LIMSWiki:Resources/Research and reference

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About these tools

Not all of these knowledge bases and research and reference tools directly relate to laboratory and other types of informatics. However, they all could be considered useful tools for anyone researching either informatics or other scientific disciplines. Note: some of the resources found here may be repeated in other section of the resource guide. Additionally, there may be tools useful for research not found here but found elsewhere in the resource guide. For example, many open-access journals may make for great research tools, but they appear elsewhere in the LIMSWiki:Resources guide.

Knowledge base, research, and reference

Knowledge bases and portals

AmericanEHR Partners: "dedicated to the creation of an online community of clinicians who use information technology to deliver care to Americans"

Bioinformatics.ca Bioinformatics Links Directory: "features curated links to molecular resources, tools and databases"

Coiera.com: Your Health Informatics Headquarters: a portal to general knowledge about health and other types of informatics, presented by Coute Enterprises, Inc.

Directory of Open Access Journals: a search tool for finding open-access journals

DLINE: a "scholarly portal to access journals, research services, alerts, register for meetings and renew your membership" with DLINE

Electronic Health Record Resources: a collection of online electronic health record and informatics resources, presented by Moya K. Mason, MLIS

FreeBookCentre.net: Free Medical Books: "free medical books and resources ... [that] are highly beneficial for doctors and students"

FreeBooks4Doctors: "created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet"

Free Medical Journals: "created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet"

Health Informatics World Wide: a health and medical informatics portal

Health Information Technology Toolkit, Rural Assistance Center: "provides federal resources to help guide rural health facilities and providers through the phases of choosing, implementing and operating [health information technology] systems"

Health Mash: a "health knowledge base and semantic search and discovery engine for trusted health information"

Health-e-Directory: "a comprehensive listing of products and service solutions for e-Health"

Research tools

Archives Hub: a search hub for discovering the archived content of over 220 institutions in the U.K.

BioMed Central: access to over 250 peer-reviewed open access journals

British Library - Public Catalogue: "a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles, and digital objects"

CiteSeer: "an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science"

Cogprints: "an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science," biology, and medicine

Data.gov: a U.S. initiative "to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government"

Directory of Open Access Repositories: "an authoritative directory of academic open access [data] repositories"

Education Resources Information Center: "unlimited access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials"

Embase: a "database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day"

FindTheBest.com - Software: a comparison tool for software, including medical and EHR software

getCITED: "an online, member-controlled academic database, directory and discussion forum"

Health Information Technology, National Conference of State Legislatures: health informatics documents via the U.S. NCSL

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources, U.S. National Library of Medicine: "information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in health services research, behavioral and social sciences, and public health"

Reference material

Bioinformatics.org Wiki: a bioinformatics wiki set up by Bioinformatics Organization, Inc., containing more than 900 pages of content

ClinfoWiki: the clinical informatics wiki: a wiki devoted to biomedical and other types of informatics, containing more than 800 pages of content

Deciphering Medspeak - Medical Library Association: a resource "to help translate common 'medspeak' terms" (includes link to an alphabetical list of terms)

"Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers": released by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this guide is "designed to highlight key strategies that have been used to produce outstanding consumer IT products" (note: link leads directly to a PDF file)

Epocrates - Mobile Products: provides the free iPhone and iPad application "Rx," a drug and interaction reference guide

Find-A-Code: "an online database of medical billing codes and information"

Glossary of Public Health Informatics Organizations, Activities, and Terms: a collection of health IT terms and information, supported by the National Association of County and City Health Officials