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• ABI/INFORM Dateline
  Local & regional business news
• ABI/INFORM Global
  Business periodicals and information
• ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
  Trade & industry periodicals.
• 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. Free trial through 6/30/08.
• 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.
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• 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.
• 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 on Congress
  Legislative tracking and Capitol Hill news service from Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
• Current Controlled Trials
  (BioMed Central)
• Current Index to Statistics
• DART/ETIC
  Teratology,developmental and reproductive toxicology literature.
• Dietary Supplements Labels Database
• Disease Management Project
  Online medical reference guide.
• 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.
• DSpace at the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries
  A groundbreaking digital repository system, DSpace captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes an organization's research material in digital formats.
• 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 (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
  Economics.
• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
  Ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and topic.
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• 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
  Epidemiologic query and mapping system, Washington State Department of Health.
• ERIC
  Education.
• 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 Exams. Individual Registration Required. Click on "Not Registered Yet" to Accept agreement and Register. Confirmation and a password will be e-mailed to you.
• Expanded Academic ASAP
  Scholarly and general interest periodicals.
• Factiva
• Facts & Comparisons 4.0
  Drug Facts & Comparisons products.
• 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
  Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health.
• 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.
• 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.
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• 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
• UW Medicine Drug Formulary
  Also links to other Washington state health plan formularies
• Micromedex
• 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.
• HSRR - Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
• IBIDS Database (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements)
• Images.MD
  Over 50,000 medical images covering clinical medicine. The "slide sets" feature is temporarily unavailable; we have contacted the publisher, 5/5/08.
• 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
• InfoPOEMs
  (Wiley)
• INSPEC
  Physics, electrical & electronic engineering, computer & control engineering, and information technology.
• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
  WHO search portal of data from 50,000 clinical trials in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
• IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
• IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System)
  Hazard identification and dose-response assessments for over 500 chemicals.
• ISI Highly Cited Researchers
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• 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 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
  [individual account required]
• MyPACS.net
  Radiology teaching cases and images.
• National Academy Press
  Full-text of over 2000 books from the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and National Research Council.
• 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.
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• NCSLnet: Health Promotion State Legislation and Statutes Database
  Database of physical activity and nutrition legislation by State.
• NetLibrary University of Washington eBook Collection
  Full-text of over 5000 books. Please review the instructions and tips included in the NetLibrary FAQ.
• NewsBank Access World News
  Over 900 U.S. newspapers, including 20 from Washington State, and over 1,200 international papers. Full-text, 1980s to present.
• NHGRI Policy and Legislation Database
  Federal policy, regulations and legislation on genetic issues.
• 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
  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.
• POPLINE
  Bibliographic coverage of journal articles, monographs and published and unpublished reports on population, family planning, and related health issues.
• 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 Dissertations and Theses : A & I
  (Dissertation Abstracts) Abstracts to dissertations and masters' theses.
• 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.
• PsycINFO
• 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
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• 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
  Individual registration required -- registration is free. 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.
• 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.
• Shots 2008 (Palm)
  Quick reference palm version of the ACIP Childhood and Adult immunization schedules.
• Shots 2008 (PocketPC)
  Quick reference palm version of the ACIP Childhood and Adult immunization schedules.
• 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.
• 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
  Free registration. Contains NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN practice test.
• 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