It includes an extensive collection of links to books on medical topics: allergy and immunology, epidemiology, genetics, orthopedics, oncology, and many others. ... Full description
GreenFacts
http://www.greenfacts.org/
GreenFacts is a not-for-profit organization that provides plain-language summaries, peer-reviewed by independent experts, of scientific reports on health and environmental topics. The summaries are intended for the use of nonexper... Full description
HighWire%20Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
This repository provides access to online versions of peer-reviewed science articles from journals and other scholarly content on medical and general-science topics. The articles are full text and free of charge; the collection ca... Full description
Human%20Embryology%20Animations
http://www.indiana.edu/~anat550/embryo_main/index.html
This collection features animations that illustrate a variety of the processes in the development of the human embryo. The collection was designed as a tool for medical students, but can serve as a review for other health-science ... Full description
MedEdPORTAL
http://services.aamc.org/jsp/mededportal/goLinkPage.do;jsessionid=1C0AAFEA915555AFDCC8EBC1...
MedEdPORTAL is an online venue for publishing and dissemination of peer-reviewed teaching materials for medical education. These materials include referenced tutorials, cases, lab manuals, evaluation forms, faculty development mat... Full description
MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov/
This portal for health professionals and the general public provides access to information on health and medicine from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies ... Full description
New%20York%20Times%20Daily%20Lesson%20Plan%20Archive%3A%20Health
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/health.html
Archive of the New York Times' daily lesson plans, developed in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education, on physical health and behavioral health topics. The lesson plans, intended for use with middle-school or high-... Full description
Office%20of%20Science%20Education%2C%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health
http://science.education.nih.gov/
The Office of Science Education (OSE) of the National Institutes of Health provides an extensive selection of educational resources for teachers and students at the elementary, middle-school, and high-school levels. These material... Full description
Oxford%20University%20Press%3A%20Oxford%20Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Oxford Journals features online versions of hundreds of academic and research journals published by the Oxford University Press, some in partnership with learned societies around the world. The collections are organized by subject... Full description
PBS%20Online%20NewsHour%3A%20Health%20Archive
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/health/
Archive of health news coverage (1996 to present) from the PBS program NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, including stories on research, policy debates, and information about American and other nations' health-care systems. Stories from 19... Full description
PBS%20Online%20NewsHour%3A%20Science%20of%20Aging
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/aging/
In-depth coverage of the discovery of so-called anti-aging genes in animals. Includes a Q-and-A with researchers and extended interviews. Main story available in streaming video, RealAudio as well as text. Full description
PNAS%3A%20Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences
http://www.pnas.org/
This is the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a multidisciplinary publication that covers the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences. The web site provides access to the cont... Full description
SciCentral%3A%20Health%20Sciences%20News
http://www.scicentral.com/H-02heal.html
This site provides links to health-science-related news articles from a variety of outlets and journals. Sources featured on the site must be freely accessible to online readers and are ranked by the editors based on reliability, ... Full description
Science%20and%20Society%20Picture%20Library%20of%20Great%20Britain%3A%20Medicine%20and%20Health
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/subcategories.asp?cat=SCIENCE%20%7C%20TECHNOLOGY
The Science and Society Picture Library features extensive image collections from British museums, including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, and related col... Full description
ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
For users at institutions with a license, this digital library provides access to full text and bibliographic information for online books and book series, reference works, and thousands of journals in the life sciences, physical ... Full description
Seed%20Magazine%20Podcasts
http://www.seedmagazine.com/podcasts/
This collection of podcasts on general science topics is intended to increase public interest and understanding of science. The web site features links to the latest podcasts; older podcasts are searchable by keyword or term and a... Full description
TheScientificWorld%20Journal
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
This online journal features high-quality, peer-reviewed original research and review articles on the biomedical, life, and environmental sciences. It is organized as a series of overlapping domains, each similar to a conventional... Full description
U.S.%20Army%20Center%20for%20Health%20Promotion%20and%20Preventive%20Medicine
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/
The U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM) is the Army's organization for industrial hygiene, occupational health, and preventative medicine. Materials at the web site include information on the o... Full description
Wiley%20InterScience
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
This gateway page provides access to thousands of journals, books, reference works, and other articles of scholarly and scientific research. There are also databases, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library, a collection of da... Full description
Zurich%20Open%20Repository%20and%20Archive%20%28ZORA%29
http://www.zora.uzh.ch/
The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) provides access to research and scholarly publications by the institutes and faculties of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The emphasis is on peer-reviewed publications, includin... Full description