Health Sciences Databases

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)
Social Explorer
Current and historical census data and demographic information to explore demography and social change
Social Science Research Network
Contains abstracts and full text research papers, covering accounting, economics, including health economics, finance, and legal scholarship.
Social Services Abstracts
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. (ProQuest)
Social Welfare History Archives
Images/media search of posters and pamphlets on social issues such as dance, family, health education, hygiene, mental health, public health, reproduction, and sexual abstinence.
Social Work Abstracts
Social work and social services.
Sociological Abstracts
Social work, social welfare, human services and community development.
Springer Protocols
Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences.
STAT!Ref Online Library
Medical and drug texts, including Stedman's medical dictionary.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
(Informaworld) Index to books and journal articles on all aspects of women's studies.
Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
Resource by Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) Library that is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder.
TERIS (Teratogen Information System)
Expert guidance on the pregnancy risks of medications and other environmental exposures including infections and vaccines.
Thieme Teaching Assistant Anatomy
Human anatomy illustrations
Think Tank Search
Google custom search of think tanks and research centers; grey literature search.
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
Set of publicly available databases containing information on releases of specific toxic chemicals and their management as waste, as reported annually by U.S. industrial and federal facilities.
Trip Database
Clinical research evidence summaries, guidelines, and articles.
Tropical Plant Database
Amazon rainforest plant database containing taxonomy data, phytochemical information, ethnobotanical data, uses in traditional medicine systems, and links to clinical research abstracts.
Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. Directory to 300,000+ journals and other serials.
Union of International Associations IGO Search
Search all intergovernmental organization websites, comprising over 3000 bodies including the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank, etc.
UpToDate
Clinical topic summaries, evidence-based clinical support, CE.
USP-NF Online
Pharmaceutical information, including FDA-enforceable quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods, and more.
UW Laboratory Test Catalog
Information on collecting, handling, and processing lab tests available at the UW.
VisualDx
Clinical decision support system to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database covering journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with searchable cited references.
WebCSD
WebCSD is the easy to use version of Cambridge Structural database. Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains published crystallographic data on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction.
Westlaw Campus Research
Federal and state court cases, statutes, & regulations; law reviews & journals; legal research encyclopedias; and some international legal resources, company information, and news. Campus Research is not available to the law school or the office of the general counsel.
WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing
Index of World Health Organization publications and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents, sortable by title, region, author, subject, date, and more.
Women and Social Movements, International, 1840-Present
Primary materials of women activists including personal letters, diaries, and conference proceedings of important international social movements.
Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019
Primary sources chronicling feminist activism in developing countries.
WorldCat
(formerly OCLC FirstSearch) Union catalog of holdings from thousands of libraries worldwide

Select Databases

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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