Achoo
http://www.achoo.com/
Maintainer: MNI Systems Corporation
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes
Strengths: Number of links, simplicity of interface
This guide to health care and medicine is highlighted by the Internet Healthcare Directory, which is organized into three main sections, and contains thousands of resources. The interface is simple and intuitive.
HealthWeb
http://hsinfo.ghsl.nwu.edu/healthweb/
Maintainer: Health sciences librarians of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) schools (Big Ten Schools plus the University of Chicago)
Annotated links: Yes
Search: No
Strengths: A distributed collection of resources--different university libraries are responsible for different subject areas
HealthWeb is an interesting experiment in meta-site development in that different health science libraries maintain different subjects. In this way, a broad and deep collection of resources can be developed. At this time, the overall site is still under development, and subject areas vary in depth and breadth.
Medical Matrix
http://www.medmatrix.org/index.stm
Maintainer: Healthtel Corp.
Annotated links: Yes, briefly; also rated on a five star scale
Search: Yes
Strengths: Selectivity, rating of sites; sites are chosen by an editorial board
Medical Matrix is organized in seven major categories, with subcategories connecting to the resources from the main page. Resources are selected by an editorial board which includes eight MDs at present.
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
Maintainer: OMNI Consortium, a six member group that includes the National Institute for Medical Research (UK)
Annotated links: Yes
Search: Yes
Strengths: Level of description, NLM classification scheme
OMNI is a selective (around 1,500 resources) medical directory that can be searched or browsed either alphabetically or by National Library of Medicine (US) classification. Each resource is described and assigned key words. The advanced search interface allows searching for either UK or worldwide resources.
[General Scholarly Resources]
[Arts and Humanities]
[Business and Economics]
[Law]
[Science, Mathematics, and Engineering]
[Social Science]