Databases | E-Journals | E-books
Print Resources | Web-Sites
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CAM Subset in PubMed and OVID MEDLINE
Use the MEDLINE Limit Functions to narrow down any search to the field of Complementary/Alternative Medicine.
Alt-Health Watch
Full text database focusing on the complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. 142 periodicals, of which 27 are peer reviewed, indexed, and date back to 1990.
Natural Standard
Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies designed for clinicians to facilitate patient care decision-making.
IBIDS
IBIDS, International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements, is a free database from NIH that provides reliable information from the published scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS contains about 722,000 citations from over 3,300 journals spanning from 1986 to the present, and is updated quarterly. Full text is not available from this database.
EMBASE
EMBASE is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. Some of its major subject strengths include drugs, alternative medicine, psychiatry, forensics, and orthopedics, with European publications that complement MEDLINE.
| E-Journals |
| E-Books |
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
2nd ed. Detroit : Gale, 2005.Integrative Medicine (in MDConsult)
Edited by David Rakel Philadelphia: Saunders, c2003
| Print Resources |
Integrative medicine : principles for practice / [edited by] Benjamin Kligler and Roberta Lee New York : McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Div., c2004
MED Book Stacks R733 .I5756 2004Institute of Medicine(U.S.). Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public
Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States . Washington , DC : National Academies Press, c2005
MED Book StacksR733 .I5633 2005Mosby's complementary & alternative medicine: a research-based approach / Lyn W. Freeman St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2004
MED Book Stacks R733 .F743 2004Therapeutic guide to herbal medicines / developed by a special expert committee of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. Austin . Tex. : American Botanical Council ; Boston , Mass. Integrative Medicine Communications, 1998
MED REF RM666.H33 T454 1998
| Web Sites |
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Center of the NIH, National Institutes of Health, dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
NOAH Complementary and Alternative Medicine Resources
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) is a website of selected links developed in collaboration with NYC library groups. NOAH provides access to high-quality consumer health information in English and Spanish. Librarians and health professionals find, select, and organize full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate, and unbiased.
The Alternative Medicine Homepage from the Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Website created and updated since 1994 by a medical librarian, Charles Wessel, from the Health Sciences Library of the University of Pittsburgh. Annotated links to databases, web resources, and directories of practitioners included.
Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University
Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, and an NIH-funded specialty center, the Rosenthal Center is one of the first comprehensive programs at a major medical center to examine alternative therapies with academic focus and scientific rigor, with a focus on the fields of botanical medicine, women’s and minority health, and aging.
There is a link to the professional version of the free HerbMed database on the Rosenthal Center site. HerbMed is a free web resource, which provides evidence-based information for professionals and the public.
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