HSIS - Health Sciences Information Services

Class Handouts

MedlinePlus - consumer health information you can trust from government agencies and health-related organizations. (2 page PDF)
Digital Pipeline - full text magazines, newspapers, and more for all Alaskans. (2 page PDF)
SLED is Alaska's easy-to-use website for library, government, and Internet information sources.
Search Engine Comparison (2 page PDF)
How to Read a URL (1 page PDF)
Evaluating Health Information -- MedlinePlus or
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
5 W's of Website Evaluation - Who, What, When, Where, Why
Evaluating Websites (1 page PDF)
Recommended Healthcare Resources (2 page PDF)
Web Fallacies (2 page PDF)

Ovid vs.PubMed and PubMed Central and MedlinePlus (2 page PDF)
PubMed Basics (2 page PDF)
Full Text and PubMed (2 page PDF)
My NCBI - your personal space within PubMed for storing search strategies and preferences. (2 page PDF)
My NCBI Collections - this feature is used in conjunction with PubMed's Clipboard to save search results.