Health & Medicine

Optometry

General Guides

Specific Resources

Eye and ocular diseases

Colour and vision research

Illusions and 3D

Educational resources

Ophthalmic and medical handbooks

Vision health resources

Other related resources

Associations & Professional Organizations

Universities & Colleges

Electronic Journals/Books/Reports

Books

Journals

Others

Publishers

Conferences

Newsgroups & Listservs

Useful Numbers for Visual Science

General Guides

• Emory MedWeb : Ophthalmology
• Eye Resources on the Internet (University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science)
• Healthweb: Ophthalmology and Optometry
• Lars' Vision Links
• MedlinePlus : Eyes & Vision Topics
• Martindale's Health Science Guide: Otolaryngology, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology & Optometry Center
• NeLH Eyes and Vision Specialist Library (NHS, U.K.)
• OMNI : Ophthalmology and Optometry
• Open Directory : Health: Ophthalmology (by Open Directory Project, DMOZ)
• Optometrists Network - including resources on visual health, vision and learning, 3D vision and depth perception, and optometric vision therapy
• Vision Science Directory- an Internet resource for research in human and animal vision

Specific Resources

Eye and ocular diseases/disorders

• Contact Lens Council - educational resource on vision correction
• Handbook of Ocular Disease Management
• Hardin Meta Directory : Eye Diseases
• Kolberg Ocular Prosthetics - artificial eyes home page
• Lasik Surgery Patient Resource Center for Sacramento (California, U.S.)
• Low Vision Gateway
• MedlinePlus : Eye Diseases
• Merck Manual of Medical Information : Section 20: Eye Disorders
• Movements On-Line(about artificial eyes and ocular implants)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse : Eye Diseases
• Pharmaceutical Database for the Treatment & Management of Ocular Disease

Colour and vision research

• CVRL Color & Vision database

Illusions and 3D

• Illusionworks.com (comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions on the world-wide web)
• Vision 3-D (from the Optometrists Network)

Educational resources

• American Academy of Optometry (British Chapter) : Tutorials (tutorials for optometry)
• American Academy of Optometry (British Chapter) : Software
• Cow's Eye Dissection
• Exploratorium Phenomena Cross Reference : Eye Sites
• EyeRounds.org - resources including cases, photographs, tutorials and free books (by Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Iowa)
• WinkingSkull.com - human anatomy study aid

Ophthalmic and medical handbooks

• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• Optometric Clinical Practice Guidelines (American Optometric Association)

Vision health resources

• EyeCare Connection

Other related resources

• Important Dates in Vision Science : A Chronological History of Vision Research (1600-1960) (Department of Cognitive Sciences at University of California, Irvine)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook : Optometrists (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Other Vision Science Libraries and Related Information (Indiana University Libraries)

Associations & Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Optometry
• American Academy of Optometry (British Chapter)
• American Optometric Association
• American Optometric Foundation
• The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers
• Association of Optometrists
• Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (U.S.)
• British Contact Lens Assocation
• Canadian Association of Optometrists
• Canadian Ophthalmological Society
• The College of Optometrists (U.K.)
• Contact Lens Council (U.S.)
• Contact Lens Manufacturers Association (U.S.)
• Contact Lens Society of America
• European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
• Hong Kong Ophthalmological Society
• International Council of Ophthalmology
• National Eye Institute (U.S.)
• Optical Society of America
• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
• Scholarly Societies List (University of Waterloo Library)
• Web sites of members of the International Federation of Ophthalmological Societies and other national societies of ophthalmologists (from International Council of Ophthalmology)

Universities & Colleges

• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute - Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• Illinois College of Optometry
• Inter American University of Puerto Rico, School of Optometry
• Michigan College of Optometry at Ferris State University
• Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry (Florida, U.S.)
• Ohio State University, College of Optometry
• Oklahoma's College of Optometry at Northeastern State University
• Pennsylvania College of Optometry
• Queensland University of Technology, School of Optometry (Brisbane, Australia)
• Southern California College of Optometry
• Southern College of Optometry (Tennessee, U.S.)
• University of Auckland, Department of Optometry and Vision Science
• University of Bradford, Department of Optometry (U.K.)
• University of Houston College of Optometry (Texas, U.S.)
• University of Missouri-St. Louis, College of Optometry
• University of Montreal School of Optometry
• University of New South Wales, School of Optometry
• University of Waterloo School of Optometry
• Victorian College of Optometry at University of Melbourne

Electronic Journals/Books/Reports

Books

• EyeRounds.org : Ophthalmology Books
• Retina Reference
• Ophthalmology Textbook from Emedicine
• Pharmaceutical Database for the Treatment & Management of Ocular Disease

Journals (Please also refer to our Library's Journal Collection )

• Applied Optics
• BioMed Central : BMC Ophthalmology
• Chinese Optics Letters
• Clinical and Experimental Optometry
• Contact Lens Spectrum
• Digital Journal of Ophthalmology
• Eye
• Eyecare Business Online
• EyeWorld News Magazine
• Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
• Indiana Journal of Optometry
• InterNet Journal of Ophthalmology
• Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
• JAMA - Journal of American Medical Association
• Journal of Display Technology
• Journal of Lightwave Technology
• Journal of Optical Networking
• Journal of Optical Technology
• Journal of the Optical Society of America A
• Journal of the Optical Society of America B
• Journal of Vision
• Molecular Vision
• Nature - International Weekly Journal of Science
• Online Journals of Ophthalmology
• Optics & Photonics News
• Optics Express
• Optics Letters
• Optometry and Vision Science Journal
• Optometry Today
• Primary Care Optometry News Online
• Retina
• Review of Ophthalmology
• Review of Optometry
• Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
• Vision Monday

Others

• Data on Visual Impairment (from the World Health Organization)
• Visionary - a dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision

Publishers

Please also refer to the General Medicine page in our Internet Resources.

• Ophthalmology and Optometry Titles from Elsevier, Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, Butterworth-Heinemann, and Hanley & Belfus
• Harcourt Publisher
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ophthalmology/Optometry Store

Conferences

• HONMeeting : Ophthalmology
• VisionScience : Conferences

Newsgroups & Listservs

• Eye care internet resources: listserv
• sci.med.vision (or subscribed via Google Groups) - on human vision, visual correction, and visual science

Useful Numbers for Vision Science

• A Brief Organized List
• Units in Visual Science

Faculty Librarian

Jane Tsang
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Email: lbjane@polyu.edu.hk