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  • ChemSpider
    Chemical structure database providing text and structure search access to over 43 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
  • Child Care and Early Education Research Connections: Research Collection
    Online catalog of child care and early childhood education research documents.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
    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
    Important citations from the world's literature reporting on all common and rare chromosomal alterations, phenotypes, and abnormalities in humans. The database is organized by variations and anomalies, numerical anomalies, and chromosomal breakage syndromes. Over 24,000 entries updated continuously since 1974.
  • CINAHL Complete
    (Ebsco) Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  • ClinicalKey
    Selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts & CME materials
  • 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.
  • Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
    Manually curated data describing cross-species chemical-gene/protein interactions and chemical- and gene-disease relationships.
  • Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS)
    WA state hospital inpatient coded discharge information derived from billing systems.
  • Congressional Bills & Bill Status
    Full text of legislation from the 101st Congress (1989) to date, and bill summaries from the 93rd Congress (1973 - 1974) to date.
  • Consumer Product Information Database (CPID)
    Health effects information for products that contain chemicals used in the home and in some commercial/institutional settings.
  • Counseling & Therapy in Video
    (Alexander Street) Collection of videos available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
  • 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.
  • Culinary Arts
    Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts: Scholarly and non-scholarly articles covering cooking and nutrition
  • DailyMed Product Identification System
    Drug labeling information for marketed drugs in the U.S.
  • Data Analysis System for SAMHSA Studies
    Explore and analyze data from SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) studies, includes data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the Behavioral Health Services Information System, etc.
  • Data-Planet
    See Sage Data.
  • Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews (DoPHER)
    Systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide.
  • Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
    See CHEMnetBASE. Descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds.
  • Dictionary of Drugs
    (CHEMnetBASE) Chemical data, structures, and bibliographies.
  • Dictionary of Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds
    See CHEMnetBASE. Structure-searchable database of over 107,000 compounds.
  • Dictionary of Natural Products
    (CHEMnetBASE) A comprehensive structure database containing over 270,000 natural products.
  • Dictionary of Organic Compounds
    (CHEMnetBASE) Over 106,000 entries comprising more than 314,000 organic compounds.
  • Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID)
    Provides estimated levels of ingredients in dietary supplement products sold in the United States.
  • Dietary Supplement Label Database
    Searchable label contents from dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S.
  • Drugs@FDA
    Regulatory approval reports for drug products approved by the FDA.
  • DynaMedex
    Clinical medical reference tool for diseases, disorders, symptoms, treatments, and Micromedex's evidence-based drug information.
  • ECRI Guidelines Trust
    Registration required. Evidence-based Guideline Briefs based on guidelines from participating guideline developers, medical specialty societies, and other healthcare organizations.
  • Education Source
    (Ebsco)
  • 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.
  • Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ( UNESCO - EOLSS )
    Integrated compendium of twenty one component encyclopedias, each covering a large number of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary subjects. Click on 'Access for Institutions' from 'Member Login' menu.
  • Engineering Village
    Information sources in applied science and engineering. Includes Ei Compendex.
  • Entrez Gene
    Portal to genetic information in NCBI databases.
  • Entrez Protein Database
    The NCBI protein database derived from Swiss-Prot, PIR, PDB and translations of the GenBank sequence records.
  • ERIC
    (Ebsco) Education-related literature, from pre-K through adult education.
  • Essential Evidence Plus
    POEMs and guidelines; clinical decision rules and calculators; ICD-9 codes. An individual account is needed to access content.
  • Ethnographic Video Online
    (Alexander Street Anthropology) Collection of classic and contemporary cultural documentaries, online in streaming videos. Includes transcripts, field notes and video-clip making tools
  • F.A. Davis Physical Therapy Collection
    Books, case studies, multimedia, reference materials, and review questions for physiotherapy for physical therapy education. Note: this resource is managed by a non-UW Library department and is included here as a courtesy. Access may be subject to change at any time.
  • Food and Drink in History: Module II
    The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
  • Foundation Directory Online
    Comprehensive information on U.S. grant-makers and their funding activities.
  • FPIN CIs and PURLS (MoSpace)
    Searchable University of Missouri archive of Family Physicians Inquiries Network publications.
  • Gartner
    Research and analysis on technology management issues and trends. Access restricted to UWNetID.
  • GenBank
    NIH genetic sequence database.
  • Genetic Toxicology Data Bank (GENETOX)
    Genetic toxicology (mutagenicity) test data from expert peer review of open scientific literature for more than 3,000 chemicals from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Archived; no longer updated.
  • Genome
    (NCBI) This resource organizes information on genomes including sequences, maps, chromosomes, assemblies, and annotations.
  • Genome Statute and Legislation Database
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) database of state statutes and bills introduced through U.S. state legislative sessions. Topics include employment and insurance discrimination, health insurance coverage, privacy, research, and the use of residual newborn screening specimens.
  • Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
    (IHME) Comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data.
  • Global Health Database
    (EBSCOhost) Global public health research and practice, including abstracts of journals, reports, books and conferences.
  • Global Index Medicus
    WHO regional and global indexes and directories including AIM (AFRO), LILACS (AMRO/PAHO), IMEMR (EMRO), IMSEAR (SEARO), and WPRIM (WPRO). Formerly called Global Health Library.
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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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