Acts, Regulations and Legislation
Australian Law Online
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
ComLaw
ComLaw, incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department
GovPubs
Australian Government Publications Guide is a guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet
WA State Law Publisher From 1 July 2004, free online access is available for all legislation, regulations, gazettes, etc
Dictionaries
Acronym Corner
Bartleby.com
American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's & Simpson's Quotations, English Usage, Strunk's Style, and Other Reference Books
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed 2001
Deciphering Medspeak
To make informed health decisions, you have probably read a newspaper or magazine article, tuned into a radio or television program, or searched the Internet to find answers to health questions. If so, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health professionals.
The Medical Library Association developed "Deciphering Medspeak" to help translate common "medspeak" terms.
Diabetes Dictionary
Dictionary of Cancer Terms [National Cancer Institute, US]
Encyclopaedia Britannica
English Dictionaries Online
Provides links to many online English Dictionaries
Glossary of Medical Terms
English (Heymans & Mercator)
Macquarie Dictionary
Medical Dictionaries Online
MedicalMnemonics.com:
A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details
Medterms Medical Dictionary from MedicineNet
Merriam Webster Online
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
Danish Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish
One Look Dictionaries
"Think of this web site as a search engine for words: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 4 million words in more than 700 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine."
PharmaLexicon: a Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
Research Tools
Dictionaries (English, Computing, Rhyming, Pronounciation, Law), Thesaurus, Translator, Language Identifier, French Conjugator, Anagram, Acronym, Biographical Dictionary, Barteltt's Quotations, Maps, Phone Books, Currency Converter, Stock Markets, Postal Codes, Email Discussion Lists
Wikipedia
YourDictionary
yourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web. yourDictionary.com has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages). Specialist medical dictionaries are also included.
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Journal Publications Requirements, Citation Guidelines, and Journal Abbreviations Sources
American Psychological Association Citation Guidelines
Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 2nd ed 2007 [National Library of Medicine]
Citing Sources - Ramsay Library Research Guides
Columbia Guide to Online Style
CONSORT [guidelines] for reporting randomised trials in journal and conference abstracts
Harvard Style Examples from Monash University Library
How to Cite Electronic Resources – Colgate University Libraries
IFLA Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
Has many links to citation style guides
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences - Raymon H. Mulford Library / Medical College of Ohio
Interpreting Citations Tutorial (an interactive tutorial)
Prepared by Chris Niemeyer, Library Instruction Coordinator/Reference Librarian, Thomas Jefferson Library, Univ of Missouri-St Louis
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
Useful to discover journal title abbreviations or the full title where you only know the abbreviated title
MLA Style
Scientific Writing and Publishing Aids
From the Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
Vancouver Style developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Over 500 journals use the Uniform Requirements.
Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) Proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications
World Association of Medical Editors
Standards
SAI Global - Standards Australia
Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
BMJ Collection of Articles on Statistics and Research Methods
Centre for Statistics in Medicine
The Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) was established in the new Institute of Health Sciences in Oxford in September 1995. It incorporates the Medical Statistics Group of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), which relocated to Oxford from London in September 1995. The Centre is affiliated to the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine (University of Oxford)
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated 4th ed D Coggon, Geoffrey Rose, DJP Barker
Full text of the book is available
Finding and Using Health Statistics: a Self-Study Course
National Library of Medicine, National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology
HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
McMaster University (Canada) Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Includes HyperStat, an online statistics book with links to other statistics resources on the web
Statistics at Square One 9th ed T D V Swinscow
Full text of the book is available
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