These databases were selected as potentially useful sources for SMS students.
They are only a fraction of the useful journal literature databases available to the public.
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| Alt Health Watch |
Access to over 100 peer-reviewed journals, academic and
professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers,
and research reports offering in-depth coverage of more than two hundred
therapies, modalities and perspectives addressed by integrated medicine.
Includes articles, interviews, book and media reviews, veterinary therapies,
government and business issues. Contains more than 44,000 complete articles
and more than 7,500 images going back over seven years.
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Accessible anywhere with a King County Library card.
http://www.kcls.org/erout/hlth-0.cfm
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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AMED (Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Bibliographic coverage of complementary medicine including acupuncture, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, chiropractic, Chinese medicine, and yoga..
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Available onsite at the University of Washington. Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Anthropological Literature
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Research Libraries Group index of articles and essays on
anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics,
psychology, and religious studies. 19th century to the present. Includes more
than 426,000 records."
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Available for public use at the University of Washington. Find at http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/databases/
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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CHID
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Provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources produced by health-related agencies of the federal government.
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Available free online at http://chid.nih.gov/
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CISCOM (Centralised Information Service for Complementary Medicine)
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The Royal Council for Complementary Medicine decribes its database of nearly 70,000 research references in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as "probably the most comprehensive of its type in the world. Information is drawn from many sources including hand searches that have already produced more than 3000 additional references."
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Available to the public for what the publisher describes as a "small fee to cover searching costs". See page for details: http://www.rccm.org.uk/ .
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing &
Allied Health Literature)
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English and foreign-language journals covering nursing and
other specialized health care areas, including seventeen allied health
disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences. In addition to journal literature,
provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals,
dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of
professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research
instruments.
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Check availability at local public, medical, and academic libraries. |
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ClinicalTrials.gov
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Access to information on clinical trials sponsored primarily by the National Institutes of Health. During the coming year, additional studies from other Federal agencies and the pharmaceutical industry will be included
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Free online public access. http://clinicaltrials.gov/
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Cochrane Library
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Includes several databases. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) contains
full-text, regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare
prepared by the non-profit Cochrane Collaboration.
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
complements the CDSR by offering a
selection of quality assessed reviews in those subjects where there is
currently no Cochrane review.
The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register lists references to controlled trials in health
care which have been judged to meet the necessary quality criteria. The
records have primarily been identified through hand-searching of journals
within the Cochrane Collaboration.
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Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
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Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, governmental and international agencies, and fact sheets. Over 1,500 sources. 1992 to present.
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Available on-site at University of Washington and other academic libraries. SMS Librarian can search through our subscription to FirstSearch.
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Current Issues Sourcefile
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Congressional Information Service’s Database comprising the full text of thousands of reports and report excerpts, papers, speeches, statements, congressional testimony, background studies, and articles on current policy issues. Sources include public interest and advocacy groups, professional and trade associations, research and think tanks, and government agencies and offices. Also contains specific research questions as a topical guide for research papers, speeches, and current issues discussions. Updated quarterly.
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Available on-site at University of Washington and other academic libraries.
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DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center)
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Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center - Current and older literature on developmental and reproductive toxicology. .
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Publically available on the Internet free of charge. http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?DARTETIC.htm
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Dissertation Abstracts
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Comprehensive database of Masters theses and Doctoral
dissertations.
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Check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
Also available for public use at the UW.
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EMBASE
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Elsevier's comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical
database. Indexing of drug
information from 3,600 journals published in 70 countries. Updated monthly.
Fully-indexed citations and complete author abstracts appear on average
twenty days after receipt of the journal -- most appear earlier. Over three
million records from 1980 to the present, with 375,000 new records added
annually. More than 65% of the records contain abstracts.
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Available for public use at the University of Washington. Also check libraries near you.
Check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Ehraf Ethnography (Human Relations Areas Files)
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Ehraf (Electronic Human Relations Area Files) Ethnography
provides primarily descriptive information on the cultures of the world; a collection of ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and subject.
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Available at UW and other academic libraries.
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ERIC
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Bibliographic coverage of education-related journals, reports, proceedings, and curriculum materials.
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Available onsite at the University of Washington. Also check access at local libraries.
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Ethnomed
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Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and
other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to
Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
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Available without charge to the public:
http://ethnomed.org
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Expanded Academic Index
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Indexes 1,900 academic journals; 900 titles are full-text.
Some of the areas covered include astronomy, religion, law, history,
psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the
general sciences. Coverage extends as far back to 1980 for some titles.
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Accessible anywhere with a King County Library card.
http://www.kcls.org/erout/erout.cfm#E
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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First Nations Periodical Index
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Citations to articles in approximately 20 journals. Most of these have primarily Canadian Native content. The First Nations Periodical Index is a joint project of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Saskatoon Campus, the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre and the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples committee.
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http://www.twu.ca/library/firstnations.htm
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General Reference Center
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Articles from 415 magazines, journals and reference books.
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Accessible anywhere with a King County Library card.
http://www.kcls.org/erout/erout.cfm#G
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
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A multidisciplinary bibliography of works selected and annotated by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Alternates annually between social sciences and humanities. Over 5,000 works are referenced in each edition.
