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The OHSU Library has 97 free databases available online.
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About herbs, botanicals & other products (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Evidence-based information on herbs, botanicals, vitamins, and other supplements from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Integrative Medicine Service.
AgeLine (AARP)
Includes information on aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective; includes citations to articles, books, and government documents. Some full text articles available.
Agricola (USDA)
A bibliographic database created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators containing citations to the agricultural literature, covering materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century and including some fulltext links.
AHRQ (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality includes research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety. Evidence-based Practice, Preventive Services, and Practice Guidelines are all part of this site.
AIDSinfo (NIH)
Offers the latest federally approved information on HIV and AIDS research, clinical trials, and treatment for patients and health care providers. Includes the former ACTIS, AIDSTrials and AIDSDrugs databases.
AIDSLINE (Actis)
The contents of this database have been moved to PubMed (journal citations), LOCATORplus (monographs) and the NLM Gateway (meeting abstracts). Use the limit feature and select the AIDS subset in PubMed.
AMA-FREIDA (AMA)
Searchable database of internships and residencies.
Antibiotic Guide (Johns Hopkins University)
Produced by Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases, this database provides concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults. It is free, but requires registration.
BIOETHICSLINE (PubMed)
No longer available as a separate database. Use PubMed for journal articles, LOCATORplus for books, or the NLM Gateway for meeting abstracts.
BiologyBrowser (Thomson Scientific)
BiologyBrowser, produced by Thomson Scientific, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. It includes links to current science news stories, relevant web sites, and more.
Buros Institute of Mental Measurements (Buros)
The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements database provides a subject index, test locator and review locator for commercially published tests. Some content (including detailed reviews) is fee-based. See also Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI).
CANCERLIT (NIH)
References cancer literature published from the 1960s to present in biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.
CANCERNET (NIH)
Peer-reviewed cancer summaries (PDQ), a database of clinical trials (PDQ), cancer literature, NCI publications, links to other sites and more for patients, caregivers and researchers.
CCRIS (NLM)
Chemical Carcinogensis Research Information Systems. Carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute.
ChemIDplus (NIH)
A database of 350,000 chemical records, including 56,000 with structures.
ClinicalTrials.gov (NLM)
Current information about clinical research studies.
Commerce Business Daily (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Notices of government actions, contracts, and more.
CRISP (NIH)
A searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. The database is maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health. NIH grant recipients may want to go to the entry for ERS Commons to access restricted information.
DailyMed (National Library of Medicine)
DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts. Includes links to MedlinePlus, PubMed, and Clinical Trials.
DART/ETIC (NLM)
Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center. Literature on developmental and reproductive toxicology.
DIRLINE (NLM)
Directory of resources providing health information services.
DoD Biomedical Research Database (DoD)
Developed from biomedical research, testing or training programs being federally funded. Such funding has been provided for varied subjects such as infectious diseases, biological hazards, toxicology, medical chemical defense, medical biological defense, clinical medicine, clinical surgery, physical protection, training, graduate medical education and instruction. Updated annually.
Drug Effectiveness Review Project (OHSU)
DERP is a collaboration of public and private organizations, including thirteen states, that have joined together to provide systematic evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities.
Drug Information Portal (National Library of Medicine)
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. It offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with potential drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.
Educational Testing Service (ETS) Text Collection (Buros)
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection database contains descriptions of tests used for educational purposes.
Effective and Safe Prescription Drugs (AARP)
Prescription drug research funded by the State of Oregon and done at one of 13 designated Evidence-Based Practice Centers in the U.S. and Canada to compare the effectiveness and safety of drugs for specific conditions.
eigenFACTOR.org ()
This database from the University of Washington ranks scientific journals using Journal Citation Reports data. Information about how they rank journals is at http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm
eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base (eMedicine.com, Inc.)
Registration is required.
EPC Evidence Reports (AHRQ)
Complete reports from the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC. The EPCs develop evidence reports and technology assessments on topics relevant to clinical, social science/behavioral, economic, and other health care organization and delivery issues — specifically those that are common, expensive, and/or significant for the Medicare and Medicaid populations.
