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- Abbreviations.com
Coverage: Terms in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Includes zip codes, conversions, slang terms, and a general Web directory.
http://www.abbreviations.com
- Acronym Finder
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/search.html
- AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access), US National Agricultural Library (NAL)
Coverage: Catalog and index of the NAL collections. Also a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information, 15th Century - Present.
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
- AHRQ Evidence-based Practice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm
- AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://ahrq.gov/clinic/cpgsix.htm
- Algology, Mycology & Protozoology: Microbiology Abstracts Section C ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1985 - Present
- ALTBIB, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Bibliography on alternatives to the use of live vertebrates in biomedical research and testing.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/altbib.html
- Altweb
Coverage: Information about alternatives to animal testing.
http://altweb.jhsph.edu/
- America: History and Life (ABC-CLIO) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Citations about US and Canadian history.
- American Library Directory ONSITE Access Only
- Animal Behavior Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1984 - Present
- ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1989 - Present
- ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1971 - Present
- ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1990 - Present
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- Bacteriology: Microbiology Abstracts Section B ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- Biology Digest ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1989 - Present
- BioMed Central, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Publishes more than 180 peer-reviewed, open access journals in biomedicine.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
- BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1969 - Present
- BNET (formerly FindArticles.com)
http://www.findarticles.com
- NCBI Bookshelf, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Biomedical books available on the Web.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books&tool=toolbar
- Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Books in Print with Reviews
- Books Out of Print
- Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers
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- Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (ProQuest-Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
- Algology, Mycology & Protozoology: Microbiology Abstracts Section C
- Animal Behavior Abstracts
- ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources
- ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
- ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
- ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
- Bacteriology: Microbiology Abstracts Section B
- Biology Digest
- Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
- Chemoreception Abstracts
- Conference Papers Index
- CSA Neurosciences Abstracts
- Ecology Abstracts
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- Entomology Abstracts
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
- Genetics Abstracts
- Health & Safety Science Abstracts
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management
- Immunology Abstracts
- Industrial and Applied Microbiology: Microbiology Abstracts Section A
- Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts
- Nucleic Acids Abstracts
- Oncogenes & Growth Factors Abstracts
- PILOTS database: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events
- Plant Science
- Pollution Abstracts
- Risk Abstracts
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts -- search together
- Toxicology Abstracts
- Virology and AIDS Abstracts
- Water Resources Abstracts
- Canary Database: Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards
Coverage: Includes studies of wildlife, companion and livestock animals, where either the exposure or the health effect could be considered potentially relevant to human health.
http://canarydatabase.org/
- CANCERLIT®, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Coverage: Links to PubMed and National Cancer Institute (NCI) literature searches, by subject
http://www.cancer.gov/search/cancer_literature/
- Cancer Topics, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Formerly, PDQ
Coverage: Up-to-date information about various cancers, treatments, and research for the public and health professionals.
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
Coverage: The finding tool for federal publications, July 1976 - Present.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
See also: GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Printing Office publications, 1976 - Present ONSITE Access Only
- CDC Health Topics A to Z, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/az/a.html
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
Coverage: The US reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis.
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp
- CDC Travelers' Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coverage: Health information related to national and international travel.
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx
- CDC WONDER, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coverage: Databases that enable researchers and the public to analyze public health data.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/
- CenterWatch
Coverage: Clinical trials listing service.
http://www.centerwatch.com/
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Coverage: The general and permanent rules of the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The codes are first published in the Federal Register.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
- Chemoreception Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- ChemIDplus, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Provides access to structure and nomenclature authority databases used for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases. Contains over 380,000 chemical records, of which over 263,000 include chemical structures.
http://chem2.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
- CINAHL - See CINAHL Plus: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL Plus) ONSITE Access Only
- ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Registry of more than 47,000 federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and more than 150 nations.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/
- Cochrane Library ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Evidence-based health care
- Communication & Mass Media ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1915 - Present (selected content)
- ComAbstracts, Communication Institute for Online Scholarship ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1915 - Present
- CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
Coverage: US Public Health Service-supported research conducted at universities, hospitals and other research institutions.
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
- Conference Papers Index ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- CPT® codes (Current Procedural Terminology), American Medical Association
Coverage: Medical billing codes.
https://catalog.ama-assn.org/Catalog/cpt/cpt_search.jsp
- CSA Neurosciences Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- CINAHL Plus: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
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- Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Drug Information Full Text
Coverage: Current drug information
- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
Coverage: 1970 - Present
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- Ecology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1985 - Present
- EMBASE ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: More than 18 million biomedical and pharmacologica records from EMBASE (Excerpta Medica) and MEDLINE.
