Bibliographic and Knowledge Databases: ALL
3D Domains are compact structural domains identified automatically in MMDB, Entrez's macromolecular three-dimensional structure database. 3D Domains are the units of comparison for structure neighbor calculations using the VAST algorithm. Links to VAST or 3D Domain neighbors display 3D Domains (and complete polypeptide chains) with similar 3D structures.
An abstracting and indexing tool for business periodicals, including English language foreign publications. It also contains the full text of selected journals from 1992 to the present.
Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals.
"Abstracts in Social Gerontology includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline. The index contains 70,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources."
A comprehensive subscription-based database of more than 8,000 journals covering many subjects.
Academic Search Premier contains full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
Indexing resource for popular periodicals. It does not duplicate any indexing in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.
United Nations publications from 1966 to the present including the full-text of most UN resolutions.
Digital collection of 2,200 full-text Humanities titles, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
An EBM database from the American College of Physicians offering enhanced abstracts of studies indentified as being methodologically sound and clinically relevant.
Provides coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences.
A selection of multidisciplinary databases from three continents. This information resource contains indexed references, many with abstracts from books, periodical articles, pamphlets, maps and music recordings.
An international index to African health literature and information sources produced by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA).
A searchable database of articles published in African medical Journals
is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). AgeLine includes summaries of journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos from many publishers and organizations, including the AARP.
A database providing access to the agricultural literature of the world. It contains bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports from 1979 to the present.
limits search results to AIDS-related citations. Click here for more information on
the Search Strategy Used to Create the
AIDS Subset on PubMed.
A combination of three database files (AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, and AIDSDRUGS) that provide information about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related topics from 1980 to the present.
A portal to alcohol research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
A citation database dealing with alcohol research from the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies
From the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, "a peer reviewed allergen list and sequence searchable database intended for identifying proteins that may present a potential risk of allergenic cross-reactivity."
assists in identifying methods and procedures helpful in supporting the development, testing, application, and validation of alternatives to the use of vertebrates in biomedical research and toxicology testing. Produced from MEDLINE database searches, performed and analyzed by subject experts from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) of the Specialized Information Services Division (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Includes recommended search hedges.
An index of alternative publications, with subjects including African-American studies, gay and lesbian studies, feminism, socialism, anarchism, labor studies, social theory, alternative organizations, community organizing, prisons, ecology, indigenous people's rights, and internationalism. English, French, and Spanish language periodicals are indexed. Coverage is from 1991 to the present.
The global clearinghouse for information on alternatives to animal testing from the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT).
"The Alzheimer Disease & Frontotemporal Dementia Mutation Database (AD&FTDMDB) aims at collecting all known mutations and non-pathogenic coding variations in the genes related to Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)."
An international index to journal articles, book and media reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The database coverage is from 1964 to the present.
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from the colonial period to the early 20th century.
"[A]uthoritative, analytic reviews in 37 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences." Guidelines for use: those using Annual Reviews online may view, reproduce or store copies of articles comprising the series provided that the articles are used only for their personal, noncommercial use. Uses beyond the Fair Use Copyright limitations require permission of the publisher.
Indexes scholarly journals and other serial publications in the field of anthropology held by the British Museum Department of Ethnology (Museum of Mankind). Materials are collected in all languages and for all geographical areas. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.
Index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly; indexes articles two or more pages long in nearly 900 journals and monographic works published in English and other European languages. Coverage from 19th century to present.
As a compilation of the Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature databases, Anthropology Plus is the worlds most comprehensive index of bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
Archive for transcriptomics data, which is aimed at storing MIAME- and MINSEQE- compliant data in accordance with MGED recommendations.
access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of
art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Major areas of coverage include: aquaculture, aquatic organisms, aquatic pollution, brackish water environments, conservation, environmental quality, fisheries, freshwater environments, limnology, marine biotechnology, marine environments, meteorology, oceanography, policy and legislation and wildlife management. Indexing is from 1971 to the present.
This indexing and abstracting resource covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education.
