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Welcome

This guide provides a set of resources useful for introductory undergraduate research in Medicine at the Cabot Science Library. This list is not intended to be exhaustive or comprehensive. Cabot Library holds the general science collections for the university; additional resources are available at the Countway Library of Medicine. Please consult the HOLLIS catalogand the E-Research @ Harvard site for all of Harvard’s holdings.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
Oxford Reference Online: Medicine
Dictionary covering many different medical fields.

Health Statistics

See these guides for more information on finding U.S. and international health data.

CDC Data and Statistics
Portal to the data and statistics provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
UNdata
Access data from the United Nations.
WHO Data
Data from the World Health Organization.
ProQuest Statistical Insight

Compendium of statistics from many different government and non-governmental sources.

Find Journal Articles in Medical Research

For more databases, see the list from the Countway Library of Medicine

PubMed

The standard database for medical literature. Use Find it @ Harvard button to get to full text.
Embase

Another large medical literature database, with more coverage of European journals.
Alt-HealthWatch

Contains publications on alternative and complementary medicine from a variety of sources.
BIOSIS Previews

All areas of life sciences research are covered. Includes book chapters and conference proceedings.

Find Journal Articles in Healthcare Economics

For more resources in this area see the list from the Baker Library. (Note that some of the Baker databases are available only to HBS affiliates.)

Health Business Fulltext Elite

Covers all fields of health care administration and management.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Economic evaluations of healthcare interventions.
Health Technology Assessment Database

Information on healthcare technology assessments.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Health Statistics and information on hospital usage.

Electronic Book Collections

For more electronic books, including direct links to popular texts, click here.

Access Medicine

Latest editions of scores of medical textbooks.
Access Surgery

Textbooks, surgical atlases, videos and more.
Books @ Ovid

Collection of over 60 medical books.
Harrison's Online
Online version of the classic internal medicine textbook.
R2 Library
Collection of medical and allied health books across many disciplines.
StatRef

Another collection of medical texts, including the DSM-IV-TR.