Disciplines & Professions: Veterinary Sciences

Web Sites

About.com's Veterinary Medicine Directory
http://vetmedicine.about.com/

A comprehensive site offering everything from Internet searches for veterinary/pet care issues to discussions on de-clawing and the pet lover's quiz. Site has subject index to make searching easy as well as links to other sites dealing with topical information.

Yahoo!'s Veterinary Medicine Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Zoology/ Animals__Insects__and_Pets/Veterinary_Medicine/

Yahoo!'s directory of veterinary medicine and pet issues. Offers special services such as Yahoo! Pets, an informational page on animal health, behavior, maintenance, nutrition, and breeds, in addition to an annotated listing of popular Web sites.

Databases

VETCD (CABI, available through SilverPlatter)

This database includes all citations and abstracts from Veterinarius and Veterinary Bulletin. More than 600,000 records from 1973 to the present. Sources cover a comprehensive range of veterinary medicine and animal disease.

Wildlife WorldWide (National Information Services Corporation, available through BiblioLine)

Covers wildlife related sources from 1935 to the present. Offers 3 search options to fit user's needs.

Print Resources

Aiello, Susan E., ed. The Merck Veterinary Manual. 8th ed. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck, 1998.

Information on a vast array of veterinary issues and concepts. The first half of the book is organized by anatomic system and the second half by discipline or special topic. An index is provided.

Blood, D. C., and V. P. Studdert. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary. 2nd ed. London: Saunders, 1999.

An extensive list of definitions for veterinary vocabulary. Includes more than 65,000 entries arranged alphabetically. Provides tables with a range of veterinary information after the dictionary.

Boden, Edward, ed. Black's Veterinary Dictionary. 19th ed. Lanham, MD: Barnes and Noble, 1998.

An alphabetical list of definitions of veterinary terminology.

Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1932-.

An index to international literature specifically on parasites of animals. Organized alphabetically by subject.

Putnam, Paul A., ed. Handbook of Animal Science. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1991.

Focuses on providing information about health and nutrition for livestock. Presents information in topical chapters, and provides many references for finding further information.

Veterinary Bulletin. New York: CAB, 1931-.

Provides records by year for more than 150,000 conference proceedings, books, articles, theses, patents, and more. Entries are organized by branch of veterinary science. Author and subject indices are included.