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HouseCalls
Bringing the Library to You
The Carlson Health Sciences Library and Blaisdell Medical Library are offering a Consultation Service called HouseCalls for faculty, staff and students in the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and related departments. Reference Librarians will provide consultations and instruction to individuals and small groups in departmental offices and laboratories or speak at departmental meetings. One-on-one or group meetings are offered on any of the topics below.
To arrange for a housecall on the Davis campus, call Rebecca Davis at (530) 754‑5874 or e-mail hslref@ucdavis.edu; to arrange a housecall at the Blaisdell Medical Library, call Terri Malmgren at (916) 734‑3529 or email mclref@ucdavis.edu.
PubMed
- PubMed
- PubMed Basics Searching Guide (NLM)
- PubMed Subset Strategies (NLM)
- PubMed Online Tutorial (NLM)
- PubMed Tutorial (Dalhousie University)
- PubMed Tutorial (U of Florida)
- Linking To Full-Text Articles From Pubmed (UCD)
- PubMed Overview (NCBI)
- PubMed FAQ's (NCBI)
- PubMed and Internet Grateful Med Training Manuals (NLM)
Free Alerting Services
- BioMail (State U of New York, Stony Brook)
- Pubcrawler (Trinity College, Dublin)
Clinical Trials Databases
- ClinicalTrials.gov (Connect to database)
- Searching ClinicalTrials.gov (NLM)
- PDQ : Search for clinical trials (Connect to database)
- PDQ Clinical Trials Database User's Guide (NCI)
NCBI Databases
- Entrez : Molecular biology databases (Connect to databases)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information : BLAST information guide & tutorials
- Entrez : Help Document (NCBI)
- GenBank Overview (NCBI)
- Searching GenBank (NCBI)
Toxicology and Environmental Health Databases
- TOXNET : Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, etc. (Connect to databases)
- Introducing the New TOXNET (NLM)
- Toxicology & Environmental Health Resources (NLM)
- Haz-Map (NLM)
Electronic Journals
- Electronic Journals in the Sciences : UC Davis (Connect to full text journals)
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
Veterinary Internet Resources
- CAB Abstracts (Connect to database)
- American Veterinary Medical Association : AVMA Online (AVMA)
- Brazilian Virtual Veterinary Hospital (HVVB)
- Case Studies In Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine
- Consultant : A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine (Cornell U)
- DVM News Online (DVM Newsmagazine)
- FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA)
- International Species Information System Abstracts (ISIS)
- Reference Values for Laboratory Animals (U of Minnesota)
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA)
- Veterinary Information Network (Paul Pion, DVM)
- Walker's Mammals of the World (Johns Hopkins)
- Health Sciences Libraries web site: Veterinary Medical Resources
Medical Internet Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Clinical Resources Center (UCD)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Healthfinder : Gateway to Consumer Health and Human Services Information (DHHS)
- HealthWeb : Linking You to the Best in Health Information (NN/LM GMR)
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC)
- Health Sciences Libraries web site: Medical Resources
Evidence Based Medicine
- The Cochrane Library (Connect to database)
- Levels of Evidence: Explanation in Therapeutics Studies (PDQ) (NCI)
- Netting the Evidence : Introduction to Evidence Based Practice (U of Sheffield)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality : Clinical Information (AHRQ)
- Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines (UCSF)
- Centres for Health Evidence (Canadian Centres for Health Evidence)
- Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit (U of Alberta)
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford U)
- Evidence Based Medicine : Finding the Best Clinical Literature (U of Illinois)
- Evidence Based Medicine (U of Massachusetts)
- Health Sciences Libraries web site: Clinical Practice Guidelines & Evidence-Based Medicine
- National Quality Measures Database AHRQ
Miscellaneous
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (Medical College of Ohio)
- Free Translations (SDI international)
- Copyright Primer (U of Maryland)