ERA Commons (NIH)
The Electronic Research Administration (ERA) Commons is a virtual meeting place where NIH extramural grantee organizations, grantees, and the public can receive and transmit information about the administration of biomedical and behavioral research. The ERA Commons is divided into unrestricted and restricted portions that provide for public and confidential information, respectively. NIH provides its grant recipients with password access to some restricted portions.
ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences)
The world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. A database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966, including more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents issued between 1993-2004.
esp@cenet (European Patent Office)
European Patent Office database, allowing searches by keyword, pubication number, priority number and applicant, among other fields.
FAFSA (Federal Student Aid Information Center)
Forms to complete online for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register)
Regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies.
GenBank (PubMed)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) fleet of databases on genes and genomics.
GENE-TOX (NCBI)
Peer reviewed mutagenicity test data from the EPA.
Genetics Home Reference (National Library of Medicine)
The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions.
Google Scholar (Google)
You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Includes citation data.
GrantsNet (HHMI)
Locate funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education. Supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the American Assocation for the Advancement of Science.
H-CUPnet (AHRQ)
Free to all, A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level.
Haz-Map (NLM)
Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases.
Health Services Research Projects in Progress (NLM)
Citations to research-in-progress funded by federal, state, private organization, and foundation grants and contracts. Provides information before results are available in published form.
Health Services/Sciences Research Resources (NLM)
A searchable database of information about some of the research datasets and instruments/indices employed in health services search and the behavioral and social sciences.
healthfinder.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services )
A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information.
Healthwise Knowledgebase (Group Health )
The Healthwise® Knowledgebase, contains comprehensive, current, evidence-based, and unbiased information to help consumers make decisions about their health. Provided through the Group Health Cooperative.
HISTLINE (PubMed)
History of medicine and related sciences. The contents of this database have been moved to PubMed (journal citations), LOCATORplus, (monographs) and the NLM Gateway.
Household Products Database (National Library of Medicine)
Information on the health effects of over 4,000 consumer brands, the ingredients in these products, and the names of the manufacturers.
HSDB (NLM)
Hazardous Substances Data Bank includes human and animal toxicity, safety and handling, environmental fate and more.
HSDB Structures (NIH)
2D structural information on the HSDB chemicals. Requires a plug-in, which is free.
Human Genome (NIH)
The National Center for Biotechonology Information page with links to a variety of sites with human genome information.
Illinois Research Information Service (IRIS) (UIUC)
Three Web-based funding and research services: the IRIS Database of federal and private funding opportunities in all disciplines; the IRIS Alert Service (automatic updates); and the IRIS Expertise Service (electronic CVs). Provided by the OHSU Foundation Office.
IndexCat (NLM)
IndexCat, the online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961), is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports, and journal articles published from the 17th-20th century and held by NLM. Researchers will find material in IndexCat that is not in the National Library of Medicine's catalog (LocatorPlus).
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) (NLM)
Integrated Risk Information System. Data from the EPA in support of human health risk assessment, focusing on hazard identification and dose-response assessment.
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (NIH)
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 to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary supplements.
International Clinical Trials Registry (World Health Organization)
Clinical trial information from data from 50,000 clinical trials in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (National Library of Medicine)
ITER is a database of human health risk values from major organizations worldwide for over 600 chemicals of environmental concern. It is part of TOXNET.
KinBase (Sugen)
Information on the 817 protein kinase genes discovered in the genomes of yeast, nematode worm and fruit fly.
LactMed (National Library of Medicine)
A database with information on drugs and lactation geared to the healthcare practitioner and nursing mother. LactMed contains over 450 drug records. It includes information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider. It can also be accessed through TOXNET.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Locatorplus (NLM)
National Library of Medicine's catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals. Does not include information on specific articles; see Ovid MEDLINE or PubMed for journal articles.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (NLM)
NLM's controlled voacabulary used for indexing articles, for cataloging books and other holdings, and for searching MeSH-indexed databases.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
Includes MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, PreMEDLINE, and other databases. See PubMed Help and How To Choose a MEDLINE Service.
MEDLINEplus (NLM)
Access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions for consumers and practitioners.
Medpedia (Medpedia)
Medpedia is the collaborative encyclopedia and resource for information about health, medicine and the body. It is a joint project of Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations.
MESH Browser (NLM)
Vocabulary look-up aid designed to help quickly located descriptors of possible interest and to show the hierarchy in which these descriptors appear for MEDLINE searching.
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
A catalog of U.S. government publications, it includes links to full-text online titles. Contains a "Brow Topics" feature, and "New Electronic Titles" . Covers 1994-present.
MSDS Solutions (MSDS Solutions)
A searchable database which contains 1 million printable MSDSs in PDF format. Registration is free.
Multiple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes (NIH)
A database of structured descriptions of congenital abnormalities associated with mental retardation.
NCI-3D (NIH)
2D and 3D information compiled by the National Cancer Institute and augmented by MDL.
NCNM Catalog (OHSU)
Holdings for National College of Natural Medicine.
NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities (NIH)
Information about NIH grant and fellowship programs, research contracts, and research training opportunities as well as a searchable biomedical database of federally-supported proposed research.
NLM Gateway (NLM)
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.
NTIS (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Product catalog for NTIS, the National Technical Information Service. NTIS is the federal government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information which has been generated by the federal government or by industrial and university contractors with the federal government. Contains complementary materials from international sources. Many records now include free links to full-text publications on an agency's Web site.
OHSU/NCNM/ONPRC/WSCC Library Catalog (OHSU)
OHSU local library holdings
OLD MEDLINE (PubMed)
Available through the NLM Gateway. See How to Search OLD MEDLINE Using the NLM Gateway.
OMIM (NIH)
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.
PAN Pesticides Database (Pesticide Action Network North America)
The PAN Pesticides Database is resource for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. Includes a chemical search which includes a link to a PubMed search, a product search, and a pesticide poisoning diagnostic tool.
POPLINE (PubMed)
Worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues. The contents of this database prior to 2001 is also available through PubMed (journal citations), LOCATORplus, (monographs) and the NLM Gateway (meeting abstracts).
PORTALS (PORTALS)
Portland area library consortium
PrimateLit Database (NCRR)
Bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates from 1940 to present. Includes articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc. Limited full-text and links to PubMed abstracts included.
Profiles in Science (NLM)
Archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists donated to the National Library of Medicine. Contains published and unpublished materials.
Protein Database (RCSB)
Worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
Protocol Online (Protocol Online)
A database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields. It contains protocols contributed by worldwide researchers as well as links to web protocols hosted by worldwide research labs, biotech companies, and personal web sites. It is created and maintained by Dr. Long-Cheng Li.
PubChem (National Library of Medicine)
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative
PubMed Central (PubMed)
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Currently includes over 70 journals.
REHABDATA (National Rehabilitation Information Center)
Literature (research reports, books, articles, and audiovisuals)on both physical and mental disability and rehabilitation produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center.
RHIN: Refugee Health Information Network (Cener for Public Service Communication)
RHIN is national collaborative partnership that has created a database of quality multilingual, public health resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees. Resources include: Health education materials in various languages and formats (brochures, fact sheets, videos; Provider tools (including information on refugee populations, cultures); Links to related websites.
Science.gov (DOE)
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Free to all.
Scirus (Elsevier)
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, searching more than 250 million science-related pages.
SPACELINE (PubMed)
Space life sciences research from the National Library of Medicine and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. No longer a separate database. Use PubMed for journal articles, LOCATORplus for books, or the NLM Gateway for meeting abstracts.
Summit (Orbis-Cascade Alliance)
Combined holdings from major Oregon/Washington academic libraries.
TOXLINE (PubMed)
Available through TOXNET and through PubMed; in PubMed use the limit feature and select the Toxicology subset.
TOXNET (NLM)
A cluster of full text databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
TRI (NLM)
Toxics Release Inventory. Annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment from 1995-1998.
TRIP Database: Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP Database, Ltd.)
The TRIP Database allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality evidence-based medical literature from a wide range of sources.
U.S. Patent Citation Database (GPO)
Searchable database covering U.S. patents from 1974 on.
Union List of Serials (Oregon State Library)
Periodical/serial holdings of 160 Oregon/Washington libraries.
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