| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABI/Inform Global Access (Proquest) | The premier business and management database for articles on business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, company news and industry-specific topics worldwide. It provides extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies. | Mid-1970's - present | Partial |
| ABI/Inform Trade & Industry | Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. | 1971 - current | Yes |
| Abstracts in Social Gerontology | Contains bibliographic records and abstracts of articles and books covering essential areas of social gerontology, including adult education, biology and physiology, community services, death and bereavement, demography of aging, economic issues, law, and policy, housing, institutional and non-institutional care, leisure and recreation, medical care, neuropsychology of aging, primary relations, psychiatric dysfunctions and treatment, psychology of aging, social pathology and the elderly, work and retirement. | 1990-present | Partial |
| Access Science | Provides access to over 7,000 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. Also includes these features: Biographies -- Over 2000 in-depth biographies of leading scientists through history; In the News -- Weekly updates on breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology; Student Center -- Resources to guide your research; Related Sites -- Links to Web sites for further research. | Partial | |
| AgeLine (AARP) | AgeLine is a bibliographic database in social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related and economic contexts. It is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons, covering more than 300 journals. These journals include research, professional, and general-interest periodicals. The journal titles cover the fields of gerontology, healthcare, business, consumer affairs, psychology, sociology, and economics, as well as a wide variety of other related topics. Most of the data is North American in origin and is drawn predominantly from journals, books, book chapters and reports. | 1978 - present | Partial |
| AGRICOLA | Produced by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provided worldwide coverage of agriculture from 1970 through 2006. Beginning in 2007, because of reduced resources, the National Agricultural Library re-scoped the database, reducing coverage, indexing for AGRICOLA only publications that meet at least one of the following criteria: be a U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, or contain articles or chapters authored by USDA personnel; support NALs Information Centers; contain articles or chapters on core agricultural topics, written in the English language; not be indexed by any other abstracting and indexing service. AGRICOLA contains over 3.7 million citations to journal articles, monographs, pamphlets, microforms, research reports, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, government documents and technical reports. The database encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences (breeding, dairy science, feed science), entomology, plant sciences, pesticides, biotechnology, microbiology, ecology, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, water quality, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, human nutrition, home economics, rural sociology and earth and environmental sciences. The print equivalent, Bibliography of Agriculture (1942 1969) is available in the Life Sciences Library. | 1970 - present | Partial |
| Agricultural Statistics | Statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all facets of agricultural production, supply, and demand worldwide. | Partial | |
| AHFS Drug Information | "A tested and proven source of comparative, unbiased, and evaluative drug information containing a monograph on virtually every single drug entity available in the United States. Monographs are considerably beyond the FDA-approved labeling in their scope." | Yes | |
| American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Conditions A to Z | "...a handy patient information tool that's been written by physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP is a national medical organization representing 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents, and medical student. Common conditions, treatments, and health tips are presented concisely and informatively..." | Yes | |
| Animal Behavior Abstracts | Animal Behavior Abstracts identifies significant papers relevant to animal behavior, summarizing the results of both field and laboratory inquiries. It surveys all of the important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Major areas of coverage include: aggression; anatomical correlates; applied ethology; avoidance learning; behavioral ecology; biological and biochemical correlates; brain lesions; brain stimulation (electrical and chemical); communication; complex learning; discrimination; learning; dominance; evolution and survival value; external stimulation; foraging and ingestion; genetics of behavior; habituation and extinction; hormones; locomotion; memory; methodology; motivation; navigation; neurophysiological correlates; ontogeny; orientation; navigation and migration; parental-filial behavior; reinforcement (positive); rhythms; selected drug studies; sexual and reproductive behavior; sleep; social behavior; social spacing; theoretical models and overviews; and visual stimulation. Updated monthly. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering | ANTE monitors approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. for information on new technologies. Areas covered include information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering and allied subject areas | 1981 - present | No |
| ArchiveGrid | Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. Includes full text finding aids describing the contents of archival collections at various libraries, museums, and archival repositories throughout the U.S. with links to the repositories. | 00-present | Partial |
| Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) | Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) provides access to clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. About 430 journal titles are selectively indexed. Major areas of coverage include: aggressins and toxins; animal bacteriology; antibacterial agents; antibiosis; antibiotics; cell structure and function; culture; ecology and distribution; genetics and evolution; human bacteriology; identification; immunology; invertebrate bacteriology; methodology; microbial symbiosis; plasmids; predation; taxonomy; and typing | 1982 - present | No |
| BCC Market Research | BCC Research contains market research reports, industry reviews, newsletters and conferences for competitive business intelligence. | Most recent 3-5 years. | Yes |
| Begell Digital Library | Begell Digital Library includes many journals, databases, and e-books in engineering and science. It is best known for its thermal science and engineering materials. There are many journals from the broad fields of science, medicine, and engineering. | varies | Yes |
| Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (seminars) | "This collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists is keeping researchers informed throughout the world." | Yes | |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic | A limited subset of the MEDLINE database; access to the complete database is available through PubMed. | 1985 - current | Yes |
| BIOSIS Previews | One of the databases available through ISI Web of Knowledge, BIOSIS Previews includes content from journals, meetings, patents, and books. Search precisely with BIOSIS indexing, enhanced MeSH terms, and CAS registry numbers. | 1926 - | No |
| Business Source Premier | Indexes and abstracts articles in business and management, marketing, MIS, accounting, finance, international business, and related disciplines. Provides indexing to more than 3,800 publications, including nearly 1,600+ peer-reviewed journals in business fields. Full text of over 3,000 periodicals including 1,000+ peer-reviewed journals. | 1965 - present. | Partial |
| CAB Abstracts--OvidSP | Compiled by CABI Publishing, CAB Abstracts provides comprehensive international coverage of the significant research and development literature in agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Sources scanned selectively for records are: professional and trade journals (over 9,000), reports, bulletins, conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, scientific texts, technical and popular books, theses, annual reports and a few categories of patents and standards. Major subject areas covered include: agricultural and environmental economics; agricultural engineering; animal production (including general and theoretical genetics, genetic engineering and immunogenetics); biodeterioration, bioremediation and biodegradation (including any organisms involved and their identification through molecular biology techniques); biotechnology in the areas of bioethics, intellectual property issues, genes and their expression, molecular biology techniques, genomics, genetic engineering, cloning, in vitro fertilization and gene therapy; broad coverage of crop protection (including pests, pathogens, natural enemies and control mechanisms for an extensive range of plants); dairy science and technology encompassing physiological, biochemical, immunological, microbiological, chemical and physics aspects; forestry, forest products and agroforestry; human nutrition with coverage extending into physiology, biochemistry and disorders; leisure, recreation, and tourism; all aspects of medical and veterinary parasitological disease which includes diagnosis, immunobiology, physiology, molecular and cell biology; developmental biology and genetics (molecular, population and biochemical); natural resources and environmental issues; plant breeding, crop production and horticulture; soil science, land/water management and fertilizer technology; rural development; veterinary medicine; and miscellaneous subjects (human and animal health, nematology, sugar technology and apiculture). Online coverage extends back to 1973. Print coverage for various subjects is available for earlier years. | 1973 - present | No |
| CAB e-Books Archive Database | CAB e-books | Yes | |
| Cambridge Structural Database System (WebCSD) | The CSD is a database of over 500,000 experimentally derived crystal structures for small molecules that have been published in over 700 journals. Structures can be represented in 2D or 3D format. Users can search by substructure, similarity, reduced cell, text/numeric, or simply browse the database. | 1923-present | No |
| CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index) | CASSI is the most complete information source on scientific journals in chemistry. It lists standard abbreviations, frequency of publication, journal name changes, and other bibliographic information for over 60,000 named sources. | No | |
| CCOHS Occupational Health and Safety Databases | The CCOHS Academic Support Program (ASP) is offered exclusively to universities and colleges as both a tool to educate students about environmental and occupational health and safety and as a guide to assist Universities and Colleges in their efforts to achieve a safe and healthy working environment. This program includes MSDS, FTSS, CHEMINFO, RTECS®, Canadiana,CISILO, HSELINE, OSHLINE® with NIOSHTIC®/NIOSHTIC-2, and as well as several free resources. | Yes | |
| Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder) | SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. | 1907 - present | Partial |
| ChemLibNetBase | This is a collection of over 280 chemistry and chemistry related e-books. You can search the full text and view complete e-books and chapters in PDF format. You can also browse e-books by category. This resource includes a number of important titles such as: CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts, CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Sensors, Industrial Solvents Handbook, Inorganic Materials Chemistry Desk Reference&and much more | Yes | |
