The following are suggested starting points for literature searching by topic. If you don't find what you need, please call the Library at (312) 942-5950, or or email lib_ref@rush.edu.
Clinical Medicine
- DynaMed - Trial
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- DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care’. Clinically-organized summaries are available for nearly 2,000 topics. The resource is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services
- PubMed
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- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Medline via OvidSP
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- MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
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UpToDate
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- UpToDate covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 76,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 254,000 references, and a drug database. Physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously. An updated version of UpToDate is released every four months. UpToDate is evidence-based and uses a literature-driven updating system; more than 400 journals are monitored by editors and authors, and anytime something of importance is published, it is incorporated into the program.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
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MD Consult
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- MD Consult includes full-text access to 55+ clinical journals, 40+ core medical textbooks, 600+ peer reviewed clinical practice guidelines, drug information for more than 30,000 medications and about 3000 customizable patient education handouts.
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Access Medicine
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- AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, and case management decisions or conducting research.
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ACP Journal Club
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- 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. These articles are summarized in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.
Evidence Based Practice
- ACP Journal Club
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- 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. These articles are summarized in value-added abstracts and commented on by clinical experts.
- ACP Medicine
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- ACP Medicine is an internal medicine reference aimed at primary care practitioners and residents.
- CINAHL
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- CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
- Clinical Evidence
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- BMJ database of medical resources for treatment decisions and patient care.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
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- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases. This database is updated quarterly.
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
- Cochrane Methodology Register
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- The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and in some cases, a summary of the article.
- ConsultGeriRN
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- ConsultGeriRN.org is the geriatric clinical nursing website of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University College of Nursing. ConsultGeriRN.org is an evidence-based online resource for nurses in clinical and educational settings. ConsultGeriRN.org is funded in part by a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
- DynaMed - Trial
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- DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care’. Clinically-organized summaries are available for nearly 2,000 topics. The resource is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services.
- Medline via OvidSP
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- MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
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- The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]). The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.
- PubMed
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- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
- UpToDate
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- UpToDate covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties and includes more than 76,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 254,000 references, and a drug database. Physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously. An updated version of UpToDate is released every four months. UpToDate is evidence-based and uses a literature-driven updating system; more than 400 journals are monitored by editors and authors, and anytime something of importance is published, it is incorporated into the program.
Nursing
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CINAHL
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- CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
- ConsultGeriRN
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- ConsultGeriRN.org is the geriatric clinical nursing website of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University College of Nursing. ConsultGeriRN.org is an evidence-based online resource for nurses in clinical and educational settings. ConsultGeriRN.org is funded in part by a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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- This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Nursing Reference Center - rial
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- Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC), is an evidence-based, point-of-care resource for nurses from the provider of CINAHL®. NRC features clinically organized quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, point-of-care drug information, patient education, best practice guidelines, detailed medical illustrations, the latest medical news, legal cases, research instruments, unique point-of-care reference books, and more.
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PubMed
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- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Medline via OvidSP
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- MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
Psychology
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PsycInfo
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- The PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
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PsycArticles
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- PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
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- Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
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Tests in Print
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- Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
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- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
Drugs
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MD Consult
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- MD Consult includes full-text access to 55+ clinical journals, 40+ core medical textbooks, 600+ peer reviewed clinical practice guidelines, drug information for more than 30,000 medications and about 3000 customizable patient education handouts.
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Lexi-Comp Online
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- Comprehensive Drug-to-Drug, Drug-to-Herb and Herb-to-Herb Interaction Analysis (via Up-To-Date).
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Access Medicine
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- AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, and case management decisions or conducting research.
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TOXNET
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- TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program in the Division of Specialized Information Services of the National Library of Medicine. TOXNET provides free access to 15 databases, including HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), GENE-TOX, Tox Town, Household Products Database, LactMed, and TOXLINE.
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Facts and Comparisons #
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Password Required Drug Facts and Comparisons contains more than 22,000 Rx and almost 6,000 OTC drugs grouped by therapeutic category for ease of comparison. Drug Facts and Comparisons online offers thousands of easy-to-read charts and tables. Also included are orphan and investigational drug information. Ideal for pharmacists, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, students, pharmacies and hospitals who need to keep current on all changes in the drug industry.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
Consumer Health / Patient Education
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MedlinePlus
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- Extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
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NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
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- NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased
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Krames On-Demand *
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- Available on campus only. Evidence-based, peer-reviewed patient education. Clinicians can personalize information for individual patients.
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AccessMedicine: Patient Education
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- Provided courtesy of McGraw-Hill's Postgraduate Medicine: The Practical Peer-Reviewed Journal for Primary Care Physicians.
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Consumer Health Complete
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- Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
Allied Health
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Communication Sciences and Disorders DOME via CSA Illumina
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- ComDisDome is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.
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OT Search (OT BIBSYS) #
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Password Required OT Search is a bibliographic database covering the literature of occupational therapy and related subject areas, such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry or psychology, and health care delivery or administration. The full text of the indexed resources is not in this database, just the bibliographic information to identify the material and the author's abstract when one exists.
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CINAHL
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- CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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PubMed
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- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Medline via OvidSP
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- MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
Biomedical Research
- Journal Citation Reports via Web of Knowledge
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- See who's citing you. ISI Web of Knowledge is a search environment that gives you access to objective content and powerful tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
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TOXNET
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- TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program in the Division of Specialized Information Services of the National Library of Medicine. TOXNET provides free access to 15 databases, including HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), GENE-TOX, Tox Town, Household Products Database, LactMed, and TOXLINE.
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Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database
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- The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD) is an online source of information on in vivo molecular imaging agents based on recommendations from the extramural community. MICAD was established as a key component of the "Molecular Libraries and Imaging" program of the NIH Roadmap, a set of major inter-agency initiatives accelerating medical research. By linking programs in molecular imaging, molecular probes, and molecular libraries, the NIH Roadmap provides much needed support for the development of new, more specific therapies for a wide range of diseases. MICAD is edited by a team of scientific editors and curators at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. This program is under the guidance of a trans-NIH panel of experts in the field. The database includes but is not limited to agents developed for positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), optical imaging, planar radiogragphy, and planar gamma imaging. It contains textual information, references, numerous links to MEDLINE, and additional related resources at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and elsewhere.
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PubChem
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- PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. More information about using each component database may be found using the links above. Links from PubChem's chemical structure records to other Entrez databases provide information on biological properties. These include links to PubMed scientific literature and NCBI's protein 3D structure resource. Links to PubChem's bioassay database present the results of biological screening. Links to depositor web sites provide further information. A PubChem FTP site, Download Facility, Power User Gateway(PUG), Standardization Service, Score Matrix Service, and Deposition Gateway are also available.
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Nucleotide
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- The Entrez Nucleotide database is a collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, and PDB. The number of bases in these databases continues to grow at an exponential rate.
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Clinical Trials
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- ClinicalTrials.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. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM), has developed this site in collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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DNA Patent Database
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- The DNA Patent Database permits full-text searching of DNA-based patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1971. Containing over 26,000 entries, the database provides free public access to information relevant to policy questions in biotechnology.
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GenBank
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- GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. A new release is made every two months. GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which is comprised of the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. These three organizations exchange data on a daily basis. Each GenBank entry includes a concise description of the sequence, the scientific name and taxonomy of the source organism, and a table of features that identifies coding regions and other sites of biological significance, such as transcription units, sites of mutations or modifications, and repeats. Protein translations for coding regions are included in the feature table. Bibliographic references are included along with a link to the Medline unique identifier for all published sequences.
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PubMed
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- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Medline via OvidSP
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- MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
Statistics
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
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- The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
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Childstats.gov Forum on Child and Family Statistics
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- The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, or the Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum has partners from 22 Federal agencies as well as partners in private research organizations.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics
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- Provides the latest national data on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drug abuse; drug related emergrncy department episodes and medical examiner cases; and the nation's substance abuse treatment system.
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Health, United States
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- Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics. Published by the CDC.
Education
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ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
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- ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
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Professional Development Collection
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- Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
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SCOPUS
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- SCOPUS is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, and 431 million quality web sources, including 23 million patents.
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Academic Search Premier
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- Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
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Proquest Digital Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
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- Contains information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Publications range from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Those 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. To access "Dissertations & Theses @ Rush", click on the "Databases Selected" link and select the box for "Dissertations & Theses @ Rush University".
