Health Sciences Online - Resources

Resources

HSO is a web portal for searching health sciences resources that have been selected by a core team of volunteers, including health providers and scientists from different countries. The resources have been selected based on guidelines produced by several groups that help in assessing the quality of online health information.

The criteria used include:

  • the content should be relevant
  • the information is useful by itself as a teaching/learning tool (i.e., no Microsoft Powerpoint presentations without lecture notes or taped audio)
  • the website should be educational (i.e., no advertisements)
  • the source should be credible (i.e., a government, university, or specialty society)
  • the material should be current
  • the links on the site should be functional
  • the interface of the website should be user-friendly, and
  • the material should be free to access.

Currently, HSO indexes over 50,000 resources. These resources come from government organizations, universities, and specialty societies such as:

  • American College of Preventive Medicine
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Columbia University
  • Emory University
  • Harvard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Merck Manuals
  • National Health Service
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Library of Medicine
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • World Health Organization

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