Information on international, national, regional, state and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. It includes IRS data on US 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
An index of citations in the scholarly fields of religion. It covers the research literature of religion in more than 30 languages and contains journal articles, essays and book reviews. Coverage is from 1949 to the present.
Database of images, edited by specialists in the field, available free of charge.
Online continuation of the World Health Organization's World Directory of Medical Schools. Lists medical schools by country, city, and school name.
BAS is the major multi-disciplinary index for the study of East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Bioethics-filtered search boxes for MEDLINE/PubMed and NLM Catalog
Links to other NLM databases or information resources such as Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus including its Go Local service for finding local resources for health-related issues, and the NLM Gateway.
Links to NIH's Bioethics Resources on the Web and other bioethics-related Web sites such as the National Bioethics Advisory Committee and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) at Georgetown University.
This subset of the Medline database includes journal and newspaper articles, court decisions, and laws related to bioethics. Click here for more information on the
the Search Strategy Used" to Create the Bioethics Subset on PubMed.
Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
The electronic version of Biological Abstracts (held at the Science-Engineering Library). It covers many science disciplines, including biochemistry, ecology, microbiology, neurosciences and many others. Materials indexed are in many languages. Coverage is from 1989 to the present.
Contains records for millions of current, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, e-book, audio book, and video titles. Users can create a "BIP Alert" to receive an email when titles matching their search criteria are released.
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.
An index of 1,200 scholarly business journals back to 1886, including full text for selected publications.
Three databases, the NCI/NCBI SKY/M-FISH & CGH Database, the NCI Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, and the NCI Recurrent Aberrations in Cancer , are now integrated into NCBI's Entrez system as Cancer Chromosomes.
A searchable database of cancer related clinical trials from the National Cancer Institute.
The un-curated section of CDD contains domains imported from SMART, Pfam and COGs. The source databases also provide descriptions and links to citations. Because conserved domains correspond to compact structural units, CDs are linked to 3D structure when possible. The NCBI-curated section of CDD attempts to group ancient domains related by common descent into family hierarchies.
CRD was established in January 1994, and produces and promotes the use of research based knowledge in health and social care.
A data bank containing chemical records with carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition test results.
A database of the structural and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.
is a database containing "references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide.
Up to date trend data for leading indicators of child and adolescent health, compiled from Federal reports.
at the University of Michigan is an international Center designed to advance the study and understanding of China. A primary goal of the Center is the integration of historical, social and natural science data in a geographic information system, where spatial and temporal references are maintained through a relational database.
The database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health, including publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. CINAHL dates from 1982 to the present. Through EBSCOhost. Limited concurrent users on this resource.
The CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research currently contains over 27,000 citations of international rehabilitation research published between 1990 and the present.
provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
An EBM database containing bibliographic references to controlled trials in health care.
A full-text EBM database containing meta-reviews of current medical research.
This multifile database allows simultaneous searching of EBM Review databases: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE),
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials,
Cochrane Methodology Register,
Health Technology Assessment Database,
and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
"[A] bibliography of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials."
is a source for theory and research in international affairs. Contains a range of scholarship from 1991 to present. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Chemical database containing over 500,000 substances.
A database listing notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.
searches will be automatically limited to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed.
Database of federally funded research projects on dietary supplements.
offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 6,500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.
Full-text research reports on issues in business management and on US and global economics. Covers business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, and more. Full-text coverage 1998 to date. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
from the Institute for Scientific Information, 1990- present.
from the Institute for Scientific Information, 1990- present.
Full text basic background information on issues of interest to Congress. Excellent starting point for research into major public issues, with summary coverage to all sides of issues and useful bibliographies. From 1991.
An online version of the CIS Index on LEXIS-NEXIS, which abstracts US Congressional publications from 1970 to the present. The publications include Bills, Hearings, Committee Prints, House and Senate Reports, House and Senate Documents, Senate Treaty Documents, Senate Executive Reports, and the Congressional Record. The database also includes Public Laws, the US Code, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, Congress Daily, and the National Journal.
A collection of biographies of currently active authors.
