Gateways to healthcare resources on the Internet

This page contains links to databases of Internet resources for healthcare, currently known as gateways. The gateways below contain carefully selected and evaluated resources, and are good starting points when you're searching for web resources on a particular topic. It's certainly worth searching, say, BIOME before embarking on a time-consuming Internet search.

Intute: Health & Life Sciences

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/

The primary gateway for Health and Life Sciences in UK Higher Education, based at the King's Meadow Campus of Nottingham University, Intute: health and Life Sciences contains over 31,000 internet links, each “selected and evaluated according to stringent guidelines" by subject specialists. The gateway is part of the wider Intute service covering a wide range of subjects. This service was formerly known as BIOME.

Intute: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/nursing/

This gateway is a subset of the Intute: health and Life Sciences gateway , containing resources specifically geared to these professions. This service was formerly known as NMAP.

Subject Centre Resource Databases

Each Subject Centre in the Higher Education Academy (previously the LTSN) has a database of selected resources in its subject area. Those likely to be of most interest to School staff are:

LTSN Bioscience Knowledgebase. This only allows relatively simple searches, although you can use Boolean operators (and, or, not) in the search field.
LTSN Health Science & Practice Resources. An awkward interface to use which only allows preset searches - you can't type in your own search terms. The advanced search is currently "under construction",
LTSN Medicine, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine Web Resources. More browsable than searchable, with fairly terse descriptions.

List of all Subject Centres

The Scout Report for the Life Sciences

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/NSDL/LifeSci/Current/

A biweekly email newsletter offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators in the life sciences. The parent Scout Report has been going for almost as long as the WWW has been in existence, and is a very useful means of viewing choice morsels from the myriad new websites that come on line daily, selected by "professional librarians and content experts".