Academic & Clinical Resource Library - Graduate Medical Education

Rutgers Health Graduate Medical Education (GME) supports residents, fellows, faculty, and healthcare professionals with trusted educational and clinical resources. This collection includes databases, journals, textbooks, and evidence-based tools that support clinical training, research, scholarly activity, and patient care.

These resources provide access to peer-reviewed articles, open-access publications, clinical guidelines, pharmacology references, specialty education materials, and patient education tools. Together, they strengthen the academic mission of Rutgers Health and support lifelong learning across graduate medical education programs.

FreeBooks4Doctors – Free access to biomedical textbooks, reports, and reference works.
Open Textbook Library / Medicine – Collection of freely accessible medical textbooks.
National Academies Press – Free‑to‑read scientific and policy books from the National Academies. Topics include: Data and Statistics, Environment and Biology, Health and Medicine, Research Standards.
NCBI Bookshelf (NIH) – Publisher of open‑access biomedical and clinical research journals

ACP Clinical Guides – Evidence‑based clinical guidelines from the American College of Physicians.
ALiEM FOAMed (Academic Life in Emergency Medicine) – E-courses for Emergency Medicine and health profession education. Peer reviewed.
MedlinePlus (NIH) – Consumer‑friendly medical information, drug data, and health education, that can be used for patient education.

Cochrane Library – Evidence‑based systematic reviews for clinical decision‑making.
CORE – Open‑access scientific journals covering biology, medicine, and public health.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – Extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world.
Google Scholar – Aggregates open‑access research papers from repositories worldwide.
Open-i (NLM) – Medical image search engine for clinical and educational use.
PubMed Central (PMC) – Index of peer‑reviewed open‑access journals across all disciplines.
PubMed (NIH) – Search engine for biomedical and life‑science research articles.

BioMed Central – Over 300 peer-reviewed journals, spanning across scientific and clinical disciplines.
Free Medical Journals – Directory of journals offering free or partially free access.
PLOS – Journals with a fundamental and applied research focus, covering all scientific disciplines across life, health, and sustainability.

Open Journal Finder: Rutgers University Libraries’ Open Journal Finder helps Rutgers authors identify journals that are eligible under Rutgers’ Read & Publish and Subscribe to Open agreements. This searchable tool simplifies the process of finding open-access publishing opportunities and supports scholarly activity across graduate medical education programs. To learn more, please read this news story, “New Libraries Tool Simplifies the Search for Open Access Publishing”.

Biology

Agricola (NAL) – National Agricultural Library of books and materials on food, animal sciences, nutrition.
bioRxiv – The preprint server for biology.

Pharmacology

FDA Orange Book – FDA Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.

Other Medical Specialities

GLOWM (OBGYN) – Global online resources for obstetrics and gynecology education.
Triage Cancer Resource Portal – Practical guides on navigating cancer‑related legal and financial issues.