- Encyclopedia of American Religion ONSITE Access Only
- Encyclopedia of Associations (National and International) ONSITE Access Only
- Entomology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- Entrez, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Searches all NLM databases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1990 - Present; selected records 1973 - 1989
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Explorer: Chemical Report, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Coverage: Data from 1988 - 2006.
http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/index.htm
- ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, US Department of Education
Coverage: More than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials. Includes links to full text.
http://www.eric.ed.gov
Search ERIC through ProQuest - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
- ETOH, Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science database, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Coverage: 1972 - December 2003
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
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- The Faculty of 1000 Biology ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 1000 selected researchers.
- The Faculty of 1000 Medicine ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of about 2500 international researchers and clinicians.
- FASTATS A to Z, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Coverage: Health statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm
- FDA Consumer Health Page, US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
http://www.fda.gov/consumer/default.htm
- FDA Post-Approval Database, US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Coverage: Studies begun after January 1, 2005, and their progress
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMA/pma_pas.cfm
- Federal Register
Coverage: 1994 - Present
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
- FNIC Databases, Food and Nutrition Information Center, US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Coverage: 6 databases
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/databases.html
- www.foodsafety.gov
Coverage: Provides links to selected government food safety-related information. Maintained by the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
http://www.foodsafety.gov/
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- Gale Directory of Databases ONSITE Access Only
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media ONSITE Access Only
- Gale's Ready Reference Shelf - Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Directories in Print
- Directory of Libraries and Information Centers
- Encyclopedia of American Religion
- Encyclopedia of Associations (National and International)
- Gale Directory of Databases
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
- Government Research Centers Directory
- International Research Centers Directory
- Newsletters in Print
- Publishers Directory
- Research Centers Directory
- Genetics Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- GeneTests, Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
http://genetests.org/
- Genetics Home Reference (GHR), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Consumer information about the effects of genetic variations on human health.
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
- Global Health ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1973 - Present
- Google Books
Coverage: Links to book excerpts and some full text books.
Requires free registration; Free full-text on selected content.
http://books.google.com
- Google Scholar
Coverage: Full text and links to full text scholarly journals and other publications.
Requires free registration; Free full-text on selected content.
http://scholar.google.com
- Government Research Centers Directory ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: National and international
- GPO Access, U.S. Government Printing Office
Coverage: Databases on US federal laws, legislation, government operations.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Printing Office publications (CGP) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1976 - Present
Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Printing Office publications
- NTIS: National Technical Information Service
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- Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database (HAPI) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: How to obtain research instruments. Abstracts and full-text articles of research using these instruments.
- The Hastings Center, Bioethical Research Center
Coverage: Books, journals, law, government documents, lectures and other resources.
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/default.asp
- Health & Safety Science Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1981 - Present
- Health Business Elite ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1922 - Present
- healthfinder, US Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS)
Coverage: Consumer health resources.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
- Health Hotlines, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Toll-free numbers of health-related organizations.
http://healthhotlines.nlm.nih.gov/
- Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Ongoing health services research and public health projects.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrproj/
- Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSRR), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Health services research datasets, instruments/indices and software.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Full-text documents about health services research and policy.
http://hstat.nlm.nih.gov/
- Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project
Coverage: Healthy People 2010 & Public Health.
http://phpartners.org/hp/
- Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: National and international history from BC to the Present.
- HIV Structural Database & Chem-BLAST, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Coverage: Structural information resource on AIDS related macromolecules.
http://xpdb.nist.gov/hivsdb/hivsdb.html
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1995 - Present
- Human Resources Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1975 - Present
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- ICD-9 & ICD-10 codes
Coverage: The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is based on the World Health Organization's Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9).
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm
- The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS), NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH ODS)
Coverage: 1986 - Present
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx
- IEEE Xplore ONSITE Access Only (selected content)
Electrical engineering, computer science and electronics literature published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Coverage: 1913 - Present (selected content)
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: About 60,000 black & white and color images.
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov
- Immunology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- INCHEM: International Chemical Safety Database
Coverage: Current, internationally peer-reviewed chemical safety-related resources and records from international bodies.
http://www.inchem.org/
- IndexCat: The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office,
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Citations for resources dated from the 1400s - 1950.
http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov
- Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL), Chiropractic Library Consortium (CLIBCON)
Coverage: 1984 - Present
http://www.chiroindex.org
- Industrial and Applied Microbiology: Microbiology Abstracts Section A ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
- International Research Centers Directory, Thomson Gale Publishers ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 27,000 research centers
- Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
Coverage: 1970 - Present
- Drug Information Full Text
Coverage: Current drug information
- ISBNdb.com
Coverage: Database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools.
