Health Sciences Databases A-Z

AccessMedicine:
     A repository of medical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. Continuously expanding, all databases in the repository contain the latest editions of selected medical titles.

ACP journal club
     ACP Journal Club's general purpose is to select from the biomedical literature articles that report original studies and systematic reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal medicine.

ACP PIER
     PIER is evidence-based clinical guidance presented electronically in a unique layered and telegraphic format. It is designed for rapid access to clinical information at the point of care. PIER includes recommendations based on all levels of medical evidence including RCTs, cohort and observational studies, case reports, and expert opinion.

AGRICOLA:
     Accesses the National Agricultural Library's Online Public Access Catalog and Journal Article Citation Index (AGRICOLA).

AIDSinfo:
     AIDSinfo is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project providing information on HIV/AIDS clinical trials and treatment. It is the result of merging two previous DHHS projects: The AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS) and the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS). It is a central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with HIV.

Alcohol studies database:
     Provides access to a database of over 50,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.

AMA physician select:
     Site provides demographic and professional information on individual physicians in the United States and its possessions, including doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).

American Osteopathic Association D.O. database:
     This database is an online reference source of membership information on the associations’ doctors of osteopathy.

Associations Unlimited:
     Information about associations and professional societies, listings for nonprofit membership organizations of U.S. national, regional, state, and local, or international scope; in addition to 144,000 listings of the Encyclopedia of associations (EA) series, nearly 300,000 additional nonprofit organizations have been added to this database.

Biological abstracts:
     Contains bibliographical references with abstracts in English from life sciences research journals published worldwide

BioMed central:
     BioMed Central Ltd., an independent publisher in London, England, provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.

Books in print:
     Online database of bibliographic records. Indexes nearly 1.5 million titles currently in print, out of print (or soon to be published) from over 44, 000 North American publishers and distributors. Search by author, title, subject, ISBN, keyword, etc.

CancerNet:
     An online source for cancer information, designed for patients and the public, health professionals, and basic researchers.

Carcinogenic potency database:
     Widely used resource on the results of chronic long term animal cancer tests.

CCRIS--Chemical carcinogenesis research information system:
     Full-text information on carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition test results of over 8000 chemicals. Searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN):
     A comprehensive information service for people working in the fields of HIV prevention, care, and support.

ChemIDplus:
     ChemIDplus provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substance cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains over 349,000 chemical records, of which over 56,000 include chemical structures, and is searchable by name, synonym, CAS registry number, molecular formula, classification code, locator code, and structure. ChemIDplus is searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

CHID, combined health information database:
     The CHID database provides titles, abstracts, and availability for resources on health promotion and health education. Compiled by health-related agencies of the federal government.

CINAHL (FirstSearch):
     OCLC FirstSearch database that indexes nearly 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. Also covers American Nurses' Association and National League for Nursing publications, nursing standards CINAHL%20(OVID)&link=http%3A%2F%2Fproxy.lib.wayne.edu%3A of practice, and critical paths.

CINAHL (OVID):
     OVID database that provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. It is the premier database for nursing and allied health literature. It includes references to journals, American Nurses' Association and National League for Nuring publications, nusring standards of practice, and critical paths.

Clinical Alerts:
     NLM began offering clinical alert notices online in January 1991. Clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly affect morbidity.

Clinical practice guidelines online:
     Collection of clinical practice guidelines, quick reference guides for clinicians, and consumer versions that are in English and Spanish.

Clinical Trials.gov:
     Provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.

Cochrane central register of controlled trials:
     CCTR (formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register) is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials.

Cochrane database of systematic reviews:
     The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.

Cochrane Library

Community of science:
     Describes Community of Science which helps identify and locate researchers with interest and expertise similar to your own. The "Wayne State University - Community of Science Services" page includes the faculty expertise database; funding opportunities datases; and databases of grants awarded.

CRISP:
     CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.

Current index to statistics:
     Contains cumulative bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals, with coverage generally extending back to 1974, earlier in some instances.

Current research at Wayne State University:
     Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Wayne State University and published in UMI's dissertation abstracts database; authorized users may download the full text of dissertations and theses.

