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  • 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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