Databases
- ABLEDATA
- Information about assistive technology products.
- AccessMedicine
- Textbooks, medicine, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, and the ability to view/download content to mobile devices.
- AccessPharmacy
- Select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
- AccessScience
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology. Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of research updates in all areas of science and technology.
- AccessSurgery
- Textbooks, multimedia, images, drug information, quick answers sources.
- Active Living Research Literature Database
- Citations for journal articles that examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families.
- AGRICOLA
- Food, nutrition, agricultural economics, veterinary medicine and parasitology.
- American Social Hygiene Posters
- Posters on social issues such as dance, family, hygiene, mental health, reproduction, and sexual abstinence.
- AP Images
- Millions of news photographs dating back to 1826, and more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, among other digital resources.
- ARRS GoldMiner
- (American Roentgen Ray Society) Links to over 94,000 peer-reviewed radiology images.
- ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts
- Search or browse abstracts from 2000 onward.
- ATSDR ToxProfiles
- Toxicological profiles for hazardous chemicals.
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Information from the CDC BRFSS telephone survey of US health risks.
- Biosis
- Comprehensive coverage (1969-present) of international life science journal and meeting literature.
- BioText Search Engine
- Searches open access content in PubMed Central.
- BMJ Clinical Evidence
- (BMJ Publishing Group) PLEASE LOG OUT (top right of window) when you are done.
- Business Source Complete
- CAB Abstracts
- Abstracts of international agricultural literature, including animal and plant breeding, genetics, and nutrition.
- CAM Citation Index through PubMed
- Cambridge Structural Database
- Link here to download the CSD client software package and analysis tools.
- CAMIO
- Research Library Group's catalog of art museum images online supports art history, studio art, and design departments; provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs.
- Campbell Collaboration Library
- Database of systematic reviews in the areas of Crime & Justice, Social Welfare, Education and Methods.
- Canary Database
- Studies about animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards.
- CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System)
- CDC Wonder
- Searchable compilation of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, guidelines, and health data for disease and demographic groups. Includes surveillance data, Healthy People, MMWR, and other CDC publications.
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) Databases
- Information about violence-related research literature; curricula and audiovisuals; prevention, intervention, and treatment programs; and survey instruments for program evaluation.
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- Centre for Research and Dissemination (CRD) Databases
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, NHS Economic Evaluation Database and Health Technology Assessment Database.
- CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
- Searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
- ChEMBL Database
- Open access database of bioactive molecules.
- ChemIDplus
- Chemical identification and dictionary database.
- ChemSpider
- Child Care and Early Education Research Connections: Research Collection
- Online catalog of child care and early childhood education research documents.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Formerly the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse and the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway: State Guides and Manuals Search
- Online catalog of state and county policy and procedure manuals, administrative rules, licensing standards, handbooks for families, and other resources about child welfare.
- Chromosomal Variation In Man
- CINAHL Plus
- (Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Information about ongoing clinical trials and registering clinical trials.
- Cochrane Library
- (Wiley) Systematic reviews (CDSR), DARE, controlled trials register, technology assessments, economic evaluations.
- Community of Science (COS) Databases
- Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS)
- WA state hospital inpatient coded discharge information (derived from billing systems). Fee-based access.
- Congressional Bills & Bill Status (THOMAS)
- Full text of legislation from the 101st Congress (1989) to date, and bill summaries from the 93rd Congress (1973 - 1974) to date.
- CPDB (Carcinogenic Potency Database)
- CQ Healthbeat
- UW users can view "Afternoon briefing email" and "Morning update email". Provides key health policy developments on Capitol Hill, and in agencies including CMS, NIH, CDC and AHRQ.
- CRISP
- Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other Public Health Service agencies. The CRISP system will be retired September 1, 2009. The replacement system is http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm
- Current Controlled Trials
- (BioMed Central)
- DailyMed Product Identification System
- DART/ETIC
- Teratology,developmental and reproductive toxicology literature.
- Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
- (CHEMnetBASE)
- Dictionary of Drugs : Chemical Data, Structures, and Bibliographies
- (CHEMnetBASE)
- Dictionary of Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds : Chemical Databases Online
- (CHEMnetBASE)
- Dictionary of Natural Products
- (CHEMnetBASE)
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds
- (CHEMnetBASE)
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database
- Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS)
- National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
- DynaMed
- The evidence to help with clinical decision-making.
- Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP)
- Systematic reviews and summary statements on public health topics, from EPHPP, affiliated with McMaster University.
- Electronic Newspapers and News
- US and global news sources.
- EMBASE
- (Elsevier) Biomedical and pharmacological database indexing 7500 journals from over 70 countries, and over 260,000 conference abstracts.
- Entrez Protein Database
- The NCBI protein database derived from Swiss-Prot, PIR, PDB and translations of the GenBank sequence records.
- Environmental & Policy Change for Healthy Aging
- CDC Healthy Aging Research Network Clearinghouse of Resources
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
- ERIC
- (Ebsco)
- Essential Evidence Plus
- POEMs and guidelines; clinical decision rules and calculators; ICD-9 codes. (formerly InfoRetriever). Register individually from UW IP to access mobile interface.
- EthicShare
- Ethnographic Video Online
- Large collection of classic and contemporary cultural documentaries, online in streaming video, which also includes transcripts, field notes and video-clip making tools.
- ETHXWeb
- Database of journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. Georgetown University.
- Facts & Comparisons eAnswers
- (Ovid) Log Out when you are done. (5 concurrent users)
- Family Studies Abstracts
- (Ebsco) Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Forrester Research
- FPIN CIs, HDAs and PURLS (MoSpace)
- Searchable University of Missouri archive of Family Physicians Inquiries Network publications.
- Gale Academic OneFile
- A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC.
- Gartner
- Access restricted to UWNetID. Scroll to the the 'Industries' heading (bottom right) to select "Healthcare Providers".
- GenBank
- NIH genetic sequence database.
- GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology/Mutagenicity Data Bank)
- Genetic toxicology from the scientific literature for over 3000 chemicals.
- GenETHX
- Citations, some with abstracts or tables of contents, to literature on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic and genomic research and its applications from many disciplines and publication types including journals, newspapers, books, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, and audiovisuals.
- Genome Statute and Legislation Database
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- Global Health Database
- (CAB Direct) Bibliographic coverage of the literature in international public health.
- Global Health Library (GHL) Virtual Platform
- Search engine for PubMed, Cochrane, SciELO, and regional indexes and directories including AFRO, EMRO, LILACS, PAHO, WHOLIS, and WPRO.
- Grants.gov
- One-stop electronic grant "storefront" to find, apply, and manage grants.
- GrantSelect
- GrantsNet
- Basic science funding opportunities.
- HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Provides citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present and includes articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 social science and humanities journals.
- HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments
- Haz-Map
- Occupational health and toxicology database designed to link jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure to chemicals and occupational diseases and their symptoms.
- HazDat
- Information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites and emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations.
- HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Databases
- State, regional and national level discharge data, available for purchase. Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID). Free tools include AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), Comorbidity Software, and HCUPnet, a web interface to free HCUP data.
- HCUPnet
- Free tool for identifying, tracking and analyzing national hospital statistics from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).
- Health Source. Consumer Edition
- Health Source. Nursing/Academic Edition.
- Healthy People DATA
- Healthy Youth Survey
- Hein online
- Legal journals and federal documents.
- HerbMed
- Evidence-based herbal database.
- Herbs and Supplements: MedlinePlus
- Information on herbs and supplements is available through MedlinePlus.
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Hospital Compare
- Public release of data collected under the Hospital Quality Initiative. Lists results of quality measures by hospital, on care for heart attack, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Searchable by city, state, zip code or hospital name. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Household Products Database
- NLM database of potential health effects of common household products.
- HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank)
- Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals.
- HSRProj - Health Services Research Projects in Progress
- Information about ongoing health services research and public health projects, from National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
