PubMed and MedlinePlus on your phone

PubMed Mobile

Provides a simplified, mobile-friendly Web interface to access PubMed and MedlinePlus from smartphones. Goto The US National Library of Medicine's information page about mobile access and apps.

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Google Scholar Citations

Google Scholar Citations

A few months ago, Google introduced a limited release of Google Scholar Citations, a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. Now this service available to everyone.

Here’s how it works: you can quickly identify which articles are yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed statistically. Then, Google collects citations to your articles, graphs them over time, and computes your citation metrics - the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and also over citations in articles published in the last five years.

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RCSI's Research Repository e-publications@RCSI

e-publications@RCSI is RCSI's repository of its published research. It has been visited over 50,000 times and the research works downloaded most frequently are:

The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL): a Direct Weighting procedure for Quality of Life Domains (SEIQoL-DW). Ciaran O'Boyle, John Browne, Anne Hickey, Hannah McGee, and CRB Joyce

A Guide to Hospital Outpatient Satisfaction Surveys. Practical Recommendations and the Satisfaction with Outpatient Services (SWOPS) Questionnaire Orla Keegan and Hannah McGee

Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the dynamic nature of nurse migration. Niamh Humphries, Ruairi Brugha, and Hannah McGee

Dying in hospital in Ireland: an assessment of the quality of care in the last week of life: National audit of end-of-life care in hospitals in Ireland, 2008/9 Kieran McKeown, Trutz Haase, Jonathan Pratschke, Shelagh Twomey, Helen Donovan, and Feline Engling

The SAVI Report: Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland. Executive Summary Hannah McGee, Rebecca Garavan, Mairead de Barra, Joanne Byrne, and Ronan Conroy

Globalethics

Globethics.net is a global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large number of resources on ethics, especially through its leading global digital ethics library and facilitates collaborative web-based research, conferences, online publishing and information sharing.

Lots of fulltext resources available. Free personal registration.

The best medical books?

Browse the best 800 books on medical subjects

Medical Core Collection at LibraryThing

SciVerse Scopus

SciVerse Scopus

SciVerse Scopus is a major abstract and citation database which rivals Web of Science in scope and scale. Indexes scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

• 45.5 million records, 100% of Medline and Embase
• Indexes 19,500 journals, conference papers and books
• strong coverage of pharmacology and European journals
• 24.7 million patent records from five patent offices
• author Identifier to automatically match an author’s work including the h-index.
• Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.

Celebrating medicine in literature

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25 000 each year for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred around medicine.

On these pages you can read about this year's competition and about previous winning books. With the Book Prize, Wellcome Trust aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about medicine and literature, reaching audiences not normally engaged with medical science.