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CONTENTS
| VETERINARY | DATABASES |
| AGRICULTURAL | |
| BIOMEDICAL | CATALOGS |
| PETS AND ANIMALS | |
| GENERAL REFERENCE | FULL-TEXT JOURNALS |
| WEB SEARCH ENGINES, SEARCH HELP |
American Veterinary Medical Association News, features, veterinary resources. Animal health brochures for dog, cat, and horse owners. A few sections are restricted to AVMA members only.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, USDA News and information about APHIS, animal health and welfare, aquaculture, wildlife, pest control.
Animal Diseases Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Links to hundreds of animal disease sites, both general and species-specific, including horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish, etc.
Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges Career and admissions information, enrollment statistics, links to all U.S. and Canadian veterinary colleges.
Consultant Dr. Maurice E. White, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. A diagnostic support systems for veterinarians. Database is searchable by diagnosis or by sign/symptom. Records include literature and web site references.
FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine CVM regulates the manufacture and distribution of food additives and drugs given to animals. This site includes drug information, a subject index, and the Green Book Online (FDA approved animal drug products).
Intute: Health and Life Sciences - Veterinary Intute is a network of UK universities and partners whose subjects experts evaluate, describe, and organize Web resources for education and research. Search by title, description, or keywords, or browse by CAB subject headings.
Iowa Veterinary Medical Association Information about IVMA, an online directory of Iowa veterinarians, calendar of events, classified ads, links to other veterinary Web resources, and a separate "members only" section.
ISU College of Veterinary Medicine Information about the College, its programs, services, and staff. Sections on academics, students, research, services, animal health, alumni.
Martindale’s “Virtual” Veterinary Center A wide variety of web resources such as dictionaries and glossaries, veterinary curriculum materials, tutorials, databases.
Open Directory - Health: Animal Veterinary and alternative medicine, breeding, diseases, products and services. A brief description is provided for each source.
Veterinary Internship and Residency Matching Program (VIRMP) The web-based VIRMP is sponsored by the American Association of Veterinary Clinicians, and replaces the print version with the 2003-2004 edition. All program information will be available on this site.
Veterinary Medicine @ About An informative site for pet professionals, pet owners, and students.
Veterinary Medicine Collections Guide ISU Library Special Collections Department. Descriptions of manuscript collections in the Special Collections Department, including those of professional veterinary organizations and unpublished personal papers.ViFaVet
Library, School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany. Annotated
links to many worldwide Internet resources. Resources are arranged by
subject and by animal species.
AgNIC A guide to quality agricultural information on the
internet. Resources selected by the National Agricultural Library,
land-grant universities, and other institutions.
ISU College of Agriculture The College’s departments, centers, institutes, and programs. Links to many agriculture-related university, government, commercial, and non-profit organization sites.
United States Department of Agriculture A gateway to the many agriculture, food and nutrition, marketing, education, outreach, research, and other resources of the USDA.
BiologyBrowser BIOSIS. Life sciences information resources, searchable by organism, subject, or geography.
Biomedical
Information Resources Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden. A large guide to web sites arranged by subjects such as
molecular biology and genetics, pathology, neuroscience, evidence-based
medicine, epidemiology, medical images, animals and plants, etc.
HealthWeb The Greater Midwest Region of the National Network Libraries of Medicine. Member institutions have contributed over 60 subject areas including alternative medicine, immunology, neurology, nutrition, ophthalmology, public health, toxicology, and veterinary medicine.
Animal Welfare Information Center National Agricultural Library, USDA. AWIC furnishes information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing. There are sections on lab, farm, zoo, and companion animals.
Healthypet.com American Animal Hospital Association. Furnishes a great deal of useful information on the care of dogs, cats, and other pets.
MedlinePlus: Animal Diseases and Your Health Links to authoritative Web pages that provide overviews and information on specific conditions of birds, cats, dogs, horses, and other animals as they relate to human health.
MedlinePlus: Pets and Pet Health Links to numerous authoritative
Web pages of governmental organizations and professional associations
concerned with pets and their treatment, diseases and disease prevention,
nutrition, and other pet-related issues.
PetEducation.com Doctors Foster & Smith.
