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Selected Sites of Interest
This page will always be a work in progress, as new sites are added and obsolete ones are deleted. Items are grouped together by subject in alphabetical order. Selection is made by the Reference Staff and their Criteria is available.
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- Allied Health Accrediting Agencies from the AMA
- ASHA: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
- Disability History Museum Library
- DisabilityInfo.gov: Disability related information and resources from the Federal Government
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- National Rehabilitation Association
- OTCATS -- Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics
- World Federation of Occupational Therapists
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- About Herbs, Botanicals, and Other Products: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Alternative Medicine Foundation: Includes HerbMed database and their General Resource Guide
- Alternative Medicine HomePage: University of Pittsburgh
- HealthWorld: Alternative Medicine Center
- MEDLINEplus®: Complementary and Alternative Therapies
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Alternative, Complementary, Herbal, and Integrative Medicine..
- Doctors for Adults from the American College of Physicians
- familydoctor.org from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Genetics Home Reference: Your Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions from the National Library of Medicine
- Health e-Links from LSUHSC-Shreveport Medical Library
- Healthfinder from the US Department of Health and Human Services
- HealthierUS.gov from Executive Office of the President and the Department of Health and Human Services
- Household Products Database: Health & Safety Information on Household Products from the National Library of Medicine
- Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety
- KidsHealth: Nemours Foundation
- MayoClinic.com: Tools for Healthier Lives
- MEDLINEplus.gov: Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
- Insure U: from the National Association of of Insurance Commissioners
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health; includes Spanish language information
- Partnership for Prescription Assistance
- PDRhealth.com
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- LSU Permanent Memoranda (PM-15): Copyright Guidelines Regarding Electronic Learning
- LSU Permanent Memoranda (PM-17): Fair Use of Copyrighted Material
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Dental Links are found under the Dental Library's Web Page.
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- Abbreviations.com: the source for acronyms and abbreviations
- Bartleby.com Great Books Online: includes the American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, King James Bible, Gray's Anatomy, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and many other titles.
- MapQuest
- Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
- Official U.S. Time
- OneLook Dictionary Search
- Research Tools: from iTools.com
- Thesaurus.com
- Weather Underground
- Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
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- Federal Sources
- FEMA: Citizen Preparedness Guide
- FirstGov: Your first click to the U.S. Government
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996): the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- National Hurricane Center
- Zip Codes: U.S. Postal Service
- State Sources
- Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education
- Louisiana Citizen Awareness & Disaster Evacuation Guide
- Lousiana Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
- Louisiana.gov: State government and services
- Parish Sources
- Jefferson Parish
- New Orleans
- St. Bernard Parish
- St. Charles Parish
- St. Tammany Parish
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- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
- Grants.gov: over 900 grant programs from the 26 Federal grant-making agencies
- GrantsNet: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- IRIS: Illinois Researcher Information Services
- Available through the LSUHSC Office of Research Services;
- Contact the Reference Office for assistance in creating personal profiles (LSUHSC personnel, only).
- LSUHSC School of Nursing Office of Research and Evaluation - Funding Opportunities
- Louisiana Board of Regents - Office of Sponsored Programs
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Grants & Funding Opportunities
- Grants - Office of Extramural Research
- Resources for New Investigators
- National Library of Medicine
- Extramural Programs
- Grants & Funding
- National Science Foundation: (NSF) Find Funding
- NN/LM South Central Region: Funding Opportunities
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- ScanGrants
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Grants and Proposals.
