Electronic Databases & Directories - Alphabetic List
Database Restrictions for databases marked "Onsite Access Only":
The use of subscription databases from the Electronic Databases & Directories Web page is limited by the license agreements between the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) and the database vendor and/or producer. Access is limited to staff and visitors onsite at the National Library of Medicine. The Web-based database search pages are copyrighted by the database vendors. The databases are copyrighted by their producers.
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- ALTBIB®, National Library of Medicine® (NLM®)
Bibliography on alternatives to the use of live vertebrates in biomedical research
- Altweb
Coverage: Alternatives to animal testing
- BioMed Central, NLM
Coverage: Peer-reviewed, open access biomedical journals
- BNET, Formerly FindArticles.com
- NCBI Bookshelf, NLM
Coverage: Free, full-text biomedical books
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- Canary Database: Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards
Coverage: Includes studies of wildlife, companion and livestock animals, where either the exposure or the health effect could be considered potentially relevant to human health
- CANCERLIT®, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Coverage: Links to PubMed and NCI literature searches
- Cancer Topics, NCI. Formerly, PDQ
Coverage: Information about various cancers, treatments, and research for the public and health professionals
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
Coverage: The finding tool for federal publications, July 1976 - Present
- CDC Health Topics A to Z
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
Coverage: The US reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis.
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- CDC Travelers' Health
Coverage: National and international travel
- CDC WONDER
Coverage: Databases that researchers and the public use to analyze public health data
- CenterWatch
Coverage: Clinical trials listing service
- ChemIDplus®, NLM
Coverage: Structure and nomenclature authority databases used to identify chemical substances cited in NLM databases. Contains over 380,000 chemical records, of which over 263,000 include chemical structures
- ClinicalTrials.gov, NLM
Coverage: Registry of more than 100,000 federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the US and worldwide
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
Coverage: The general and permanent rules of Federal Government executive departments and agencies. The codes are first published in the Federal Register.
- CPT® Codes: Current Procedural Terminology
American Medical Association
Coverage: Medical billing codes
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- ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, US Department of Education
Coverage: More than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials. Includes links to full text
- ETOH, Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
NIAAA: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Coverage: 1972 - December 2003
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- GeneTests
Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the NLM
- Genetics Home Reference™ (GHR), NLM
Coverage: Consumer information about the effects of genetic variations on human health
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- Google Books
Coverage: Links to book excerpts and some full text books.
Requires free registration; Free full-text on selected content
- Google Scholar
Coverage: Full text and links to full text scholarly journals and other publications.
Requires free registration; Free full-text on selected content.
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- The Hastings Center, Bioethical Research Center
Coverage: Books, journals, law, government documents, lectures, and other resources
- healthfinder
HHS: US Department of Health & Human Services
Coverage: Consumer health resources
- Health Hotlines, NLM
Coverage: Toll-free numbers of health-related organizations
- HIV Structural Database & Chem-BLAST
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Coverage: Structural information resource on AIDS related macromolecules
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- mediLexicon
Coverage: Dictionary, abbreviations, acronyms, ICD-9-CM codes, and spell-check
- MEDLINE/PubMed (PubMed®), NLM
Coverage: Mid-1940s - Present, with selected PubMed Central® citations from
the early 1800s - Present
- MEDLINE/PubMed Topic-Specific Queries (Subsets and Filters), NLM
Coverage: Pre-formulated searches on various topics
- MedlinePlus®, NLM
Coverage:More than 900 consumer health topics in English, Spanish, and other languages. Includes videos, photographs, tutorials and podcasts
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- MedlinePlus en español, NLM
Coverage: More than 700 consumer health topics in Spanish, English, and other languages. Includes videos, photographs, tutorials and podcasts
- MedlinePlus: Doctors and Dentists, NLM
Coverage: National and international directories of doctors, dentists, and other health professionals
- MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary, NLM
- MedlinePlus: Specialized Hospitals and Clinics, NLM
Under "Specialized Hospitals and Clinics" section.
- MeSH® Browser (Medical Subject Headings), NLM
Coverage: Terms that NLM indexers use to index journal articles
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- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- OhioLINK
Coverage: Consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Access to bibliographic records, theses, and dissertations
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- Partners in Information Access
Coverage: Public health information. The NLM is a partner.
- Patent Grants and Patent Applications Database, Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases, USPTO: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Coverage: Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases. Issued Patents: full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790. Published Applications: Full-text of all Published Applications from March 2001 - Present
- PDQ, Now Cancer Topics. NCI: National Cancer Institute
Coverage: Current information about various cancers, treatments, and research for the public and health professionals
- PeriStats, The March of Dimes
Coverage: US maternal and infant health information, from national to county and city levels. Includes graphs, tables and charts
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- Quality Check, The Joint Commission
Find a health care organization that meets the Joint Commission's patient safety and quality standards
- Rare Diseases Database, NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders
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- SCIELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Coverage: Scholarly journals from more than 7 Latin American countries, Portugal and Spain. Web site in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
- Science.gov
Coverage: Gateway to over 200 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by US government agencies, including research and development results. Search more than 45 databases and over 2,000 selected Web sites from 14 federal agencies
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- TESS: Trademark Electronic Search System, USPTO
Coverage: Over 4 million pending, registered, and dead federal trademarks
- Treatment Facility Locator
NCADI: National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
Coverage: Drug and alcohol abuse treatment centers in the 50 US states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam
- TRIP Database, (Turning Research into Practice)
Coverage: Evidence-Based Medicine; Includes images and consumer health information
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- USA.gov
Coverage: Everything about the US Government, including links to online services
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- Algology, Mycology & Protozoology: Microbiology Abstracts Section C
- AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
- America: History and Life
- American Library Directory
- Animal Behavior Abstracts
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
- ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
- ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources
- ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
- Bacteriology: Microbiology Abstracts Section B
- Biological Abstracts
- Books in Print with Reviews
- Books Out of Print
- Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
- Chemoreception Abstracts
- CINAHL Plus: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
- Cochrane Library
- ComAbstracts, Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
- Conference Papers Index
- Current Chemical Reactions
- Directories in Print
- Directory of Libraries and Information Centers
- Drug Information Full Text
- Ecology Abstracts
- EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- EMBASE
- Encyclopedia of American Religion
- Encyclopedia of Associations (National and International)
- Entomology Abstracts
- Environmental Abstracts
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
- ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center
- The Faculty of 1000
- Gale Directory of Databases
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
- Genetics Abstracts
- Global Health
- Government Research Centers Directory
- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Printing Office publications (CGP)
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- HAPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments Database
- Health & Safety Science Abstracts
- Health Business Elite
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management
- IEEE Xplore: Electrical engineering, computer science and electronics literature published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Immunology Abstracts
- Index Chemicus
- Industrial and Applied Microbiology: Microbiology Abstracts Section A
- International Research Centers Directory
- IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
- JCR: Journal Citation Reports
- Library Literature & Information Science
- Marquis Who's Who Current & Previous Biographies
- Newsletters in Print
- NTIS Search Library: National Technical Information Service
- Nucleic Acids Abstracts
- Oncogenes & Growth Factors Abstracts
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- PDR Electronic Library (Physicians Drug Reference)
- PILOTS database: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events
- Plant Science
- Pollution Abstracts
- Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers
- Publishers Directory
- PsycINFO
- Research Centers Directory
- Risk Abstracts
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- SCOPUS
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- SPORT Discus
- Toxicology Abstracts
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
- Virology and AIDS Abstracts
- Water Resources Abstracts
- World Biographical Information System
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