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Biomedicine

      Titles Descriptions
  1. AIBS: American Institute of Biological Sciences
  2. Annual Review of Biological and Medical Sciences
  3. ATCC: American Type Culture Collection
  4. BIDS EMBASE Service
  5. Bioethics: Journal of the International Association of Bioethics
  6. Biomedical Links
  7. BioMedNet
  8. BIOSIS
  9. BMENET: Biomedical Engineering Network
  10. BONES: Biomedically Oriented Navigator of Electronic Services
  11. Epidemiologic Information on Bioterrorism
  12. Highlight HEALTH
  13. History of Biomedicine
  14. International Journal of Integrative Biology
  15. MedWebPlus
  16. Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page
  17. Scientific Journals: Technology and Computers in Medicine
  18. US Presidents Council on Bioethics
  19. WISDOM

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AIBS: American Institute of Biological Sciences
Organisation dedicated to research and education in the biological, medical, environmental, and agricultural sciences. Includes information about the organisation, its services, meetings, and publications, including tables of contents from the monthly journal BioScience from January 1999 onwards, freely available to members.
     Author: AIBS
     Subjects: agricultural research, biology research, biomedicine, environmental research
     DeweyClass: 570
     Resource type: institution
Annual Review of Biological and Medical Sciences
Contents and abstracts for all Annual Reviews' biomedical series (Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Medicine, and 12 others). Text is searchable by keyword, but subscription is required to access full articles.
     Author: Annual Reviews
     Subjects: biochemistry, biology research, biomedicine, cell biology, immunology, medical research publications
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: articles
ATCC: American Type Culture Collection
Global nonprofit bioscience organisation that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organisations around the world. Includes a catalogue of biological cultures, databases and other product information.
     Author: American Type Culture Collection
     Subjects: biomedicine, biotechnology, plant genetics
     DeweyClass: 660.6
     Resource type: institution
BIDS EMBASE Service
Provides access to the Excerpta Medica database, renowned for its international coverage of drug related research literature. EMBASE covers all aspects of human medicine and related biomedical research, including comprehensive information on drugs and toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, health affairs, psychiatry and forensic medicine. BIDS EMBASE includes more than five million records, with data from 3500 biomedical journals published in 110 countries, dating back to 1980. Subscription required.
     Author: University of Bristol
     Subjects: biomedicine, biotechnology, clinical medicine, forensic science, medical research databases, pharmacology, psychiatry research, toxicology
     DeweyClass: 610
     Resource type: article abstracts, bibliography
Bioethics: Journal of the International Association of Bioethics
Bioethics provides a forum for articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as abortion, euthanasia, AIDS, in vitro fertilisation, genetic engineering, and experimentation on embryos. These questions are considered on the basis of concrete ethical, legal, and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles, and theories used in discussions of such problems.
     Author: Blackwell Publishing
     Subjects: biomedicine, genetic engineering, medical ethics
     DeweyClass: 174.957
     Resource type: journal
Biomedical Links
Set of links to biomedical societies and associations, meta-indices to medical sciences, disease or tissue specific material, and pathology cases online.
     Author: Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland
     Subjects: biomedicine, pathology
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: index
BioMedNet
Worldwide club for biomedical scientists on the Internet. Includes a journal collection, jobs, research tools and news, and comments. Subscription based service.
     Author: BioMedNet
     Subjects: biomedicine
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: documents
BIOSIS
A not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge for the common good. BIOSIS provides access to a vast collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature.
     Author: BIOSIS
     Subjects: biological data, biology research, biomedicine
     DeweyClass: 570
     Resource type: productinfo
BMENET: Biomedical Engineering Network
Information about biomedical engineering academic programs, posts, grants and fellowships, publications, societies, and conferences.
     Author: Purdue University
     Subjects: biomedicine, medical events
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: index, news
BONES: Biomedically Oriented Navigator of Electronic Services
Health sciences information for researchers, educators, students, and librarians.
     Author: Ohio State University
     Subjects: biomedicine, health links
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: index
Epidemiologic Information on Bioterrorism
Assesses epidemiologic and public health issues arising from the potential use of biological weapons by terrorists. Provides links to resources on anthrax, smallpox, botulism, tularemia, pneumonic plague, and hemorrhagic fever. Also features an ongoing commentary on the US anthrax outbreak of 2001.
     Author: University of California Los Angeles
     Subjects: biomedicine, crime
     DeweyClass: 358.38
     Resource type: documents, index
Highlight HEALTH
HON accredited resource aimed at clinical and biomedical researchers as well as members of the public interested in health topics. Consists of short articles summarising medical research, with a particular emphasis on cancer research and food and nutrition. Each article cites and links to references, including peer-reviewed journal articles. A searchable directory of health-related material is also available.
     Author: Jessen, Walter
     Subjects: biomedicine, cancer research
     DeweyClass: 610
     Resource type: articles, index
History of Biomedicine
A collection of resources looking at the history of biomedicine, including links to libraries and museums and the contributions of individual cultures to the field.
     Author: Karolinska Institute, Library
     Subjects: biomedicine
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: index
International Journal of Integrative Biology
An open-access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, free to publish journal for biological and biomedical sciences (both experimental and theoretical). The journal aims to bridge scientific disciplines and demonstrate the effectiveness of cross-disciplinary sciences through publication. The journal aims to bring together manuscripts from biological, medicinal, physical, chemical, computational, and engineering sciences that address key problems in biology and biomedicine. Articles are downloadable in PDF.
     Author: International Journal of Integrative Biology Editorial Board
     Subjects: biology, biology journal, biomedicine, cell biology, microbiology, molecular biology
     DeweyClass: 570
     Resource type: journal
MedWebPlus
Extensive index to Internet resources on all aspects of medicine and biomedical topics, with a variety of subject and country categories.
     Author: y-DNA, inc.
     Subjects: biomedicine, medical links
     DeweyClass: 610
     Resource type: index
Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page
Collection of articles addressing issues relating to mad cow disease, and its effect on humans and other species. Explores the relationship between Alzheimer's and CJD, and provides relevant news articles.
     Author: Sperling Biomedical Foundation
     Subjects: biomedicine, medical research databases
     DeweyClass: 616.83
     Resource type: article collection, image collection
Scientific Journals: Technology and Computers in Medicine
Set of links to journals relevant to technology and computers in medicine. Some have only subscription information online, others have tables of contents, abstracts or full text.
     Author: Brownlow, Mark, science.komm
     Subjects: biomedicine, information management in health, medical equipment
     DeweyClass: 610
     Resource type: journal index
US Presidents Council on Bioethics
Official information from the body created by President George W Bush in 2001 to advise on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology. Features transcripts of Council meetings, staff working papers, and a full report on human cloning published in July 2002.
     Author: President's Council on Bioethics
     Subjects: biomedicine, biotechnology, cloning, medical ethics
     DeweyClass: 174.957
     Resource type: documents
WISDOM
Database of sources of funding for biomedical research in the UK, biomedical research vacancies and the SPIN database which contains summaries of articles related to science policy from over 150 journals and newspapers.
     Author: Wellcome Centre for Medical Science
     Subjects: biomedicine, medical research databases
     DeweyClass: 610.28
     Resource type: reference data