Journal: Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Issue Year : 2006, Volume: 56, Issue Number : 3, Issue Month : September, Pages: 306-310 Written By : Midrar Ullah, Muhammad Najeeb Khan Belongs To : Army Medical College Rawalpindi ONLINE BIOMEDICAL RESOURCES: A PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVE Article INTRODUCTION Medical literature has been particularly well organized for over a century in comparison with some other disciplines, medical literature is relatively easy to use. There are well-established medical publishers who enjoy credibility and good reputation due to quality of their books and journals. Indexing and abstracting services are functioning since the 1870s. These have been quick to adopt modern technologies. Now in an age of amazing advances in computer technology, the handling of medical information sources is well under control and techniques for bibliographic organization hold great promise [1]. Health Professionals need authoritative, up to date information to enable them to understand and apply advances in the field of biomedical sciences. The swiftness and accessibility of the World Wide Web make it the perfect vehicle for this information [2]. The increased use of computers, improved computing capability and faster Internet access are all transforming the nature of traditional teaching and research [3]. Printed version of medical journals is not going to lose its importance still for many years to come despite easy free access to online full text medical journals. The World Wide Web and other electronic resources are increasingly used as instant reference works. In contemplating the present information environment we felt that some guidelines should be formulated to new developments since identifying high quality resources tailored to the requirement of particular users among the vast number of sites is not easy. METHODS To search the online medical resources Pub Med(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ query.fcgi), Google (www.google.com), Google Scholar (Scholar.google.com/) and Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) search engines were used. Google and Yahoo are general search engines while PubMed and Google Scholar primarily find journal articles [4]. We have compiled a list of useful web resources from the perspective of medical professionals based in Pakistan. HEC Digital Library Higher Education Commission (HEC) provides access to high quality, peer-reviewed journals, databases and articles through its HEC - National Digital Library program. The Public and private sector degree-awarding universities, institutes and non-profit research institutes recognized by the Higher Education Commission are eligible for access to these databases [5]. Following databases includes biomedical journals. · (ASM) American Society of Microbiology (http://journals.asm. . org/) provides access to 11 high-quality online journals in the field of Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biomedical Research and Technology. ·