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- ABLEDATA Information about assistive technology products.
- Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. - Access World News
Full-text, 1980s to present. Washington State, national, and international newspapers. - AGELINE
Social gerontology. - AGRICOLA
Food, nutrition, agricultural economics, veterinary medicine and parasitology. - American Indian Health Information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of American Indians.
- American Social Hygiene Posters
Posters on social issues such as dance, family,hygiene, mental health, reproduction, and sexual abstinence. - AP Images
Millions of news photographs dating back to 1826, and more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, among other digital resources. - Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
- ARRS GoldMiner (American Roentgen Ray Society) Links to over 94,000 peer-reviewed radiology images. Note: some images may not be accessible if the UW does not subscribe to the target journal or source -- please ask us if you have questions.
- Asian American Health Information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the US.
- Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics (University Hospital, Poitiers, France) A database of cancer types, diseases, and the genetic factors involved.
- ATSDR ToxProfiles Toxicological profiles for hazardous chemicals.
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Information from the CDC BRFSS telephone survey of US health risks. - Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Knowledgebase (bio-AD) A new biology of aging resource that includes over 400 domain articles published since 2000
- BIOSIS Previews
Life sciences journal and meeting literature - BioText Search Engine Searches open access content in PubMed Central.
- Clinical Evidence
PLEASE LOG OUT (top right of window) when you are done. - Books in Print
- Business Source Complete
- Caloric Restriction & Nutritional Aspects of Aging (CR-aging KB) includes over 900 domain articles published since 1935
- CAM Citation Index through PubMed
- CAMIO
Research Library Group's catalog of art museum images online supports art history, studio art, and design departments; provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. - Campbell Collaboration Library Database of systematic reviews in the areas of Crime & Justice, Social Welfare, Education and Methods.
- Canary Database
Studies about animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards. - Carcinogenic Potency Database
Results of animal cancer tests - CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System)
- CDC Wonder Searchable compilation of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, guidelines, and health data for disease and demographic groups. Includes surveillance data, Healthy People 2010, MMWR, and ohter CDC publications.
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- Centre for Research and Dissemination (CRD) Databases Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, NHS Economic Evaluation Database and Health Technology Assessment Database.
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- ChemIDplus
Chemical identification and dictionary database - Child Welfare Information Gateway Formerly the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse and the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.
- China Data Online
Economy, city, county,census, and industrial data and statistics for China. - CINAHL Plus
(Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - CIS: Congressional Universe
US Congressional publications and legislative history. - Clin-eguide
- ClinicalTrials.gov
Information about ongoing clinical trials and registering clinical trials. - Cochrane Library
(Wiley) Systematic reviews (CDSR), DARE, controlled trials register. - Cosmetics & Toiletries Formulations Database
(Knovel) - CPDB (Carcinogenic Potency Database)
- CQ Healthbeat
UW users can view "Afternoon briefing email" and "Morning update email". Provides key health policy developments on Capitol Hill, and in agencies including CMS, NIH, CDC and AHRQ. - CQ Researcher
(Congressional Quarterly) Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more. - CQ on Congress
Legislative tracking and Capitol Hill news service from Congressional Quarterly, Inc. - CRISP
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other Public Health Service agencies. The CRISP system will be retired September 1, 2009. The replacement system is RePORTER. - Current Controlled Trials (BioMed Central)
- Current Index to Statistics
- DailyMed Product Identification System
- DART/ETIC Teratology,developmental and reproductive toxicology literature.
- Defence Technical Information Center (DTIC) Central resource for the US Department of Defence and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database
- Disease Management Project Online medical reference guide.
- Dissertations and Theses full text
A comprehensive index to dissertations and theses from all fields of study, 1861-present. More than 1 million full text dissertations available, most from 1997 forward, with a strong retrospective collection for older works. - Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments and drug-related deaths investigated by medical examiners and coroners.
- Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (1) National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
(2) Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)
(3) Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) - DrugPoints System
(STAT!Ref) - Drugs@FDA
Catalog of FDA approved drug products. - DXplain
Decision support system allowing entry of clinical findings to produce ranked list of possible diagnoses. Available after registration to state licensed health care providers. - DynaMed
(Ebsco) - DynaMed (Blackberry)
Email dynamedsupport@epnet.com using your UW email address to request a serial number for your PDA device. - DynaMed (iphone)
Email dynamedsupport@epnet.com using your UW email address to request a serial number for your PDA device. - Return to Top
- DynaMed (Palm)
Email dynamedsupport@epnet.com using your UW email address to request a serial number for your PDA device. - DynaMed (PocketPC)
Email dynamedsupport@epnet.com using your UW email address to request a serial number for your PDA device. - EconLit
Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, dissertations, books, and conference proceedings in economics. - eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
Ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and topic. - EMBASE
(Ovid) EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries. - Entrez Protein Database The NCBI protein database derived from Swiss-Prot, PIR, PDB and translations of the GenBank sequence records.
- Environmental Health Library
- Environmental Virtual Campus Tutorial on campus environmental management regulations and practices.
- EpiQMS Interactive health statistics web site that can produce numbers, rates, graphs, charts, maps, and county profiles using various demographic variables (age, sex, race, etc.) from birth, death, cancer, and population datasets for the state and counties or regions.
- ERIC
(Ebsco) - Essential Evidence Plus
(formerly InfoRetriever. System of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information available for handheld, online or desktop. Includes: InfoPOEMs and guidelines(evidence-based summaries); clinical decision rules and calculators; 5-Minute Clinical Consult, etc. Note: Must register after downloading, or subscription will expire in 30 days. - Essential Evidence Plus (Palm)
Includes POEMs, Cochrane Reviews Abstracts, NGC practice guidelines summaries, clinical rules, calculators, EBM guidelines&evidence summaries, ICD-9 Lookup Tool. (Formerly InfoRetriever)Note: Must register after downloading, or subscription will expire in 30 days. - Essential Evidence Plus (PocketPC)
Includes POEMs, Cochrane Reviews Abstracts, NGC practice guidelines summaries, clinical rules, calculators, EBM guidelines&evidence summaries, ICD-9 Lookup Tool. (Formerly InfoRetriever)Note: Must register after downloading, or subscription will expire in 30 days. - Exam Master OnLine
USMLE and Medical Specialty Board, PANCE, NAPLEX, and Dental Exams. Individual Registration Required. Click on "Not Registered Yet" to Accept agreement and Register. Confirmation and a password will be e-mailed to you. - Exam Master OnLine
- Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly and general interest periodicals. - Factiva
- Facts & Comparisons 4.0
(Clin-eguide). Click on Drug Information tab for access - Faculty of 1000 Biology
Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers. - Faculty of 1000 Medicine
(BioMed Central) Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians, it systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine. - Family Studies Abstracts
(Ebsco) Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. - Forrester Research
Requires UWNetID
- Gartner
Requires UWNetID (Gartner Group) - GenBank
NIH genetic sequence database. - GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology/Mutagenicity Data Bank)
Genetic toxicology from the scientific literature for over 3000 chemicals. - Genetics Home Reference Consumer information about genetic conditions and genes.
- GEOBASE
Bibliographic coverage of over 3,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, and maps in earth science, ecology, geography, marine science, and oceanography. - GEOREF
Index to geoscience literature of the world: geology of North America from 1693 to present; world geology from 1933 to present; references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. - Global Health
(Ovid) Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health. 1910- - Global Health Library (GHL) Virtual Platform Search engine for PubMed, Cochrane, SciELO, and regional indexes and directories including AFRO, EMRO, LILACS, PAHO, WHOLIS, and WPRO.
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- Globalhealthfacts.org Maps and tables of global data on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and more.
- Google Images Billions of images from the web.
