| By "free databases" we mean databases
that Grossmont does not pay for, and which are freely available, via the
Internet, to anyone in the world. All of them can be accessed from off
campus.
For librarian-created databases to help you get the resources you need
from the Web, use
Cuyamaca's
Electronic Sources or the
Librarians'
Index to the Internet.
For legal information, local, state and federal, use the
San
Diego County Law Library web page.
For a great business search engine and directory, go to
http://www.business.com/.
To find journal articles when you cannot use our subscription
databases, check out
MagPortal,
FindArticles,
Electronic Journal Miner,
HighWire
(from Stanford University Library's
HighWire Press),
BUBL
Journals , or
Project Muse.
 A special kind of database is the
video
database, available through our local consortium, the San Diego and
Imperial Counties Community Colleges Learning Resources Cooperative (SDICCCLRC).
Students can choose from a list of almost 3,000 videos, request one using
an Interlibrary Loan form,
and then come view it in the area called Instructional Media Services
(inside the LRC). Faculty may check the videos out.
Here's a list of sites that offer
online books free through the Internet:
 The following is a list of
Medical
Databases,
freely available on the web, which could prove useful (many offer only
citations, not the whole article, which, in that case, could be ordered
through our interlibrary loan service):
MedScape - The Web site most widely-used by physicians, but
open to everyone. It offers the Web's largest collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed
clinical medicine articles. It contains First Databank,
claimed to be the Web's largest drug and disease database. It also
provides easy access to MEDLINE, AIDSLINE and TOXLINE.
PubMed
- This is the official Web-based MEDLINE provided by the National Library
of Medicine. Anyone can search MEDLINE's 11 million-plus citations
free, but only authorized participants may request documents, which are
rarely free.
AllRefer Health - Medical resource provides extensive information on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgeries, injuries, nutrition, poisons, and special topics. Focuses on family and community health.
NLM Gateway
- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at
the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches
MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov,
DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, and HSRProj.
NewsRx.net -
contains health, science, and medical news prepared by medical
journalists and science editors. Click on "Search
for Articles" in the left frame. Displays a list of citations on the
topic you chose. You may request the whole article if you wish -
Each article costs $3.00 and is
displayed immediately after purchasing.
CANCERLIT - For cancer articles.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - Offers titles,
summaries, and availability information for health resources from the U.S.
National Institutes of Health.
healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other
Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder®
has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and
nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected
information and Web sites from over 1,800 health-related organizations.
Ingenta
also offers highly technical medical
citations.
MayoClinic.com
Human Anatomy On-line
Also, try
FreeMedicalJournals.com.
Other useful databases, on various topics, include:
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