Finding and Using Health and Medical Information on the Internet

Sue Welsh is a freelance webmaster who has contributed to the Resource Discovery Network web site and is now working on their Virtual Training Suite. She previously worked in several medical libraries and was a project worker for OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information). Betsy Anagnostelis is Librarian at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library. She has delivered training in using the Internet for health and medical information since the mid-1990s, and has worked with OMNI in developing guidelines for resource evaluation. She is a member of the editorial board of the newsletter, He@lth Information on the Internet, and edits the Innovations Online series for the journal, Health Information and Libraries Journal. Alison Cooke is also based at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, where she is currently Information Skills Trainer. She is involved in the OMNI and BIOME projects, including working on the development of the resource evaluation guidelines. She contributes regularly to the newsletter, He@lth Information on the Internet, and writes the 'Internet news and reviews' section of the British Journal of Clinical Governance.

Desktop reference; Teaching materials and continuing medical education; Using the Internet to support evidence-based healthcare; Diseases, rare diseases and outbreaks; Consumer health information; Data to support biomedical research; Finding out about research funding and research projects; Finding a job; Keeping up-to-date; Search engines; Metasearch engines; Web directories; Health and medical Web search engines; Health and medical information gateways; Searching the medical literature; Electronic journals and full text journal articles on the Web; Searching the Internet strategically; Using the Internet to communicate; Evaluating the quality of information on the Internet; Your browser; Organising your view of the Internet; Creating your own Web pages; Alphabetical list of links; Index.