The Life Sciences Libraries (LSL) offer individual and group instruction on how to use library resources in this subject area. Please see the Life Sciences Libraries Workshops for details. Online tutorials and handouts are available from the LSL Instruction page. To contact the subject librarian, see the bottom left of this guide.

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Article Indexes: All LSL indexes and databases Affiliated teaching hospital online resources Academic Search Complete ACP Journal Club CancerLit CINAHL Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) EBM Reviews (Search all at once) Health Reference Center-Academic MD Consult MEDLINE (OVID) OR PubMed Other Reference Tools: Selected eresources: Ebooks in the Life Sciences (by title) Lab Tests Online The Merck manual home edition Red Book Online Selected print resources: Consumer health information source book Current medical diagnosis & treatment Evidence based patient choice Selected Government Resources: BC Cancer Agency Food Recalls - Canadian Food Inspection Agency Tobacco Control - British Columbia Writer's Toolbox: Current Awareness Services for the Life Sciences Writer's Toolbox - Abbreviations, style, etc.

Lists & Newsgroups: MLA's Consumer Health and Patient Information (CAPHIS) Listserv Web and Internet Sites: Canada: BC Health Guide Canadian Consumer Information (Government) Canadian Medical Association General Public Info Cochrane Consumer's Network Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) Health Canada Online HealthyOntario.com Media Doctor Canada Public Health Agency of Canada United States: AHQR Patient Guidelines ClinicalTrials.gov CHID- Combined Health Information Database Consumer Reports on Health [UBC ONLY] OR check your local library Genetics Home Reference - National Library of Medicine Health Information (National Institutes of Health) Healthfinder - US Government Household Products Database - National Library of Medicine InteliHEALTH - Harvard Medical/Consumer Site Mayo Clinic.com MEDLINEplus - National Library of Medicine MedWeb Community NetWellness - Ask an Expert NOAH: New York Online Access to Healh OHSU-Health.org International Informed Health Online Electronic Journals: UBC Resources: EJournals at UBC EJournal Collections Using "Proxy Bypass" Free sites: BioMed_Central DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals FreeMedicalJournals.Com Hardin MD - selected free ejournals HighWire Press Public Library of Science PubMedCentral Related Subject Guides: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Topics in the Life Sciences

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And don't forget to try: UBC Library Catalogue or Web/Internet Search Tools