| ChemNetBase | Includes access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as well as a number of other resources with physical and chemical property data, including properties for natural products and drugs. Not only can you search within the CRC Handbook, but you have access to the following sources as well: Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Polymers: A Property Database , and Properties of Organic Compounds | Yes | |
| CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Lit. | The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) provides access to virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications of the American Nurses'Association and the National League for Nursing, primary journals in the allied health fields, and pertinent articles in biomedical, management, behavioral science, education, and popular literature. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Cochrane Library | Highly structured and systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Contains clinical trial information not indexed in Medline and other databases. | Partial | |
| CogNet (MIT) | MIT CogNet provides a unique electronic community for researchers in cognitive and brain sciences, with in-depth current and classic text resources, and a dynamic interactive forum for today's scholars, students, and professionals. It includes fulltext entries from the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. | 1964-present | Partial |
| Cold Spring Harbor Protocols | Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interactive source of several hundred reliable, new and classic research techniques in molecular and cellular biology. Fully searchable by keyword and subject, the database covers protocols for the following topics: antibodies, bioinformatics/genomics, cell biology, chromatography, computational biology, DNA delivery/gene transfer, electrophoresis, genetics, high-throughput analysis, imaging/microscopy, immunology, laboratory organisms, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), proteins and proteomics, RNA interference (RNAi)/siRNA, stem cells, and transgenic technology. The database also has an alphabetical listing of all protocol recipes and an alphabetical listing of all protocol cautions. In addition, it provides a mechanism for finding laboratory supplies. | 2006- | Yes |
| ComDisDome: Communication Sciences and Disorders | Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, grants, scholars, institutions, and web resources | 1997 - current | Partial |
| Conference Papers Index | Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | This resource allows searching and browsing of the numerous tables and data found in the print CRC handbook. Can search by full-text, by chemical substance, or by a number of chemical properties. Interactive tables allow exporting the data to Microsoft Excel. | Yes | |
| Current Protocols series | Published by Wiley InterScience, Current protocols is a series of laboratory handbooks including Current protocols in: bioinformatics, cell biology, cytometry, food analytical chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, nucleic acid chemistry, pharmacology, protein science, and toxicology. It is possible to search one or more handbooks at a time. To search one handbook select it from the list under "Titles;" to search more than one, select a title and then, depressing the Ctrl key, select the others. | Yes | |
| Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses | "This reference not only provides the pharmacologic profile of what each drug does and how it works but also links essential nursing data, such as which parameters to assess in the patient taking the drug, how to administer the medication, and how to evaluate the drug's effectiveness while incorporating unique information about how to prevent medication errors. The 9th edition meets and fills the drug information needs of every student and practicing nurse, facilitating and emphasizing the nurse's role in safe and effective management of medication therapies. " | Yes | |
| Detailed Drug Information for the Customer | "Advice for the Patient delivers drug information in easy-to-grasp terms. This volume also includes a Glossary of Medical Terms and other features created to serve your patients' information needs." | Yes | |
| Digital United States Congressional Serial Set | Includes congressional and executive branch publications produced as part of the American State Papers and U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Coverage covers U.S. political, diplomatic, economic, social, scientific, and military historical development between 1789-1969. Complete coverage will be available approximately 2006. | 1789-1969 | Yes |
| DrugPoints System | Comprehensive drug information reference providing complete coverage, including both labeled and off-label uses, of more than 11,000 generic and brand name drugs. "In-depth monographs cover dosing, indications, interactions, pharmacology/pharmacokinetics, side/adverse effects, and patient counseling guidelines. Labeled and off-label uses are discussed to facilitate third-party reimbursement." | Yes | |
| DSM-IV-TR | "The DSM IV provides the only comprehensive classification of all recognized psychiatric disorders. This Text Revision includes updated information about the associated features, culture, age, and gender features, prevalence, course, and familial pattern of mental disorders." | Yes | |
| Educational Administration Abstracts | Provides bibliographic records and many full-text articles covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. | 1881-current | Partial |
| Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | This reference identifies current challenges and development paths sure to influence fields ranging from materials and surface science, chemistry, and biomedicine to computer technology, information processing, and mechanical, optical, and electrical engineeringexamining the design, application, and utilization of devices, techniques, and technologies critical to research at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels ranging from 1100 nanometers. | Yes | |
| Environment Abstracts (CSA) | Contains major categories of environmental information: Environmental Abstracts (abstracts of thousands of journal articles and conference papers with links to selected full-text); full-text sources for news, journals, commentary, federal and state codes, regulations, case law, and agency actions; federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information. | Varies | Yes |
| Ergonomic Abstracts | Ergonomics Abstracts is a focused, comprehensive, and international abstracting service, spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors. Due to the changing frames of reference in modern scientific research and application, Ergonomics Abstracts is an invaluable and rich source of information for any professional needing information not only on mainstream ergonomics, but also on related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport. | 1985 - present | No |
| ERIC (EBSCO Software) | Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a bibliographic database sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier source for education-related research, documents, and journal articles. | 1966-present | Partial |
| ETDEWEB | ETDEWEB contains energy content from the United States and worldwide sources. It includes the data from US Dept. of Energy's Energy Citation Database (Energy Research Abstaracts and Nuclear Science Abstracts) as well as international sources, e.g. International Atomic Energy Agency's Atomindex. | 1946-present | Partial |
| Food Science and Technology Abstracts [FSTA] | Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) contains abstracts of the worldwide literature of food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition. Topics covered relate to every aspect of the food chain including biotechnology, food safety, food science, functional and novel foods, additives, nutrition and packaging. Sources include: scientific journals, patents, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, standards, and legislation. A thesaurus of indexing terms provides for more precise searching. Online coverage extends back to 1969. | 1969 - present | No |
| FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Sciences) | Indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published in over 4,200 journals from around the world. Subject descriptors are in both English and French. Abstracts are provided in 80% of the records. Also indexes books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, and exhibition catalogs. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Corresponding to print format Thomson Gale reference publications, selected e-book titles deliver reference content in database format. Can search a single title or multiple titles by keyword, title, ISBN, or full text. | Varies by title | Yes |
| General Science Full Text | General Science Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary. | 1982 - present; full-text, 1994 - present | Partial |
| Health and Safety Science Abstracts | Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. <p> Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.<p> Over 1350 journal titles are indexed by HSSA. | 1981 - present | No |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health | Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites have been selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and medical video content and physician-authored articles is provided by Healthology. The latest health news from Harvard Health Publications, a division of the Harvard Medical School, is also available. | Current | Partial |
| Health Business FullTEXT | Health Business FullTEXT provides full text coverage for more than 130 well-known administrative journals including H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Management Technology, Modern Healthcare, and many others. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration, and much more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Health Reference Center Academic | Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. | 1980 -- current | Yes |
| Health Source - Consumer Edition | Health Source Plus is a database of both general health magazines and professional health care journals. It includes full text from nearly 300 periodicals, nearly 1,200 pamphlets, 20 books, 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and Clinical Pharmacology. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals, with nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. | 1975 - present | Partial |
| ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety | The Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety is an authoritative source of on-line information on all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of occupational safety and health. The Fourth Edition was produced with the collaboration of thousands of recognized experts from over 50 countries; the private and public sectors, academia and industry, labour and management, researchers and practitioners are all represented. This latest edition consists of over 1,000 articles, complemented by over 1,000 illustrations and easy-to-read tables. Thousands of references are cited. Sources are listed at the end of each chapter, along with other relevant readings. | Yes | |
| INCE Digital Library | Contains full-text of the publications: Noise Control Engineering Journal (1982-present) and the earlier Noise Control Engineering (1973-1982) It also contains INCE Conference Proceedings, including InterNoise, NoiseCon, Sound Quality Symposium, SQS, and Active since 1995. | Yes | |
| Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Microbiology A) | Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this index. About 460 journal titles are indexed selectively by Industrial and Applied Microbiology. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) | Produced in cooperation with the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, IPA includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health care journals. The entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information is covered. | 1970 - present | No |
| Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition | Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition contains quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within subject categories. Covering about 5,700 journals, JCR: Science Edition has many uses. Students and faculty use it to identify journals in which to publish, confirm the status of journals in which they have published, and identify journals relevant to their research. Online coverage extends back to 1998. There is a CD-ROM for 1997 and print for 1975-90, 1992 and 1996. | 1998 - present | No |
| Knovel (Sci-Tech handbooks and reference in full text) | Knovel provides numerical and tabular data from leading engineering and science resources. Some tables are interactively searchable. | Yes | |
| Lexi-Comp. Online Reference Series | Lexi-Comp offers a collection of point-of-care reference products with concise, yet detailed answers to drug information, laboratory tests, diagnostic procedures, infectious diseases, poisoning and toxicology, natural products, etc. Specialty-focused information in the fields of pediatrics, geriatrics, anesthesiology, psychiatry, oncology, and cardiology are also available. | Yes | |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts | Covers all aspects of linguistics and the study of language: Speech, hearing, phonetics, interpersonal behavior, learning disabilities, nonverbal communication, grammar, morphology, semantics, history of languages, etc. | 1973 - present | Partial |
| MEDLINE (EBSCO interface) | MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Indexes over 3,700 journals. | 1964 - present | No |
| MEDLINE (PubMed interface) | PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. | 1950-- | Partial |
| MedlinePlus | MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 800 diseases and conditions. There are directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, easy-to-understand tutorials on common conditions, tests, and treatments, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. | Current | Yes |
| Merck Index | Descriptive information on 10,000+ chemicals, drugs (human and veterinary), and biologicals. Each entry lists synonyms for drug names (trade, chemical, generic, and research codes), CAS Registry Numbers, physical data, patent information, uses, toxicity, and bibliographic citations on synthesis, pharmacology, and toxicology. Can search by name, structure, CAS # and more. | No | |
| NTIS (National Technical Information Service) | produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries. | 1964 - present | Partial |
| Nursing Resource Center | "An easy-to-use source for extensive, comprehensive and trusted reference, periodical and multimedia content, presented in a manner that correlates to the "Nursing Process" covered in community college nursing programs. The steps in the process are: Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Implementation and Evaluation. Each of these stages has various actions associated with them, and the results pages for any search executed in the Nursing Resource Center are organized to closely reflect this process." | Partial | |
| Office of Epizootics (OIE) Document Database | The OIE Documentation Centre houses a vast collection of documentary resources (currently more than 13,000 documents) accessible via a database where documents have been compiled, indexed and analyzed using a bilingual French-English thesaurus designed specifically for OIE areas of activity. The database compiles all the works and major reports, conference proceedings and journal articles published by the OIE and other institutions that are housed in OIE Headquarters and its documentation centre. In particular, the database includes all OIE periodicals and non-periodicals, as well as working papers by the OIE and organizations with which it has dealings. Up to now the database has been reserved for OIE Headquarters staff and available solely via the Organizations intranet but, in January 2011, a more user-friendly version will feature on the new OIE website. So far the new version contains around 5,000 documents emanating from OIE activities between 1921 and 2010 (OIE publications and joint publications). The new database features a system for searching the following documents by keyword (subject, language, source, year and author), in many instances providing access to the full text: " All monographs published by the OIE. " All OIE periodical publications, including: o articles from the Scientific and Technical Review since it was first published in 1981; o OIE animal health standards; o technical items presented to the World Assembly of Delegates. " General session reports. " Resolutions and recommendations adopted by the Regional Commissions and the World Assembly of Delegates since 1924. " Reports from the various OIE commissions, working groups and ad hoc groups. " Conference proceedings and reports of seminars, workshops, consultations, training courses, missions and meetings organised by the OIE alone or jointly with other organisations, including both official and unofficial documents. " Documents from OIE regional representations. Older documents in the OIE archives, including reports published in the OIE Bulletin since it was first published in 1927, articles from the OIE Scientific and Technical Review between 1981 and 2001, World Animal Health reports since 1981 and OIE normative publications (codes and manuals) since they were first published were all included in the first digitization programme[1], which was completed in 2010. The digitized content of these archives will be incorporated into the database, which will soon give access to the full range of documents arising from OIE activities since the Organization was created in 1924. [1/26/12] | 1927- | Yes |
| Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 5th Ed. | Patty's Industrial Hygiene presents the most up to date information on the recognition and evaluation of chemical agents, physical agents and biohazards in the workplace as well as engineering control of exposure and personal protection. Patty's Toxicology presents comprehensive toxicological data for industrial compounds from metals to synthetic polymers. Information for each compound includes CAS numbers, RTECS numbers, physical and chemical properties, threshold limit values (TLV's), permissible exposure limits (PEL's), maximum workplace concentrations (MAK), and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures (BAT). | 2001 | Yes |
| ProQuest Congressional | Provides access to historic and recent U.S. Government publications from 1789-2000 on including U.S. Congressional Serial Set documents, federal agency reports, congressional committee publications, statistics, maps, and congressional debates. | 1789-1997 | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Search between approximately 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. | 50+ years | Yes |
| PsycINFO | The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to dissertations and journals (1,300 + ). It includes the fulltext article links from the PsycARTICLES database. | 1806-present | Partial |
| PubMed | PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. | 1950 - | Partial |
| Reaxys (Beilstein/Gmelin) | Reaxys combines the Beilstein (organic chem), Gmelin (inorganic chem), and Chemical Patents databases into one search interface. Users can search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys indexes experimental reaction data and chemical/physical properties for over 10 million compounds and 22 million reactions. Information originates from around 3800 journals and patents from various patent offices. | 1771-present | No |
| Review of Medical Physiology - 22nd Ed. (2005) | "Provides a current and concise overview of mammalian and human physiology. Thoroughly revised and updated, examples from clinical medicine have been integrated throughout the chapters to illuminate important physiologic concepts. Features more than 700 illustrations and a self-study section with 630 multiple choice questions." | Yes | |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | Science Citation Index Expanded is part of ISI's Web of Science database. It provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references in about 5,900 of the world's scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. Online coverage extends back to 1977. | 1945 - present | No |
| Science Online | More than the journal, Science, the content of this website extends into ethics, policies, sociology, pedagogy, etc. as it relates to science and how science impacts those areas. The journal, Science, and its preprint version, ScienceExpress, and Science Now, a daily news web page are all available full-text. Also accessible: Three virtual knowledge environments - Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE), Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE), and AIDS Online - each of which has an online journal, laboratory protocol section, various bioinformatics products, and more. Functional Genomics. Full access to current awareness services. Some of these resources, especially those within SAGE, are aimed at non-scientists and teachers of science. | Yes | |
| SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) | SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. | 1907 - present | Partial |
| Security & Management Practices | SMP provides access to reports covering topics like deploying network security appliances, using biometric technologies for network and physical security, managing organizational risk, planning for disruptions, securing the enterprise network and more. Access to all archived reports and a weekly digest to keep you on top of security industry-related news. | 2002 - current | Yes |
| Sport Discus | SPORT Discus is an international database which contains information on sports medicine, exercise physiology, biometrics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living. | 1975 - present | Partial |
| SPRESIweb | Choose "IP Login" to begin searching. With an emphasis on organic molecules, SPRESIweb Allows structure, chemical reaction, property, and text searching from over 1350 journals and numerous conferences and patents. SPRESIweb provides access to 7 million molecules and 3.9 million reactions from 645,000 references. SPRESIweb also has a useful Synthesis Tree Search (STS) feature that allows you to build a synthesis pathway. SPRESIweb also contains information on commercial availability and is particularly strong in non-English language journals. | 1974-2009 | No |
| Springer E-Books | Contains full-text of books/book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles published by Springer. Purdue University Libraries' subscription to e-books starts in 2005 and covers many disciplines. | 2005 - present | Yes |
| STATRef | AHFS Drug Information; Basic & Clinical Pharmacology; Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology; Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations; DSM IV TR; Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology; Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy; Mosby's GenRx; Review of Medical Physiology; USP DI Vol. 1, Drug Information for the Health Care Provider; USP DI Vol. 2, Advice for the Patient | Partial | |
