Subject Gateways

If you have a subject about which you need to find more information (let's say "breast cancer") and you want to know what kind of Internet resources (if any) are available in your subject area, where do you start? (Other than PubMed which we reviewed previously)

Subject Gateways are collections of web sites that have been reviewed and selected for the quality or usefulness of their content.

1. The first one you should try is the OUM Library Catalog collection because the resources here have been specifically selected to support your course of study.
Note: The OUM Electronic Library includes links to all of the resources covered in this tutorial

2. Intute, a UK based gateway, provides free access to high quality medicine and dentistry resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized by subject specialists based at UK universities.

3. Infomine is a similar US based scholarly gateway with selected and reviewed Internet resources, covering all topics, not just health sciences. You can select the Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences section of this tool to limit your searching though.