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  • Access World News UW IP
    Full-text, 1980s to present. Washington State, national, and international newspapers.
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Information from the CDC BRFSS telephone survey of US health risks. Includes national and state prevalance and trends, and selected local data.
    Information from the CDC BRFSS telephone survey of US health risks.
  • BioText Search Engine
    Searches open access content in PubMed Central.
  • Books in Print UW IP
  • ClinicalTrials.gov Click for help
    Information about ongoing clinical trials and registering clinical trials.
  • Cochrane Library unlimited concurrent users. UW IP
    (Wiley) Systematic reviews (CDSR), DARE, controlled trials register.
  • Current Controlled Trials
    (BioMed Central)
  • Defence Technical Information Center (DTIC)
    Central resource for the US Department of Defence and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.
  • Dissertations and Theses full text Bibliographic coverage of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 1861 through the previous semester. UW IP
    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.
  • EMBASE EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries. Topics covered include drugs and pharmacology, clinical and experimental medicine, basic biological research, health policy and management, public, occupational and environmental health, substance abuse, psychiatry, forensic science, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation. 1988-present. Click for help UW IP
    (Ovid) EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 5,000 journals from over 70 countries.
  • Essential Evidence Plus (Palm) UW IP or userid/password
    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) Unlimited concurrent users. UW IP or userid/password
    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.
  • Gale Academic OneFile UW IP
    A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments: HAPI Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. 5 concurrent users. Updated quarterly. Click for help UW IP Resource Funded By Donation
    HAPI
  • IndexCat Click for help
    Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, covering material from the 1400's through 1950
  • 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.
  • NetLibrary University of Washington eBook Collection Click for help UW IP plus Individual Registration
    Full-text of over 5000 books. Please review the instructions and tips included in the NetLibrary FAQ.
  • NIH 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).
  • NLM Gateway Search MEDLINE/PubMed, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, OMIM, HSDB, and HSRProj simultaneously or individually. Click for help
    Portal to multiple NLM databases.
  • POEMs Unlimited concurrent users. UW IP or userid/password
    (Wiley)
  • ProQuest eJournals site-license Click for help UW IP
    Searches all ProQuest databases simultaneously. Please note: historical databases (APS Online and ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times) must be searched separately.
  • PsycINFO UW IP
    (Ebsco)
  • PubMed
    MEDLINE
  • PubMed Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters Click for help
    Use pre-formatted search filters to find evidence-based articles: etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines.
  • ResearchWorks Institutional Repository Click for help
    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.
  • Search PubMed Clinical Queries Click for help
    Use pre-formatted search filters to find evidence-based articles: etiology, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines.
  • SMART: Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends
    Data of selected metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (MMSAs) from CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
  • Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database The ADAI Instruments catalog contains databases intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Click for help
    ADAI's Instruments catalog
  • Summit Catalog Holdings information from 26 academic libraries in Washington and Oregon who belong to the Orbis-Cascade Alliance.
    Oregon & Washington academic libraries shared catalog
  • UW Libraries Catalog Lists the holdings of the 22 University of Washington Libraries. Includes books, journals, audiovisual items, computer files and music.
    University of Washington holdings.
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  • Web of Science UW IP
    Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.