| Toxicology Abstracts | Every day, in all branches of toxicology, research uncovers new risks associated with the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and by-products of our age. Toxicology Abstracts is the only comprehensive print resource for professionals in this field who must be aware of every new finding. Specifically focused to meet the needs of toxicologists, Toxicology Abstracts covers issuses from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. <p> About 200 journals are selectively indexed by Toxicology Abstracts. | 1981 - present | Partial |
| TOXLINE | TOXLINE on this service offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. | 1999 - present | Partial |
| TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) | The TRIP Database answers real clinical questions using the principles of evidence based medicine. TRIP Database Ltds involvement in clinical question answering has shown the type of material that is useful in answering genuine questions health professionals have. Registered users (registration is free) benefit from extra features such as CPD, search history, and collaborative tools. | 1997 -- current | Partial |
| USP-NF Online | "The USPNF is a three volume combination of two official compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Monographs for drug substances and preparations are featured in the USP. Monographs for dietary supplements and ingredients appear in a separate section of the USP. Excipient monographs are in the NF. A monograph includes the name of the ingredient or preparation; the definition; packaging, storage, and labeling requirements; and the specification. The specification consists of a series of tests, procedures for the tests, and acceptance criteria. These tests and procedures require the use of official USP Reference Standards. Medicinal ingredients and products will have the stipulated strength, quality, and purity if they conform to the requirements of the monograph and relevant general chapters. | Yes | |
| Veterinary Clinics of North America | Full-text access to four major veterinary review series covering small animal, equine, food animal, and exotic animal practice with latest advances and current treatment options. | 2002 to date | Yes |
| VetMed Resource | VetMed Resource is an comprehensive information resource for veterinarians, animal scientists, & students containing citations from CAB Abstracts, hard-to-find serials, full-text documents, current news, and CAB review articles, as well as information on health and production of food animals. | 1972 to date | Partial |
| Web of Knowledge | ISI Web of Knowledge provides access to Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, Web Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports. | 1900 - | No |
| Web of Science | Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977 | 1977 - present | Partial |
| Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide | Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide provides global coverage of the literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians with about 590,000 bibliographic records, many of which include abstracts. The database is composed of eight databases: (1) Wildlife Review Abstracts (1935 and earlier to present) contains about 590,000 records and covers all aspects of wildlife, including: studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, parasites and more. Sources scanned are journals, monographs, conference proceedings and symposia, websites, government reports, grey literature, books, theses, and dissertations. (2) Swiss Wildlife Information Service (SWIS, 1974 to present) SWIS has about 104,000 records and contains a main database on birds and mammals and special files on protected animals and wildlife interaction with traffic, disturbance and agriculture. (3) Wildlife Database (1960 to present) Produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reference Service, this database contains over 21,000+ records, 90% of which are drawn from unpublished research reports, field studies, and surveys from U. S. state agencies. (4) BIODOC (1970 to 1999) From the National University of Costa Rica, BIODOC has 9,000 records and emphasizes Central and South American fauna. (5) Waterfowl and Wetlands Bibliography (Duckdata, 1838-2000). Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, Duckdata contains over 13,000 citations with a focus on game birds and their habitats. (6) IUCN - The World Conservation Union (1946 to present) Contains over 4,300 citations to IUCN literature related to conservation. (7) Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa (NATCHA, 1960 to present and earlier) This database of about 14,000 records provides extensive coverage of natural history journals relating to wildlife in Africa, especially Southern Africa. (8) Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database (Afro-Tropical BIRD, 20th century to present with some coverage of the 1800s) It covers comprehensively journals, newsletters and reports on Afro-Tropical birds. Duplication of records is avoided with the generation of composite records from the contributing databases. | 1935 - present | No |
| Wilson Business Abstracts / Full Text (use OmniFile Full Text) | Wilson Business Abstracts / Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Women's Studies International | An index to over 255,800 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Popline Subset on Women, Women of Color and Southern Women, and Women's Health and Development. | 1972 - present | Partial |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Up-to-date indexing, abstracts, and full-text Internet links in political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy. Has backfiles from 1975 onward of the ceased Political Science Abstracts and the ceased ABC POL SCI. Book & film reviews; dissertation info.; abstracts of journal articles, books, & book chapters. Relevant items in 34 languages. Advanced searching includes author affiliation. Thesaurus available. | Thorough: 1975-present. Some coverage 1960-1974. A few items from even earlier years. | Partial |
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