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Annotated Alphabetic List of Databases

 

For further assistance using these databases or to request a search of a database not listed here, contact the Reference Department at 718.430.3104 or e-mail askref@aecom.yu.edu. Database guides and classes are available.

 

AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine is an online resource that provides complete references and services for students, physicians and health professionals who need immediate access to current and authoritative medical information. Includes titles such as: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (CMDT) 2007, Hurst's The Heart, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, and the Lange Educational Library. Return to database list.
ASH Image Bank
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference and teaching tool that is widely accessible to physicians and hematology students around the world. The images are presented in a digital, case-based format that allows both the images and text to be searched, cross-referenced, and hyper-linked to other cases, as well as to other educational resources. In addition to the case studies, the Image Bank includes a collection of basic atlas images. Return to database list.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the BRFSS is a state-based system of health surveys that collects and provides a wealth of information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury. Return to database list.
Biological and Chemical Weapons Control
From the Federation of American Scientists, an organized list of education and research documents about biosecurity and chemical weapons. Return to database list.
Biomolecular Object Network Database (BOND)
Books@Ovid offers the complete text from popular medical reference books in an interlinked and easily navigated graphical interface. For a list of textbooks currently available, click on the Books@Ovid link on the database selection page on the Ovid Web system. Return to database list.
Bioverse
Books@Ovid offers the complete text from popular medical reference books in an interlinked and easily navigated graphical interface. For a list of textbooks currently available, click on the Books@Ovid link on the database selection page on the Ovid Web system. Return to database list.
BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA. Return to database list.
Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database
BGMUT is a locus-specific mutation database (LSDB) that documents variations in genes that directly or indirectly affect our blood groups. Return to database list.
BoardCertifiedDocs
Updated daily, BoardCertifiedDocs provides access to complete and verified professional credentials (including board certification status, medical education and work history) on 600,000 board certified physicians. This data is stored in and being extracted from the database used to compose The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists, which is published by Elsevier Science, in cooperation with American Board of Medical Specialties. Return to database list.
Books in Print
BooksInPrint.com Professional contains information on in print, out of print, and forthcoming books. Return to database list.
Books@Ovid
Books@Ovid offers the complete text from popular medical reference books in an interlinked and easily navigated graphical interface. For a list of textbooks currently available, click on the Books@Ovid link on the database selection page on the Ovid Web system. Return to database list.
BRENDA Enzyme Database

BRENDA, from the Institute of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, is the largest publicly available information system worldwide on enzymes and includes information on all identified enzymes irrespective of their source. The major parts of its contents are manually extracted from primary literature. Return to database list.

BRIDGEP

BRIDGEP contains three web-based applications, GenDB, EMMA and ProDB, which facilitate the processing and analysis of bacterial genome, transcriptome and proteome data. Return to database list.

CDC Wonder
CDC Wonder provides access to statistical research data published by CDC and allows searching of data sets concerning topics including mortality, cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, and natality. Return to database list.
Chemical Abstracts
See SciFinder Scholar. Return to database list.
Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence is produced by the BMJ Publishing Group. It provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on searches and appraisal of the literature. Return to database list.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology is designed to provide timely, concise drug information and clinical reports for medical professionals and health care consumers. Return to database list.
Clinical Trials.gov
Clinical Trials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Return to database list.
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library provides the full text of regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of these effects. It consists of complete reviews and protocols for reviews currently being prepared. Return to database list.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Containing over 500 protocols, coverage includes cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. The database is fully searchable by keyword and subject, and includes features such as discussion forums and personal folders. Return to database list.
Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is produced by the Institute for Scientific Information. It provides Web access to Current Contents, a current awareness database indexing 8,000 journals, 2,200 books and conference proceedings, and 4,400 evaluated scholarly web sites, updated daily. It has seven discipline-specific editions, and 2 collections. For further information, consult the Current Contents Connect Information Guide. Return to database list.
Current Index to Statistics
Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 111 core journals that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources. It is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Return to database list.
dbGaP
The database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP) contains the results of studies involving the interaction of genotype and phenotype. Such studies include genome-wide association studies, medical sequencing, molecular diagnostic assays, as well as association between genotype and non-clinical traits. Return to database list.
Dietary Supplements Labels Database
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. Return to database list.
EBSCOhost MasterFILE Select
EBSCOhost MasterFILE Select provides full-text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals. Updated daily. Return to database list.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica permits users to search Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Brttannica Concise Encyclopedia, multimedia items, and videos. Britannica has over 73,000 articles. Return to database list.
EndNoteWeb
EndNoteWeb is a Web-based bibliographic management program. Return to database list.
Entrez
Entrez is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and Medline through PubMed. Return to database list.
Entrez Protein