- GrantsNet Basic science funding opportunities
- HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Provides citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present and includes articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 social science and humanities journals.
- Haz-Map Occupational health and toxicology database designed to link jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure to chemicals and occupational diseases and their symptoms.
- HazDat Information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites and emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations.
- HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases
- HCUPnet Free, on-line query system based on Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data, providing access to health statistics and information on hospital stays at the state, regional and national level.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments: HAPI
HAPI - Health Source. Consumer Edition
- Health Source. Nursing/Academic Edition
- Healthy People DATA2010 web only The National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has developed a new data system through CDC Wonder to track all 467 Healthy People 2010 objectives. The data are updated quarterly on NCHS's DATA2010 website.
- Healthy Youth Survey
- Hein online
Legal journals and federal documents. - HerbMed evidence-based herbal database
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Hom-Inform
Book & journal references on homeopathy. - Hospital Compare Public release of data collected under the Hospital Quality Initiative. Lists results of quality measures by hospital, on care for heart attack, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Searchable by city, state, zip code or hospital name. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Household Products Database
NLM database of potential health effects of common household products. - HRResources.ca
Selected articles only. Premium content is not available; these premium articles are designated with a "P" icon next to the title. Freely available articles have no icons next to the title. - HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank)
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals. - HSRProj - Health Services Research Projects in Progress
- HSRR - Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
- IBIDS Database (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements)
- Images.MD
Over 70,000 medical images covering clinical medicine. - Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings
Available in library only
- IndexCat
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, covering material from the 1400's through 1950 - IndiaStat
Socioeconomic statistical data about India - INSPEC
Physics, electrical & electronic engineering, computer & control engineering, and information technology. - International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) WHO search portal of data from clinical trials in China, India, Germany, Iran, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.
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- IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
- IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) Hazard identification and dose-response assessments for over 500 chemicals.
- ISI Highly Cited Researchers
- ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk) Risk information for over 600 chemicals from authoritative groups worldwide.
- Journal Citation Reports
- KaiserEDU
- LactMed
Drugs and lactation (including breastfeeding infants) - LegalTrac
Indexing for over 800 legal journals and seven legal newspapers. - Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis legal and news sources. - LexisNexis Academic Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources
- LexisNexis Congressional
Provides daily updated information, including full text of US bills, public laws, committee reports, House & Senate documents; Congressional Record, Federal Register, National Journal and other government information. - LexisNexis Statistical
Index of federal, state, international, and organizational statistics. Includes American Statistics Index (1973-), Statistical Reference Index (1980-), and Index to International Statistics (1983-), and tables from the Statistical Abstract of the United States. - Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database Annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art from New York University. Updated quarterly.
- LocatorPlus Lists the holdings of the National Library of Medicine, including books (CATLINE), audiovisuals (AVLINE), journals (SERLINE), and a directory of health organizations (DIRLINE).
- Longwood Herbal Task Force Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
- MarciveWeb DOCS
Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications. - MathSciNet
Bibliographic records and review texts from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. - MD Consult
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- MEDLINE Database on Tap Retrieves MEDLINE citations through a wireless Internet connection. Available for Palm and PocketPC.
- MEDLINE Database on Tap (Palm) Retrieves MEDLINE citations through a wireless Internet connection.
- MEDLINE Database on Tap (PocketPC) Retrieves MEDLINE citations through a wireless Internet connection.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
(Ovid) - MerckMedicus PDA Tools
Mobile MerckMedicus and other physician resources. Available after registration to state licensed health care providers. - Micromedex
(Thomson Healthcare) Clinical information on toxicology, drugs, drug interactions, and reproductive risks - MINDscape
- More PDA Resources for Blackberry View more health related Blackberry resources.
- More PDA Resources for iPhone View more health related iPhone resources
- My NCBI With My NCBI you can save searches and data important to you, and you can set your preferences for NCBI's tools and web site. Note: To use My NCBI, you must have cookies enabled and allow pop-up windows from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
- MyPACS.net Radiology teaching cases and images.
