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The use of subscription databases from the Electronic Databases & Directories Web page is limited by the license agreements between the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the database vendor and/or producer. Access is limited to staff and visitors onsite at the National Library of Medicine. The web-based database search pages are copyrighted by the database vendors. The databases are copyrighted by their producers.

• 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), U.S. 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 U.S. 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
  
  

• 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

• 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 U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis.
  http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp
  
  
  • Search for Conferences
  • Search for Funding
  • Search for Materials
  • Search for News
  • Search for Organizations

• 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: U.S. 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
  
  

• DailyMed, Food & Drug Admininstration (FDA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  Coverage: Includes FDA approved labels (package inserts) for prescription medicines.
  http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov
  
  
• Described and Captioned Media Program (Captioned Media Program)
  Coverage: Information clearinghouse about description and captioning for service to consumers, agencies, corporations and schools (free registration required).
  http://www.dcmp.org/
  
  
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Lookup, CrossRef
  http://www.crossref.org/guestquery
  
  
• Directories in Print ONSITE Access Only
  
  
• Directory of Libraries and Information Centers ONSITE Access Only
  
  
• DIRLINE: Directory of Information Resources Online, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  Coverage: Location and descriptive information about national and international health and biomedicine organizations, research resources, projects and databases.
  http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov
  
  
• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
  http://www.doaj.org/
  
  
• Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  Coverage: Site includes drug guide and 3-D medical animations.
  http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp
  
  
• Drug Error Finder Tool: Look-alike and/or Sound-alike Drugs, U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)
  http://www.usp.org/hqi/similarProducts/choosy.html
  
  

• 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
    
    

• 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, U.S. 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/
  
  

• 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, U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  http://www.fda.gov/consumer/default.htm
  
  
• FDA Post-Approval Database, U.S. 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, U.S. 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/
  
  

• 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 U.S. 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

• 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, U.S. 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
  Coverage: Includes books, journals, law, government documents and lectures.
  http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/index.htm
  
  

• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), EBSCOhost
  Coverage: Mid-1960's - Present
  http://www.libraryresearch.com
  
  
• Library Literature & Information Science ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: December 1984 - Present.
  
  
• NLM Local Legends: Celebrating America's Local Women Physicians, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/index.html
  
  
• LocatorPlus, NLM online catalog, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  Coverage: 11th Century AD - Present.
  http://locatorplus.gov
  See Also: NLM Catalog, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=nlmcatalog

• 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: U.S. 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
  
  

• The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
  http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
  
  
• The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), Georgetown University
  Coverage: Includes books, journals, law, government documents and lectures.
  Part of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/index.htm)
  http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nrc/
  
  
• National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) Knowledgebase. - Browse or Search
  Coverage: 1950's - Present
  http://www.naric.com/research/kb/default.cfm
  
  • NARIC Knowledgebase - Browse or Search
    http://www.naric.com/research/kb/default.cfm
  • REHABDATA Literature Database - Browse by Thesaurus term
    http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/thesaurus.cfm
  • REHABDATA Literature Database - Advanced Search
    http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/advanced.cfm

• 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 U.S. 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
  
  

• 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?
  
  

• 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: U.S. 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)
  Coverage: World's largest database on reproductive health. Maintained by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development(USAID).
  http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html
  
  
• 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

• 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
  
  

• REHABDATA Literature Database, The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
  Coverage: More than 65,000 resources from 1957 - Present.
  http://www.naric.com/research/rehab
  
  • REHABDATA Literature Database - Browse by Thesaurus term
    http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/thesaurus.cfm
  • REHABDATA Literature Database - Advanced Search
    http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/advanced.cfm
    
    
• 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").
  
  

• 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 U.S. 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

• SPORT Discus ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: 1830 - Present
  
  
• State Health Facts, Kaiser Family Foundation
  Coverage: Health Information - by state.
  http://www.statehealthfacts.org/index.jsp
  
  
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  Coverage: Annual summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States.
  http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
  
  
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Abridged Edition
  Coverage: Selected terms
  http://www.stedmans.com
  
  
• Substance Abuse Information Database (SAID), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
  Coverage: Information about and access to resources to learn about workplace substance abuse issues and develop drug-free workplace programs
  http://said.dol.gov/Default.asp
  
  

• 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
  
  
• Toxicology Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
  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/
  
  
• Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  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 U.S. 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
  
  
• TRI Explorer: Chemical Report (Toxics Release Inventory) - See EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Explorer: Chemical Report
  
  

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: Detailed listing of all periodicals published in the U.S. and worldwide.
  http://www.ulrichsweb.com/UlrichsWeb/
  
  
• USA.gov
  Coverage: Everything about the U.S. Government, including links to online services.
  http://www.usa.gov
  
  

• Violence and Abuse Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: 1995 - Present
  
  
• Virology and AIDS Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: 1982 - Present (under "Biological Sciences").
  
  

• Water Resources Abstracts ONSITE Access Only
  Coverage: 1967 - Present
  
  
• WHOSIS: WHO Statistical Information System, World Health Organization
  Coverage: Current statistics for 193 WHO member nations.
  http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
  
  
• Web of Knowledge/Web of Science, Thomson Gale ONSITE Access Only
  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
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1975 - Present
  • 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 U.S. and worldwide.
  http://worldcat.org
  
  

Last updated: 07 January 2009
First published: 12 April 1999