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  • 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.
  • Facts & Comparisons eAnswers
    Collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools providing extensive drug information. Licensed for academic use only. Access ends November 20, 2024. Please see https://guides.lib.uw.edu/hsl/collection for alternative resources.
  • 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. grantmakers 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.
  • Global Think Tanks
    Research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
  • Grants.gov
    Grant opportunities from 26 US federal agencies. Information and tools for finding, applying and managing grants.
  • GrantSelect
    Funding opportunities from more than 5,100 sponsoring organizations. Installation of Husky OnNet is temporarily required for off-campus access.
  • Grey Literature Report
    New York Academy of Medicine Library searchable report & catalog of new publications in health services and selected public health topics. 1999-2016.
  • Haz-Map
    Occupational health & toxicology database of information about adverse effects of workplace exposures to chemical and biological agents.
  • HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Databases
    Family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Includes State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), and Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD).
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    Consumer health magazines, pamphlets, health reference books, and Clinical Reference Systems reports.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Journals in medical disciplines with a concentration on nursing and allied health.
  • Health Technology Assessment Database
    Evaluation of medical procedures, medicine, health economics, social and ethical aspects conducted by member agencies of International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment.
  • Healthy People 2030
    Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Learn how to use the disparities data feature, browse evidence-based resources, learn about leading health indicators, and read about social determinants of health.
  • Healthy Youth Survey
    Provides survey data on health of adolescents in Washington State, including information about safety and violence, physical activity and diet, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and related risk and protective factors.
  • HeinOnline
    Digitized legal journals, reviews, U.S. government documents, regulations, laws, and treaties.
  • HerbMed
    Evidence-based information about use of herbs or herbals for health.
  • Herbs and Supplements: MedlinePlus
    Information on herbs and supplements available through MedlinePlus.
  • History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Index to scholarly journal articles, books and more in the history of science, technology, medicine, and allied historical fields; covers 1975 to the present.
  • Hospital Compare
    Public release of data collected under the Hospital Quality Initiative. Lists results of quality measures by hospital, on care for heart attack, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. Searchable by city, state, zip code or hospital name. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
  • ICSD (Inorganic crystal structure database)
    Most complete collection of inorganic crystal structures and is fully searchable by structural data and parameters as well as bibliographic information. Updated twice yearly.
  • IndexCat
    Provides access to the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, covering material from the 1400s to 1950, electronic Thorndike and Kibre (eTK for medieval Latin texts), and electronic Voigts and Kurtz (eVK2 for medieval English texts)
  • Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
    Hazard identification and dose-response assessments for over 500 chemicals.
  • Intergovernmental Organization search engine
    Custom Google search engine that searches across hundreds of IGO websites.
  • International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
    WHO search portal of data from clinical trials in China, India, Germany, Iran, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.
  • International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER)
    Human health risk assessment data for chemicals, from authoritative groups worldwide.
  • ISRCTN registry (Current Controlled Trials)
    (BioMed Central) Primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that accepts all clinical research studies (whether proposed, ongoing or completed), providing content validation and curation and the unique identification number necessary for publication.
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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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