A database providing excerpts from critical works on major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Extensive bibliographies are also included for each individual work, and for the author as a whole.
International in scope, covering such subjects as violence and sexual exploitation, human rights, development, health, family life and the arts.
Corporate linkage information on nearly 200,000 prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions, down to the seventh level of corporate linkage. Includes major public and private businesses in the United States and throughout the world.
A research funding database that includes grants from around the world. Updated daily, COS Funding Opportunities provides information on research, activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisition and capital expenses.
Crime trends, crime prevention, punishment and sentencing. 1968-present.
Detailed abstracts and indexing for U.S. and international journals in law enforcement, social work, drug rehabilitation, criminal and family law, industrial security and other criminal justice fields. More than 50 titles in full-text; abstracts and indexing for 140 more. Coverage: 1981 to present.
Criminal justice, corrections, penology, policing. 1976-present.
Politics, international relations, government, public policy. 1975-present.
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields.
CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.
Most recent monitoring data from the Healthy People 2010 program. Updated quarterly.
A full-text EBM database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.
A unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements.
"This database shows the results of our ongoing survey of museums, libraries, archives and historical societies about their dental artifacts." From the American Academy of the History of Dentistry.
A database covering teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology.
allows you to search 1000+ differential diagnoses by: symptoms, diseases, organ systems.
Featuring the content of Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 4th ed., by Diana Nicoll, Stephen J. McPhee, Michael Pignone.
The Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC), part of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, working with the Office of Dietary Supplements, NIH, and other federal agencies, has developed a Dietary Supplement Ingredient Databases (DSID) to estimate levels of ingredients in dietary supplement products.
Customized search for published scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. Replaces the IBIDS database, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplement at the National Institutes of Health.
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about label ingredients in more than 6,000 selected brands of dietary supplements.
The National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, databases, and electronic bulletin boards concerned with health and biomedicine.
began DNA data bank activities in earnest in 1986 at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG).
has been functioning as the international nucleotide sequence database in collaboration with EBI/EMBL and NCBI/GenBank.
Current information regarding consumer health, clinical trials, AIDSrelated drug information, MeSHﾮ pharmacological actions, PubMedﾮ biomedical literature, and physical properties and structure is easily retrieved by searching on a drug name. A varied selection of focused topics in medicine and drugrelated information is also available from displayed subject headings.
Includes a variety of full text and popular databases from leading information providers. Databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.
A database covering journal articles, dissertations, book chapters and conference proceedings on topics that include economic theory and history; monetary theory and financial institutions; labor economics; international, regional and urban economics and other related subjects. Coverage is from 1969 to present.
an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.
Education Full Text is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. All levels of education, from preschool to adult are covered as are educational administration, evaluation and current issues in education. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full text coverage begins in January 1996.
Collection of 520 full-text education journals, including about 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.
A database indexing engineering journals, conferences and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. About half the citations include abstracts and indexing. Coverage is from 1884 to the present.
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the worlds largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm. 1
Country Profiles and Country Reports for 48 African and Latin American countries and the following publications: Business Asia, Business China, Business Eastern Europe, Business Europe, Business Latin America, Country Commerce, Country Finance, and Country Monitor.
Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource
Entrez's Global Query System allows a user to run a search against all National Center for Biotechnology Information databases simultaneously.
A unified query environment for genes defined by sequence and/or in NCBI's Map Viewer.
A database providing views for a variety of genomes, complete chromosomes, sequence maps with contigs, and integrated genetic and physical maps.
A database of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, and PDB.
A database of DNA sequences that have been collected to analyse the evolutionary relatedness of a population.
Protein entries compiled from a variety of sources, including SwissProt, PIR, PRF, PDB, and translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank and RefSeq.
A database acting as a single repository for both single base nucleotide substititions and short insertion and deletion polymorphisms.
The Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB) contains 3D macromolecular structures, including proteins and polynucleotides.
A NCBI taxonomy database containing the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.
Covers "agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more." Coverage from 1940s to present. Full text for over 680 journals, abstracts for many more.
