• General
• Regulatory


• Animals
• Small Animal
• Food Animal
• Equine
• Aquatic


• Special Topics
• Disease and Toxicology Factsheets
• Pharmacology


• Publications
• Organizations
• Public Health
• Alternatives
• Other Veterinary Medicine Libraries
• Other Veterinary Medicine Links of Interest

General

Dictionaries :

• The Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects  --  The web-based version of the (1999) 2nd edition of The Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE) published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in. DOSE contains data on chemicals of environmental concern. DOSE Database is searchable by chemical name, formula, CAS Registry number, and keyword. Each entry includes information on chemical and physical properties, toxicity, environmental fate, legislation, etc.
• Equine Multilingual Dictionary (Abridged Online Edition) (English/French/Spanish/German)  --   Abridged online version of the 1997 2nd abridged print edition.
• The Online Medical Dictionary (Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB)
• Veterinary Abbreviations and Acronyms (Veterinary Medicine Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Web of On-line Dictionaries   --   Links to dictionaries, thesauri, grammatical texts, etc. available online.

Handbooks and manuals:

• Clinical Calculator - Developed by Charles Hu, Ron Kneusel & Gary Barnas M.D. (Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of General Internal Medicine)

Language Translation Programs - There are currently many free web-based versions available. A sampling are given below:

1. AltaVista Translations - Translate text or a website from English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.
2. FreeTranslation.com - Translate text or web pages. Unlike some of the other translators listed here, this site supports the use of diacritics.
3. Translating the Internet - A free service, through which you can send or receive e-mail in nine different languages or translate websites or text.

Virtual Veterinary Center - Index to veterinary web-based resources

• NetVet in the Virtual Vetertinary Center - Ken Boschert, DVM - Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri)

Regulatory

• Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
• International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS)
• OIE publications.
• Terrestrial Animal Health Code
• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals
• International Aquatic Animal Health Code
• Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals
• Disease Information
• World Animal Health

Animals

Small Animal

• Case Studies in Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine
• PetEducation.com - Drs. Foster & Smith^TM
• VetpetMD

Food Animal

• US FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine
• Pighealth.com - Pig Disease Information Centre (Lolworth, Cambridgeshire, U.K.)
• Center for Animal Health Monitoring (CAHM) - USDA APHIS Veterinary Services and the Centers for Epidemiology & Animal Health

Equine

Aquatic

• International Aquatic Animal Health Code (1999 edition)  --  An OIE publication.

Special Topics

Disease and Toxicology Factsheets

• California Animal Health and Food Safety Disease Information -- The disease information factsheets and brochures related to: cattle, equine, poultry, small ruminants and swine industries. This information comes from many sources including CAHFS, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, USDA, APHIS,a division of the USDA and CDFA.



• Center for Food Security and Public Health Animal Disease Information -- From Iowa State University, this information includes those diseases notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as well as a number of reportable or zoonotic agents.

Pharmacology

• FDA Approved Animal Drug Products: The 2006 Green Book Online  -- Updated monthly, the FDA's Green Book provides a list of all animal drug products approved for safety and effectiveness, as well as the information regarding patents held for the animal drug and methods of use submitted to the FDA by the drug sponsors. This information is mandated by the Generic Animal Drug and Patent Restoration Act to be made available to the public. The 2000 Green Book is available online in PDF or HTML formats. FDA Approved Animal Drug Products can also be searched as a database.



• * Clinical Pharmacology -- Clinical Pharmacology contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Search drugs by generic or brand names. Clinical Pharmacology is made up of Drug Monograph and Patient Education Records. Drug Monographs include description, mechanism of action, and pharmacokinetics. Patient Education Records contains information on the purpose of the medication, what the doctor should know before prescribing it, how it should be taken, consequences of missed doses, other drug interactions, and side effects, etc. Available in English or Spanish.



• * To access Clincal Pharmacology, first select EBSCO's Health Information (Consumer and Professional), then choose Clinical Pharmacology from the list.