Also provides links to booksellers.
http://isbndb.com/
- ISSN Online, ISSN International Centre
Coverage: Locate over 1 million periodicals by the ISSN Number (International Standard Serial Numbers).
http://portal.issn.org
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- JAMA CareerNet
http://jamacareernet.ama-assn.org/
- Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Gale ONSITE Access Only
Contains JCR Science and JCR Social Sciences Editions.
Coverage: 1998 - 2006 (2006 is latest edition).
Shows Journal Impact Factors.
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- Marquis Who's Who Current & Previous Biographies ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Information about more than 850,000 people, living or dead, known worldwide.
- Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1993 - 2006
- mediLexicon
Coverage: Dictionary, abbreviations, acronyms, ICD-9 codes and spell-check.
http://www.medilexicon.com/
- MEDLINE/PubMed (PubMed), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: 1949 - Present, with selected PubMed Central citations from the late 1800s - Present.
http://pubmed.gov/
- MEDLINE/PubMed Subsets and Filters, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Pre-formulated searches on various topics.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/special_queries.html
- MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Consumer health information in English, Spanish and other languages. Includes videos, photographs, tutorials and podcasts.
http://medlineplus.gov
- MedlinePlus en español, National Library of Medicine(NLM)
Coverage: More than 700 consumer health information in Spanish, English, and other languages. Includes videos, photographs, tutorials and podcasts.
http://medlineplus.gov/esp
- MedlinePlus: Doctors and Dentists, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: National and international directories of doctors, dentists and other health professionals.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html
- MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
- MedlinePlus: Specialized Hospitals and Clinics, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Under "Specialized Hospitals and Clinics" section.
Coverage: US hospitals and clinics.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html
- MeSH Browser (Medical Subject Headings), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Terms that NLM indexers use to index journal articles.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
- Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
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- National Guideline Clearinghouse, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Coverage: 1997 - Present
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents
http://www.guideline.gov/browse/guideline_index.aspx
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) Databases & Electronic Resources
Coverage: All NLM databases.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html
- NCBI Literature Databases
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Books, articles, and genetic information.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature/index.html
- NCBI Molecular Databases
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for its major databases.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/index.html
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD)
http://www.ndltd.org/
- New Medicines in Development Database, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Coverage: Drugs in clinical trials or being reviewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
http://newmeds.phrma.org/
- Newsletters in Print, Thomson Gale Publishers ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Information about 12,000 newsletters currently being published.
http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/db/grr
- NIH Consensus Statements, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Evidence-based assessment of current, complex medical issues. A panel's assessment of the medical knowledge available at the time each statement was written.
Coverage: 2002 - Present; older consensus statements 1977 - 2001.
http://consensus.nih.gov/PREVIOUSSTATEMENTS.htm
- NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Coverage: Official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
- NIH Health Information Index, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Coverage: Alphabetical list of health topics written by the NIH.
http://health.nih.gov/see_all_topics.asp
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers and Offices
http://www.nih.gov/icd/
- NIOSH Pocket Guide To Chemical Hazards (NPG), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html
- NLM Catalog, National Library of Medicine (NLM) Online Catalog
Coverage: NLM bibliographic data for over 1.2 million resources, via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog
See also: LocatorPlus, http://locatorplus.gov
- NLM Classification, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: System of classifying materials in the field of medicine and related sciences.
http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/
- NLM Gateway, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Search many NLM databases at one time.
Coverage: 1950s - Present.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
See also: NLM Entrez
Search many databases at one time.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi?itool=toolbar
- NIOSH Databases, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)
Coverage: 1930's - Present (selected content).
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/database.html
- Nobel Laureate Search
Coverage: Information about all Nobel Prize winners.
http://nobelprize.org/search/index.html
- NORD Database, National Organization for Rare Disorders Rare Diseases (NORD)
http://www.rarediseases.org/search/rdbsearch.html
- NTIS: National Technical Information Service ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1900 - Present
See Also:NTIS Search Library: National Technical Information Service
Coverage: 1964 - Present; selected items available for a fee.
http://www.ntis.gov/search
Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- GPO, Catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office
- NTIS
- Nucleic Acids Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1982 - Present
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- Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
- OhioLINK
Coverage: Consortium of 86 Ohio college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio.
Access to bibliographic records, theses and dissertations.
http://www.ohiolink.edu
- OncoLink, The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/
- Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS)
http://lu.com/odlis
- Oncogenes & Growth Factors Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1989 - Present
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: More than 50,000 biographies about persons worldwide who impacted the United Kingdom.
http://www.oxforddnb.com/auth/login.jsp?
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- Partners in Information Access
Coverage: Public health information. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is a partner.
http://phpartners.org/
- Patent Grants and Patent Applications Database, Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Coverage: Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases.
Issued Patents: full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790.