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of education from early childhood through post-graduate levels. The database covers 1982 to the present.
Annual private business financial reports.
Ethnic News Watch is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. The database contains more than 1.1 million articles from more than 260 publications.
Alexander Street Anthropology is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Features cross-searchable access to Ethnographic Video Online and the Anthropology Online collections.
A bibliographic database indexing journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audio-visuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics.
developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and now maintained by the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, is an annotated collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters intended to assist experimental researchers as well as computer analysts in the investigation of eukaryotic transcription signals.
Searches full-text articles from PubMed Central and Abstracts from PubMed. Includes 'citations network' tool to show when works have been cited by others.
Study for the USMLE, board certification exams, and review medical subjects. One time registration required. Internet Explorer only.
Search a variety of disciplines: arts and humanities; social sciences; science and technology.
a Dow Jones-Reuters database providing full text access to all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal (1979 - present), Barron's, the New York Times, and 8,000 other publications; business reports and business briefings.
Available only on Boston University Campuses.
The Federal Register (FR) lists US federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations.
A database indexing articles published in French and English film and television periodicals from 1972 to the present.
is a comprehensive database for information on the genetics and molecular biology of Drosophila. It includes data from the Drosophila Genome Projects and data curated from the literature. FlyBase is a joint project with the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. FlyBase is supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the British Medical Research Council.
Nearly 700 volumes of foreign and international laws.
Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a custom search.
An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
Company profiles, investment reports, news and theory. 1980-present. Some full text.
A datafile containing genetic toxicology (mutagenicity) chemical test data, resulting from expert review of the scientific literature.
A bibliographic database from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.Includes: books, journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news articles and audiovisuals relating to ethics and public policy issues in genetics.
The GENSAT project aims to map the expression of genes in the central nervous system of the mouse, using both in situ hybridization and transgenic mouse techniques.
GEO DataSets stores curated gene expression and molecular abundance DataSets assembled from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository. Enter search terms to locate experiments of interest. DataSet records contain additional resources including cluster tools and differential expression queries.
GEO Profiles stores individual gene expression and molecular abundance profiles assembled from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository. Search for specific profiles of interest based on gene annotation or pre-computed profile characteristics. GEO Profiles facilitates powerful searching and linking to additional information sources.
A database established by the American Geological Institute covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and worldwide publications from 1933 to the present. It includes references to all publications of the US Geological Survey.
World Bank data on debt in developing countries.
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications is available through GPO Access, a Service of the Government Printing Office.
allows organizations to electronically find and apply for Federal grants. It is a single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by Federal grant-making agencies.
Serves as a multidisciplinary environmental resource containing nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles.
A database that focuses on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, including information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate and regulatory requirements.
an authoritative, in-depth, and practice-oriented legal analysis of important issues affecting the health care industry, in combination with full text of the statutes, regulations, and agency documents. Contains a digest of recent state legislative activity, multiple topical surveys of state law, and a news archive.
Provides access to full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's Health Reference Center.
provides specialized PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
Database of evidence-based resources such as systematic reviews and meta analyses relating to public health topics.
The National Health Council's initiative to bring researchers together with
potential funding sources.
A database offering historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Includes new sequences presented in GenBank format, alignments of all HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV genes, analysis of genetic sequences including phylogenetic trees, related cellular protein sequences, and diskettes in GB or EMBL format.
HomoloGene is a system for automated detection of homologs among the annotated genes of several completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes.
Information in the Household Products Database is taken from a variety of publicly available sources, including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) prepared by manufacturers. Based on the Consumer Product Information Database, by DeLima Associates. All rights reserved.
HSRProj contains descriptions of ongoing health services research projects funded by government agencies, foundations, and private organizations. Researchers, policymakers, managers, clinicians, and librarians can use HSRProj to access information about health services research before results are available in a published form.
A database created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity.
Part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc, which includes bibliographic metadata from over 1,500 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets.
(IEL) is IEEE's most comprehensive full-text collection. IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. and IET is the Institution of Engineering Technology. IEL provides access to a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature.
Images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). 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.
A "resource specialized in the immunoglobulins (IG), T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC), immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF), major histocompatibility complex superfamily (MhcSF) and related proteins of the immune system (RPI) of human and other vertebrate species."
Books is a bibliographic index to legal periodical articles, including law reviews, bar association journals, selected legal magazines and newspapers, and yearbooks. Coverage begins in 1980. Emphasis is on the U.S. and other English-language nations. It also indexes law books published in 1993 and after.
"A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716." Links to full text where available.
is the online Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, (Index-Catalogue), printed from 1880 - 1961 in five (5) series consisting of sixty-one (61) volumes.
A database covering prominent peer reviewed Indian biomedical journals.
"[A] searchable database with information on allergenic foods which has been developed with funding from the European Union...aims to supply credible information on allergenic foods."
Thomson Gale's single electronic resource providing access to a large number of periodicals. Access periodical and news content from a variety of general and specialized journals. Articles in Infotrac OneFile may be translated into eight different languages.
is a database from the Institution of Electrical Engineers. It includes electrical engineering and electronics, computers, information technology, physics and more. Coverage from 1898 to the present.
A database focusing on human health risk assessment, including hazard identification, dose-response assessment, carcinogen classifications, unit risks, slope factors, oral reference doses, and inhalation reference concentrations.
Social science data sets. Some content requires registration.
is a source of financial statistics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IFS includes data on exchange rates, international interest rates, prices, production and international transactions (including balance of payments) as well as individual country's government finance and national account data.
The IFS database contains international financial statistical data.
Access from MS Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9 ONLY.
IOP Publishing provides publications through which leading-edge scientific research is disseminated internationally.
Evaluates and compares journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The JCR shows the:
most frequently cited journals in a field; highest impact journals in a field; largest journals in a field.
A full-text collection of back issues of core scholarly journals, including journals in African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
Media intelligence products.
A database with information on drugs and lactation geared to the healthcare practitioner and nursing mother.
database contains fiction and poetry representing Chicano culture and the various ethnicities of Latin American writers working in the United States, together with over 450 plays.
Administrative rules and regulations as well as historical legal materials.
a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.
Full-text databases of current information from news, business, legal, and reference sources.
A database indexing journal articles, books, research reports, and conference proceedings in the field of library science from the 1960's to the present.
Covers the health sciences literature published in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean since 1982.
A database indexing journal articles, working papers and thesis in the field of linguistics from 1985 to the present.
Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more
contemporary legal studies - the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections.
A database providing access to health status, health outcome, program utilization, and demographic data sets for communities in Massachusetts.
Full text of 11 Massachusetts newspapers: Boston Globe; Boston Herald; Business West; Gazette (Haverhill); North Adams Transcript; Plymouth County Business Review; Sentinel and Enterprise (Fitchburg); Standard Times; Telegram and Gazette (Worcester); Berkshire Eagle; Patriot Ledger (Quincy); Sun (Lowell).
Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, from the American Mathematical Society. Index and review of mathematical literature. Coverage 1940-present.
restricts searches to the following areas: Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Description,
Management, Genetic Counseling, Molecular Genetics, Genetic Testing
MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Our primary access to Medline is through PubMed.
Consumer level health information from the National Institute of Health. Available in English and Spanish. Provides links for information in other languages.
Access to full text reviews and citations from the print publications Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print.
is a comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. METADEX contains over 1,425,000 references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index, and Alloys Index.
Sources covered include periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
A database listing editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines for periodicals.
A database indexing critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics and folklore. MLA provides access to journals, series, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and dissertations. Indexing is from 1981 to the present.
A collection of in vivo molecular imaging agents developed for positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), and optical imaging.
Over 100 electronic books from Cambridge University Press in the fields of history, law, political science and social science.
Contains declassified government documents. The resource includes 33 collections consisting of over 80,000 indexed documents.
Databases containing bibliographic information and abstracts for health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
Provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions. Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
Public access to nucleotide, protein, and variation databases as well as free alignment and visualization tools.
Images from articles in PubMed Central. Searchable. Images subject to same general copyright restrictions as material on all NCBI sites.
are prepared literature searches of the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Literature citations on more than 100 subjects may be obtained. All citations on a specific topic may be retrieved, or limited by selecting one of three date ranges.
limits search results to cancer-related citations. Click here for more information on the
the Search Strategy Used " to create the cancer subset on PubMed.
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database contains over 6000 abstracts of quality assessed economic evaluations. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool: replaces the CRISP database for reports and analysis of National Institutes of Health research.
Promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Contains books, periodicals and a statistical database.
"A database of genes, inherited disorders and traits in animal species (other than human and mouse)."
A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories
Collection of language and subject reference e-books on a wide variety of topics. Many dictionaries for specific languages and subjects.
Boston University has access to the 'Philosophy' and 'Religion' collections.
Database of protein structure information
is NCI's comprehensive cancer database, contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care; a registry of thousands of open and closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, genetic counselors, and organizations that provide cancer care.
A database that indexes and abstracts books, contributions to anthologies, and articles from 1940 to the present for English-language sources, and from 1967 to present for non-English sources. It covers philosophy and related fields, including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of various disciplines such as education, history and law.
PEDro was "developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy."
A database that provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment.
An electronic index to the worldwide literature on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and other disorders resulting from exposure to traumatic events.
Public data repository for proteomics data. Provides protein and peptide identifications together with the evidence supporting these identifications.
provides access to the full text of over 330 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal.
searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
from the American Psychological Association (APA), over 30,000 chapters in PDF from nearly 2,000 books published by the APA and other publishers.
covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
A bibliographic database that indexes journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and other documents in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.
The PubChem BioAssay result browser allows you to examine descriptions of each assay's parameters and readouts. You may use it to select those parameters and readouts most relevant to the biological activity of interest.
The PubChem Compound Database contains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance.
PubChem substance database contains chemical structures, synonyms, registration IDs, description, related urls, database cross-reference links to PubMed, protein 3D structures, and biological screening results. If the contents of a chemical sample are known, the description includes links to PubChem Compound.
A bibliographic database of citations to public policy literature in books, journal articles and government documents. Coverage is from 1972 to the present.
Specialized PubMed EBM search filters for clinicians.
A product of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
a collection of three business databases - Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase)
Indexes and abstracts more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of more than 120 of those periodicals.
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Abstracts of articles and books: some full text content back to 1975.
A digital library that gathers and organizes scientific literature from a variety of hard-science and soft-science fields, including computer science.
An international bibliography of articles, festschriften, congress and conference reports, and dissertations in the field of music and related disciplines.
an archive of music journalism.
Provides access to full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using
RoperExpress. Roper Center also includes
iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935.
English and foreign language journal articles, reports, conferences, and books about all aspects of rural development in developing countries from environmental management to technical progress, poverty and women's studies. Coverage includes policy and development, land reform, employment, land and water resources, biotechnology, microfinance, education and extension, health and nutrition. Updated weekly. From 1990-present.
A database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly known as baker's or budding yeast.
Collection of over 170 e-books on business, technology and computer science.
Searchable information on hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) system in mice and humans.
More than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including technical, medical and social sciences.
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is comprehensive science-specific search engine. Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages. Identifies scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data; locates reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre-prints and journals.
retrieves over 20,000 references on smallpox and related diseases from PubMed/MEDLINE from the years 1949 to the present. See details of the search strategy below.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
A bibliographic database providing access to the world's literature in theoretical and applied sociology and related fields. It contains abstracts of journal articles from Sociological Abstracts since 1974, Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) since 1979, and relevant dissertations since 1986.
Social, environmental, and governance research on more than 4,000 companies in 50+ global markets, including over 3,000 U.S. corporations. Provides social ratings on companies covering community relations, corporate governance, diversity, employee relations, human rights, products, and the environment.
contains more than 270,000 articles in the field of optics and photonics.
The database contains citations to articles, theses and dissertations in the areas of sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, coaching, physical education, sport law and fitness. Coverage is primarily from 1975 to the present, although citations have been selected from as far back as 1830.
a comprehensive, professional source of proprietary analysis on industry analysis & trends, corporate activities, and investment evaluations. For non-business students, the service includes a Financial Education section with tools for understanding personal finance.
A standard for financial statement comparative analysis. Developed from balance sheet and income statement performance measures.
is an online version of three indexes: American Statistics Index, covering 1973 to the present; Index to International Statistics, covering 1983 to the present; and Statistical Reference Index, covering 1980 to the present. The database indexes and abstracts social, demographic, and economic statistics published by the U.S. government, the U.N. and other international governmental organizations, as well as US state governments, and US private nonprofit and commercial associations and organizations. Most of these publications are available in the ASI, IIS, and SRI microfiche collections in Mugar Library. The PowerTables section of the database contains complete statistical tables, and may be searched separately.
Synthesis Protocols is a database for solid phase, solution phase and library synthesis procedures currently developed at Boston University's Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development (CMLD-BU). Registration required.
A database of chemical and toxicology information geared to the general public.
limits search results to toxicology-related citations. Click here for more information on the
Search Strategy Used to create the toxicology Subset on PubMed.
Information on the annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment.
A collection of online bibliographic information covering the pharmacological, biochemical, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
A network of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It includes a variety of resources including access to journal literature, and information on hazardous substances, genetic toxicology, chemical carcinogens, and developmental and reproductive toxicology.
A clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice
A computerized databank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for most countries and areas of the world.
Full-page images of U.S. patents filed since 1790; full-text of those since 1976.
"Ulrichs Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world."
A single entry point to United Nations statistical databases.
The purpose of NLM's Unified Medical Language Systemﾮ (UMLS) is to facilitate the development of computer systems that behave as if they "understand" the meaning of the language of biomedicine and health.
UniGene is an experimental system for automatically partitioning GenBank sequences into a non-redundant set of gene-oriented clusters. Each UniGene cluster contains sequences that represent a unique gene, as well as related information such as the tissue types in which the gene has been expressed and map location.
An annotated protein sequence knowledgebase.
A comprehensive database of sequence tagged sites (STSs) derived from STS-based maps and other experiments. STSs are defined by PCR primer pairs and are associated with additional information such as genomic position, genes, and sequences.
Provides two directories: American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries, and Foreign Firms Operating in the United States.
Information on investment research.
Combines databases on aspects of international and African water research. Includes six of the world's major water resource databases: WATERLIT (compiled by and/or copyright of NISC South Africa); The Freshwater Biological Association Catalogue (FBA) (compiled by and/or copyright of Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), UK); The International Water Management Institute Database (IWMI) (compiled by and/or copyright of International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka); AQUAREF (compiled by and/or copyright of Environment Canada, Inland Waters Directorate); AQUIRE (compiled by and/or copyright of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and Delft Hydro Database (compiled by and/or copyright of Delft Hydraulics, The Netherlands).
Includes: Science Citation Index,1965-; Social Science Citation Index, 1965-;
Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-;
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) --1990-present;
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present.
Index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
A database combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database (1972-), European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610-), POPLINE Subset on Women (1964 and earlier-), Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995), and four files from Women's Studies Librarian.
Use World Development Indicators (WDI) for sophisticated data retrieval and presentation, charting and mapping, and exporting of data. WDI is arranged in six sections: world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. Contains more than 850 indicators, 209 countries, 18 groups, and over 40 years (1960 to 2007) of data, where data are available. The tables cover 209 economies and 18 country groups with basic indicators for a further 62 economies.
Regional bibliographic databases covering health material published in Africa, The Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America & Caribbean and South-East Asia.
Full-text summaries in English of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.
The OCLC Online Union Catalog contains items owned by Boston area libraries and libraries around the world. WorldCat contains records books, journals, musical scores, computer data files, magazines, newspapers, computer programs, manuscripts, sound recordings, films and slides, maps, videotapes.
