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AAP Red Book Red Book Online is the online home of the report of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases (AAP). Offering instant Web-based access, you will find the complete text of the Red Book®; the complete visual library of over 1,400 images; vaccine status information; infectious disease news and much more. Subscriber access includes essential infectious diseases and immunization information, including important updates.   Licensed for 3 simultaneous users by LHL. UAB restricted access.   
ABI Inform Worldwide coverage of business periodicals.  via ProQuest via Sterne Library.
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ABLEDATA Products for people with disabilities.  Free    
Academic Search Premier Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2050 scholarly journals, including 1500 peer-reviewed titles. Updated daily. 1985-present.  via EBSCOhost via AVL.
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AccessEmergency Medicine AccessEmergency Medicine is a complete online service that allows users to quickly search the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of emergency cases with videos. In Access Emergency Medicine, physicians and residents will find answers in one click for a broad spectrum of complaints encountered in the ED, ranging from obstetrical emergencies to orthopedic emergencies to poisoning to trauma. A semantically driven search brings users to the treatment information quicker, with links to deeper information on different presentations, diagnostic tests, procedures, and more. Full text books in Access EM include: Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Emergency Medicine Manual, Ma, et al.; Emergency Medicine Procedures, Reichman & Simon; Emergency Ultrasound, Ma & Mateer; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Strange, et al.; Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies, Pearlman, et al.; Emergency Orthopedics, Simon, et al.; Atlas of Emergency Medicine, Knoop, Stack, & Storrow; Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology; Atlas of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Shah & Lucchesi; and Goldfrank's Manual of Toxicologic Emergencies, Hoffman, et al.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
AccessMedicine AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
AccessSurgery McGraw-Hill's AccessSurgery.com is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context. Surgical Videos, Surgical Animations, Textbooks, Surgical Atlas, Board Review, Surgery Quick Answers. Access Surgery also offers a range of special features designed to both assist resident education and support surgical practice including IPod and PDA downloadable content, a differential diagnosis (DDx) tool, cancer staging tables, government guidelines, and the Gold Standard Drug Database. The PDA content is listed as a book called Current Consult Surgery, available as a book on the lower right side of the product home page.  Access is from LHL with one seat. BlazerID/password required for remote access. Individual logins are required to the Board Review materials so that users can track their results over time.  About 
ACP Journal Club Evidence based medicine resource comprised of original studies and reviews, from over 100 biomedical journals, summarized in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.  UAB restricted to BlazerID and password. The hyperlink given here goes directly to the publisher.    
ACP PIER The Physicians' Information and Education Resource
This resource's subscription expired in Feb. 2008. 
via Lister Hill Library subscription. 5 simultaneous users.   
AGELINE Books and articles about life at 50+.  via AARP. Free on the web  Help 
AGRICOLA Contains: Two searchable bibliographic databases, one indexing book titles (NAL Catalog), and the other: Article Citation Database. Emphasis is on USDA, Experiment Station, and U.S. journal documents. Bibliographic citations only, some with abstracts. Search tips: Many SARE reports are cataloged in the articles database; add "SARE Project" to your search terms. See also: "How to Search Both Databases at Once" for combined book and journal article searching.  Free via NAL and USDA.  Help 
AGRIS Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology; literature citations contributed by 240 national, international and intergovernmental organizations since 1974.  Free via FAO.    
AHFS Drug Information Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the "Big Red Book" provides more extensive evidence-based data than many other drug references. AHFS DI is free from the influence of manufacturers, insurers, regulators, and other special interests, giving an unbiased source of drug information.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library through Stat!-Ref   
AIDSLINE Separate database no longer exists.
For AIDS citations. Choose "AIDS" from Subsets drop-down box on Limits page. 
Free via Pubmed.   
Alabama Department of Archives and History : State Publications Contains various publications from many agencies, boards and commissions within Alabama state government.  Free to all.   
Alabama Mosiac AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. AlabamaMosaic was initiated under a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and is now administered by the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL).   Free to all.   
Alabama Virtual Library A combination of resources made available through funding by the Alabama state legislature for education, primarily K-12 but including some higher level resources as well.  Access available to all Alabama residents either through their school or local library.  Link on this page requires BlazerID if you are off-campus.   
Alt Health Watch AltHealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, AltHealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.   Off-campus access requires BlazerID and password.   
ALTBIB (Bibliography on Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing) Contains two main components: the ALTBIB database, NLM's bibliographic collection on alternatives to animal testing. It includes citations from published articles, books, book chapters, and technical reports from 1992-2001. Automated MEDLINE/PubMed filtered searches for relevant citations. Users can also further limit their search (via checkboxes) to citations with the "Animal Use Alternatives" MeSH term, to the PubMed Toxicology Subset, and to citations published after 2000.  Free to all   
Anatomy TV Available through STAT-Ref!, Anatomy.TV is advertised as the "world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy online."   Restricted to UAB BlazerID and password.  Short Flash demo (with sound) on AnatomyTV. There are other tutorials available once you have logged into the resource. 