Entrez Protein allows users to retrieve records compiled from a variety of sources, including SwissProt, PIR, PRF, PDB, and translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank and RefSeq. Return to database list.

ERIC
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement National Library of Education (NLE), designed to provide easy access to an extensive body of education-related literature. The ERIC database contains nearly 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Return to database list.
Ethnic News Watch
Ethnic News Watch (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Dating from 1990, ENW has a full-text collection of nearly 1.6 million articles from more than 280 publications offering both national and regional coverage. ENW covers the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European communities. Return to database list.
ETOH
ETOH Database from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is the most comprehensive online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. ETOH is updated monthly and contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: ACP Journal Club
EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews): Best Evidence is the American College of Physicians' Journal Club's database which provides access to full-text issues of ACP Journal Club and ACP's newest publication, Evidence Based Medicine. The editors of these publications review over 90 journals in internal medicine and other specialties and only choose those articles that meet strict criteria for study design. For more information, consult the Evidence-based Medicine Searching Guide and Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews): Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliographic database of over 300,000 references to controlled trials in health care. The trials are identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and from searches of the Medline and EMBASE databases. For more information, consult the Evidence-based Medicine Searching Guide and Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (DSR)
EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews): DSR provides the full text of regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of these effects. It consists of complete reviews and protocols for reviews currently being prepared. For more information, consult the Evidence-based Medicine Searching Guide and Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Cochrane Methodology Register
The Cochrane Methodology Register contains over 9,000 bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care. The database includes journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, conference abstracts and reports of ongoing methodological research. Relevant records are identified primarily through a program of handsearching undertaken by the UK Cochrane Centre. The register aims to include all published reports of empirical methodological studies that could be relevant for inclusion in a Cochrane methodology review, along with comparative and descriptive studies relevant to the conduct of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews): DARE contains the full-text of structured critical assessments of previously published systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. It is produced by the staff of the National Health Service Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England. DARE records cover such topics as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. For more information, consult the Evidence-based Medicine Searching Guide and Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Health Technology Assessment
Produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), the Health Technology Assessment database brings together details on ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions). HTA is produced in collaboration with the INAHTA Secretariat, based at SBU, Sweden. The database contains records of ongoing projects being conducted by members of INAHTA as well as publications reporting completed technology assessments carried out by INAHTA members and other health technology assessment organisations. The abstracts in the database are descriptive rather than analytical and do not provide critical appraisals of the reports, as the reports have not been evaluated by reviewers from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: NHS Economic Evaluation Database
The National Health Service (NHS) Economic Evaluation Database is funded by the Department of Health's NHS Research and Development Programme, and produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), and provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare interventions. The economic evaluation literature is recorded in many electronic databases and paper-based resources. For NHS EED, the staff at CRD systematically identifies economic evaluations by searching a range of electronic databases, journals, and paper-based resources. The NHS Economic Evaluation Database contains over 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. Return to database list.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: Combination Search
Evidence Based Medicine Combination Search: searches ACP Journal Club, Cochrane, DSR and DARE simultaneously. For more information, consult the Evidence-based Medicine Searching Guide and Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine. Return to database list.
Exam Master Online
Exam Master Online is a USMLE and board review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions. Users create a user ID/password to use on the site. Return to database list.
ExPASy Proteomics Server
The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE. Return to database list.
Faculty of 1000 Biology & Medicine
Faculty of 1000 Biology and Medicine are authoritative online services in which almost 5,000 leading researchers and clinicians share their expert opinions by highlighting and evaluating the most important articles in biology and medicine. Return to database list.
Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Directory Online Professional is a database of over 92,000 grantmakers and 1.3 million grants. Funder portfolios include a grantmaker's current and archived news, requests for proposals, job postings, key staff affiliations, publications, printable color charts illustrating grant distributions, and customized searching within a funder's grants list. Return to database list.
GELBANK
GELBANK provides an interactive interface for the comparison of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) patterns in the context of proteome sequence queries. Return to database list.
Global Health
Global Health is a bibliographic database of international research information on public health. Information comes from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents and other sources.Return to database list.
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database, produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS), provides access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. For more information, consult Sources for Psychological Tests and Measures. Return to database list.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health & Wellness Resource Center is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information. 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. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Return to database list.
Health Reference Center Academic
Database designed especially for lay health research. Indexes selected medical and consumer periodicals, health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets. Includes some full-text. Return to database list.
HerbMed
Evidence-based database on the use of thirty herbs for health. Return to database list.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Updated in 2006, this source contains a variety of quantitative historical facts about the United States. Users can create their own tables, or else download pre-existing tables in Microsoft Excel or Access formats. Broad topics covered include population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations. Return to database list.
Household Products Database
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Household Products Database provides information on ingredients, potential health effects, and safety and handling of many types of household products. Return to database list.
HRSA Data Warehouse
From the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Data Warehouse provides a single point of access to HRSA programmatic information, related health resources, and demographic data related to uninsured, underserved, and special needs populations. Return to database list.
HRSA State Profiles
From the Health Resources and Services Administration, this site compiles data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides are included. Return to database list.
Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy is an interactive cadaveric dissection tutorial. Designed to be used as a comprehensive supplement to the gross lab, this program takes the student step-by-step through dissection procedures using the world's largest collection of cadaveric photographs, hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations, and photos from models and skeletons. Return to database list.
IBIDS: International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
Free database of citations only to published, international scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. Produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Return to database list.
In the First Person
In the First Person indexes over 2,500 first-person narratives—including letters, diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories. The database is updated quarterly. Return to database list.
InBase, The Intein Database and Registry

InBase provides detailed information about inteins (self-catalytic protein splicing elements) in a layered format with general discussions and tables pointing to more specific data. Return to database list.

Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office
The online Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, printed from 1880-1961 in five (5) series consisting of sixty-one (61) volumes. The Index-Catalogue was initiated by John Shaw Billings, the principal indexer for Series I. Billings expanded the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office into a major medical and scientific collection and created Index Medicus (1879-2004) as well as the Index-Catalogue -- each a cornerstone for the foundation of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Subject Headings are not MeSH. There are Index-Catalogue headings that may differ both in format and content among series. Return to database list.
InfoShare
Infoshare contains population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, and local economic data. It allows the user to profile a specific area, compare the area across a region, and produce tabulations. Return to database list.
IPI (International Protein Index)

IPI offers complete, non-redundant protein sets for the human, mouse and rat. Each entry represents a cluster of entries from the source databases believed to represent the same protein. Return to database list.

Interactive Fly
The Interactive Fly is an extensive web-based guide to Drosophila development and metazoan evolution. Return to database list.
Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factors)
Journal Citation Reports let users evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers. They show the most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. JCR include virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Updated annually. Return to database list.
JVirGel

JVirGel is a collection of tools for the simulation and analysis of proteomics data. The software creates and visualizes virtual two-dimensional (2D) protein gels.Return to database list.

Kaiser Family Foundation Charts and Data

Chartpacks, chartbooks, and slide presentations from the Kaiser Family Foundation on issues such as the uninsured, health care costs, global HIV/AIDS, racial disparities, and women’s health policy may be incorporated into reports and presentations. Return to database list.

Lexi-Comp Online
Lexi-Comp Online is a drug information resource made up of the following databases: Lex-Drugs, AHFS Drug Information Essentials, AHFS Drug Information, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs, Lexi-Drugs International, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-Infectious Diseases, Lexi-Lab & Diagnostic Products, Lexi-Pharmacogenomics, Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Clinician's Guide to Internal Medicine, Clinician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine, Lexi-NBCA (Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Agent Exposure). Return to database list.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis® Academic provides access to full-text news, business and legal publications, including over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources, backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national & regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news & non-English language sources. The Company Dossier module contains company information & financial performance measures. Return to database list.
LILACS
LILACS, published by the VHL (Virtual Health Library) network, covers health sciences literature published in Latin America and the Caribbean countries since 1982. It contains more than 400,000 records and includes articles from about 1,300 of the most well-known journals in the health area, from which about 730 ones are indexed. Return to database list.
Linscott's Directory of Immunological and Biological Reagents
Directory containing over 100,000 different listings for products (including antibodies, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins, lectins, neuropeptides or immunoassays) and services available from more than 500 different commercial and governmental sources. International in scope. Return to database list.
Medicine and Molecular Biology Databases
900 freely available databases on medicine and molecular biology, searchable in English and German. Return to database list.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers the international literature on biomedicine, including allied health and biological and physical sciences, from over 4,000 journals. Return to database list.
MEDLINEPlus
MEDLINEPlus provides up-to-date quality health care information from the National Library of Medicine offering access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. Return to database list.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 16. Return to database list.
NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection
A huge international collection of databases from the journal Nucleic Acid Research, grouped according to topic and updated annually. Return to database list.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute web site provides recent and accurate information on cancer research including treatment options, clinical trials, ways to reduce cancer risk, cope with cancer, as well as resources on support groups, financial assistance, educational materials, and more. Includes access to the Cancerlit bibliographic database of journal articles, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses, published from the 1960's to the present. Return to database list.
National Newspaper Index
Indexes five top newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Return to database list.
NCBI Bookshelf
NCBI Bookshelf is a collection of 40 biomedical textbooks, which are searchable and available in full-text. Return to database list.
Newspapers Full-Text
Full-text of more than 120 national and international newspapers. Return to database list.
New York State Newspapers
Full-text of more than 10 newspapers from different regions of New York State. Return to database list.
NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database
The NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database provides access to the energies of many photoelectron and Auger-electron spectral lines. Return to database list.
NLM Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. Return to database list.
OMIM
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders developed for the WWW by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which contains textual information, pictures, and reference information. Return to database list.
OPD

OPD (Open Proteomics Database) is a public repository for storing and disseminating mass spectrometry based proteomics data. It currently contains roughly 3,000,000 spectra representing experiments from 5 different organisms.

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OMSSA

OMSSA (Open Mass Spectrometry Search Algorithm) is a search engine for identifying MS/MS peptide spectra by searching libraries of known protein sequences. Return to database list.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) English E-Book Collection

Sixteen PAHO e-books on Latin American public health, including Health Statistics from the Americas. Return to database list.

PEP

PEP (Predictions for Entire Proteomes) allows users to predict entire proteomes based on available genomes. The database contains summaries of analyses of protein sequences from eukaryotes, prokaryotes and archaea. Return to database list.

PepSeeker

PepSeeker makes available peptide identification and ion information from proteome experiments. The database currently contains more than 185,000 peptides and associated database search information. Return to database list.

PeptideAtlas

Peptide Atlas is a multi-organism, publicly accessible compendium of peptides identified in a large set of tandem mass spectrometry proteomics experiments. Return to database list.

PIR

PIR (Protein Information Resource) provides databases and protein sequence analysis tools, including the Protein Sequence Database. PIR’s current activities include: UniProt (Universal Protein Resource) development, iProClass protein data integration and ID mapping, PIRSF protein classification and iProLINK protein literature mining and ontology development. Return to database list.

PreMEDLINE
PREMEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine. It provides basic citation information and abstracts before journal records are fully indexed and put into MEDLINE. Once the complete records are entered into MEDLINE, they are deleted from PREMEDLINE. Return to database list.
PRIDE

PRIDE, the open source PRoteomics IDEntifications database, offers a web-based query interface, a user-friendly data upload facility, and a documented application programming interface for direct computational access.to protein data. Return to database list.

Project MUSE®
Project MUSE provides full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Return to database list.
Proteome
The Proteome suite provides access to six protein databases: YPD, HumanPSD, WormPD, GPCR-PD, PombePD, and MycopathPD. The databases feature disease information, references, Bioknowledge transfer and integrated resources. One-time site registration required. Return to database list.
Proteome Analyst

Proteome Analyst is a web-based system for predicting various properties of each protein in an entire proteome.  

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PsycBooks
PsycBooks contains full text of scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA) in Portable Document Format (PDF). Return to database list.
PsychiatryOnline
PsychiatryOnline provides access to a variety of psychiatry resources from American Psychiatric Publishing. Included are the DSM-IV-TR, The American Journal of Psychiatry, as well as other journals and textbooks. Return to database list.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and summaries of journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Return to database list.
PubChem
Developed by NCBI and NLM, PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. When possible, PubChem's chemical structure records are linked to other NCBI databases. These include PubMed and NCBI's protein 3D structure database. PubChem also contains the results of high-throughput biological screening experiments. Return to database list.
PubMed
PubMed was developed by NCBI and NLM in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. Bibliographic information is drawn primarily from MEDLINE, PreMedline, HealthSTAR, and publisher-supplied citations, and links are provided to the integrated molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez system. Return to database list.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a web-based NIH repository for free access to full-text peer-reviewed primary research reports from journals in the life sciences, as well as to reports that have been screened but not peer-reviewed. Return to database list.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic management program. Return to database list.
ScanSite

ScanSite searches for motifs within proteins that are likely to be phosphorylated by specific protein kinases or bind to domains such as SH2 domains, 14-3-3 domains or PDZ domains. Return to database list.

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
SciFinder Scholar is an index to chemical literature. Citations are from the CAplus database, containing over 25 million documents, and MEDLINE, with over 15 million biomedical citations. Access is also provided to CAS Registry, containing more than 31 million organic and inorganic substances and 59 million sequences. SciFinder Scholar requires a proprietary software client, which is available for Windows and Macs. Accessible from on campus only. Return to database list.
SPIN
SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) is a database produced by Infoed International, Inc. and contains comprehensive profiles of thousands of national and international funding opportunities from government and private sources. For further information, consult the Grants Database Guide: SPIN. Return to database list.
Springer Protocols

Springer Protocols contains more than 18,000 "recipes" used to recreate laboratory experiments. It is based on Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine. Return to database list.

STATREF
STATREF is a searchable collection of the full-text of over 40 current medical books. Return to database list.
SynDB

SynDB (Synapse Database) is an online resource of proteins known or predicted to be related to the synapse or synaptic activity. Return to database list.

TOXNET
TOXNET is produced by NLM through its Specialized Information Services Division and provides a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It offers access to factual information, toxicology literature, toxic release information, and chemical information. Return to database list.
uCentral
Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence for PDAs, smart phones, Blackberries, and iPhones. Return to database list.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Ulrich's provides detailed information on more than 290,000 periodicals of all types from around the world. Titles from more than 900 subject areas are included. Return to database list.
Web of Science
Web of Science includes access to Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). SCI fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. SSCI fully indexes 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. Coverage goes back to 1996. A citation index contains the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by the index, which enables a user to do cited reference searching. Return to database list.
Who's Who on the Web
Who's Who on the Web contains profiles of over 1 million accomplished individuals from various industries, including government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Searches can be conducted by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion, and more. New biographies are added daily. Return to database list.
WormAtlas
WormAtlas is a database and atlas of the behavioral and structural anatomy of the Caenorhabditis elegans, put out by researchers in the AECOM Neuroscience Department. Return to database list.

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