 For health professionals researching for the latest information, best practice, or accurate and thorough information on a given subject, it can be hard to know where to start. Google is where we search for everything else, but that isn’t always the best place to search for medical literature. It’s even harder to find information without having to pay for it. I love books, but medical books are expensive! So, where do you go to find information? This is a list I made for myself to research anything related to obstetrics, obstetric nursing, midwifery, and lactation consulting. If you have any resources not listed below, please comment. I will look into it and maybe add it to the list. If you are a health professional, where do you turn to for research and personal interest studies?
I have the following categories.
Please right click to open links in a new tab. Scholarly research engines Biomed Central www.biomedcentral.com Cochrane Library www.cochranelibrary.com Cochrane review for pregnancy and childbirth http://www.cochranelibrary.com/topic/Pregnancy%20%26%20childbirth/ ESCBOhost www.ebscohost.com This is free through my college and free through some libraries. Check your college or your local libraries. I have found this resource very helpful. Karger Open Access www.karger.com/OpenAccess LinkOut www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/linkout/ MDLinx www.mdlinx.com/obstetrics-gynecology/news.cfm/full-text Pubmed Central www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc PubMed Clinical Queries www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinical Scholar google https://scholar.google.com/ Scholar google Health and Medical Sciences https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=med TRIP database www.tripdatabase.com U.S. National Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov Wiley Online Library www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Also www.perinatology.com has a search engine providing information from several resources. Journals, general Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/ JAMA Pediatrics http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx (not all articles are free) MDPI www.mdpi.com Nursing Open, Wiley Online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2054-1058 The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) http://jama.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx The Lancet www.thelancet.com The New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org OMICS International (over 700 open access journals) www.omicsonline.org Journals specific to women’s health and maternal-infant care American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology www.ajog.org has some free articles BioMed Central’s women’s health journal https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/ BioMed Centrals’ pregnancy and childbirth journal www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpregnancychildbirth Birth: issues in perinatal care https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1523536x Breastfeeding Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22Breastfeed%20Med%22%5Bjournal%5D Gynecology and Obstetrics (Open Access) http://omicsonline.org/gynecology-obstetrics.php International Breastfeeding Journal www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing www.jognn.org Journal of Pregnancy and Child Health (Open Access) http://omicsgroup.org/journals/pregnancy-and-child-health.php Journal of Women’s Health Care (Open Access) http://omicsgroup.org/journals/womens-health-care.php Medical News Today – category: pregnancy http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/categories/pregnancy Nursing for Women’s Health https://nwhjournal.org Science Daily – pregnancy and childbirth http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/pregnancy_and_childbirth/ Organizations, general The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahrq.gov The Center for Disease Control www.cdc.gov The FDA has a section for health professionals www.fda.gov/ForHealthProfessionals/default.htm The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation www.healthdata.org The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (U.K. based) www.nice.org.uk The U.S. National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov The U.S. National Institutes of Health runs a website for clinical trials https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home The World Health Organization www.who.int/en/ Organizations, regarding women’s health and maternal-infant care American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org Assocation of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) www.awhonn.org National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/Pages/index.aspx The American College of Nurse-Midwives www.midwife.org The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) www.acog.org The National Perinatal Association www.nationalperinatal.org The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine www.smfm.org UNICEF http://data.unicef.org Others Birth by the Numbers www.birthbythenumbers.org Evidence Based Birth www.evidencebasedbirth.com OB Gyn News (a newspaper for OB/GYNs) www.mdedge.com/obgynnews Peristats by March of Dimes www.marchofdimes.org/Peristats mPinc scores https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/mpinc/index.htm
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