Publications

1. AnimalAgriculture.org - includes:
• Swine Health Report
• Cattle Health Report
• Equine Health Report
• Sheep & Goat Health Report
• Poultry Health Report
• Sheep and Goat Research Journal
2. BioMedNet
3. Free University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) - Veterinary Medicine Library
4. Journal Instructions to Authors:
1. Current Veterinary Serials (and Guide for Authors) (Biblioteque de Medecine Veterinaire, Universite de Montreal)
2. Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences ( Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio)
3. Instructions 4 Authors (AMEDEO: The Medical Literature Guide, Flying Publisher)
5. IVIS (International Veterinary Information Service) - IVIS is a not-for-profit organization which is currently providing free online access to a collection of full-text and continuing education resources. The collection is currently small, but growing. Examples of resources currently available are:
   • IVIS Recent Advances in Veterinary Medicine review article series
   • Newton, CD and DM Nunamaker, eds. Textbook of Small Animal Orthopedics
   • Skidmore, JA. Lecture Notes for the Short Course in Reproduction in the Dromedary Camel.
6. Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests & Vaccines (3rd edition)  --  An OIE publication.
7. PubMed Central  --  A repository for peer-reviewed life science journal articles. Established in January 2000 by the National Institutes of Health. This repository will eventually be joined by a pre-print archive.
8. Publishers
9. University of Helsinki. Theses -- Site includes free online access to doctoral, master's, and licenciate theses from the University in PDF and HTML format (1998-present).
10. Urban Animal Managment Conference Proceedings -- Hosted by the Australian Veterinary Association. Full-text proceedings are available online from 1992 - present.
11. Vet-Online: The International Journal of Veterinary Medicine (ISSN:1360-1962) - Priory Lodge Education, Ltd. (Brixham, Devon, U.K.)
12. Royal Canin USA  --  Comprehensive guide to the innovative line of diets and educational resources.
13. Waltham/OSU Symposium (24th: 2000). Advances in Complementary and Alternative Medicine  --   The proceedings to this symposium have been published electronically. There will be no print copy. The papers are available in full-text in HTML or PDF format.

Organizations

• AVMA - The American Veterinary Medical Association
• National Board Examination Committee for Veterinary Medicine (NBEC)
• UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine
• United States Animal Health Association  --  Site includes access to the full-text of the 1997-present USAHA committee reports (click into the selected committee to read the report) and the proceedings of the1997-present USAHA annual meetings.

Public Health

• National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) - A project of the Center for Animal Health Monitoring
• Office International des Epizooties (OIE) - A source for information on international animal health (standards, epidemiological data, disease etiologies, etc.). A trilingual site (English, French, and Spanish).
• West Nile Virus Maps - National Atlas of the United States and the West Nile Virus Surveillance System

Alternatives

• Altweb - Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site. Contains links to alternatives news, journals, information, and resources on the Internet. Features an English-language index to ALTEX contents and article summaries.



• ALTEX - Alternatives to Animal Experiments is the official journal of MEGAT (Mitteleuropäische Gesellschaft für Alternativen zu Tierversuchen), the the Middle European Society for Alternatives to Testing in Animals. This is a German site, with limited English translation. For full text of the articles, use the 'Kontact' button to email the editor (Redakteur) and request a PDF file.

Other Veterinary Medicine Libraries

• Veterinary Libraries -- list of Veterinary Medicine Library worldwide, includes US.

Other Veterinary Medicine Links of Interest

• ENVT - website produced by the National Veterinary School in Toulouse. Includes links to other international veterinary-related websites, theses from several veterinary colleges, and research tips. A French site.



• VETSEEK - Tool produced by the Free University of Berlin's Veterinary Medicine Library: Indexes veterinary online dissertations, theses, and abstracts of dissertations of printed versions (mainly from Germany). A multilingual site.



• ViFa Vet - From the TiHo Hannover Library in Germany, contains a number of various resources specific to veterinarians in English.



• Veterinary pages of Intute - A free online service providing with access to the web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. This service was created by a network of UK universities and partners and formerly known as VetGate.

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Updated: 5/09/08 MG