Hundreds of informative articles on: dogs, puppies, cats, exotic small
animals, holistic and alternative medicine, vet and lab procedures, other
topics.
Petfinder.com Animal Planet Media Enterprises. Lists thousands of adoptable pets from over 10,000 animal shelters and rescue groups, searchable by type of animal, breed, age, size, gender, and geographic area. Includes articles from the ASPCA and other animal organizations on adoption, animal care, dog and cat behavior, poison prevention, etc.
PetPlace.
ThePetCenter.com The Internet Animal Hospital. The site's mission is to furnish dog and cat owners with a better understanding of the medical and surgical treatment of pets. Created by veterinarians, articles and photos deal with pet care, exams, surgery, pharmaceuticals, and other topics.
United States Animal Health Association USAHA's mission is to protect animal and public health, with the prime objective of preventing, controlling and eliminating livestock diseases. This site includes animal health news alerts, press releases, and links to organizations in the animal industry, state animal health offices, and other animal disease information sources.
VeterinaryPartner.com Veterinary Information Network, Inc. Hundreds of authoritative articles on dogs, cats, reptiles, and small mammals. Articles deal with behavior, health, diseases, drugs, and other topics.
Vetinfo TierCom, Inc., Michael Richards, DVM. Presents a great deal of useful veterinary health information relating to dogs and cats.
Virtual Livestock Library Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. Hundreds of e-resources for beef and dairy cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and horses. Site can be searched by animal and specific breeds.
Internet Public Library School of Information, University of Michigan. Web resources arranged by subject and by ready reference materials such as almanacs, calendars, calculation and conversion tools, telephone and address listings, time and weather, etc.
Martindale’s
“The Reference Desk” Authored by Jim Martindale; hosted
by Univ. of California, Irvine, Science Library. A large quantity
and variety of reference resources and teaching materials. Emphasis on
the sciences, including medicine and engineering.
Refdesk.com Bob Drudge, Webmaster. A large site, excellent for
finding quick facts and information and current news. Well-organized;
can be browsed or searched by subject categories.
WEB SEARCH ENGINES, SEARCH HELP
ISU Library’s Web Server Iowa State University Library.ISU: Iowa,
National, Universities
Iowa State University.
Search Engine Watch Danny Sullivan, Editor. Incisive
Interactive Marketing LLC. All
major web search engines are listed and described, plus many specialized ones. Site includes
Web
searching tips and tutorials, along with reviews and ratings for specific
search engines.
VETERINARY DATABASES
CONSULTANT Dr. Maurice E. White, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University. A diagnostic support system for veterinarians. Database is searchable by diagnosis or by sign/symptom. Records include literature and web site references.Current
Veterinary Journals Jean-Paul Jette, University of
Montreal. Keyword search for citations to veterinary journal articles
and conference proceedings papers, or browse tables of contents of proceedings
and journal issues.
EquineResearch.net An
equine medical research database of projects aimed at enhancing the safety,
health, and soundness of various horse breeds. Reported projects are
funded by the Grayson Jockey Club Research Foundation and three other major organizations.
BIOMEDICAL
DATABASES
CRISP Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific
Projects. Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of
Health. A searchable database of federally funded biomedical research
projects.
NLM Gateway U.S. National Library of Medicine. A Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple NLM retrieval systems and databases, including MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus (consumer health information), TOXLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov, Meeting Abstracts, and the NLM Catalog (books, serials, AVs).
PubMed U.S. National Library of Medicine. For access to citations in MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, and additional life science journals back to the 1950's. Links to full-text journals at websites of participating publishers. Also provides access to molecular biology databases for nucleotides, proteins, genomes, structures, and more.
TOXNET Toxicology and Environmental Health Information
Program, National Library of Medicine. A cluster of databases on
toxicology data and literature (including TOXLINE) and hazardous chemicals.
AGRICULTURE
DATABASES
AGRIS / CARIS Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO). The AGRIS database contains about 3 million citations to
journal articles, books, theses, reports, etc. CARIS (Current
Agricultural Research Information System) identifies research projects dealing
with all aspects of agriculture.
CRIS Current Research Information System, USDA. Ongoing and recently completed research summaries for projects sponsored by USDA, state agricultural experiment stations, state land-grant universities, and other institutions.
e-Answers American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC). Contains thousands of documents prepared by Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station professionals at over 50 land grant universities in the U.S. Database is searchable by keyword.
