Subject gateways and image sources
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| Health & Medicine | Mental Health
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Subject gateways
Sometimes called "subject guides", "subject directories" or "information gateways", subject gateways are simply directories or searchable indices of web pages, documents and web sites on a given topic or range of subjects.
Subject gateways can range from loosely collated commercial directories such as Yahoo!'s subject categories , to collections of quality assessed web resources compiled by the academic or research community.
Using a good quality subject gateway in order to find web pages on your topic can be an effective alternative to using an internet search engine. The best subject gateways assess resources for quality before they index them. This can save you time if you looking for material to back up your study or research.
The information you obtain can be more reliable than what you would find via a search engine. There may be less need to appraise web pages for quality.
Some examples are available on the Library's subject guides web page, but a more comprehensive list according to subject coverage is given here.
Social Sciences
- Social Care Online
- professional development support portal (analogous the the National
Library for Health in the NHS - the two portals work together to
link up information relevant to both health and social care professions)
- Intute Social Sciences
- Intute Social Sciences is a searchable guide to quality
assessed internet resources in the social sciences.
Directories of resources are available for various subjects within this
field (e.g. Social
Welfare), or you may search across the whole
of the gateway.
- SocioSite - the University of Amsterdam's social science information system
- SWAP (Social Policy and Social Work) - Subject portal providing resources to support teachers and lecturers in this subject. Part of the Higher Education Academy
Psychology, Counselling & Psychotherapy
- CogNet - MIT portal for the brain sciences. Registration (free) gives you added service
- Higher Education Academy Psychology Network - Subject portal providing resources to support teachers and lecturers in this subject. Part of the Higher Education Academy
- Neuropsychology Central - A forum and portal for the subject of neuropsychology
- Psychcentral - Psychology Online Resource Central, a comprehensive index of links to online psychology resources
- PsychCrawler - the APA's own internet directory of quality psychological internet content
- Psychology - a directory of relevant resources indexed by the Intute Social Sciences subject gateway
- PsychologyNet - A commercial portal to psychology resources
- PsychNet.UK - A comprehensive UK gateway to psychology information
- PsychScholar - Directory of links to support psychology students
- Psy-LOG - A gateway indexing web
pages on the subject of psychoanalysis
Health & Medicine
- Intute Health
and Life Sciences gateway
All of the web pages indexed by Intute have been critically appraised for validity and content so that they reach a certain standard of reliability. See their policy
- Doctors.net.uk - Peer led internet resource for UK doctors. NB GMC membership number required for registration
- DrugInfoZone - A portal providing information on the effectiveness of various drug interventions put together by the London, South East and Eastern Medicines Information Service
- HON (Health On the Net) - A not for profit international Swiss initiative to make quality guidance about medical treatments and health infomation available to patients and public
- Healthfinder - A US Government version of HON
- Higher Education Academy Health Sciences and Practice - Subject portal providing resources to support teachers and lecturers in this subject. Part of the Higher Education Academy
- Higher Education Academy Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine - Subject portal providing resources to support teachers and lecturers in this subject. Part of the Higher Education Academy
- INASP Health Links Gateway - links to selected resources in a variety of public health areas
- Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center - an index of internet nurisng resources
- Medical Matrix - Registration required (free)
- Medscape Today - Registration required (free) for extra features
- NLH (National
Library for Health) - The NHS electronic library provides NHS staff
with the essential information resources needed to carry out their work,
and is part of a further drive by the health service to support professional
development. It includes full-text access to most consultation
and policy publications by the DOH and NHS Executive, guidance documents,
practice guidelines, information resources and performance indicators,
individual portals for different healthcare professions, plus links
to the NLH branch libraries
- PharmWeb - A subject gateway of pharmaceutical resources
- RXList - Internet drug index
- WWW - Medicine & Health Virtual Library - An internet directory
- WWW - Pharmacy Virtual Library - A directory of pharmaceutical resources
Mental Health and Learning Disability
- Internet Mental Health - an online encyclopaedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist
- Mental Help Net - portal for patient centred information about mental health issues
- Specialist Library for Learning Disabilities - a specialist part of the NLH
- Specialist Library for Mental Health - another one of the NLH's specialist resource areas
Audiovisual Sources
- British Universities Film & Video
Council (BUFVC)
- Department of Psychology Video Library - search the department's collection of videos. More videos are available from the Templeman Library: these may be identified by searching the Library Catalogue
- Image Collections from the Visual
Arts Data Service (VADS)
- Internet Archive - see the moving image and audio sections
- SCRAN - a selection of text records, sound files and movie clips
- YouTube - goes without saying
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