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/mdbquery.html .
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Health & WELLNESS Resource Center
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Provides access to 165 health magazines and newsletters
(110 are full-text), plus full-text access to medical journals, pamphlets,
reference books, newspaper articles, and topical overviews.
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Accessible anywhere with a King County Library card.
http://www.kcls.org/erout/erout.cfm#H
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Historical Abstracts
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Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Citations from 1969 to the present.
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Available on-site at the University of Washington and other academic libraries. |
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IBIDS -- International Bibliographic
Information on Dietary Supplements
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Published, international, scientific literature on dietary
supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is produced
by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of
Health.
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Available without charge to the public:
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx
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Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings
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Institute for Scientific Information’s index of citations to published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions worldwide; includes a wide range of disciplines in science and technology, including medicine. Covers only publications in which proceedings are published for the first time and only those which contain complete papers, not just abstracts.
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Available on-site at the University of Washington and other academic libraries.
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International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
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American Society of Hospital Pharmacists’ worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature including drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.
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Available on-site at the University of Washington and other academic libraries.
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MICROMEDEX
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Extensive clinical information on toxicology, drugs, drug interactions, and reproductive risks. Draws on journal literature as well as textbooks, encyclopedias, and other reference works.
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Available at the University of Washington and other research and biomedical libraries. |
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MIDIRS ENQUIRY SERVICE
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For a relatively small fee, you can search MIDIRS database of articles from 550 journals and other sources.
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http://www.midirs.org/midirs/midweb1.nsf/cphvservices?openform |
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National Guidelines Clearinghouse
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Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related
abstract, summary, and comparison materials from hundreds of American medical
organizations and agencies. Allows
comparison of selected guidelines according to criteria such as developers, funding
sources, review methods, and methods to analyze evidence. Provides links to full text, when
available.
Does not include all guidelines of all agencies.
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Available without charge to the public:
http://www.guideline.gov
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PapersFirst
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An index from 1993 to the present of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Over 2,380,000 records. Updated 24 times per year.
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POPLINE
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John Hopkins University's bibliographic coverage of journal articles, monographs and published and unpublished reports on population, family planning, and related health issues..
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Available free online at:
http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html.
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PsychInfo
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The American Psychological Association’s database, with
over 1.5 million records, covers the academic, research and practice
literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30
languages. Includes relevant
materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education,
social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
Indexes over 1,300 journals, as well as dissertations, book chapters, books,
technical reports, and other documents from 1887 to the present.
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Available for public use at the University of
Washington. Also check libraries near
you.
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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PubMed
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Access to bibliographic literature in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
and the preclinical sciences. Records
are drawn from Medline and publisher supplied citations. Indexes more than 4,800 journals published
in the United States and 70 other countries dating back to the mid-1960's.
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Available without charge to the public.
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
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Science Citations
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Institute for Scientific Information's bibliographic
coverage and searchable cited references from over 5,000 journals across 164
scientific disciplines.
This database allows you to work forward in time to
identify articles that reference an article of interest.
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Available for public use at the University of
Washington. Also check libraries near
you.
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Scirus
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Elsevier Science's search engine for locating scientific information on the web. It focuses on scientific content, indexes complete documents, searches the whole web including access-controlled sites, and reads non-text files such as PDF.
Covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect.
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Available online at http://www.scirus.com
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Social Science Citations
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Institute for Scientific Information's bibliographic
coverage and searchable cited references from over 1,700 journals in social,
behavioral and related sciences.
This database allows you to work forward in time to
identify articles that reference an article of interest.
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Available for public use at the University of
Washington. Also check libraries near
you.
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Social Science Research Network
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"Provided by Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), this site allows users to freely access thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers. The core of the site is the SSRN Electronic Library, which contains an Abstract Database with over 15,600 entries and an Electronic Paper Collection, which currently contains over 4,200 full-text papers. Users can search title, abstract, and author fields, or browse the journals, which are grouped under the five respective Research Networks that form the SSRN: Accounting, Economics, Latin American, Financial, and Legal Scholarship." The Scout Report November 29, 1999 Volume 6, Number 27.
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http://www.ssrn.com
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Social Work Abstracts
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Bibliographic coverage of journal articles and
dissertations in the social work and social welfare fields.
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Available for public use at the University of
Washington. Also check libraries near
you.
Check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Sociological Abstracts
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Cambridge
Scientific Abstract's coverage of the literature of theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy
science. Includes journal citations
and abstracts from over 2,000 journals as well as book, chapter, and
association paper abstracts. 1963-
present.
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Available for public use at the University of
Washington. Also check libraries near
you.
Also check availability at local public, biomedical, and academic libraries.
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Toxline
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National Library of Medicine's coverage of the literature
of toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of
drugs and other chemicals. Indexing
and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses,
letters, and meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Approximately 9,300 new citations added each month. Over
2.7 million records.
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Available without charge to the public.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE.
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T.R.I.P. database
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A meta search engine that allows simultaneous searching of 60 high quality Internet sources of medical literature (e.g., Cochrane, BMJ, JAMA, NEJM, Bandolier, etc.)
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Available online at http://www.tripdatabase.com
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