Applied Science and Technology Full Text Choose Applied Science Full Text from menu.  via Sterne Library.    Help 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Web version of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts
& Humanities Citation Index. 1995-present. 
via ISI via Lister Hill Library subscription
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Quick Reference Card | Tutorials  
ASH Teaching Cases Interactive cases designed to simulate the steps involved in diagnosing a patient, from taking the history and performing a physical exam, to ordering and interpreting lab tests, to making a final diagnosis and following the clinical course of the disease.  Free via American Society of Hematology   
Associations Unlimited Search associations by name, acronym, location or subject.  Gale Research; via Sterne Library.     
AVL A combination of resources made available through funding by the Alabama state legislature for education, primarily K-12 but including some higher level resources as well.  Access available to all Alabama residents either through their school or local library.  Link on this page requires BlazerID if you are off-campus.   
AVSL Eye Resources on the Internet Long list of many websites on optometry and eye resources on the web.   Free to all   
Basic BIOSIS Basic information about biology and
other life sciences. A subset of the Biosis (Biological Abstracts) database focused on undergraduate level resources covering 1999-present.  
via FirstSearch via Sterne Library. 
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Guide 
Bioethicsline Separate database no longer exists.
For Bioethics citations. once in Pubmed, choose "Bioethics" from Subsets drop-down box on Limits page. 
Free via PubMed    
Biomed Central BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. LHL is no longer an institutional member as of 11/1/05. However, we maintain access to BMC open access full-text titles as well as having a paid current online-only subscription to their BMC Biology Collection.   Full text is Open Access.   
Book Review Digest Plus Current English fiction and nonfiction book reviews. Select Book Review Digest Plus from Advanced Search menu.  via Sterne Library.     
Books in Print In print, out-of-print, forthcoming books, audios and videos.   via Sterne Library.    
Business Source Premier Peer-reviewed journals and popular publications covering business.  via Sterne Library   
CAM on PubMed NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have partnered to create CAM on PubMed, a subset of NLM's PubMed. A PubMed literature search will be automatically limited to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed: [Limits: Complementary Medicine].   Free to ALL. UAB links to full text may not work with this link.
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Cancer Literature Publications for the patient, the public, and health professionals from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  Free via NCI, National Institutes of Health   
Cancer.gov Publications for the patient, the public, and health professionals from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  Free via NCI, National Institutes of Health   
CancerLit Publications for the patient, the public, and health professionals from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).  Free via NCI, National Institutes of Health   
Cardiosource Plus for Institutions Essential online cardiology resource for students, practitioners, researchers, and other professionals in the medical field.   Lister Hill Library Subscription. Individual registration required for full access to the entire site.   
Case Studies in Science Online case collection in all areas of science including the life sciences, physical sciences (including chemistry, physics, and earth science), engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science, psychology, anthropology, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, science education, etc., with a particular focus on undergraduate education.  Free via State University of New York at Buffalo, the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science case collection.   
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The CDC website is a treasure trove of health information and health statistics, including but not limited to CDC Wonder, Healthy People 2010, MMWR, NCHS, EpiINFO, WISQARS.   Free to All   
CINAHL Plus with Full Text(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text of 337 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. Please note that UAB's CINAHL access was changed from OVID to EBSCOHost on January 1, 2006.  via EBSCOHost. UAB IP restricted.
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Clinical Digital Libraries Project An experimental interface to integrated digital library content organized for clinical use.  A joint research effort of the Schools of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama and the University of North Texas.  Parts are available to those with BlazerID/password only.  About CDLP  
ClinicalTrials.GOV ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. It gives the trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.  Free via NLM    
CLIPP Pediatric Cases "Computer-Assisted Learning in Pediatrics Project (CLIPP). CLIPP is a series of web-based patient simulations developed by the membership of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) as a methodology to comprehensively teach the pediatric clerkship curriculum. Each CLIPP case presents a single patient encounter and requires an average of 50 min to complete. The case studies include pictures and text designed to stimulate problem-solving in a realistic setting. Students work through the case in a linear fashion from presentation of the patient to the clinic or ER through diagnosis and management."   CLIPP login page
Registration Process: One-time registration process required. Users must register using their UAB EMAIL ADDRESS! After submitting the registration form, you will receive 2 emails from the vendor--one with the username and one with the password. If there is any difficulty, try the "get a new password" option on the initial page. Quicktime and popups also required for full use of this site. 
Information about CLIPP | Reference: Fall LH, et al. Multi-institutional development and utilization of a computer-assisted learning program for the pediatric clerkship: The CLIPP Project. Acad. Med. 2005; 80(9):847-55.  
CMDT AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Cochrane Library Evidence-based medicine reviews and practice guidelines. Consists of 7 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR); Database
of abstracts of reviews of effects (DARE); Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane database of methodology reviews (CDMR); Cochrane methodology register (CMR); Health technology assessment database (HTA); NHS economic evaluation database (NHS EED). 
Enable popups in your browser and cancel any pop-up blockers such as those on the Google and MSN toolbars.  Using the Cochrane Library | Quick Reference Guide  
Compendex Interdisciplinary engineering database. Ei Engineering Village 2   via Sterne Library. 
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ConsumerLab.com Provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. Includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, test results for ConsumerLab.com selected products and Approved Products from ConsumerLab.coms Voluntary Certification Program, product recalls, and safety warnings. A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database.  Licensed for 16 simultaneous users by LHL. UAB restricted access.    
CRISP CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. The database, maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, includes projects funded by the NIH, FDA, CDCP, and other federal government health institutes. The public can use CRISP to search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identify specific projects and/or investigators.   Free to all.  Description | FAQ | Release Notes 
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Current Protocols in Cell Biology One of the volumes from the popular Current Protocols series by Wiley Intersciences. Contains information on laboratory procedures.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Current Protocols in Immunology One of the volumes from the popular Current Protocols series by Wiley Intersciences. Contains information on laboratory procedures.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Current Protocols in Microbiology One of the volumes from the popular Current Protocols series by Wiley Intersciences. Contains information on laboratory procedures.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology CPMB is a classic standard lab manual in molecular biology. Includes basic methods for DNA preparation & isolation, library screening, and sequencing as well as more advanced procedures detailing DNA-protein interactions, yeast manipulation, and phosphorylation analyses.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Current Protocols in Neuroscience One of the volumes from the popular Current Protocols series by Wiley Intersciences. Contains information on laboratory procedures.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Current Protocols in Pharmacology One of the volumes from the popular Current Protocols series by Wiley Intersciences. Contains information on laboratory procedures.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Digital Anatomist 2-D and 3-D anatomical images.  From the University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Biological Structure  Overview  
Digital Collections ContentDM is the interface for a number of local digital collections currently under development. The existing collections at present include: UAB ETD (electronic theses and dissertations), recorded oral history project, a digital collection of letters written by Florence Nightingale, and restricted access to the Art History collection.   Unrestricted access except as noted.   
DIRLINE Directory of Information Resources Online. Wide variety of information sources for health and biomedicine.  Free via NLM    
Dissertation Abstracts Citations to dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe. (UAB theses & dissertations may also be searched from the LHL Online Catalog using the subject term "theses".) Information on having your thesis or dissertation bound.   via FirstSearch via Sterne Library.    Factsheet 
Document Delivery Order System ILLIAD is the name of the document delivery, interlibrary loan system used by Lister Hill Library. This tool allows you to order articles or books through us from another library or to request a copy of an article from Lister Hill Library's collection and have an electronic version of the article available from the ILLiad website.   The user needs to set up an ILLiad username and password. Which services are available and the prices for those services depends on the user's affiliation with UAB, more info...
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Drug Digest From the site: "DrugDigest is a noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs, [herbs, supplements] and treatment options."   Free to all.   
Drug Facts & Comparisons Drug Facts and Comparisons is the primary source for drug information for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, & other health care professionals. It provides drug information, drug interactions, herbal information, and patient medication handouts. Arranged both A to Z and by therapeutic drug classes, it is an easy-to-use drug reference that integrates drug information with patient care guidelines. Appendix material includes tables and charts on drug names that look and sound alike, oral dosage forms not to be crushed or chewed, and the latest childhood immunization schedule. A comprehensive index of generic and trade name drugs, a detailed table of contents for each therapeutic section, and numerous cross references enable the user to quickly locate critical information. Route-specific monographs are also available when a drug can be administered by more than one route. The Review of Natural Products contains current natural product information & in-depth monographs about natural products based on scientific research, not just anecdotal information. The RNP provides detailed information about natural products; including their botany, history, chemistry, pharmacology, medicinal uses, toxicology, and patient information. Also included is a Clinical Overview section for quick reference.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
Drug Information Portal The NLM Drug Information Portal is a gateway to selected drug information from NLM and other key government agencies. Includes summaries tailored to various audiences. Includes info from: MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DailyMed, Dietary Supplements Label Database, HSDB and LactMed as well as outside resources such as Drugs@FDA and AIDSinfo. More than 12,000 drugs can be searched covering drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug. You may search by a drug’s trade name or generic name. A spell checker gives suggestions if the name is not found. You can find embedded portions of names by using an asterisk at the beginning and/or end of a search term. Once a drug is found, a summary of the drug’s type and usage is given, as well as links leading to further information at one of the portal’s resources. Outside links open in a new window. Within a given drug record, you may click on the drug category and retrieve drugs with the same or similar uses. Includes: Drugs with official generic name status such as USAN (United States Adopted Name) or INN (International Nonproprietary Name); Drugs which have Categories extracted from the NLM MeSH Pharmacological Action data. It does not cover all experimental drugs, or untested folk remedies if they are not covered by the sources above. At the present time you cannot search for categories by using the search box. General drug categories can be searched by using the generic name stem of a drug.  Free to all via NLM  JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to work properly. They may be searched in the name search box by using asterisks for truncation, such as *azepam* to find drug names that correspond to antianxiety drugs such as Lorazepam.  
