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  • BCC Research
    Specialized market research reports covering high-tech, energy, and healthcare sectors.
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
    Information from the CDC BRFSS telephone survey of US health risks.
  • Bibliomap
    EPPI-Centre database of health promotion research.
  • BioOne Complete
    Collection of research journals focused on the biological, biomedical, ecological, and environmental sciences.
  • Bloomsbury Food Library
    Collection of reference works & ebooks on food studies.
  • BMJ Best Practice
    Point-of-care tool that draws on the latest evidence-based research to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.
  • Bookshelf
    (NCBI) Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
  • Business Source Complete
    Magazines, newspapers and journals in all business disciplines.

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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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