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  • 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
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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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