E-book Search This search only locates electronic books (e-books) in the library's online catalog.   Searching for e-books is free to all; viewing full text may require a Blazer ID and password.    
E-journals List List of full-text electronic journals with a health-related focus available to UAB through various license agreements. This is not a comprehensive list of e-journals or a comprehensive list of all journals held by Lister Hill Library. For print journals, please check the LHL catalog.   Remote access requires BlazerID and password.
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Finding E-Journals Tutorial  
ECO OCLC's Electronic Collections Online. Note that UAB is subscribed to only some titles in this database.  via FirstSearch via Sterne Library. Off-campus access requires BlazerID & password.
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Education Full Text Periodicals, books and yearbooks on education.  via Wilsonweb via Sterne Library.    Factsheet 
Electronic Journals List List of full-text electronic journals with a health-related focus available to UAB through various license agreements. This is not a comprehensive list of e-journals or a comprehensive list of all journals held by Lister Hill Library. For print journals, please check the LHL catalog.   Remote access requires BlazerID and password.
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Finding E-Journals Tutorial  
Electronic State Publications Collection of Alabama Contains various publications from many agencies, boards and commissions within Alabama state government.  Free to all.   
Electronic Theses and Dissertations UAB theses and dissertations. For print theses and dissertations housed in Lister Hill Library search the LHL Online Catalog.  Free to all.   
Encyclopedia Britannica Online The complete encyclopedia and book of the year.  via Sterne Library.    
Endnote Web A bibliographic management website. EndnoteWeb is a scaled-down version of Endnote which aids in managing references and writing scholarly research papers. Similar products include Reference Manager, RefWorks, Connotea, and Zotero. This product comes with the campus license to Web of Knowledge and uses the same ID and password information as Web of Knowledge. One-time separate registration and then yearly reauthorization is required for all users.  UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library. Users establish their own ID/password ONCAMPUS and then use on or off campus. (BlazerID required.)  EndnoteWeb FAQ | Tutorials | Endnote/EndnoteWeb Comparison 
Entrez Cross Database Search The ENTREZ Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows a user to either enter a search to be run simultaneously against a set of ENTREZ's databases or, for the more experienced user, to go directly to an individual database's search page.  Free via NCBI    
ERIC (Ebsco) Journal articles and reports in education.   via EBSCOHost via AVL.
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ERIC (OCLC) Journal articles and reports in education.   via FirstSearch via Sterne Library. 
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Factsheet 
Essential Evidence Plus Formerly known as InfoPOEMs & InfoRetriever this is an evidence-based point of care clinical decision tool. Includes levels of evidence on clinical topics, ICD-9 code search, clinical calculators, Cochrane abstracts, as well as 542 images from 5MCC. PDA content is also available. The instructions are at the publisher's website.   Available from LHL. Includes Web, PC, and PDA versions.
Article Linker Enabled 
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ETD UAB theses and dissertations. For print theses and dissertations housed in Lister Hill Library search the LHL Online Catalog.  Free to all.   
ExamMaster

The content of ExamMaster is mainly practice exam questions designed to simulate those on the USMLE and board certification exams. The purpose of this tool is to assist users in the self-assessment of their relative areas of strengths and weaknesses in general topic areas. Use of ExamMaster is not intended to predict performance on the USMLE or on any exams that are part of any UAB curriculum.

To access Exam Master:

Go to, please click HERE
If you are off-campus, you will be asked for your BlazerID and password in order to access the website.

At the website, you will need to register for a username and password with Exam Master. This is different from your BlazerID and password. It is a one-time process that will take about 3 minutes.

Once you enter Exam Master, click on “Create Exams.” Then click on “QuickStart Exams”. Below is a list of the QuickStart exams.

  • USMLE Step 1-Vignettes and Case-related (2356 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 1-NonVignette/Recall (6262 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 1 by Medical Subjects (8646 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 2-Vignettes and Case-related (2647 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 2-NonVignette/Recall (2327 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 2 by Medical Subjects (4762 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 3-Vignettes and Case-related (2327 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 3-NonVignette/Recall (849 Qs)
  • USMLE Step 3 by Medical Subjects (2999 Qs)
  • Internal Medicine Certification Exam (4540 Qs)
  • Family Practice Certification Exam (5472 Qs)
  • General Surgery Certification Exam (1327 Qs)
  • General Pediatrics Certification Exam (901 Qs)
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology Cert. Exam (871 Qs)
  • SPEX (Special Purpose EXamination) (8824 Qs)
  • Biochemistry (1370 Qs)
  • Anatomy (525 Qs)
  • Cytology and Histology (1215 Qs)
  • Medical Microbiology (1011 Qs)
  • Pathology (995 Qs)
  • Physiology (1638 Qs)
  • Internal and Clinical Medicine (2454 Qs)
  • Psychiatry (1098 Qs)
  • PANCE (1469 Qs)

List of contributors to ExamMaster.

 
If you are off-campus, you will first be asked for your BlazerID and password in order to access the website. At the website, you will need to register for a username and password with Exam Master. This second ID/password is different from your BlazerID and password. It is a one-time process that will take about 3 minutes.

Once you enter Exam Master, click on “Create Exams.” Then click on “QuickStart Exams”.

Do not bookmark the opening page on the ExamMaster site if you wish to use this resource remotely!

 
 
Expanded Academic ASAP Multidiscipline academic journals, news magazines, newspapers, many with full text. 1980-present.  via InfoTrac   
FactSearch Facts and statistics on topics of current interest.  via FirstSearch via Sterne Library. 
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Fedstats.GOV Gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies.  Free to all    
Florence Nightingale Letters Digitized correspondence of Florence Nightingale including 51 letters and two portraits. The letters range in date from 1853-1893, but the bulk of them were written during the 1860s-1880s. Most of the letters discuss either war relief charities for the Franco-Prussian War or sanitation work in India.  Free to all.   
FREIDA Fellowship and residency interactive database; aggregate statistics for each specialty and subspecialty.  via AMA FREIDA Online    
Gale Professional Collection Thomson Gale Professional Collection Online is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators and is updated daily. It covers Arts and Humanities, Child and Adolescent Psychology and Development, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Health/Nutrition/Fitness, Learning Disabilities, Literature, School Law, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport/Athletic Training. Audience: teachers, college, general public   via AVL. This access requires BlazerID and password from off-campus.   
Gale Virtual Reference Library GVRL is a multidisciplinary database of encyclopedias. Audience: middle school through college, general public. Health related titles: Drugs and Controlled Substances; Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine; Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer; Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders; Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; Biology; Information Plus Reference Series.  via AVL. This access requires BlazerID and password off campus.   
Gartner Research Data Global technology information: intraWeb.  UAB Blazer ID and Password restricted.   
General Business File ASAP Analyze company performance, industry trends; broker research reports, journals, directory listings. Full text and images available. 1980-present.  via InfoTrac via Sterne Library.     
General Science Full Text Publications covering science. Includes popular science magazines, professional journals, The New York Times Science Section.  via WilsonWeb via Sterne Library.    Guide 
Genetics Home Reference The Genetics Home Reference provides links to a selective list of health information sources from the NIH and other organizations. This includes: genetic condition summaries, gene summaries, Help Me Understand Genetics primer; and genetics glossary.  Free via NLM and NIH  Factsheet 
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips The 10th edition (2007/2008) provides immediate access to specific information needed to care for older adults in various health care settings.   Free to all. Individual registration required.   
Gold Standard Drug Information AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Google Scholar Advanced Search An experimental search engine by the developers of Google. Concentrates on providing access to citations of the scholarly journal literature. Also, provides some limited coverage on who cited whom. (see Web of Science for better coverage of that.)  Free to all. Access to some full text articles if on campus. Full text access is either those that are free to all or those determined by UAB status, Google itself is not providing the full text. Basic Search interface is also available.
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GPO Monthly Catalog U.S. government publications  via FirstSearch via Sterne Library. 
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Grants.GOV Grants.gov is a primary source to find and apply for federal government grants. Grants.gov simplifies the grants management process and creates a centralized, online process to find and apply for over 900 grant programs from the 26 federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov streamlines the process of awarding over $360 billion annually to state and local governments, academia, not-for-profits and other organizations. Its vision is to be a simple, unified source to electronically find, apply and manage grant opportunities.   Free to all.  Help 
GrantsNet A career development tool updated weekly published since 1995 by AAAS. It includes full text access to the journal, Science as well as online forums, information on building science-based careers, and reports from a network of correspondents aimed at the next generation of scientists. GrantsNet is a free component.   From AAAS (publishers of Science) via UAB subscription.   
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Citations on health and psychosocial tests and measurements.  via EBSCOHost. UAB IP restricted.
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Harrisons Online Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.  Web version of the textbook includes updates every 2 weeks.   UAB Blazer ID and Password restricted.   Alternate link  
Harrisons Online AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Health InfoNet of Alabama Health InfoNet is a consumer health information service for the residents of Alabama.  Can connect you with local support groups; local and national medical and social service organizations; information on diseases and medical conditions from A to Z (or access to a Health Expert); provide a section of Easy to Read sources of medical information.  Cooperative effort of the public libraries of Jefferson and Shelby counties and the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.    
