Health Resources
Search databases
Biomed Central search 259 peer-reviewed open access journals
BioText search more than 300 open access journals; part of the BioText project at the University of California Berkeley
Clinical Trials "information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies" maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine
ENCODE Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
Europe PubMed Central search 30 million+ biomedical and health articles from PubMed and PubMed Central
Give A Scan open access lung cancer archive of images and clinical data
HealthData.gov freely accessible health data maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
MedlinePlus search up-to date health information for free, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Mednar search a variety of health resources, such as WebMD, Medline Plus, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
medRXiv the preprint server for Health Sciences
OpenFDA access to publicly available health data sets issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
PubMed "comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books."
PubMed Central "PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine."
Access free books
Bookshelf The National Center for Biotechnology Information's Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
InTech over 2,000 open access books in health sciences, physical sciences, and life sciences
Medical Heritage Library a curated collection of 60,000 digital rare books in the history of medicine
National Academies Press provides free access to 4,000 titles in PDF format; NAP was created by the National Academy of Sciences
Search engines
Living Science search for publications
MediLexicon search medical dictionary, abbreviations
Mednar search health literature from multiple sites in one search
Quertle biomedical search site
SearchMedica The Medical Search Engine
Trip Database find clinical research evidence
Journals
BMC Medical Education an open access journal published by Bio Med Central.
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine an open access journal
Clinical simulation in nursing an open access journal
eLife research in life science and biomedicine, founded by Nobel prize-winner Randy Schekman
Insight Journal open access journal on the topic of medical processing and visualization
Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education newsletter in-depth peer-reviewed articles on interprofessional education; see issue on "Collaborative Healthcare", v. 7, issue 1, 2016.
Journal of Medical Internet Research see v. 15 no. 10 (2013) issue for this article: Wikis and Collaborative Writing Applications in Healthcare [1]
Journal collections
Dove Medical Press browse and search open access journals and articles in the medical sciences
IJBST Journal Index journals produced by non-profits in the field of bioscience and technology
Karger Open Access a searchable collection of peer-reviewed open access journals published by Karger Publishers, including such titles as Medical Principles and Practice and Neurosignals.
Libertas Academica open access peer-reviewed medical journals
Society for General Microbiology online journals of the society
Open Access Medical Publications by Lawrence Grouse. Vol. 6, No. 6 Journal of Thoracic Disease, June 2014.
Online courses
Johns Hopkins Open Courseware in the field of Public Health
Other tools
CommonMind Consortium Knowledge Portal provides access to data in the field of neuropsychiatric disease
HealthMap Contagious Disease Surveillance; track viruses, flu
ITK Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) is "an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis." ITK is from the National Library of Medicine (U.S.).
Malaria World news, scientific articles, and access to Malaria World Journal
Medscape medical news; clinical trials; guidleines
Nursing Education Network resources for the student and teacher; see e.g. Nurse Educator: a guide for the new nurse educator
Open Source Research a wiki that "gathers resources for open research aimed at finding new medicines for diseases."
PlasmoDB The Plasmodium genome resource
PubMed Commons "enables authors to share opinions and information about scientific publications in PubMed;" keep up to date on the PubMed Commons blog.
Virtual Human Interaction Lab publications issued by faculty of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Virtual Reality Medical Center simulation technologies used for anxiety disorders
Articles
Avatars Travel for Free: Virtual Access to Evidence-Based Intervention Training and Capacity Building by Antonia M. Villarruel, et al. Vol. 26 no. 5 AIDS Education and Prevention, 2014.
Collaborative Healthcare: interprofessional practice, education and evaluation. Vol. 7 issue 1 Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education and Care, 2016. Special issue focus on this topic.
A Decade of Research on the Use of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds in Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review by Reza Ghanbarzadeh, Amir Hossein Ghapanchi, Michael Blumenstein, and Amir Talaei-Khoei. Vol. 16 No. 2 Journal of Medical Internet Research, Feb. 2014.
Disrupting Health Care Education: Best Practices for Teaching Nurses in Second Life, Proceeding, by Estelle Codier. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Oct 19, 2015 in Kona, Hawaii, United States Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA. Abstract available.
Effectiveness of a Second Life® Simulation as a Teaching Strategy for Undergraduate Mental Health Nursing Students by Lori I. Kidd et al. Vol. 50 Issue 7 Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, July 2012. Abstract available.
Experience with using Second Life for medical education in a family and community medicine education unit by Elena Melús-Palazón et al. Vol. 12 BMC Medical Education, May 2012. Article available on BMC.
Free open access medical education: a critical appraisal of techniques for quality assessment and content discovery by Andrew Grock and William Paolo. Vol. 3 no. 3 Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, Sept. 2016. Article available from CEEM. Covers the topic of FOAM (Free Open Access Medical Education)
Me, Meet Virtual Me by Sarah Williams. Article posted on Medium.com Feb. 10, 2015. (a summary of research on using avatars in virtual reality to "overcome mental health setbacks")
Pharmacy cases in Second Life: an elective course by Michael A Veronin, Lacy Daniels, Elaine Demps. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, v. 2012, 2012.
Therapists Use Virtual Worlds to Address Real Problems by Karen Frenkel. Scientific American, April 3, 2009.
Using the Virtual Reality World of Second Life to Teach Nursing Faculty Simulation Management by E. Weiner, R. McNew, P. Trangenstein and J. Gordon. Vol. 160 pt. 1 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2010. Abstract
A Virtual Laboratory (Second Life emerges as a new setting for psychology research) by Katherine Leitzel. Scientific American, Jan. 31, 2008.
Open Access Books
Introduction to to the Applications of Mind Mapping in Medicine by José M Guerrero and Pilar Ramos. imed.pub, 2015. An open access book available via imed.pub an international medical publisher.
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space by Estelle Codier. University of Hawaii Press, 2017. This is an open access book available to download at OAPEN. From the abstract: "Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments, called “multi-user virtual learning environments” or MUVE."