DART: developmental and reproductive toxicology:
     DART/ETIC is a bibliographic database on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET). It covers teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology. It contains over 90,000 references to literature published since 1965.

Dermatology image atlas:
     The purpose of this WWW site is to enable health care professionals, parents, and patients to access high quality dermatology images for teaching purposes.

Detroit Free Press:
     Indexed news archive from the daily Detroit free press.

Detroit News:
     Indexed news archive from the daily Detroit news.

Dissertations & Theses:
     With more than 1.6 million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. We add some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Digital Dissertations receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.

DIRLINE:
     DIRLINE (Directory of Health organizations or Directory of information resources online) is the National Library of Medicine's online interactive database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of biomedically related information resources primarily from the United States, with some coverage of international organizations. DIRLINE focuses primarily on health and biomedical information resources including organizations, government agencies, information centers, professional societies, voluntary associations, support groups, academic and research institutions, and research facilities and resources. Records contain resource names, addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of services, publications, and holdings.

DNA Patent Database (DPD):
     This database, a joint project of Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Foundation for Genetic Medicine, allows free public access to the full text and analysis of all DNA patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Users may conduct boolean searches of the full text of the patents and of delimited fields.

EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness:
     DARE is a Full Text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.

eMedicine:
     eMedicine -- instant access to the minds of medicine - world medical reference, over 7,000 full text review articles (400,000 plus printed pages); articles updated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; 25,000 multi media files, PDA downloads, every known disease and disorder documented; all articles peer reviewed by 4 physicians and a doctor of pharmacy.

Encyclopedia of Associations:
     Online version of the CD-ROM: Encyclopedia of associations CD-ROM; Consists of three files corresponding to: Vol. 1 of Encyclopedia of associations; Encyclopedia of associations. International organizations; and: Encyclopedia of associations. Regional, state, and local organizations

Entrez Gene:
     Entrez Gene provides a unified query environment for genes defined by sequence and/or in NCBI's Map Viewer. You can query on names, symbols, accessions, publications, GO terms, chromosome numbers, E.C. numbers, and many other attributes associated with genes and the products they encode.

Environmental contaminants encyclopedia:
     This data source summarizes information about contamination that effect fish, wildlife, invertebrates, and other non-human living resources. It differs from existing databases in that its emphasis is on environmental toxicology and it summarizes information on these issues into a single, easily searchable source. Some human information was also summarized when it was easy to do so or seemed important to general understanding, but the main efforts were directed at summarizing and compiling information of importance to general environmental toxicology rather than human toxicology. It contains information on 118 topics, including 30 entries covering the oil products most commonly spilled into fresh and marine waters of the U.S., according to the EPA, and 63 entries covering other oil-related topics. Files retrieved from the database are in .pdf format.

ERIC (FirstSearch):
     Citations cover research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.

Evidence based medicine reviews:
     ACP Journal Club (ACP) is the second component in Ovid's growing collection of Evidence Based Medicine Reviews collection. The ACP Journal Club Collection consists of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group.

FIRSTConsult:
     It offers intergrated access to: Differential Diagnosis Files, Medical Condition Files, Patient Education Files, Reference Centers for practical advice on non condition-specific topics and Procedures Files for guidance on surgical and diagnostic procedures.

FIRSTGOV:
     FirstGov is a virtual system that allows Internet users to search millions of U.S. Government web pages without having to know where that information lives. FirstGov.gov allows people to navigate through government web pages using topic listings, key word(s) searches, or by clicking to executive, legislative, and judicial sites. It contains links to state and local government web pages. FirstGov also provides a means for people to give feedback to agencies and to FirstGov.gov itself.

FirstSearch:
     Comprehensive parent database of databases. Enables the user to search nearly any topic from academic and professional journals within each database. Choose any subject or topic to be searched once the database is chosen. Includes journal database (ECO).

FREIDA online:
     FREIDA is a database containing information on approximately 7,500 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and 200 combined specialty programs.

GENE-TOX--Genetic toxicology (mutagenicity) data:
     Genetic toxicology from the scientific literature for over 3000 chemicals. Searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

GeneTests:
     An authoritative and frequently updated resource, helps healthcare professionals relate genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and counseling of patients and families with inherited disorders.