Health Reference Center Academic General health information. Can limit to full text and refereed publications. 1980-present.  via InfoTrac via Sterne Library.   
Health Source: Consumer Edition Full text for nearly 300 consumer-based health topics.  via AVL EBSCOhost
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full text from more than 550 journals. Indexes 850 journals. Updated daily.  via AVL EBSCOhost.
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HerbalGram HerbalGram.org is the official website of the American Botanical Council (ABC) which is the leading independent, nonprofit, international member-based organization providing education using science-based and traditional information to promote the responsible use of herbal medicine.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library. ALL access to website requires separate login and password. Use BlazerID to obtain the HerbalGram website password.   
Highwire Press Stanford University's electronic press. Includes lists of free trials, back issues and pay per view. Also includes a specialized interface for Medline searches.  Basic service is free to all    
HIP Lister Hill Library online catalog. This is the central searchable listing of all the books, journals, audiovisuals and numerous web Identifies resources, both licensed and free, both print and electronic formats in Lister Hill Library. In addition to helping you find books, the catalog is also lists videos, CDs, websites. Please note that the catalog is used to identify PRINT AND ONLINE JOURNAL TITLES rather than articles.   Access to the catalog is free to all. Access to licensed web resources is limited to current faculty, staff, and students through the use of a BlazerID and password.   
HISTLINE History of Medicine citations, now incorporated into PubMed. Subject
subset "History of Medicine" available on the Subset drop down menu through the Limits page.  See also the Index-Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Office... 
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Horizon Information Portal Lister Hill Library online catalog. This is the central searchable listing of all the books, journals, audiovisuals and numerous web Identifies resources, both licensed and free, both print and electronic formats in Lister Hill Library. In addition to helping you find books, the catalog is also lists videos, CDs, websites. Please note that the catalog is used to identify PRINT AND ONLINE JOURNAL TITLES rather than articles.   Access to the catalog is free to all. Access to licensed web resources is limited to current faculty, staff, and students through the use of a BlazerID and password.   
Household Products Database This database links over 5,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.   Free via NLM    
Hurst The Heart AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
IBIDS International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements. Citations from international scientific literature on dietary supplements. No full text available.  From the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health.   
ILLIAD ILLIAD is the name of the document delivery, interlibrary loan system used by Lister Hill Library. This tool allows you to order articles or books through us from another library or to request a copy of an article from Lister Hill Library's collection and have an electronic version of the article available from the ILLiad website.   The user needs to set up an ILLiad username and password. Which services are available and the prices for those services depends on the user's affiliation with UAB, more info...
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ImagesMD Consists of over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed explanatory text and citation of the source. This subscription may not be renewed after Dec. 2008.  Now with on-campus and off-campus access with BlazerID. Please let us know if you experience off-campus access problems.   
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army One of the definitive research tools for research in the history of medicine.  Free via NLM    
InfoPOEMs Formerly known as InfoPOEMs & InfoRetriever this is an evidence-based point of care clinical decision tool. Includes levels of evidence on clinical topics, ICD-9 code search, clinical calculators, Cochrane abstracts, as well as 542 images from 5MCC. PDA content is also available. The instructions are at the publisher's website.   Available from LHL. Includes Web, PC, and PDA versions.
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JCR Web ISI's Journal Citation Reports. Provides journal impact factors, which are a way of ranking the relative importance of journals within their fields. The following article gives good information on what a journal impact factor is: "Impact Factors, Use and Abuse," by M. Amin, et al. Perspectives in Publishing, Oct. 20, 2000.  via ISI via Lister Hill Library subscription
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JobsNet A career development tool updated weekly published since 1995 by AAAS. It includes full text access to the journal, Science as well as online forums, information on building science-based careers, and reports from a network of correspondents aimed at the next generation of scientists. GrantsNet is a free component.   From AAAS (publishers of Science) via UAB subscription.   
Journals, List of Online List of full-text electronic journals with a health-related focus available to UAB through various license agreements. This is not a comprehensive list of e-journals or a comprehensive list of all journals held by Lister Hill Library. For print journals, please check the LHL catalog.   Remote access requires BlazerID and password.
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JSTOR JSTOR was established as an independent not-for-profit organization in August 1995. JSTOR seeks to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Full text access is archival with a "moving wall."   via Sterne Library. 
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Lange Educational Library AccessMedicine contains numerous titles from McGraw-Hill and Appleton & Lange's medical books: HARRISON'S Online; CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2007; Schwartz Surgery Online; Goodman & Gilman's PHARMACOLOGY; Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine; Fitzpatrick Color Atlas; Williams Obstetrics; HURST'S The Heart. Includes a search for all books simultaneously as well as a search for images from these titles.  UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--10 seat license shared with 3 Alabama universities.   
