New Opportunities for Accessing Health Information in the Twin Tiers

Workshop Outline for Medical Professionals



  I. Introduction
 
The South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca, New York, is sponsoring this project which is focused on the use of high quality health information resources available on the Internet. Sessions are designed to provide end users with the tools necessary for finding accurate, authoritative, health-related information.
     
  II. Internet Basics    
  Types of medical information that can be found on the Internet
Issues and concerns in using medical information from the Internet
       
  III. Tools to Locate Information on the Internet
  Web Searching
Search engines
Medical Search Engines
Subject directories
Medical directories
Search techniques
 
Medical Databases
PubMed
Health Reference Center
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
Medscape.com 
       
  IV. Getting the Documents
  Document Delivery
Interlibrary Loan
Loansome Doc
   
       
  V. Other Medical Resources on the Web
  Internet Grateful Med
Clinical Trials
       
  VI. Miscellaneous Tools
  Current Awareness
Grant Opportunities
       
  Bibliography    
  Workshop References & More    



Funded by the National Library of Medicine through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region.
Sponsored by
South Central Regional Library Council of New York.
Created by Kay Benjamin, March 21, 2001.