Nursing Resources: Reference Web Sites

American Board of Medical Specialists Directory:  Verify that a physician is certified by the subject-appropriate board.  Registration is required, but it is free. 

•  Database of FDA-approved drugs:  Includes approval date, therapeutic equivalents.

•  DailyMed:  Government version of the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR).

• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• Free Medical Journals

• MedlinePlus

• Open Access Directory

• Open MD

• PLOS Medicine

• Pubmed Central

• Trip Database