Published Applications: all Published Applcations from March 15, 2001 - Present.
http://www.uspto.gov/patft
- PDQ, National Cancer Institute (NCI), now Cancer Topics
Coverage: Current information about various cancers, treatments and research for the public and health professionals.
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics
- PDR Electronic Library (Physicians Drug Reference) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Current drug information.
http://pdrel.thomsonhc.com
- PeriStats, The March of Dimes
Coverage: US maternal and infant health information, from national to county and city level. Includes graphs, tables and charts.
http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats
- PILOTS database ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, 1871 - Present.
- Plant Science ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1994 - Present
- Pollution Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1981 - Present
- POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE): Unavailable, as of 23 April 2009
- Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Archival collections of leaders in biomedical research and public health.
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/
- PsycINFO (Electronic version of Psychological Abstracts) ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1806 - Present
- Publishers Directory ONSITE Access Only (selected content)
- Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers
- Books in Print with Reviews
- Books Out of Print
- PubMed (MEDLINE/PubMed), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: 1949 - Present, with selected PubMed Central citations from the late 1800s - Present.
http://pubmed.gov/
- PubMed (MEDLINE/PubMed) Subsets and Filters, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Pre-formulated searches on various topics.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/special_queries.html
- PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Full-text articles from the mid-19th century to the present; Included in PubMed.
http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov
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- Quality Check, The Joint Commission (JCAHO)
Find a health care organization that meets the Joint Commission's patient safety and quality standards.
http://www.qualitycheck.org
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- REHABDATA Literature Database, The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
Coverage: More than 65,000 resources from 1957 - Present.
http://www.naric.com/research/rehab
- Research Centers Directory ONSITE Access Only (selected content)
Coverage: Current information about national and international research centers.
- Risk Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1990 - Present (under"Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management").
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- SCIELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Coverage: Scholarly journals from 6 Latin American countries, Portugal and Spain. Web site in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
http://www.scielo.org/index.php?lang=en
- Science.gov
Coverage: gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by US government agencies, including research and development results.
http://science.gov/
- SCOPUS ONSITE Access Only (selected content)
Coverage: 1869 - Present. Abstract, citation and Web links database, with links to selected full-text, in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities. Includes conference abstracts and patent records.
- SilverPlatter - Search all or select one of the following: ONSITE Access Only
- Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
- BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts)
- Books in Print with Reviews
- Books Out of Print
- Books in Print; Books Out of Print; Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers -- search together
- CINAHL Plus: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
- Drug Information Full Text
- Drug Information Full Text and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)-- search together
- GPO, Catalog of U.S. Government Printing Office publications. 1976-Present
- GPO and NTIS-- search together
- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
- International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) and Drug Information Full Text--search together
- Library Literature
- Marquis Who's Who Current & Previous Biographies
- NTIS: National Technical Information Service, 1983-Present
- NTIS and GPO -- search together
- PsycINFO (Electronic version of Psychological Abstracts)
- Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers of the U.S.
- Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers of the U.S; Books in Print; Books Out of Print--search together
- SPORT Discus
- Smoking & Health Resource Library
Coverage: Literature related to tobacco use and its health effects. 1972 - Present; selected resources, 1800s - 1971.
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/shrl/QuickSearch.aspx
- Search all or select one of the following:
- Social Services Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1979 - Present
- Sociological Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1952 - Present
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- THOMAS
Coverage: Provides federal legislative information to the public. Also includes Presidential Nominations and Treaties. Selected content from 90th Congress (1967) - Present.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
- Toxicological Profile Information Sheet, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html
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Coverage: 1981 - Present
- TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork), National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Coverage: Group of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals and environmental health.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
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Coverage: Over 4 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=h6cg2t.1.1
- Treatment Facility Locator, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
Coverage: Drug and alcohol abuse treatment centers in the 50 US states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/facilitylocatordoc.htm
- TRIP Database, (Turning Research into Practice)
Coverage: Evidence-Based Medicine; Includes images and consumer health information.
http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html
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- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Detailed listing of all periodicals published in the US and worldwide.
http://www.ulrichsweb.com/UlrichsWeb/
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http://www.usa.gov
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- Violence and Abuse Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
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- Water Resources Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: 1967 - Present
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http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
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Contains Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Also includes journal impact factors.
Coverage: 5 databases:
- Science Citation Index Expanded: 1900 - Present
- Social Sciences Citation Index: 1956 - Present
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- Current Chemical Reactions: 1985 - Present
- Index Chemicus: 1993 - Present
- World Biographical Information System ONSITE Access Only
Coverage: Information on about 5 million people from the 800s B.C. - Present.
- OCLC WorldCat
Coverage: Holdings of libraries and research centers in the US and worldwide.
http://worldcat.org
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First published: 12 April 1999
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