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  • Access World News UW IP
    Full-text, 1980s to present. Washington State, national, and international newspapers.
  • BioText Search Engine
    Searches open access content in PubMed Central.
  • Books in Print UW IP
  • Campbell Collaboration Library
    Database of systematic reviews in the areas of Crime & Justice, Social Welfare, Education and Methods.
  • Centre for Research and Dissemination (CRD) Databases
    Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, NHS Economic Evaluation Database and Health Technology Assessment Database.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
    Formerly the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse and the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.
  • CINAHL Plus Coverage from 1937 to the present of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines. Over 2900 journals indexed including English-language nursing journals along with selected titles in biomedicine, alternative/complementary therapies, and consumer health. Full text is available for selected nursing standards, practice acts, pamphlets, state nursing journals, research instruments, evidence-based care sheets, and critical paths. Click for help UW IP
    (Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  • CIS: Congressional Universe Click for help
    US Congressional publications and legislative history.
  • 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.
  • CQ Healthbeat UW IP
    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 UW IP
    (Congressional Quarterly) Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
  • CQ on Congress UW IP
    Legislative tracking and Capitol Hill news service from Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
  • 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.
  • Ebsco Academic Search Complete UW IP
    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.
  • Ebsco Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. UW IP
  • EconLit Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, dissertations, books, and conference proceedings in economics. UW IP
    Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, dissertations, books, and conference proceedings in economics.
  • 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.
  • Environmental Virtual Campus
    Tutorial on campus environmental management regulations and practices.
  • 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.
  • Factiva Factiva is a Dow Jones database that provides full text access to all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal (back to 1979), Barron's, three months of the New York Times, and 8,000 other publications. In addition, this database provides reports for over 30,000 companies worldwide, much of it from Reuters, over 8,000 selected business Web sites, and Reuters Business Briefings. UW IP
  • Forrester Research Provides reports on the effects of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society.'Healthcare & life sciences' section includes information on technology strategy and implementation in healthcare organizations and in drug development. Individual registration required. UWNetID Requires UWNetID
  • 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.
  • Global Health 1 concurrent user. UW IP
    (Ovid) Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health. 1910-
  • HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases State, regional and national level discharge data, available for purchase. Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Free tools include AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Comorbidity Software, and HCUPnet, a web interface to free HCUP data.
  • 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 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
  • Health Source. Consumer Edition UW IP
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  • Health Source. Nursing/Academic Edition UW IP
  • Hein online Contains the entire run of the Federal Register back to 1936, as well as Statutes at large, US Reports, old Government Manuals, and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. UW IP
    Legal journals and federal documents.
  • HRResources.ca UW IP
    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.
  • KaiserEDU Literature, news and tutorials regarding health policy issues, research methodology and government. Kaiser Family Foundation.
  • LegalTrac UW IP
    Indexing for over 800 legal journals and seven legal newspapers.
  • LexisNexis Academic UW IP
    (LexisNexis) 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 UW IP
    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 site-license UW IP
    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.
  • LocatorPlus
    Lists the holdings of the National Library of Medicine, including books (CATLINE), audiovisuals (AVLINE), journals (SERLINE), and a directory of health organizations (DIRLINE).
  • MarciveWeb DOCS UW IP
    Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications.
  • Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) A set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.
  • 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.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
    Criminal and juvenile justice literature maintained by the US Dept. of Justice
  • 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.
  • NHGRI Policy and Legislation Database National Human Genome Resource Institute. Database contains Federal and State laws/statutes; Federal legislative materials; and Federal administrative and executive materials, including regulations, institutional policies, and executive orders, in areas of privacy of genetic information/confidentiality; informed consent; insurance and employment discrimination; genetic testing and counseling; and commercialization and patenting.
    Federal policy, regulations and legislation on genetic issues.
  • 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.
  • NTIS UW IP
    Bibliographic coverage of governments documents, research reports, journal articles, and data files for sale by the National Technical Information Service.
  • Nursing Reference Center Nursing Reference Center (NRC) provides a user-friendly point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface. NRC is accessible from a patient's bedside, nursing station, kiosk, office, or home. Clinical care data included in NRC consists of: *CINAHL Nursing Guide: Over 3,500 evidence-based lessons on procedures, diseases and conditions, legal cases and drugs. This includes: -2,200+ Care Sheets and Lessons -700+ Legal Cases -300+ Research Instruments -100+ Continuing Education Full Text Documents *Patient Education : Over 4,000 Health Library documents available in both English and Spanish. *Health Nursing News : HealthDay News with daily FDA, clinical, and drug updates. UW IP
    (Ebsco)
  • Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Legislative Database Click for help
    Search for state-level bills related to nutrition and physical activity topics. (CDC)
  • OCLC WorldCat Click for help UW IP
    Over 30 million catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.
  • PAIS Bibliographic coverage of social and public policy literature from over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of government documents, books, and other sources. UW IP
    Social and public policy literature.
  • POEMs Unlimited concurrent users. UW IP or userid/password
    (Wiley)
  • POPLINE
    Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, monographs and published and unpublished reports on population, family planning, and related health issues.
  • ProQuest Business UW IP or userid/password
    Scholarly journals and magazines in business, finance and economics.
  • 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.
  • Readers' Guide Retrospective UW IP
    Popular general interest periodicals covering 20th century America.
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  • 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.
  • Social Services Abstracts UW IP
    Social work, social welfare, human services and community development.
  • Social Work Abstracts Bibliographic coverage of journal articles and dissertations in the social work and social welfare fields. UW IP
    Social work and social services.
  • Sociological Abstracts Bibliographic coverage of over 2,000 journals, conference papers, dissertations, book reviews and selected sociology books on sociology, social welfare, social planning and development. UW IP
    Sociology, social welfare, social planning and development.
  • SourceOECD OECD Health Data 2009
    Comparable statistics on health and health care systems in OECD economies. Cross-country comparisons of national health systems.
  • 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.
  • Washington NewsStand Click for help UW IP or userid/password
    Washington state newspapers.
  • Web of Science UW IP
    Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.