History of Medicine Library Resources

Finding Books

URSUS and MaineCat are available from the library’s homepage:  http://library.umf.maine.edu/

 

Materials available at other URSUS libraries can also be requested online using the Request option.  Use the Search MaineCat button in URSUS to look for and request materials in MaineCat libraries. 

 

WorldCat and WorldCat.org are available through the Indexes and Databases link on the library’s homepage:  http://libraries.maine.edu/margateway/marindexesdb/alphalist.asp?Loc=far.

The National Library of Medicine’s public access catalog, LocatorPlus, is available from the NLM homepage:  http://locatorplus.gov/.  There is also a History of Medicine Reading Room section of the Website.

Interlibrary Loan is an option for requesting materials not available in URSUS or MaineCat.  Request can be made using the online form:  http://library.umf.maine.edu/ill_form.html

 

Note:  Not all materials can be borrowed.  Many libraries will not lend materials in their microfilm, video, audio, and special collections.  Many also may not lend dissertations.  Check with a librarian about these types of requests

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Finding Articles

Use the Indexes and Database or a print index to find articles. Print indexes can be used to locate much older articles. Some recommended databases include:

CINAHL – includes nursing and allied health publications (1982 to present).

HealthSource: Nursing/Academic – includes scholarly and trade publications in the areas of health and nursing.  

MEDLINE  - covers all areas of medicine, nursing and dentistry.  Indexing for some publications starts in 1960s.

PsycARTICLES – full text articles from 53 scholarly psychology publications (1985 to present).

PsycINFO – covers articles, dissertations, and other publications in the field of psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and medicine.  Indexing for some publications starting in the 1800s.

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Online Journals

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (online journal): http://www.cbmh.ca/

Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine:

http://www.historycooperative.org/hahindex.html

Hygiea Internationalis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health: http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/hygiea/

Medical History: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=228&action=archive

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Some Recommended Web Resources

American Antiquarian Society:  http://www.americanantiquarian.org/

American Association for the History of Medicine: http://www.histmed.org/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:  http://www.cdc.gov/

Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine:  https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/menuNavigation/historicalResources.html

Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University: http://www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2/

Health.gov: http://www.health.gov/

History of Biomedicine:  http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html

ChiMed – History of Chinese Medicine:  http://www.albion.edu/history/chimed/

Indiana Medical History Museum:  http://www.imhm.org/links/librariesandarchives.html

Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Office of Medical History and Archives: http://library.umassmed.edu/omha/index.cfm

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

National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm

National Library of Medicine (includes a History of Medicine section): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

  See also the NLM list of Library and Archival collections Web Resources:   

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/resources/web/libraryarchivalcollections.html

Office of the Public Health Service Historian: http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/apdb/phsHistory/

Relief of Pain and Suffering: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/painexhibit/

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine:  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/

World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/

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 Helpful Resources 

Mantor Library Website:  http://library.umf.maine.edu

Writing Center/Mantor Library Anti-Plagiarism Website: http://plagiarism.umf.maine.edu/

Journals vs. Magazines and Newspapers: http://library.umf.maine.edu/guides/periodicals_tables.html

Starting Your Research: http://library.umf.maine.edu/reference/RefGuides.html

Laurie MacWhinnie: 778-7219 ● macwhinn@maine.edu ● IM: laurieumf (MSN, Yahoo, AOL)

Janet Brackett: 778-7211 ● janetb@maine.edu ● IM: janetumf (MSN, Yahoo, AOL)

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