Poisonous Plants Informational Database Animal Science Department, Cornell University. A searchable database of plants poisonous to animals. Records contain color images of the plants, their common and scientific names, animal species affected, primary poison, and other information. Includes links to several related sites.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES
NTIS National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce. NTIS is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. Search this website for NTIS documents published since 1990. Documents may be ordered directly from the website.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations The current two years of citations and abstracts in UMI dissertation Abstracts are freely available for searching, with full-text 24-page previews of the dissertations.
USPTO
Patent Databases US Patent and Trademark Office. Covers
U.S. patents issued since 1790, full-text patents since 1976, and patent
applications.
LIBRARY CATALOGS:
IOWA
Iowa Libraries Web Pages Directory State Library of Iowa. Lists and links to the Internet addresses of Web home pages of Iowa libraries. Directory is arranged by library type (academic, public, school, special, etc.), then alphabetically by city.
ISU Library Iowa State University Library online catalog. Includes holdings of Parks Library, the Veterinary Medical Library, the Reading Rooms, and the Library Storage Building.SILO Locator - Iowa's Card Catalog State of Iowa Libraries Online, State Library of Iowa. Lists locations of Iowa libraries that hold a particular book or other resource. Searchable by title, title keyword, and author.
NATIONAL /
INTERNATIONAL
Library of Congress Online Catalog Keyword searching and browse
capability for finding books and other materials held by the Library of
Congress.
Libweb
Libdex Bisca International Investments Ltd. A worldwide directory of library Home pages and Web-based OPACs. Search for libraries by name, country, or OPAC vendor.
WorldCat OCLC Online Computer Center, Inc. Search the world's largest library network for holdings of its member libraries: books, documents, videos, and other items.
AG / MED / VET
Library
Catalogs Home Page National Library of Medicine. Search
NLM's holdings through LOCATORplus, or identify and search national,
federal, and medical research libraries and consumer health libraries.
Veterinary Medicine
Libraries Ken Ladd, University of
Saskatchewan. Major veterinary medical collections worldwide are listed,
with links to library home pages or directions for accessing the library
catalogs directly.
PUBLISHERS’ CATALOGS
Publishers’ Catalogues Home Page Peter Scott; Northern Lights Internet Solutions. Thousands of publishers of books and other materials can be searched alphabetically, by state or country, by topic, or by type of material.
The National Academies Press National Academy of Sciences.
Read the full texts of more than 3,000 books online. Includes the
Nutrient Requirements series (beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, horses,
poultry, dogs, cats, fish, etc.).
BOOKFINDERS’
CATALOGS
Alibris A comprehensive source of used, new, and hard-to-find titles.
Amazon.com Offers millions of popular and academic books, textbooks, reference books, etc. Many books have descriptions and reviews. Search by title, author, subject, publisher.
BookFinder.com A book shopping search engine that scans thousands of bookseller collections to locate new, used, rare and out-of-print titles.
FREE-ACCESS
COLLECTIONS
Bioline International A not-for-profit electronic publishing service managed by scientists and librarians and committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Emphasis on biomedicine and agriculture.
BioMed Central Publishes and provides free and open access to many research journals in biology and medicine.Directory of Open Access Journals Lund University Libraries. A collection of free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
Free Medical Journals.com Flying Publisher. Full-text access to several hundred medical journals, arranged in major categories such as AIDS, epidemiology, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology, pharmacology, public health, etc. A few of the journals are not free until one month to two years after their publication.
J-Stage Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic. Japan Science and Technology Agency. A large collection of Japanese full-text e-journals, most of which are free-access and in English. There are also some free-text proceedings and reports.
HighWire Press Stanford University Libraries. Access to well over 400,000 free full-text articles, a large percentage from biomedical journals. Articles from many of the journals are not freely accessible until 12 months following publication.
medIN
PLoS: Public Library of Science A non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Its first journal, PLoS Biology, was followed by additional journals in medicine, computational biology, genetics, and pathogens and clinical trials.
PubMed Central National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Institutes of Health. A free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Journals that meet certain editorial standards are encouraged to deposit all their content in PubMed.