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- National Academy Press
Full-text of over 2000 books from the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and National Research Council. - National Agriculture Safety Database (NASD)
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database Criminal and juvenile justice literature maintained by the US Dept. of Justice
- Native American Health History Database of articles and monographs that describe contagious and other diseases that affected American Indians during the years 1672-1965. Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico
- Native Health Research Database
- Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Best evidence on herbals and dietary supplements. - Natural Standard Online
Information on approximately 100 herbs and supplements is available through MedlinePlus. - NCBI Map Viewer Directly view DNA sequences/genes in the context of chromosome structures for all higher organisms.
- NetLibrary University of Washington eBook Collection
Full-text of over 5000 books. Please review the instructions and tips included in the NetLibrary FAQ. - News Research / Article Databases US and global news sources.
- NHGRI Policy and Legislation Database
Federal policy, regulations and legislation on genetic issues. - RePORTER RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool of research funded by NIH and other Public Health Services agencies. Includes NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results).
- NIH SeniorHealth.gov Aging related health information developed for older adults. Users can enlarge text, request high contrast or turn on speech.
- NLM Drug Information Portal
- NLM Gateway
Portal to multiple NLM databases. - National Science Foundation Award Data
- NTIS
Bibliographic coverage of governments documents, research reports, journal articles, and data files for sale by the National Technical Information Service. - Nursing Reference Center
(Ebsco) - Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Legislative Database
Search for state-level bills related to nutrition and physical activity topics. (CDC) - Occupational Mortality Database
- OCLC WorldCat
Over 30 million catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world. - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA)
206 species included. - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
- ONPRC Catalog
- OSTMED.DR Osteopathic Literature Database. 1800s - 2003.
- PAIS
Social and public policy literature. - PEDro
Physiotherapy evidence database. - Pesticides: Reregistration Factsheets on health & ecological effects of pesticides undergoing reregistration.
- POEMs
(Wiley) - POPLINE Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, monographs and published and unpublished reports on population, family planning, and related health issues.
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- Primate Literature Database Bibliographic coverage of all scientific literature related to nonhuman primates in the biomedical, behavioral, veterinary, paelontological, genetic and zoologic fields, including animal models for human disorders.
- Profiles in Science Archival collections of 20th century biomedical scientists
- ProQuest Business
Scholarly journals and magazines in business, finance and economics. - ProQuest eJournals
Searches all ProQuest databases simultaneously. Please note: historical databases (APS Online and ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times) must be searched separately. - ProQuest Newspapers Mostly full-text, mid 1980s to present. Washington State and national newspapers. See also: Access World News
- PsycARTICLES
1988-
(Ebsco) - PsycARTICLES journal titles
1988-
(Ebsco) - PsycINFO
(Ebsco) - Pub Hub: Environmental Health Nursing Research Archive Archive of citations of publications addressing environmental health and nursing topics.
- PubMed MEDLINE
- PubMed Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters
Use pre-formatted search filters to find evidence-based articles: etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines. - PubSearch for iPhone PubMed search tool for iPhone
- QUOSA Information Manager
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
Popular general interest periodicals covering 20th century America. - Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN) A national collaborative partnership that provides quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees.
- RefWorks
RefWorks is an online service used to create personal databases of bibliographic citations by importing the citations from text files or online databases. Citations may be automatically formatted for bibliography and footnotes, and may be searched within the personal database. - ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
ResearchWorks is a permanent, safe service for providing access to articles, technical reports, datasets, images and other file types produced at the University of Washington by faculty and researchers. - Science Signaling
2008-
(HighWire) Back issues of "Science's STKE : Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment" are also included here. Personalization features required individual free registration. - Science's STKE : Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment
1997-2007
(HighWire) Link connects to "Science Signaling." Back issues of "Science's STKE : Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment" are also included here. Personalization features required individual free registration. - SciFinder Scholar
Requires UWNetID Access to Chemical Abstracts databases. - Search PubMed Clinical Queries
Use pre-formatted search filters to find evidence-based articles: etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines. - Shots 2009 (Palm) Quick reference palm version of the ACIP Childhood and Adult immunization schedules.