Lexis-Nexis Academic Entry page for Lexis-Nexis News, Business, Legal Research, Medical and Reference search pages.  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe via Sterne Library.     
Lexis-Nexis Business Business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company information including financial reports, company profiles, SEC filings & reports; directories.  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe via Sterne Library.    
Lexis-Nexis Congressional CIS Index, historical indexes, congressional publications, testimony, bills, laws, Federal Register, CFR, hot bills/topics.  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe    
Lexis-Nexis Legal Research Secondary literature: legal news, law reviews; Case Law; Codes & Regulations; International Legal Materials (Canadian and EU).  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe via Sterne Library.   
Lexis-Nexis Medical Medical News. 20 Medical and Health Journals; some journals focus on health law. Some full text included however if other options exist, the alternate method is probably better.  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe via Sterne Library.    
Lexis-Nexis News Search News by categories: General News, World News, Non-English Language New, Legal and Medical News.  via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe via Sterne Library.    
Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe Comprehensive, searchable statistics database. Search the word that appears in statistical tables.  via Sterne Library.     
LHL Catalog Lister Hill Library online catalog. This is the central searchable listing of all the books, journals, audiovisuals and numerous web Identifies resources, both licensed and free, both print and electronic formats in Lister Hill Library. In addition to helping you find books, the catalog is also lists videos, CDs, websites. Please note that the catalog is used to identify PRINT AND ONLINE JOURNAL TITLES rather than articles.   Access to the catalog is free to all. Access to licensed web resources is limited to current faculty, staff, and students through the use of a BlazerID and password.   
Linscott's Directory Linscott's Catalog of Immunological and Biological Reagents.  Find suppliers for antibodies, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins, lectins, neuropeptides, and immunoassays.  Now FREE to ALL   
List of Online Journals List of full-text electronic journals with a health-related focus available to UAB through various license agreements. This is not a comprehensive list of e-journals or a comprehensive list of all journals held by Lister Hill Library. For print journals, please check the LHL catalog.   Remote access requires BlazerID and password.
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MasterFILE Premier Full text of more than 2000 general reference publications.  via AVL EBSCOhost
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MCHLine: Maternal and Child Health Library MCHLine® is a database listing materials held in the Mary C. Egan Maternal and Child Health Library. An MCHLine® record contains a bibliographic citation, the name of a contact from whom the item may be obtained, and an annotation describing the item. MCHLine® may be searched by author, title, publisher, publication date, series, and subject terms (keywords).  Free Acess to Database   
MD Consult Please remember to LOG OFF of MDConsult by clicking on EXIT in the top right hand corner of the screen.

MD Consult is a medical portal containing full text reference books, journal articles, "Clinics of North America" articles, news articles, Mosby's Drug Consult, practice guidelines, CME, clinical topic tours, etc. for clinicians. (You can get quick access to a Pubmed article by typing in its pmid# with [mdcui] e.g., 16799120[mdcui]. PDA content is referred to as Pocket Consult and consists of the drug database, medical calculators, news, and journal TOCs. To access the PDA download area you have to first create an individual account and log into that account (creating the account is free). Once in, use the "Create an Account" link in the upper right. You can then be guided through the download process.  

UAB has paid for site-wide access. This resource also offers additional features for those who register individually for MDConsult.  MDC Tipsheets 
MedCalc 3000 Provided by STAT!Ref, MedCalc 3000 is comprised of a number of interactive clinical tools and formulas including converters, calculators, equations, and decision trees.  Restricted to UAB BlazerID and password.   
Medline/PubMed with UAB restricted Full Text Online index of biomedical journal article citations from 1950 to present. Formerly known as Index Medicus, it is the premiere database of medical literature. Premedline and OLDMEDLINE (once separate databases) are now included in one database.  via PubMed. This link requires BlazerID/password info for access to full-text articles from off-campus. This link is for non-UAB users who wish to see LHL holdings (without fulltext access).
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MedlinePlus Contains pages of carefully selected links to Web resources with authoritative health information, including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources and 650 health topics.  via the National Library of Medicine.  Free to all.    
MedlinePlus Videos of Surgical Procedures Links to nummerous pre-recorded webcasts of surgical procedures each approximately one-hour long. These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004. Please note that you cannot send in questions by email, though the webcast may say that you can, because you are not seeing these videos live.  Free to all. Need RealPlayer and need to disable your popup blocker.   
Mental Measurements Yearbook Produced by the Buros Institute, contains information standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed yearbooks 9 through 15. For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information.  via EBSCOHost. UAB IP restricted.  Test Instruments Pathfinder 
MERCK Manuals Concise clinical information reference textbooks.  Free to all.    
Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (Online) Provides online access to a compendium of genetic disorders and information from the entire field of genetics.   UAB restricted. Please LOGOUT when finished. Restricted access--1 user.   
