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  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Publications Search
    Locate Data Briefs and other NCHS publications and products.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
    Criminal and juvenile justice literature maintained by the US Dept. of Justice.
  • Native Health Database
    Bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
  • Natural Medicines
    Provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements, functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions. (Formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database)
  • NCBI
    The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information, literature and databases. Submit data to GenBank or other NCBI databases
  • NCBI Genome Data Viewer
    Directly view DNA sequences/genes in the context of chromosome structures for all higher organisms.
  • NCSES Survey Data
    National Science Foundation data system providing access to a large body of statistical data resources for science and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions. Emphasizes S&E, but its data resources also provide information on non-S&E fields and higher education in general.
  • Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide
    The goal of the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide is to promote and facilitate the use of electronic health data standards in recording and transmitting newborn screening test results.
  • News: E-Newspapers
    US and global news sources.
  • NGO search engine
    Custom Google search engine designed to search across hundreds of NGO websites.
  • NIH RePORTER
    RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool of research funded by NIH and other Public Health Services agencies. Includes NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). Replaced CRISP.
  • NLM Drug Information Portal
    See PubChem.
  • North American City Reports
    Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
  • OCCAM
    Online Clinical Care Advisories & Messages is a content management system that brings together UW Medicine-specific content in a single, mobile-optimized format. OCCAM was created in partnership with the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and UW Medicine as part of research conducted at the University of Washington.
  • OMIA - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals
    Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and genes in 223 animal species (other than human and mouse and rats).
  • OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
    (NCBI) A freely available & continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic phenotypes. It is thus considered to be a phenotypic companion to the Human Genome Project.
  • Open Think Tank Directory
    Global collection of think tanks and related organizations.
  • OpenGrey: System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
    Bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe.
  • OTseeker
    Database of abstracts of systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
  • Ovid Books
    Ovid book collection providing healthcare industry and point-of care information.
  • PAIS Index
    Social and public policy literature.
  • PEDro
    Physiotherapy evidence database including randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.
  • PolicyMap
    Online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the United States
  • Project Muse
    ebooks and ejournals in humanities & social sciences, including gender studies, health policy, medicine, public health, psychiatry, and more.
  • Properties of Organic Compounds
    Search an extensive database of chemical compounds by name, physical property, structure, CAS registry number, and more.
  • ProQuest Congressional
    Provides daily updated information, including full text of US bills, public laws, committee reports, House & Senate documents; Congressional Record, Federal Register, National Journal and other government information.
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (Web of Science)
    Multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over five million citations and three million full-text works from thousands of universities.
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
    Index to doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from 1861 to the present; includes 2 million+ full text dissertations published since 1997.
  • Proquest Ebook Central
    Books on all subjects from a wide range of academic publishers.
  • Proquest Statistical Insight
    Index to governmental and private statistical data. Includes tables from the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
  • PsycARTICLES
    (Ebsco) Collection of electronic journals published by the American Psychological Association and others.
  • Psychiatry Online
    Books, journals, guidelines, clinical cases, video & DSM Library.
  • PsycInfo
    (Ebsco) Covers academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines; 1872 to the present.
  • PsycTESTS
    (EbscoHost) Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, as well as descriptive information about test development and administration, mostly drawn from articles in peer-reviewed journals or books.
  • PTSDpubs
    (Proquest) Citations to worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health consequences of traumatic events. National Center for PTSD. Formerly called PILOTS.
  • PubChem
    Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for potentially hazardous chemicals. Provides information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, nanomaterials, and related areas. Includes ChemIDplus content and more. Previous Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB).
  • PubMed
    (MEDLINE) Major index to articles covering all aspects of medicine.
  • PubMed Central (PMC)
    Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
  • PubMed Clinical Queries
    Searches Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, Medical Genetics Topics
  • PubMed Health Services Research (HSR) Queries
    PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.
  • R2 Digital Library
    Medicine, nursing & allied health books.
  • Read by QxMD
    Requires individual account creation; select UW as institution in profile settings. Browse medical & scientific articles by specialty area. Follow individual journals or search PubMed. Also available as IOS or Android mobile app.
  • ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
    Articles, dissertations and theses, technical reports, datasets, images and other file types produced by UW faculty and researchers.
  • Sage Data
    Find, explore, visualize, and share detailed data from hundreds of U.S. and international data sources.
  • SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)
    Articles, books (including Little Green and Little Blue book series), case studies, datasets, and video covering quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodologies in social and behavioral sciences. Includes Sage Research Methods Cases (SRMC) and Sage Research Methods Datasets (SRMD).
  • Sanford Guide - Web Edition
    Providing comprehensive infectious diseases treatment recommendations.
  • SciELO
    Scholarly literature published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
  • ScienceDirect
    Articles from Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
  • SciFinder
    Access to Chemical Abstracts databases. Comprehensive chemical info database. Covers journals, patents, conference proceedings & technical papers. Access is restricted primarily to current UW faculty, staff, and students.
  • Small Business Research Funding Opportunities
    (SBIR/STTR)

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PubMed
(MEDLINE) Major index to articles covering all aspects of medicine.
Embase
(Elsevier) Biomedical international database with strong focus on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine. Saving, exporting, and emailing your results and searches requires a personal Embase account. This account is free, but it is a separate step from accessing Embase with your UW NetID.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.
CINAHL Complete
(Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
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