Access to academic research and publications for all those without university library accounts. Full text articles from a fairly useful selection of journals. Not as good as doing research in the biomedical library at UCLA or Dartmouth, but...it allows
Clarity regarding controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and metamodels. With all the scuttlebut going around about folksonomies and tagging, these are important terms to understand. In the process of tagging, it's pretty noticeable
Medical Research Resources, Library Catalog (ThomCat), Micromedex, STAT!Ref, Harrisons, UpToDate, Access Medicine, MD Consult, Ovid, Scopus, More. University Hospital Listing.
JMIR - the leading OPEN ACCESS peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal on health and health care in the Internet age - and your e-Health research portal
wOW! Search on 'metabolic AND syndrome' came up at zero, but shifting to 'metabolic,' I got SKILLIONS of articles related to "metabolic syndrome." GOOD ones!
Search free, full text clinical content: articles, images, lectures, news, guidelines, medical literature, reports, and free full text works archived by Medline. Also, a 'hot topic' keyword links to international clinical lectures delivered in Powerpoint