Methods in Enzymology The classic standard book series.  2000-present. Other volumes are available in the LHL Book Collection on 2nd floor under the call number QU 25 C719m    
NAP website The Discovery Engine searches more than 500,000 book pages from nearly 3,000 formal publications produced by The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, The Institute of Medicine, and The National Research Council, plus more than 100,000+ Web documents from The National Academies: current projects, testimony, press releases, news documents, etc.  Free to all.   Help | Precision Search with Help 
National Academies Press Discovery Engine The Discovery Engine searches more than 500,000 book pages from nearly 3,000 formal publications produced by The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, The Institute of Medicine, and The National Research Council, plus more than 100,000+ Web documents from The National Academies: current projects, testimony, press releases, news documents, etc.  Free to all.   Help | Precision Search with Help 
National Agriculture Library catalog Contains: Two searchable bibliographic databases, one indexing book titles (NAL Catalog), and the other: Article Citation Database. Emphasis is on USDA, Experiment Station, and U.S. journal documents. Bibliographic citations only, some with abstracts. Search tips: Many SARE reports are cataloged in the articles database; add "SARE Project" to your search terms. See also: "How to Search Both Databases at Once" for combined book and journal article searching.  Free via NAL and USDA.  Help 
National Guideline Clearinghouse The NGC is a government funded website to help locate practice guidelines in medicine.  Free to all   
National Library of Medicine Catalog LocatorPlus. Books, journals and audiovisuals in the NLM collections.  Free via NLM   
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature A specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics.  Free to all.   
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database is a comprehensive reference in locating natural products, including herbal medicines and dietary supplements. NMCD provides all of the clinically relevant information in an easy-to-use format. You can find information on multiple ingredients, known effectiveness ratings for a given condition, drug & herb interactions and products that have been USP verified.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library. Remote access by BlazerID and password.   
Nature Protocols Online resource for protocols, including authoritative, peer-reviewed 'Nature Protocols' and an interactive 'Protocols Network'. It provides a forum for scientists to upload and comment on protocols.   UAB restricted via Lister Hill Library.    
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Resource for molecular biology information, software for analyzing genome data, molecular bases of health. Includes GenBank, OMIM, and others.  Free via NLM  Sitemap  
NCCAM National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) explores complementary and alternative (CAM) practices in the context of rigorous science, trains CAM researchers, and provides authoritative information to the public and professionals. Its four primary areas of focus are research, grants for research training and career development, outreach, and integration of scientifically proven CAM practices into conventional medicine.  Free to ALL   
NetLibrary Collection of electronic books on a broad range of topics including biomedical.  via Sterne Library.    Guide 
Newspaper Source Selected full text for 25 U.S. and international newspapers.  via EBSCOhost via AVL   
Nightingale Letters Digitized correspondence of Florence Nightingale including 51 letters and two portraits. The letters range in date from 1853-1893, but the bulk of them were written during the 1860s-1880s. Most of the letters discuss either war relief charities for the Franco-Prussian War or sanitation work in India.  Free to all.   
NIH Manuscript Submission System NIHMS is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Manuscript Submission Website for archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research. Begun in May 2005 as a voluntary process, as of April 7, 2008, all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. See the NIH Public Access Website for more information.  Free to all  NLM news page about law 
NIH Public Access Policy The PubMed Central on LHL SharePoint Website serves as a repository for UAB investigators wishing to use UAB Lister Hill Library services to deposit their manuscripts and source materials into the NIH PubMed Central database.  Requires active BlazerID   
NIH Videocasting About 3000 videocasts and podcasts of health-related topics from various lecture series within the National Institutes of Health, both live video and archived.  Free to all; requires Real Player.  FAQ | Search Past Events 
NIH/PubMed Central Submissions The PubMed Central on LHL SharePoint Website serves as a repository for UAB investigators wishing to use UAB Lister Hill Library services to deposit their manuscripts and source materials into the NIH PubMed Central database.  Requires active BlazerID   
NIHMS NIHMS is the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Manuscript Submission Website for archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research. Begun in May 2005 as a voluntary process, as of April 7, 2008, all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. See the NIH Public Access Website for more information.  Free to all  NLM news page about law 
NLM Catalog LocatorPlus. Books, journals and audiovisuals in the NLM collections.  Free via NLM   
NLM Gateway NLM Gateway is "one-stop shopping" federated search for a increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It’s targeted for the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is here, or how best to search for it.   Free to all from NLM.  Help | Overview 
NORD (National Organization of Rare Disorders) Information on symptoms, causes, treatments, clinical trials and sources
of help on rare disorders. 
Part of this info is free to all and some requires subscription. UAB restricted link.    
NRCBL A specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics.  Free to all.   
Nursing Consult Mosby's Nursing Consult brings together drug