Health and Life Sciences Resources at UCLA was developed to
provide library users with an overview of important reference
sources in the biomedical sciences. Updated annually, the bibliography covers a
variety of subjects: Basic and Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Classification Systems, Clinical Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Consumer Health, Dentistry, Drugs, General Reference Resource, Grants, History of Life Sciences, History of Medicine, History of Physical Sciences, Medical Profession, Nursing, Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Public Health, Statistics - Facilities and Manpower, Statistics - Historical, Statistics - Population, Statistics - Vital and Health and, Toxicology. The bibliography contains both print and electronic
(e.g., website URL's) materials and is available to the public for
online searching.
List of Contributors:
Randy Ahn, Ph.D.,
M.L.I.S.
Reference Librarian
Digital
Projects Coordinator
Cathy Brown,
M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
Alan Carr, M.P.H.,
M.L.S.
Health Information Services Coordinator, Pacific
Southwest Regional Medical Library
Lisa Carroll,
M.L.I.S.
Reference Librarian
Kay Deeney,
M.L.S.
Education & Exhibit Coordinator, Pacific
Southwest Regional Medical Library
Joan Kaplowitz, Ph.D.,
M.L.S.
Acting Head, Reference Division
How to Search
Entering keywords
will search the entire bibliography (title, author, publisher, subject headings, website URLs, and call numbers). You may enter more than one word separated by a space and you may abbreviate your words; wild cards and punctuation marks are unnecessary (e.g., keywords: amer psy assoc will return results for the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association). The more words you enter, the more restrictive your search becomes.
From your citation list, you'll see that Publishers and Subject Headings are links; clicking them will launch a search for resources with the same publisher or subject heading respectively.
Alternately, you may browse the subjects contained in the bibliography in the menu to your left. The number of resources in each subject appears in parentheses.
Recommend a Source
If
you are aware of an important resource that is not presently at
UCLA, please let us know. biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu