Primary Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Topics covered include: cardiopulmonary techn...   [more]
Holdings: 1982 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    mobile access to CINAHL
    CINAHL systematic review-focused interface
    CINAHL quick search interface
    advanced search
    

MEDLINE (complete file)
The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as ot...   [more]
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MEDLINE (latest years)
The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as othe...   [more]

MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations
Also Known as: Pre-Medline
Represents the National Library of Medicine's in-process database for MEDLINE. It provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. This d...   [more]

PubMed Plus (Penn Only)
Also Known as: PubMed Medline Pub Med
- from PubMed Central
PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to....   [more]
Holdings: 1950 to the present. Updated daily.
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    PubMed Help
    PubMed Tutorial
    
    new Pubmed effective Spring 2020
    PubMed Plus for Handhelds

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Primary Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

Cochrane Library
Also Known as: The Cochrane Library
- from Wiley Online Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. ...   [more]

DynaMed Plus
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EMBASE
EMBASE provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines. The database covers over 2,000 biomedical titles not...   [more]
Holdings: Embase, the Excerpta Medica database from Elsevier, 1974 to present. Embase Classic (Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals backfile), 1947-1973. Medline, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine inclu
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Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

National Guideline Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. ...   [more]
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NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for a...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    NCBI Training and Tutorials Information

PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

Scopus
Indexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Scopus also includes a number of trade publications and conference pap...   [more]
Holdings: 1823-present, although most records are from 1996 or later.
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    Mobile Site
    Scopus Tutorials
    Scopus support center
    Scopus tutorials

UpToDate
Also Known as: Up to Date , Up-to-Date
UpToDate is a practical clinical reference designed to provide instant access to the information you need. It is comprised of thousands of original topic reviews written by a recognized faculty of exp...   [more]
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Important Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

AccessMedicine Quick Answers
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African Index Medicus
Also Known as: AIM WHO AHILA
Bibliographic citations to medical and public health literature from Africa. Produced by Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1961 to present (currently, 1996)
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Supplemental URLs
    Journals indexed by African Index Medicus

Ageline
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AGRICOLA
The topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, ent...   [more]
Holdings: 1979 to present. Updates monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes

AGRIS
Also Known as: International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
The Food and Agriculture Organization's bibliographic database for worldwide research publications in agriculture in all its aspects, including geography, history, education, legislation, and agricult...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.
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Supplemental URLs
    Agrovoc subject thesaurus
    AGRIS subject category codes

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) Database
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) database covers a selection of journals in complementary ("alternative") medicine (CAM), palliative care, and several other allied professions. AMED incl...   [more]
Holdings: 1985-

Annotated bibliography of selected research on civil society and health
Describes literature on civil society / state interactions in national health systems, civil society contributions to pro-poor, health equity policies, and civil society influence on global health pol...   [more]
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BCC Research
Includes comprehensive market research reports in the following categories: advanced materials, advanced transportation technologies, biotechnology, chemicals, energy and resources, engineering, food ...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary, but reports are generally available from 2000 to present.

Best Bets for Vets
A simple, unbiased review of current best evidence on a very specific clinical topic. They are designed to be a quick and achievable method of incorporating evidence into clinical practice....   [more]
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BestBets - Best Evidence Topics
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BIOSIS Previews (1993-2012)
The world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biolo...   [more]
Holdings: 1993-

BLAST
The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statist...   [more]
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BRENDA
BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community. BRENDA is maintained and developed at the institute of Biochemistry at the University of Cologne. Data o...   [more]
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CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    CABICODES List
    CAB Thesaurus

CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-present.
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    CAB Thesaurus

CAM Citation Index -- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Cancer Mondial (World Cancer Statistics)
This website provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...   [more]
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CDC Wonder - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Database of reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data by mortality, natality, disease and demographic groups. Access is free and registration is optional....   [more]
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Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
Searchable databases of medical devices and radiation-emitting products including those previously approved for public use or declared substantially equivalent to a legally marketed device as well as ...   [more]
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ChEBI Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
A freely available dictionary of small molecular entities. The term molecular entity encompasses any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, com...   [more]
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Clinical Evidence (uCentral)
Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, and e-book content (Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide)....   [more]

ClinicalKey
Also Known as: Clinical Key
A clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions. Searches clinically related material produced by Elseiver. ...   [more]
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Also Known as: CENTRAL
- from Wiley Online Library
CCTR is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials. These controlled trials have been identified by the distinguished contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. They and others, as part...   [more]
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    previous Wiley link
    Previous Provider Ovid

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (evidence-based medicine)
Also Known as: CDSR OVID
- from Wiley Online Library
Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: 1) Complete reviews -...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to the present. Updated quarterly.
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    Previous Provider Ovid

Cochrane Methodology Register
Also Known as: Methodology Register
- from Wiley Online Library
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CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]

Compendium of continuing education in dentistry
January 2006 to the present....   [more]
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Consultant - Vet Diagnostic Support
This diagnostic support system is used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including: 1) a general descriptio...   [more]
Holdings: Current and retrospective
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Also Known as: Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Online version of the 91st edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics containing frequently used data in science including the periodic table of elements, basic constants and units, thermody...   [more]
Holdings: 2001-

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Also Known as: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness - DARE (evidence-based medicine)
- from Wiley Online Library
A full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE is produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Ser...   [more]
Holdings: Reviews literature published from 1987 to the present.
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Database of Macromolecular Movements
This animated database portrays the movement of over 100 proteins and RNA molecules. Developed by Mark Gerstein of Yale University to collect macromolecular motions and measure structural variability...   [more]
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Databases on Medicine and Molecular Biology
An annotated directory of links to hundreds of sites complied by Josef Koenig of the Medical University of Vienna. The links are arranged under broad subjects such images, genomics, medicine, microbi...   [more]
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Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source
Also Known as: Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source
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Derwent Innovations Index
Search more than 11 million patent records from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. These include the US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, PCT (WO) applications and the Japanes...   [more]
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    Derwent Classification System
    Derwent Manual Coding and Classification Lookup
    Derwent Patent Assignee Codes Lookup
    Kind Codes (application, examined, granted, etc.)
    International Patent Classification (IPC)

Dietary Supplement Label Database
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to determine what ingredients are in spe...   [more]
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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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DrugBank
Also Known as: Drug Bank
The DrugBank database is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. ...   [more]
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Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed from the National Library of Medicine. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of dr...   [more]
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DynaMed Plus App
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EE+POEMs (uCentral / Unbound Medicine)
Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, and e-book content (Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide)....   [more]

eMedicine (free version)
Free version of eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders....   [more]
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Environment Abstracts
Also Known as: Proquest Environment Abstracts, Environmental Abstracts , lexisnexis environmental, lexis nexis environmental, sustainability science abstracts
Database collection for environmental studies. Environment Abstracts is the principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and policy literatures on the environment. Topi...   [more]

ENZYME Enzyme Nomenclature Database
ENZYME is a repository of information relative to the nomenclature of enzymes. It is primarily based on the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and...   [more]
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Epocrates Rx App
Free Mobile Drug Reference...   [more]
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ePSS
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EQUINET Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
Annotated bibliography published and grey literature, with hyperlinks to fulltext where available. Topics covered include: values, policies and rights; health equity in economic and trade policies; po...   [more]
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esp@cenet - European Patent Office
Also Known as: espacenet
Full text of EP, WO and other patents back to the 1970's (Also contains links to individual European country patent databases) ...   [more]
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    Esp@cenet Help
    Esp@cenet Assistant - tutorial
    European Patent Classification
    International Patent Classification (IPC) 8
    Glossary

ETOH
Also Known as: NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
Indexing with abstracts covering the current and historical research literature on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Aspects covered include: medicine, biochemistry, psychology and psychiatry, epidemiolog...   [more]
Holdings: 1960s to present.
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Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Multifile
Also Known as: EBMR Reviews
- from Wiley Online Library
In Medline a limit to Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews will restrict your retrieval to those articles or studies that have been included by the Cochrane Collaboration when creating a Topic Review or ar...   [more]
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    Previous Provider Ovid

ExPASy Molecular Biology 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 ...   [more]
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FirstGov for Science
Also Known as: science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Two major types of information are included - ...   [more]
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FlyBase
FlyBase is a comprehensive database for information on the genetics and molecular biology of Drosophila. It includes data from the Drosophila Genome Projects and data curated from the literature. FlyB...   [more]
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FREIDA (Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database) Online - AMA
Search for residencies and fellowships by specialties or subspecialties, state or region, and other characteristics such as program size....   [more]
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GenBank
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome da...   [more]
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GeneCards
GeneCards. is a database of human genes, their products and their involvement in diseases. It offers concise information about the functions of all human genes that have an approved symbol, as well as...   [more]
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GenomeNet
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Global Health
Also Known as: Global Health Archive
Global Health consists of more than 1.2 million record. Research content covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-

Global Health Workforce Alliance
Also Known as: Global Health Education Consortium
Includes a global health bibliography, annotated list of international health-related websites and organizations, and handy resources for students and researchers intending to enter the global health ...   [more]
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GOBASE The Organelle Genome Database
Mitochondrial and chloroplast genome information. GOBASE is unique in its data accuracy, classification scheme and data integration....   [more]
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HABRI Central
A joint effort of Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine and University Libraries, HABRI Central provides a database of references, a full-text repository, community-driven discussion area...   [more]
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HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Also Known as: HAPI
Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI helps identify measures needed for res...   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, including abortion, alcohol an drugs, bioterrorism and biological weapons, political campaigns, elections, leaders and health, children...   [more]
Holdings: 1935-present.
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Health Technology Assessment Database
Also Known as: HTA
- from Wiley Online Library
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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]
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HealthSTAR/OVID Healthstar
Contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The follo...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present

Highly Cited Research
This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental con...   [more]
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users

International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

HuGE Navigator
Provides access to a continuously updated knowledge base in human genome epidemiology, including information on population prevalence of genetic variants, gene-disease associations, gene-gene and gene...   [more]
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Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Also Known as: WHO IMEMR
Bibliographic citations with indexing for health literature published in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,...   [more]
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IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]
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Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
The Johns Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide is intended for use by any clinician or other health care provider who engages patients with infectious diseases....   [more]

Journals@OVID Full Text
Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediatel...   [more]

Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Also Known as: WHO LILACS, Bireme
Bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracting for the health literature published in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Me...   [more]
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Lexi-Comp Online for Dentistry
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Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database (MAUDE)
MAUDE allows you to search the Center for Devices and Radiological Health's database of information on medical devices which may have malfunctioned or caused a death or serious injury. ...   [more]
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Medical Device Safety Reports
Medical Devices Safety Reports (MDSR) provide free access to more than 200 case reports containing recommendations for prevention or remediation of medical device hazards....   [more]
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MedlinePlus
Consumer health resources...   [more]
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    Mobile Site

Mental Measurements Yearbook and Test In Print 1st to 21st Yearbooks July 2022
Also Known as: MMY
Descriptive information and reviews of English-language test instruments. Subject areas include achievement, behavior assessment, development, education, intelligence and scholastic aptitude, En...   [more]
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MEROPS The Peptidase Database
The MEROPS database is an information resource for peptidases (also termed proteases, proteinases and proteolytic enzymes) and the proteins that inhibit them. ...   [more]
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Micromedex
Thomson Reuters Micromedex indexes actionable information on drugs and medication safety, health care and disease management, patient education information, and toxicology. The information in this da...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Micromedex Mobile
    Micromedex Drug Information Application

miRNA Registry
Each entry in the miRNA Registry represents a predicted hairpin portion of a miRNA transcript (termed mir in the database), with information on the location and sequence of the mature miRNA sequence (...   [more]
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Mouse Genome Informatics
Also Known as: MGI
Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) provides integrated access to data on the genetics, genomics, and biology of the laboratory mouse....   [more]
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National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Maintained by the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, provides access to the databases ETHX and Genetics & Ethics and other resources....   [more]
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Native American Ethnobotany Database
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Native Health Databases
"The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Amer...   [more]
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NHS Economic Evaluation Database
Also Known as: NHS
- from Wiley Online Library
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NIH RePORTER
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NLM Gateway
A unique Web-based system that provides simultaneous searching of multiple databases and resource types located at the National Library of Medicine. Individual searches can yield journal citations, bo...   [more]
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Nucleic Acids Database
The Nucleic Acid Database Project (NDB) assembles and distributes structural information about nucleic acids. Search the Nucleic Acid Database, the NMR-Nucleic Acid Database, and the DNA-Binding Prot...   [more]
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OMIM
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OVID Multi-Database Searching
This OVID interface allows users to search multiple databases simultaneously. Deduping allows one to remove duplicates from the resulting search before viewing, saving, or printing the set....   [more]

PDBsum: A database of the known 3D structures of proteins and nucleic acids
Provides additional structural and functional information based on the Protein Data Bank repository....   [more]
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Peerj and Peerj Computer Science Institutional Plan
The Penn Libraries have established an institutional membership with PeerJ, and will pay the cost of a basic membership for each Penn author (identified via their use of an email address in the @upenn...   [more]
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Peerj Computer Science
Peerj Computer Science is an open access computer science journal. Penn Libraries has an institutional plan for its students and faculty. If you decide to publish with Peerj, the Penn Libraries will f...   [more]
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PhenomicDB
PhenomicDB is a multi-organism phenotype-genotype database including human, mouse, fruit fly, C.elegans, and other model organisms. The inclusion of gene indexes (NCBI Gene) and orthologues (same gen...   [more]
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Plants Database
Developed by the National Plant Data Center, this database disseminates information on vascular and non-vascular plants of the United States. Images, classification, fact sheets and distribution maps ...   [more]
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Plasmodium Genome Resource
PlasmoDB is the official database of the malaria parasite genome project. This resource provides access to finished sequence for Plasmodium falciparum (strain 3D7), generated by the Sanger Institute, ...   [more]
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Primatelit Database
Also Known as: Primate Literature
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and...   [more]
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

PTSDpubs (formerly: PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)
Describes the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Covers stressors, affected persons, effects, assessme...   [more]
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PubMed Central
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PubMed Plus Mobile
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PubMed Unrestricted
Also Known as: PubMed Medline
The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. The PubMed version of MEDLINE includes the PREMEDLINE database, which provides ver...   [more]
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    PubMed Help
    Pubmed Tutorial

Reaxys
Reaxys is one of the largest handbooks of substances, their properties, and their reactions, combining data from three sources, the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry, the Gmelin Handbook of Inor...   [more]
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ResearchGate
Professional network for researchers and scientists. ...   [more]
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Saccharomyces Genome Database
Also Known as: SGD
SGD is a scientific database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast....   [more]
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SciELO
Also Known as: Scientific Electronic Library Online
SciELO is an electronic library providing fulltext articles, most in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, from a collection of scientific journals. SciELO includes the collections: Argentina, Brazil, Chil...   [more]
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SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
Also Known as: Chemical Abstracts
Chemical information: bibliographic, compound and reaction information. Accessed via a Mac or Windows client (SciFinder Scholar) which can be downloaded to any campus workstation. The database can on...   [more]
Holdings: 1907-present. Abstracts updated daily; compound registry and indexing updated weekly
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    SciFinder Scholar Resources from the CAS Learning Center

SciVerse ScienceDirect App
ScienceDirect's application for iOS devices. Account must be set up using a Penn email address. Full text available on campus and can be downloaded for off-campus use, but live off-campus access is n...   [more]
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SciVerse Scopus Alerts App
iPhone Application...   [more]
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SMS Sequence Manipulation Suite 2
The Sequence Manipulation Suite is a collection of JavaScript programs for generating, formatting, and analyzing short DNA and protein sequences. It is commonly used by molecular biologists, for teach...   [more]
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Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
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SwissPROT
Swiss-Prot is a curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotations (such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational ...   [more]
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
Also Known as: TAIR
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) provides a comprehensive resource for the scientific community working with Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant. TAIR consists of a searchable r...   [more]

The DataWeb
The DataWeb provides access to economic, health and demographic databases from the US government and private organizations. The portal is maintained by the Census Bureau and the CDC. You will need to ...   [more]
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Toxnet
A collection of government databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas. Includes TOXLINE and [more]
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Toxoplasma Genome Resource
ToxoDB contains draft sequence for the genome of T. gondii ME49 clone B7 (a type II strain), as well as additional T. gondii data from various other sources (see Acknowledgements). Sequences are av...   [more]
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TRIP Database
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Also Known as: USPTO
Covers all US patents from 1790 onwards. Download or view high-quality images of the actual pages of the patents, including diagrams and structures from 1790 onwards. Patents from 1976 - present are a...   [more]
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uCentral / Unbound central / Unbound Medicine
Also Known as: Unbound Central
Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, e-book content (Clinical Evidence, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Johns Hopkins ABX Guide). It is a...   [more]
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    Clinical Evidence 2e
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VetSRev
A database of systematic reviews in veterinary medicine and science....   [more]
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VisualDx
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WHO ( World Health Organization ) Collaborating Centres for Traditional Medicine
List of sites worldwide that discuss traditional medicines or medicinal plants....   [more]
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WILDPro
Provides information on the natural history, health and management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. This electronic tool includes encyclopedic links to topic modules and a library of externa...   [more]
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World Animal Health Information Database
Also Known as: WAHID
OIE's World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS), reports exceptional disease events notifications and follow-up reports. Annual reports provide further information on animal health, laboratory a...   [more]
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WormBase
WormBase is the model organism database for C. elegans....   [more]
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Zebrafish Information Network
Zebrafish Information Network is the model organism database for Zebrafish. It contains articles, gene sequences, map markers and other useful information for zebrafish researchers....   [more]
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