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Free online research resources for maternal-infant health care 

11/12/2015

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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.  
  • Scholarly research engines  
  • Journals, general  
  • Journals, related to women’s health or maternal-infant care  
  • Organizations, general  
  • Organizations, related to women’s health or maternal-infant care  
  • Others  
 
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
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OB Gyn News (a newspaper for OB/GYNs)
www.mdedge.com/obgynnews


Peristats by March of Dimes

www.marchofdimes.org/Peristats  
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mPinc scores

https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/mpinc/index.htm
 


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