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- American Library Association
- Federal Documents Depository Library Locator
- Federal Libraries from USA.gov
- Health Sciences Library Association of Louisiana (HSLAL)
- Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing
- Jefferson Parish Public Library & its Catalog
- Library of Congress & its
Catalog
- Louisiana Library Association
- LOUIS: the Louisiana Online University Information System
- LOUISiana Union Catalog
- Medical Library Association (MLANet) and the South Central Chapter
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) & its
Catalog
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and the South Central Region
- New Orleans Public Library (NUTRIAS) & its Catalog
- Regional Medical Libraries: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, & Texas
- SCAMeL: South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium
- State Library of Louisiana
- Its Catalog and Louisiana Library Connection (LaLibCon) Databases
- Tulane's Rudolph Matas Medical Library & its Catalog
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- Best of New Orleans: Gambit Weekly
- Greater New Orleans Community Data Center - Information to support nonprofit grantwriting, advocacy, planning, and decision-making in post-Katrina New Orleans
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- New Orleans: website for the City of New Orleans
- New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitor's Bureau
- New Orleans Online: the Official Tourism Site of the City of New Orleans
- New Orleans Traffic Cameras(I-10): from the Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development
- NOLA.com with the Times Picayune Online
- RAND Gulf States Policy Institute
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- Associations
- American Medical Association:
- Including Medical Student Section & FREIDA Online: Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
- Louisiana State Medical Society
- Southern Medical Association
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- Resources (non-LSUHSC licensed)
- Anatomy Atlases: A Digital Library of Anatomy Information
- DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects): Centre for Reviews & Dissemination
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): National Library of Medicine
- TRIPdatabase: Evidence Based Medicine for Clinical Practice
- WebMD Professional Network: (initial registration required)
- Includes eMedicine, Medscape, Medscape Journal of Medicine
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- American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
- American Nurses Association (NursingWorld)
- Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing
- International Council of Nurses
- Louisiana Association of Student Nurses
- Louisiana State Board of Nursing
- Louisiana State Nurses Association
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- National League for Nursing
- National Student Nurses' Association
- Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
- a web sampler of resources for nursing professionals from NNLM
- Nursing Theory Page
- Sigma Theta Tau International
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Nursing Care Plans.
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- CenterWatch Drug Directories
- Drug Digest (Consumer Oriented)
- Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information from MEDLINEplus
- FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
- National Center for Toxicological Research
- International Drug Information: National Library of Medicine
- National Toxicology Program
- RXAssist: Provides health care providers with the information needed to access the pharmaceutical companies’ patient assistance programs.
- RxList: the Internet drug index
- Toxicology Information from NLM
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- AAFP Clerkship/Preceptorship Directory
- AMA DoctorFinder: (American Medical Association)
- American Board of Medical Specialists (ABMS) : Who's Certified (Initial Login Required)
- Hospitals Worldwide
- LSUHSC E-Mail Directory: New Orleans
- Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
- Medlineplus Directories
- NCQA Physician Directory
- Professional Licensing Boards: Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
- Directory of U.S. Hospitals from U.S. News.com
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Biographical Data on Physicians.
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- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Disaster Information Management Resource Center from the National Library of Medicine
- Healthy People - 2010
- Health Services Research & Public Health from the National Library of Medicine
- KaiserEDU from the Kaiser Family Foundation
- Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals: Office of Public Health (DHH/OPH)
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
- Includes Public Health Information and Data Tutorial
- Public Health Foundation (PHF)
- Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)
- United States Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Includes CDC Wonder: a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data
- Office of the Surgeon General of the U.S.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
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- Census Data
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Data & Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- ChildStats.gov
- FedStats: Government site of Federal Statistics
- Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
- Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSRR) Database
: National Library of Medicine
- Louisiana Demographics Census Data
- Louisiana Quicklinks: U.S. Census Bureau:
- State Health Facts Online
- Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Office of Applied Studies
- United Nations Statistics Division
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Office of Minority Health: Statistics
- World Health Organization Statistical Information System
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Statistics.
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- American Pyschological Association (APA), Testing and Assessment FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests
- Buros Institute: Test Reviews Online
- The LSUHSC-NO Library subscribes to the reviews found here.
- Use Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print to obtain them.
- Educational Testing Service (ETS): Test Collection Database
- Evaluation Tests (National Library of Medicine FAQ)
- Evolve (Elsevier)
- HESI (Health Education Systems, Inc.)
- Mind Garden: an independent publisher of psychological assessments and instruments.
- NCLEX - National Council Licensure Exminations (National Council of State Boards of Nursing)
- National League for Nursing (NLN) Test Products
- PAR: Psychological Assessment Resources
- Pearson Assessments: Assessments for Mental Health, Medical and Career Professionals
- TEAS - Test of Essential Academic Skills (Assessment Technologies Institute)
- Also see LSUHSC Library Resource Guides on Tests and Instruments.
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- APA Style: Tips and other information about the American Psychological Association style
- Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
- COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics: BMJ Publishing
- Council of Science Editors (CSE) (formerly the Council of Biology Editors (CBE)
- INANE: International Academy of Nurse Editors
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences: Raymon H. Mulford Library at the University of Toledo, Health Science Campus
- International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication
- National Library of Medicine. Sample References from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
- Nurse Author & Editor
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Vancouver Group)
- WAME: the World Association of Medical Editors
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