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Citing Electronic (& Print) Sources

Abbreviations for journals indexed by MEDLINE & other NLM databases.
Citing Medicine, The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
Citing eSources -from Citation Styles Online!
Instructions to Authors
for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. (courtesy of the Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio)
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). See Sample References.

Citing Styles from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
APA Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
Citing Government Publications, Brief Guide from U. Memphis Libraries Uncle SAM
Citing Print and Electronic Research Sources, from Weber State Univesity.
Style/Citation Guides & Publications from the Cheng Library, William Patterson University.

Bibliographic Management programs:
- Cite & format papers with bibliographies:
  - EndNote Web See tutorials.
  - EndNote - purchase via EndNote or, if UU affiliate via software.utah.edu
  - Take a Workshop @ the Library

Copyright

Know Your Copyright - from ARL, Association of Research Libraries
- “Know Your Copy Rights—What You Can Do,” a 2007 brochure aimed at faculty and teaching assistants.
- Using Copyrighted Works in Your Teaching—FAQ:
  - Part I: Uses in the Traditional Face-to-Face Classroom
  - Part II: Uses in the Online Classroom / Course Management System
Copyright, the United States Copyright Office
- Copyright Law
Marriott Library Copyright Overview Page
When Works Pass Into The Public Domain -from Lolly Gassoway
For Authors:
- Retain your rights with the SPARC® Addendum
- Creative Commons - free tools for authors, scientists, artists, and educators to mark creative work.
- See also our Scholary Publishing page.

Current Awareness & Health News

CDC's In the News, from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
CNN Interactive - Health
Current Bibliographies in Medicine Each bibliography in this series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. From NLM, the National Library of Medicine.
FDA - What's New, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
MedScape (free registration required)
Newspapers:
- Deseret News (Utah Daily.)
- Salt Lake Tribune (Utah Daily.)
- Newspaper Source (Ebscohost database of newspapers.)
- Proquest (database of newspapers.)
NIH - News & Events, from the National Institutes of Health
PubCrawler "is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."
Reuters Health Information Services
Univeristy of Utah News
- University Health Care News
- University of Utah Health Sciences Center Public Affairs

Databases for research. Some are restricted to University of Utah users.

Medical & Health Sciences Databases such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SciFinder. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
Other Databases covering Humanities, Political Science, Engineering, and more. From Marriott Library.

Dictionaries

Biomedical:
- Dictionary of Genetics Molecular Biology (University of Utah only)
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
- Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
- MEDLINEplus Dictionary
- Stedmans's Medical Dictionary (Stat!Ref)
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
- WhoNamedIt.com
- YourDictionary.com - Medical Dictionary Links.
Merriam Webster
Oxford English Dictionary, OED (University of Utah only)
Quotations
Roget's Thesaurus
YourDictionary.com

Directories

AMA Doctor Finder
Medical Specialists See also "Which Specialties are Board Certified?"
Find a Dentist
Hospital Directory
MedlinePlus Directories
NLM's DIRLINE
Associations Unlimited University of Utah only.

Fulltext

eBooks
eJournals
Fulltext Resources Eccles Health Science Library
Library Catalog

Government Agencies, Documents & Databases

Grants

Finding Grants (Grant seekers):
- Community of Science^UofUtah A consortium of major research universities and national laboratories. Includes Expertise Database, grants databases, (Funding Opportunities Database) and Web versions of the Commerce Business Daily and the Federal Register. University of Utah only.
- GrantsNet "A resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education. Free registration required."
- The Foundation Center is an "independent nonprofit information clearinghouse" that provides evaluated information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Some services are fee-based.
- NCRR, National Center for Research Resouces
  includes Biomedical Technology, Clinical Research and Comparative Medicine.
- NIH, National Institutes of Health Grants & Funding Opportunities
- NIH RePORTER
University of Utah resources:
Help Writing Grants:
- Foundation Center's Online Training and Quick Tutorials
- EPA Grant-writing Tutorial - produced by Purdue University.
- Tips on Writing Grant Proposals from EPA
Grantmakers: see Councial on Foundations.

Kids & Educators

Kids & Educators Science pages.

Medicine

Arbor Nutrition Guide
Association of American Medical Colleges
American Medical Association
Clinical Toolbox: Clinical Tools for Patient Care
Evicence Based Practice Tools
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
Human Genome Project Information
Martindale's Health Sciences Guide
"The Virtual Medical Center" includes lists of web sources, teaching materials, tutorials, Calculators for Medical & Health Science, Nutrition and more. Arranged by broad specialty areas.
Partners in Medicine (Housing Information.)
Public Health Research Tools for beginning your research.
Research Tools - Medicine for beginning your research.
School of Medicine University of Utah
United States Medical Licensing Examination, (USMLE)
Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing an agency of the Utah Dept. of Commerce
Utah Medical Practice Act Title 58 -- Chapter 67 of Utah Code.
Utah Medical Association

Nursing

AANA, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
ANA, American Nurses Association
Clinical Toolbox: Clinical Tools for Patient Care
College of Nursing University of Utah
Evicence Based Practice Tools
Hardin Meta Directory: Nursing
Internet Resources for Nurse Practitioners
Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center
MedWeb from Emory University
National Institute of Nursing Research from NIH
National League for Nursing
Nursing History from Brownson's Nursing Notes
Research Tools for beginning your research.
Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing
SpringNet for Nurses, Clinical Information and more.
State Boards of Nursing from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Utah Code, search for titles:
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact (Search for Title 58 Chapter 31d -- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact.)
- Nurse Licensure Compact (Search for Title 58 Chapter 31c -- Nurse Licensure Compact.)
- Nurse Midwife Practice Act (Title 58 Chapter 44a of Utah Code.)
- Utah Nurse Practice Act (Title 58 Chapter 31b of Utah Code.)
Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing an agency of the Utah Dept. of Commerce
Utah Nurses Association

Reference Tools

Author Instructions
Citing Electronic (& Print) Sources
Dictionaries
Research Tools For beginning your research in nursing, medicine, pharmacy and allied health.

Rumors, Hoaxes or Bogus Information on the Web

FDA - Food & Drug Administration
Hoaxes from Nuketown
Netlore: Rumors, Hoaxes & Urban Legends
- Health & Medical Rumors & Hoaxes

Services

Library Request & Orders, Interlibrary Loans, Document Delivery, Renewals and more.
Reference Services - General Info
Request a Literature Search
Other library services

Utah Resources

Academic Library Consortium, Utah (UALC)
Attorney General, Utah
Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Utah.
Commerce, Utah Department of
Donar Registry, Utah
Education, Utah State Office of
Environmental Quality, Utah Department of
Health, Utah Department of
Health Data, Utah Department of Health
Human Services, Utah Department of
Health Sciences Library Consortium, Utah. (UHSLC)
Information and Referral Center Human Services Directory
Labor Commission, Utah
Libraries:
- Academic Libraries in Utah
  - see also UALC, Utah Academic Library Consortium
- UtahHealthnet
- Public Libraries in Utah from utah.gov
- UHSLC, Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium
- Utah Library Association
- Utah Library Division
Licensure Utah Div. Occupation & Professional Licensure, Utah Dept. of Commerce
Salt Lake City, Utah Official Website.
Salt Lake Valley Health Department
Tax Forms and Publications
UALC, Utah Academic Library Consortium
UHSLC, Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium
Utah Code
- Utah Code, Title 58 -- Occupations and Professions
UtahHealthnet
Utah Medical Association
Utah Div. Occupation & Professional Licensure (DOPL)
Utah, Official State Site
Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia of video, audio, pictures, maps, texts, charts and graphs about Utah
Utah County Health Department