Genetics home reference:
     The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes responsible for those conditions.

Genome database:
     The Genome Database (GDB) stores and curates genomic mapping data submitted by researchers worldwide and provides this information electronically. Links provide searching capability by keyword, name or accession number, gene name or symbol, query forms, and map location. A link also facilitates the insertion or editing of data. Reports, statistics, and documentation for developers are available via additional links.

Haz-Map:
     Haz-Map is an occupational toxicology database designed to link jobs to hazardous job tasks which are linked to occupational diseases and their symptoms. It is a relational database of chemicals, jobs and diseases. The Haz-Map Jobs table is based on the 1997 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. The Industries table is based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Diseases table is based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9). Information from textbooks, journal articles, and electronic databases (HSDB, ACGIH Documentation of TLVs, ATSDR Toxicological Profiles, NIOSHTIC, and others) was classified and summarized to create the database.

HazDat database:
     HazDat, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the scientific and administrative database developed to provide access to information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations. The following information is included in HazDat: site characteristics, activities and site events, contaminants found, contaminant media and maximum concentration levels, impact on population, community health concerns, ATSDR public health threat categorization, ATSDR recommendations, environmental fate of hazardous substances, exposure routes, and physical hazards at the site/event. In addition, HazDat contains substance-specific information such as the ATSDR Priority List of Hazardous Substances, health effects by route and duration of exposure, metabolites, interactions of substances, susceptible populations, and biomarkers of exposure and effects. HazDat also contains data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) database, including site CERCLIS number, site description, latitude/longitude, operable units, and additional site information.

Health & wellness resource center:
     Provides full-text materials, abstracts, and citations to patient and consumer health information.

Health and psychosocial instruments:
     Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Health reference center academic:
     Provides both full-text materials and references to patient and consumer health information.

Health services and sciences research resources:
     HSRR contains information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in health services research, and the behavioral and social sciences with links to PubMed and additional resources.

Healthfinder:
     Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health information Web site from the United States Government. This site, launched April 15, 1997, contains selected health and human services information resources such as online publications, clearinghouses, databases, Web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

HealthWeb.:
     Presents HealthWeb, a directory of WWW resources selected by librarians and information professionals with an emphasis on information aimed at assisting health care professionals, as well as consumers, in solving their information problems. Includes a list of member libraries, a site search engine, and an alphabetical list of subjects. Provides access to information on AIDS, nursing, nutrition, anatomy, diabetes, physical therapy, and consumer health. Notes that information is intended for educational purposes o

HelpingPatients.org (Partnership for Prescription Insurance):
     Helping Patients brings together AmericaÆs pharmaceutical companies, doctors, patient advocacy organizations and civic groups to help low-income, uninsured patients get free or nearly free brand-name medicines. Its mission is to increase awareness of and enrollment in existing patient assistance programs for those who may be eligible. Through this site, Helping Patients offers a single point of access to more than 275 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 150 programs offered by pharmaceutical companies..

HerbMed:
     HerbMed is an herbal database, hyperlinking directly to the scientific evidence on the use of herbs for health. The herb database is fully searchable and covers: evidence for activity, warnings and contraindications, methods of preparation and mechanisms of action.

HIV InSite:
     This site strives to provide fair and balanced representation of points of view on the many aspects of AIDS. HIV InSite is designed as a gateway to in-depth information about particular aspects of HIV/AIDS. Views, policies and recommendations contained within HIV InSite materials are not necessarily shared by all HIV InSite staff, editors or sponsoring or contributing organizations. HIV InSite provides links to specific evaluated information on AIDS related research and attendant policy issues.;Site also features the new chapters of HIV InSite Knowledge Base, the comprehensive work on HIV research. The work has been a consummate source of authoritative AIDS-related knowledge. The scope of the textbook is wide and inclusive of topics of interest to those in all branches of AIDS and HIV research, medical treatment and patient care.

Household products database:
     This database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.

HSDB--Hazardous substances data bank:
     Information on toxicity, human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, and regulatory requirements of over 4500 chemicals. Searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

HSTAT :
     HSTAT is a free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text documents useful in health care decision making. HSTAT includes: clinical practice guidelines, quick-reference guide for clinicians, consumer brochures, and evidence reports sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR); AHCPR technology assessment reports; National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus development conference and technology assessment reports; NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center research protocols; HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) resource documents; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT) treatment improvement protocols; and the Public Health Service (PHS) Preventive Services Task Force Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. It also provides a link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Guidelines Database. HSTAT was developed by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Information Technology Branch of the Lister Hill Center, and is part of the expanded Health Services Research Information Program coordinated by NLM's National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). NICHSR works closely with AHCPR to improve the organization and dissemination of the results of health services research, including practice guidelines and technology assessments.

Human genome resources:
     A challenge facing researchers today is that of piecing together and analyzing the plethora of data currently being generated through the Human Genome Project and scores of smaller projects. NCBI's Web site serves an an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers from around the world so that they may use these data in their research efforts.

Images from the History of Medicine:
     This database provides access to the images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

Images.MD:
     Consists of over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed explanatory text and citation of the source.

Index catalogue:
     The National Library of Medicine's digital version of the five series of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

InfoPOEMS:
     InfoPOEMs provides you with the the tools you need to keep current in the world of medicine by providing you with our two part system of Daily or Monthly InfoPOEMs synopses and Medical InfoRetriever database.

International pharmaceutical abstracts:
     The International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Database provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly.

IRIS :
     Contains data on over 500 chemicals in support of human health risk assessment

KIRK-OTHMER ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Journal citation reports:
     The Journal citation reports is an essential, comprehensive, and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. The Science edition contains data from roughly 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology.

Lexis Nexis congressional universe:
     U.S. legislative information including hearings, reports, prints and documents and the CIS Legislative Histories from Congressional Information Service.

Lexis-Nexis academic universe:
     Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

Maternity and infant care:
     Midwifery and Infant Care is an important essential resource from MIDIRS for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. The database contains over 120,000 references with abstracts to journal articles from over 550 international English language journals, books, and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infants life. Database coverage is from the mid 1980s onwards and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month. The database also includes correspondence and commentary written in response to an article.

MayoClinic.com:
     The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research presents MayoClinic.com, an online health news resource, which has as its aim to help people find the answers and the support they need to manage illness and stay healthy. Topics covered include an index to diseases and conditions, drug information, first-aid, and questions and answers.

The Medical Letter

MD Consult :
     Mainly full text access to reference books, journals (via search strategy), practice guidelines, drug information, and selected updates.

Medical subject headings.:
     The MESH Browser is an online vocabulary look-up aid available for use with MESH (Medical subject headings). It is designed to help quickly locate descriptors of interest and to show the hierarchy in which desciptors of possible interest appear.

MEDLINE (FirstSearch):
     Indexes more than 3,500 journals in the areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, health administration and nursing.

Medline (OVID):
     Indexes biomedical literature. Areas covered include microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, environmental health,anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care.

MEDLINEplus:
     An extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.

National Center for Biotechnology Information:
     Describes the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is responsible for building, maintaining, and distributing GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database that collects all known DNA sequences from scientists worldwide. Includes GenBank overview, Searching GenBank and other Databases, Anonymous FTP access, New BankIt -- Submitting Sequences to GenBank on the WWW, new NCBI overview, Staff Research and projects, Announcements, What's New, Usage Statistics, and E-mail.

National guideline clearinghouse:
     A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.

Natural Standard:
     Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Contains three sub-databases: Herbs & supplements, contition center, and alternative modalities. For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs that are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion in Natural Standard databases."

NCI-3D database:
     A database of 126,554 substances with 2D and 3D information compiled from the National Cancer Institute. Searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.

Netlibrary:
     Contains a searchable collection of electronic books in the public domain and available for purchase.

NLM gateway:
     The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed. OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSR Proj., MEDLINEplus, and DIRLINE.

NLM LOCATORplus:
     NLM's catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools.

NTIS:
     The NTIS database consists of unclassified U.S. government-sponsored research, development, and engineering reports, as well as other analyses prepared by government agencies, their contractors, or grantees, including reports prepared by non-U.S. governments and exchanged with federal agencies. An increasing proportion of the database consists of unpublished material originating outside the U.S. The non-U.S. material emphasizes information of potential industrial interest from Western Europe and Japan. The database corresponds to several printed publications, including Government Reports Announcements & Index.

Oncology tools:
     Oncology Tools contains a variety of information related to cancer and approved cancer drug therapies.

Online Mendelian inheritance in man:
     A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.

OSHA Regulations (Standards - 29 CFR) table of contents:
     OSHA maintains this website of the 29 CFR standards. Word and phrase searching is available in these regulations. Also listed are links to parts of the regulations.

ProceedingsFirst:
     Over 19,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present.

Profiles in science:
     Contains the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists donated to the National Library of Medicine, including published and unpublished materials (books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials).

ProQuest research library core:
     Search the core for basic coverage of all subject areas.

PsycINFO:
     Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

PubMed:
     PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)--Overview.;"NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases"--Home page.

PubMed Central:
     Free online access to fulltext of life science research articles, provided by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Science citation index:
     An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of science.

Science next wave:
     Science's Next Wave, the career development resource for scientists. Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Science.gov:
     Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Developed by an interagency working group of 14 scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major U.S. government science agencies, this site provides a gateway to information resources at government science agencies. Two major types of information included are selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.

ScienceDirect:
     A Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts and the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

SciFinder Scholar:
     The SciFinder Scholar provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.

SPIN: Sponsored Programs Information Network.:
     Search interface for Medline, Agricola, patents and others.

STAT!Ref:
     Contains online version of over 30 medical textbooks and reference books.

Statistical universe:
     Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Incorporates ASI subject and keyword searching. Full text or web links provided for some citations.

Submit to GenBank:
     Presents a search form for the GenBank, the genetic sequence database for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The database is an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. Allows Boolean searches of the regular GenBank database and the GenBank updates by keyword. Reader may choose the number of hits gathered per search.

Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results:
     The SEER Program collects cancer data on a routine basis from designated population-based cancer registries in various areas of the country. Trends in cancer incidence, mortality, and patient survival in the United States, as well as many other studies, are derived from this data bank.

Test reviews online:
     Database of test information, featuring tests reviewed in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series, beginning with the 9th edition (1985). Reviews are not available on this site but may be purchased. Also includes listings of tests not yet reviewed.

TestLink:
     Contains descriptions of over 20,000 tests and other measurement devices dating from the early 1900s to the present. Entries include availability information or information on the original publisher. The database is searchable by title, author, acronym, descriptor, corporation, year or call number.

Toxicology and Environmental Information:
     The Toxicology and Environmental Health Information web site creates, organizes, and disseminates toxicology and environmental health information. The site includes links to databases such as TOXLINE and Haz-Map, special topics on current issues, consumer health sites, and National Library of Medicine resources.

Toxics release inventory:
     TRI is an annually compiled series of databases that constitute the toxic releases files on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET). This series, 1995-1997 reporting years, contains information on the annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment and is based upon data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mandated by the Superfund legislation, TRI's data covers air, water, land, and underground injection releases, as well as transfers to waste sites, and waste treatment methods and efficiency, as reported by industrial facilities around the United States. TRI also includes data related to source reduction and recycling.

TOXNET:
     This free-of-charge search interface provides access to the TOXNET system of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas, including CCRIS, ChemlDplus, DART/ETIC, EMIC, GENE-TOX, HSDB, HSDB, structures, IRIS, NCI-3D, TOXLINE, TRI. TOXNET is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of its Specialized Information Services Division.

Tumor gene database
     Search for the name of a gene, for words or phrases in the list of facts about a gene, or both.

Ulrich's international periodicals directory.:
     Contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. Includes magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications.

Web of Science:
     Online version of the print and CD-ROM versions of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & humanities citation index; Science citation index (called Science citation index expanded in online version); and, Social sciences citation index.

WebWISER: Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders:
     Designed to assist First Responders in hazardous material incidents. Provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression guidance.

WilsonSelectPlus:
     Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.

World Factbook:
     An annual publication by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with basic information about the various countries of the world.

WorldCat:
     Over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.