Finding Books

Finding Articles

	ACM Digital Library & Guide to Computing Literature — ELECTRONIC The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library includes abstracts, reviews, and the full-text of articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. The Guide to Computing Literature has abstracts-only of non-ACM computng literature. Selective coverage of bioinformatics, decision support systems, electronic physician records, information retrieval, medical language processing and other topics.
	ERIC via FirstSearch (with SFX) or ERIC via the free web (without SFX) – ELECTRONIC & WWW This major education database includes a rich selection of journal articles, reports, and more - including computer-based health training and health education issues in general. Consult the guide to ERIC resources to get the most out of this database.
	Engineering Village 2 — ELECTRONIC Including INSPEC from IEE, and EI Compendex from Elsevier, covering all aspects of computer science, information technology, automation. physics, electrical engineering, electronics, and more.
	Lecture Notes in Computer Science — ELECTRONIC Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Bioinformatics (LNBI), publishes hundreds of conference proceedings every year with new developments in computer science and information technology research. Content goes back to 1973.
	MEDLINE via OVID (with SFX) or PubMed via the free web (without SFX) — ELECTRONIC & WWW This National Library of Medicine resource has two versions of the same content: the vendor-enhanced edition with SFX links into Drexel’s full-text and a refined search interface; or the free web version with a simplified interface and abstracts only. Covers over 3500 journals in medicine, clinical science and allied health.
	NCBI Databases –WWW The National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biomedical Information search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed.
	Web of Science – ELECTRONIC This abstract-only source covers high impact library and information science journals. Through its citation tracking, ranking and sorting features you can quickly identify seminal papers of interest and, through SFX links, find full-text.
	TIP: Use the Drexel e-journal directory to search by keyword (for terms such as “informatics”) or browse by category (such as information technology) then browse that journal’s contents.

Reference Resources

Associations

Select Web Resources

Health Informatics World Wide
An index of world wide health informatics resources.

Definitions & Core Topics

Medical and Healthcare Informatics (MHI) is the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical and other health-related data through the application of computers to various aspects of healthcare and medicine.

MHI is an interdisciplinary field. There are relatively few information sources devoted specifically to medical and healthcare informatics. Much of the literature relevant to MHI is dispersed in disciplinary databases in medicine and technology. Accordingly, this guide covers only major resources in these areas.

If you are seeking additional technology-related information consult other Resource Guides on the Hagerty Library site, such as: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems & Technology or Telecommunications. Guides to health-related information can be found under the Health Sciences heading on the Research Guides page.

Some core health information structures and general topics within the field are: