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Electronic Databases

Access to electronic databases varies according to licensing arrangements with publishers and/or vendors.

Asterisked - (*) - titles are available via the proxy server only to members of the MCPHS community.

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UN/PW REQUIRED indicates that a publisher/vendor requires the use of an additional specific username and password to complete the logon procedure. Members of the MCPHS community can get a list of the passwords here.

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* Academic Index (Expanded Academic ASAP)§
A cross-disciplinary database that emphasizes the indexing of scholarly journals; Some FTavailable.

* Academic OneFile§
Contains peer-reviewed, FT articles from high-quality international journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily. (1980 +) Also includes FT coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

* ACP Journal Club§
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
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. FT. (1991- )
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

AgeLine
Citations, abstracts, and content summaries of current literature on aging; Updated regularly; Produced by AARP. (1978 + with selected coverage 1966 - 1977)

AGRICOLA
Also known as the NAL Catalog. A free bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library
Search separately for books or journal articles

Alcohol History Database
An index to a special collection of over 500 historical materials (monographs, pamphlets, and periodicals, and images) from the American Temperance and Prohibition Movements. Dates from the 1700s to the 1960s, concentrating mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Developed by the Center of Alcohol Studies and the Scholarly Communication Center at Rutgers University.

Alcohol Studies Database
Research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences. From Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies and Rutgers University Libraries. (1987 +)

* AltHealthWatch
A full-text database focused on alternative, complimentary and integrated approaches to healthcare.
Through EBSCO

* AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database)
A database from the British Library covering journals in complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry and palliative care.
Through EBSCO

* Analytical Abstracts
MCPHS no longer subscribes to this database. Try SciFinder Scholar.

AnatLine
A database of gross anatomy images of the human body; developed and provided by the NLM

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* Biography Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who§
Biographies and quick reference information. Includes full text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

* Books@OVID
* Most have 3 simultaneous users!
- Electronic versions of 44 highly regarded titles in medicine and related subjects. These titles are all searchable!
- Through OVID.

* Britannica Online
Online version of Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes links to sites on the Web with relevant information to topic being researched. 

* Business Index ASAP§
Covers management issues, economic indicators, business theories and practices, as well as activities of companies and industries worldwide. Access to academic and business journals with full text and images.

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CAM on PubMed
Citations related to complementary and alternative medicine. Developed by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the NLM. Citations are extracted as a subset from the NLM's PubMed. (1963 + )

Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
An international listing of over 2100 clinical trials, searchable by medical specialty and geographic region. Also contains information about drugs newly approved by the FDA.

CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
CHID was discontinued 9/1/06, but the information contained within the database is available through other means. Links to other US government health sites are listed.

* CINAHL with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
*4 simultaneous users
Literature related to nursing and allied health; also consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship; indexes over 2900 journals; also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and AV materials in nursing, the Pre-CINAHL dataset, and more. ( 1981 + )
Full Text to over 600 nursing & allied health journals!!
Through EBSCO.

* Clin-eguide
*15 simultaneous users!
An online clinical decision support system that provides evidence-based information for health care providers; Integrates content from Ovid, Facts & Comparisons (eFacts), and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, as well as other premier publishers. From Wolters Kluwer. *

* Clinical Reference Library (Lexi-Comp Online)
Handbooks of:

  • Acronyms and Abbreviations,
  • Advanced Practice Nursing,
  • Anesthesiology & Critical Care Drugs,
  • Criminal Justice Drugs,
  • Dental Drug Information,
  • Diagnostic Procedures,
  • Drug Information,
  • Drug Information for the Allied Health Professional,
  • Geriatric Dosage,
  • Infectious Diseases,
  • Lab Tests,
  • Oncology Drug Information,
  • Pediatric Dosage,
  • Poisoning and Toxicology

* Clinical Pharmacology
- Access to monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, OTC products, new and investigational drugs, and patient education information (in English and Spanish). Also includes PIER Online (evidence based clinical information from the ACP). MCPHS users can download CP OnHand to their PDA from this site

ClinicalTrials.gov
Current information about clinical research studies.

* Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR)
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
A bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials; formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.
Produced by the NLM (Medline) and Reed Elsevier (Embase)
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane DSR)
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
Also known as COCH; Includes the FT of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types:

  • Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups
  • Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared. Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* Cochran Methodology Register
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
A database of studies relevant to the methods of systematic reviews of healthcare and social interventions.
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* CollegeSource® Online
A database of college catalogs with course descriptions. 1992+
Type: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy into the query box.

* Complete German Commission E Monographs
Monographs produced by an expert committee formed by the German government to evaluate the safety and efficacy of more than 300 herbs and herb combinations; Includes: 380 Monographs, 190 Herbs and Fixed Combinations approved for therapeutic use, 150 Indications, Glossary of anatomical, botanical, medical, pharmaceutical, and technical terms; Common, Latin, Pharmacopeial, and Therapeutic indexes for Uses & Indications, Contraindications, Side Effects, and Pharmacological Actions. This is the American Botanical Council’s English translation.

* Complete Human Anatomy Primal 3D Interactive Series
* Available for Manchester PA students only!!

* Contemporary Literary Criticism§
Large collection of critical essays, each of which contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of major works, and other resources; Some FT available.

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
A biomedical database system containing information on research projects and programs that are supported by the Department of Health and Human Services and are being conducted at universities, hospitals, and other institutions.

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*Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
Contains critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals; FT; Consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from all over the world; Covers topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. Produced by National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England.
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

DoD Biomedical Research Database
Indexes Department of Defense funded research, testing and training programs in infectious diseases, biohazards, toxicology, medical chemical defense and related topics (1998 +).

Drugs@FDA
A catalog of FDA approved drug products; From CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) at the FDA.

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* EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews)
* 5 simultaneous users!
Includes these EBM databases:
1) ACP Journal Club
2) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR)
3) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane DSR)
4) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
5) Cochran Methodology Register
6) Health Technology Assessment
7) NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED)
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* Ebsco Databases
Includes:

  • Alt HealthWatch
  • AMED (Alternative Medicine)
  • CINAHL with FullText
  • EBSCO Animals
  • ERIC
  • Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia
  • GreenFILE
  • Health Source – Consumer Edition
  • LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
  • Literary Reference Center
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition
  • MasterFILE Premier
  • Military & Government Collection
  • Newspaper Source
  • Primary Search
  • Professional Development Collection
  • Science Reference Center
  • Teacher Reference Center
  • TOPICsearch
  • EBSCOhost Scientific American

Educator’s Reference Complete§
Coverage spans Education in all disciplines including A/S, health sciences, law, science/technology. Full text periodicals for teachers and school administrators.

* eFacts
eFacts is now known as Facts & Comparisons 4.0 and is included with Clin-eguide. F&C is located under the “Rx Drug Information” tab.

* Embase.com
A database known for its extensive coverage of drug and biomedical literature, including dentistry, nursing, & veterinary medicine; includes MEDLINE; Search using both MeSH and EMTREE terms (all MeSH terms are included in EMTREE); Updated daily.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)§
A free government-sponsored database on education that includes current research on education as well as government documents; some FT available; sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education. (1966+)

* ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Provides access to education literature and resources. Includes FT of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Produced by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

ETHXWeb
"Journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics." From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

ETOH Home Page (Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database)
A multidisciplinary database that covers all aspects of alcohol and alcoholism; Abstracts and bibliographic references to over 110,000 records; Produced by the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism), which is part of the NIH; (late 1960s + as well as historical research literature)

* Expanded Academic ASAP (Academic Index)§
A cross-disciplinary database that emphasizes the indexing of scholarly journals; Some FT available. (1980+ )

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*Facts & Comparisons 4.0 (formerly eFacts)
Included with Clin-eguide.
F&C is located under the “Rx Drug Information” tab.
Includes:

  • A to Z Drug Facts
  • Cancer Chemotherapy Manual
  • Clinical Calculators
  • Drug Facts & Comparisons
  • Drug Identifier
  • Drug Interaction Facts
  • Formulary Monograph Service
  • Herbal Interaction Facts
  • Investigational Drugs from Drug Facts & Comparisons
  • Manufacturer Index
  • MedFacts Patient Information
  • Nonprescription Drug Therapy
  • Off-Label Drug Facts
  • Orphan Drugs
  • Review of Natural Products
  • ToxFacts™ Treatment Guidelines
  • Trissel's IV-Chek™

* FDC Reports
Access to "The Pink Sheet" and other FDC Reports' publications. The latest regulatory, legislative and business news in the U.S. pharmaceutical, cosmetics and biotechnological industries.

Federal Register
The official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. (1995 +)

FindLaw
A portal to federal and state laws and regulations

* Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia§
Updated annually. Produced by Funk & Wagnalls Corporation.

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* Gale Databases§
Includes:

  • Academic OneFile
  • Biography Resource Center
  • Business Index ASAP
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
  • Educator’s Reference Complete
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • General BusinessFile ASAP
  • General Reference Center Gold
  • Health Reference Center Academic
  • Info Trac OneFile
  • Massachusetts History Online
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library (23 Reference Sources)

* Gale Virtual Reference Library§
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

* General BusinessFile ASAP§
Find articles on: Finance, Acquisitions & Mergers, International Trade, Money Management, New Technologies & Products, Local & Regional Business Trends, Investments and Banking. Some FT available.

* General Reference Center Gold§
General interest database searches magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. Some FT available.

GenETHX (Genetics and Ethics Database)
"Citations, some with abstracts or tables of contents, to literature on ethics and public policy issues in genetics from many disciplines and publication types including journals, newspapers, books, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, and audiovisuals." From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and the National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics.

* GreenFILE§
A multidisciplinary database that indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles that cover all aspects of human impact (including individual, corporations, & local/national governments) to the environment; and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects; Examples of topics covered: global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling; Some FT available.

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* Health Reference Center Academic§
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Some FT available.

* Health Source – Consumer Edition§
Consumer health information from periodicals, pamphlets, reference books; drug monographs from Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Reference System reports; Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. Updated daily.

* Health Technology Assessment
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
Brings together details on ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions); included abstracts are descriptive, not analytical.
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* Healthy Ingredients
A database of herbs and other ingredients used for cosmetics, aromatherapy, and dietary supplements; Overviews highlight the historical and current uses, modern research from human clinical studies, and the future outlook which addresses the availability, market statistics, and sustainability of each plant (when available).

* Herbal Medicine: Expanded Commission E Monographs
An updated reference of 107 of the most popular herbs in the US based on the original Commission E translation; Includes expanded sections on chemistry and pharmacology, more information on dosage and administration, extensive references, and full color photos.

* HerbClip™ Online
Summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles covering research, regulation, marketing and responsible use of medicinal plants. ( 1995+ ).

HerbMed
- Access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. A project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
- Includes records to a limited number of herbs.

* HerbMedPro™
The professional version of HerbMed, this evidence-based herbal database includes records to over 200 herbs; Continuously updated; A project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.

HCUPnet
A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and state level. Part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Household Products Database
Information on over 4,000 consumer brands, allowing users to research products based on chemical ingredients. Can browse or search this database by products, ingredients, or Material Safety Data Sheets to easily locate the desired information. From the NLM.

HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)
Information about research datasets and instruments/indices used in Health Services Research, and the Behavioral and Social Sciences. From the NLM.

HSTAT (Health Services/ Technology Assessment Text)
A large searchable collection of full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information. From the NLM.

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IBIDS (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements)
A free cross disciplinary database on herbs/dietary supplements from the government

*images.MD
* Available on-campus only!
A database of over 50,000 high-quality medical images spanning the entire spectrum of internal medicine; Derived from Current Medicine’s series of illustrated atlases; Images are accompanied by informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.
Click here for more information

Index to Chiropractic Literature
Indexes articles in chiropractic journals. From the Chiropractic Library Consortium with funding from the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. (1985 +)

* InfoTrac OneFile§
News and periodical issues on various topics (eg: health, sports, politics, art, current events, law, humanities, etc.); Millions of FT articles; Updated daily. (1980- )

* Inteleos
Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry drug tracking, analysis, research, development, & news; Updated daily.

* IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts)
*10 simultaneous users!
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical topics. (1970 +)
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

* Issues & Controversies
Available on Worcester campus only!
Full-text articles which highlight the important issues in today's news. Includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, and bibliographies. Courtesy of the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System.

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Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide (ABX Guide)
Peer-reviewed, up-to-date information on the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults; From Johns Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases.

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LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database)
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider. Part of TOXNET; From the NLM.

* Lexi-Comp Online (Clinical Reference Library)
Handbooks of:

  • Acronyms and Abbreviations,
  • Advanced Practice Nursing,
  • Anesthesiology & Critical Care Drugs,
  • Criminal Justice Drugs,
  • Dental Drug Information,
  • Diagnostic Procedures,
  • Drug Information,
  • Drug Information for the Allied Health Professional,
  • Geriatric Dosage,
  • Infectious Diseases,
  • Lab Tests,
  • Oncology Drug Information,
  • Pediatric Dosage,
  • Poisoning and Toxicology

* LexisNexis Academic
Available on Worcester campus only!
Documents from news, business, legal, medical and reference publications; Many FullText documents; International.
Courtesy of the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System.

LILACS
The Latin American equivalent of MEDLINE, covering 669 journals in Portuguese, Spanish & English. Although the majority of articles indexed are in Portuguese or Spanish, it's possible to search using English keywords.
(1982+)

* LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology AbstFracts)§
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Some FT. Subjects include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. (mid-1960s+).

* Literary Reference Center§
A comprehensive literary reference database, providing information from antiquity to the present; Completely FT; Sources include books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, literary journals, and other unique sources; Also contains information on the most studied authors and their works.
Through Ebsco.

Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art developed to be a medical humanities resource for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. Produced and maintained by the Hippocrates Project, the multi-disciplinary development laboratory for application of information technologies to medical education at New York University School of Medicine.

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* Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
“Contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.” Provided through MedicinesComplete published by Pharmaceutical Press.

* Massachusetts History Online§
Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history.

* Massachusetts Newsstand§
Provides FT coverage to 12 MA newspapers, including the Boston Globe and Boston Herald.

MassCHIP (Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile)
Provides access to 28 health status, health outcome, program utilization, and demographic data sets (such as vital statistics, communicable diseases, sociodemographics); provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

* MasterFILE™ Premier§
General reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and more. Contains FT for periodicals and reference books. (1975+)

MEDLINE
* 27 simultaneous users!
Bibliographic database of over 12 million citations to the literature of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, pre-clinical sciences, biomedicine, and health care; International in scope; Abstracts included in 75% of the records; (mid 1960s +)

(Hint - search both Embase and Medline to improve drug topic results.)

  • Search via: * Ovid
    **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**
  • Search via:* PubMed (for MCPHS users only)
    Provided by the NLM, this FREE database includes access to Medline, citations to other life sciences journals not indexed in Medline (primarily general sciences and chemistry), and links to the molecular biology databases maintained by NCBI.
    NOTE: FULL TEXT access to MCPHS licensed journals available to MCPHS users only!
  • Search via: PubMed (for anyone to use)
    NOTE: FULL TEXT access from this link limited to free resources!!

MedlinePlus
Government research database under the auspices of National Library of Medicine, contains Consumer Health information as well as dozens of links to other resources, email notification available, and subject searching as well as papers on specific therapies, diseases, drugs, and more.

* MICROMEDEX (Internet version)UN/PW REQUIRED

***** Starting soon Martindale will no longer be available via Micromedex. We now subscribe to this reference through MedicinesComplete which you can access by clicking here, or by clicking on the Martindale link found both on the Databases and E-Books pages.

- Micromedex includes:

  • Alternative Medicine Information
  • Diseasedex - Disease Management Information
  • Drugdex -Drug Evaluation Monographs
  • Drug-Reax - Drug Interactions
  • Emergindex - Clinical Reviews Abstracts
  • Identidex - Tablet & Capsule Identification
  • Index Nominum
  • Patient Care Notes
  • Physician's Desk Reference
  • Poisindex - Toxicity Information
  • Reprorisk
  • Tomes System - Toxicology and Occupational & Environmental
  • Medicine Information
  • USP DI Drug Reference Guides
- MCPHS users can download Mobile Micromedex to their PDA from this site

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* NABPLAW Online
A comprehensive, national databank of state pharmacy laws and regulations; can research subjects one state at a time or across all 50 states; Cookies must be enabled!!
UN/PW REQUIRED

National Drug Code Directory (NDC)
Trade name, dosage form, National Drug Code, active ingredients, strength and packaging information for all commercially distributed presciption drugs, as well as a few selected OTC products. From the Food and Drug Administration.

Native Health Databases
Contains bibliographic information and abstracts of resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations; From University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
a. Native Health History Database (1652 - approximately 1966)
b. Native Health Research Database (1966 +)

* Natural Medicines
* 5 simultaneous users!
Herbs and dietary supplements are evaluated by medical professionals in this comprehensive database.

* Natural Standard
Information on Integrative Medicine, including herbs & supplements, complementary practices; can also search by medical condition, drug interactions, or brand name; developed by international collaborators from highly regarded academic institutions to provide quality information that has been validated and peer reviewed.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Different molecular databases for sequences, structure, and taxonomy; also access to the OMIM and PubMed bibliographic databases.

* NDA Pipeline Online (now Inteleos)
Drug Industry R&D activity

* Newspaper Source§
Provides selected FT for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains FT television & radio news transcripts, and selected FT for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Updated daily.

NGC (National Guideline Clearinghouse)
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in partnership with the AMA and the American Association of Health Plans.

* NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED)
* 5 simultaneous users!
Part of EBM Reviews
Provides cost-benefit analyses about healthcare interventions.
Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

NLM Gateway
Allows you to search in multiple retrieval systems at the NLM ( eg: MEDLINE/PubMed, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, meeting abstracts).

NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
- MCPHS does NOT subscribe to this database, but you can find very basic information about rare diseases from their index.

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OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the WWW by NCBI; contains textual information and references; also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.

* Oxford Reference Online
A collection of Ready Reference materials on science & medicine, language, humanities & social sciences, business & professional topics, and general reference.

* Ovid Databases
Includes:

  • EBM Reviews
  • MEDLINE
  • IPA (International Pharmaceuticals Abstracts)
  • PsycINFO
  • Books@Ovid
  • Journals@Ovid Full Text

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PDQ (Physician Data Query)
A comprehensive database of information and peer-reviewed summaries about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics & supportive care, plus clinical trials. From the National Cancer Institute.

PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
Bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy; Developed by the University of Sidney, Australia. ( 1955 + )

* PIER Online (Physicians’ Education and Information Resource)
Provides health care professionals with evidence-based guidelines; produced by the American College of Physicians; available to MCPHS users through Clinical Pharmacology under the "Resource Center" drop-down menu.

Population Index
An annotated bibliography that provides a searchable and browsable database of the world's demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000; From the Office of Population Research, Princeton University.

* Professional Development Collection§
Designed for professional educators. Provides FT for more than 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports. (1965+)

PubChem
"... contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities." Includes PubChem Substance, Compound, and BioAssay databases; Search on the basis of descriptive terms, chemical properties, and structural similarity; When possible, PubChem's chemical structure records are linked to other NCBI databases, including PubMed and NCBI's protein 3D structural database; Provided by the NCBI.

* PubMed(for MCPHS users only)
NOTE: FULL TEXT access to MCPHS licensed journals available to MCPHS users only!

Provided by the NLM, this FREE database includes access to Medline, citations to other life sciences journals not indexed in Medline (primarily general sciences and chemistry), and links to the molecular biology databases maintained by NCBI.

PubMed (for anyone to use)
NOTE: Full text from this link limited to free resources!!

* PsychINFO
- 30 simultaneous users
- “citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.” ( 1872 +)
- Through OVID - **No additional username or password needed unless you want to save a search!**

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*RefWorks
A web-based bibliographic citation manager; Allows one to create a personal database by importing references from text files or online databases; References can then be inserted into papers, manuscripts, and bibliographies; Automatically formats the footnotes and bibliography in the style chosen.
Click here for more information

ReleMed
A search engine that searches MEDLINE for the best matches to your query. The most relevant results are displayed at the top of the list. Developed by the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

*Rittenhouse R2Library Collection
* Most allow 1 simultaneous user
A collection of books in the Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health professions.

RSNA: Index to Imaging Literature
*** “After 20 years of publication, both in print and online, the RSNA Index to Imaging Literature has been discontinued.”

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* Science Reference Center§
Provides access to science-oriented content. Topics include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Contains FT for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.

Science.gov
Research and development, science information from selected U.S. government agencies. Includes NASA, Food and Drug sites, a huge selection of physical science sites and allows searching by a large variety of subjects.

* ScienceDirect
A database of all electronic journals published by Elsevier Science. Can be searched by subject or by specific journal title. Full text is available for subscribed journals. For access to non-subscribed journals, please see reference staff for assistance.
Full text: beginning dates vary - present.

* Scientific American Archive Online™§
A comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the FT and graphics of Scientific American; Topics include: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and more. (1993 – )
Through Ebsco

* SciFinder Scholar
* 3 simultaneous users!
From CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service), a division of the American Chemical Society, this database includes references to over 9500 printed scientific journals (including chemistry, the life sciences, and related disciplines); Also provides the largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information; Chemical structure searching available.
For more information, contact Pat McNary at 617-732-2810.

Scirus
A science-specific search engine that focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. Searches web information, digital archives, preprint servers, repositories, and patent and journal databases for reports, different data, and peer-reviewed articles. Filters out non-scientific sites.

*Scopus
A multidisciplinary database containing over 28 million records from over 14, 000 peer-reviewed journal titles, including over 500 Open Access journals; Includes all the citations from MEDLINE and Embase; Also includes patent searching through the web; Can export your results to RefWorks; Updated daily. (Abstracts 1966 +) (References 1996 +)

Smoking & Health Resource Library
Literature on the scientific, medical, technical, policy, behavioral, legal, and historical aspects of smoking and tobacco use and its health effects. Includes abstracts of hard to find conference proceedings and government documents, many with historical significance. Although most items have been published since 1965, several records date back to the 1800s. From the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Covering the Social Sciences, the SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: 1) an Abstract Database containing abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and 2) an Electronic Paper Collection containing downloadable full text documents.

*Stat!Ref - MCPHS
Through MCPHS
* 5 simultaneous users
A collection of electronic books and other resources for the healthcare profession

* Stat!Ref - MAHSLIN
Through MAHSLIN (Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network)
* Shared use with other institutions
A collection of electronic books and other resources for the healthcare profession

STAT USA
Economic, business and trade information provided by the federal government; Provided by the US Department of Commerce.

SUMSearch
Evidence-based material available on the Internet; the majority of links are from the NLM, DARE, and the NGC (National Guideline Clearinghouse); From The University of Texas HSC at San Antonio.

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* Taylor Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills
*Available from Campus Only
Multiple modules describing and demonstrating various nursing skills used in the clinical setting.

*Teacher Reference Center§
Indexing and abstracts for over 270 popular teacher and administrator journals to assist professional educators.

*TOPICsearch§
A current events database covering social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. Contains FT from over 4800 sources, including newspapers, periodicals, opinion polls, book reviews, and others.

TOXNET
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas; Includes HSDB, IRIS, GENE-TOX, CCRIS, TOXLINE, DART/ETIC, TRI, ChemIDplus; From the NLM

TRIP Database
Direct, hyperlinked access to a large collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.

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* UpToDate
* Available on 1 computer in each library! Not accessible off-campus!
A peer reviewed resource to help answer clinical questions. Written by physician authors and editors; Includes treatment recommendations covering 13 medical specialties, patient information, calculators, a drug information database, links to Medline abstracts.

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR)
The major source of food composition data in the United States. Contains data on over 100 nutrients for over 7300 foods. From the Nutrient Data Laboratory, part of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

US Patent Full Text and Image Database
Includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Can search issued patents (full-text) since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. From the US Patent and Trademark Office.

* USP-NF
* 1 simultaneous user!
- Combines the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Provides end product standards for prescription and nonprescription drug products, dosage forms, medical devices, excipients, botanical and nonbotanical dietary supplements and ingredients; Step-by-step test procedures
UN/PW REQUIRED

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WHOLIS (World Health Organization Library Database)
"Indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents."

World Biodiversity Database
A taxonomic database that allows one to search online species banks; provides taxonomic information, species names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations, and literature references (when available) on over 25,000 taxa; from ETI BioInformatics in the Netherlands.

WorldWideScience.org: the Global Science Gateway
A global science gateway allowing you to search across various national and international scientific databases; Developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy.

§ Access to this database provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

If you have questions about accessing these resources, please contact the reference desk at 617.732.2813. Please address comments or suggestions to Pat McNary, electronic services librarian, at 617.732.2810.