Research Guides: Medical Imaging Sciences: Websites

Recommended Websites

National Library of Medicine
Provides access to several databases, including resources about medications.
Fact Sheet: MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central) - How are they different?
Describes the differences between these sources.
Centers for Disease Control
Provides information for medical professionals about Seasonal Influenza (flu).
Medical Library Association
A professional medical association that provides access to its publications through its website.
PLOS ONE
Contains open access journal articles.
Google Advanced Search
You can use Google Advanced Search to find credible internet sources by limiting search results.
- Choose a domain, like .edu, .gov, or .org, to filter out .com information.
- Explore limiting file type to .pdf to find documents that may have been professionally edited.
Finding Credible Web Sources
Our Finding Credible Web Sources guide has more tips on searching the Internet.

Evaulate the Credibility of Health Websites

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
"What should you look for when evaluating the quality of health information on Web sites? Here are some suggestions based on our experience."

SIFT & PICK Fact Checking & Source Evaluation
A printable version of the SIFT & PICK approach to evaluating sources using lateral reading (SIFT) to fact check a source and vertical reading (PICK) to decide whether it is the best source for your needs.

Choosing the Best Web Source

The following tutorial covers how to recognize open and hidden web resources and how to evaluate sources found on the open web (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):