- Shots 2009 (PocketPC) Quick reference palm version of the ACIP Childhood and Adult immunization schedules.
- Skyscape on Blackberry Skyscape offers hundreds of medical resources, covering 35 specialties for the BlackBerry.
- Skyscape on iPhone Skyscape iPhone App (Skyscape Medical Resources) on iTunes Apps Store.
- Small Business (SBIR/STTR)
- SMART: Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends Data of selected metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (MMSAs) from CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Social Services Abstracts
Social work, social welfare, human services and community development. - Social Work Abstracts
Social work and social services. - Sociological Abstracts
Sociology, social welfare, social planning and development. - Return to Top
- SPIE Digital Library Optics and photics journal articles and symposia proceedings.
- STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Online
A collection of more than 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press. - Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
1995-
(informaworld) - Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
ADAI's Instruments catalog - Summit Catalog
Oregon & Washington academic libraries shared catalog - TEACH Database
Children's environmental health. - Telemakus The Telemakus Project aims to enhance the knowledge discovery process by developing retrieval, visual and interaction tools to mine and map research findings from the research literature. Telemakus is part of SAGE KE, the Science of Aging Knowledge Environment
- Testing & Education Reference Center
Databases of colleges and vocational schools, programs, and the latest preparatory tests as well as financial aid sources and requirements. Users can prepare for specialized tests for college, graduate school, military, or trade schools. - ToxFAQs
Factsheets about toxic chemicals. - Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
Annual environmental releases of over 600 toxic chemicals by U.S. facilities. - TOXLINE Covers articles, books, technical reports, and proceedings about toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical, and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
- TOXMAP A Geographic Information System (GIS) using maps to visually explore data from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
- TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. - TreeBASE Harvard University Herbaria and UC Davis. Database of phylogenetic information
- TRIP Database
Evidence-based sources meta-search engine. - Tropical Plant Database includes Clinical Trials of Rainforest Plants and Clinical Research Abstracts. Raintree Nutrition
- UpToDate
- UpToDate - Drug Interactions Program
Click on "Drug Interactions" under the search box in UpToDate. - USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference "Release 20", USDA food composition database.
- UW Image Bank
Images of cultural production from diverse time periods and world cultures, and major monuments of world art and architectural history. - UW Lab Test Information Database Information on collecting, handling, and processing lab tests available at the UW.
- UW Libraries Catalog
University of Washington holdings. - UW Libraries Digital Collections Multimedia collection of rare or unique materials from the University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW.
- UW Medicine Drug Formulary
- UW Medicine Drug Formulary for Palm
- UW Medicine Drug Formulary for PocketPC
- Washington NewsStand
Washington state newspapers. - Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references. - WebCASPAR National Science Foundation database system, Provides quick access to statistical data focusing on science and engineering resources of U.S. universities and colleges.
- WHO Regional Databases Regional health and medical databases for Africa, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, Latin America and Caribbean, and South-East Aisa. Compiled to complement indexes such as PubMed MEDLINE.
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- WHOLIS: WHO Library Database WHOLIS indexes all World Health Organization publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present.
- WHOSIS: WHO Statistical Information System Guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from World Health Organization (WHO).
- WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders)
Hazardous substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice. - Women and Social Movements in the United States from 1600-2000
(Alexander Street Press) - Your Journals@Ovid
- Zoological Record
Bibliographic coverage of journals, newsletters, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings in all areas of zoology, including biochemistry, behavior, ecology, evolution, and genetics. Replaces WebSPIRS access.

