Online Resources for Veterinary Students

Agricola
All aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including: animal science; veterinary science; entomology; plant science; forestry; aquaculture and fisheries; farming, farming systems and crops; agricultural economics; extension and education; food and human nutrition; and earth sciences and environmental sciences.

CAB Abstracts
International agricultural literature, including veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition, rural development, as well as other related topics such as tourism and human ecology.

Clinical Resources Center
The Clinical Resources Center is a collaboration between the University of California, Davis, Health Sciences Libraries and the Center for Health and Technology. The goal of the CRC is to provide user-friendly, distributed access to authoritative medical reference sources.  Under "The Library", MDConsult and Stat!Ref provide access to over 40 online books.  Micromedex, e-Facts, and AHFS Drug Information are also available electronically under "Drug Reference".

Consultant
CONSULTANT is a diagnostic support system used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including:   1) a general description, 2) species affected, 3) the signs/symptoms associated with it, and 4) a list of recent literature references. 

CRCnetBase
Portal to major online reference works.  NeuroscienceNetBase is expecially recommended for texts on Lab Animal Medicine, IACUC and other neuroscience texts.

Household Products Database
Information on household products including ingredients and health effects.  Helpful information in cases of accidental ingestion of household products.

Highwire Press
735,575 free full text articles from 363 HighWire-hosted journals.  Advanced Search and TopicMap are especially recommended.

International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS)
Access to original, up-to-date publications organized in electronic books, proceedings of veterinary meetings, short courses, continuing education (lecture notes, manuals, autotutorials and interactive websites), an international calendar of veterinary events, and image collections..

Merck Veterinary Manual
Comprehensive electronic reference for animal care information.

NCBI Bookshelf
Collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox.  Books are also linked to terms in PubMed abstracts: when viewing an abstract, select the "Books" link to see phrases within the abstract hyperlinked to book sections.

PubMed
Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, molecular biology and genetics.  For information on searching PubMed for veterinary medicine and animal health topics, go to PubMed Searching: Veterinary Medicine compiled by the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association.

Veterinary Information Network (VIN)
Comprehensive veterinary information; free registration available for veterinary students.

VetMedCenter.com
Authoritative pet care resource for veterinary professionals and pet owners; provides access to 5 Minute Veterinary Consult.