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  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Publications Search
    Locate Data Briefs and other NCHS publications and products.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
    Criminal and juvenile justice literature maintained by the US Dept. of Justice.
  • Native Health Database
    Bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
  • Natural Medicines
    Provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements, functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions. (Formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database)
  • NCBI
    The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information, literature and databases. Submit data to GenBank or other NCBI databases
  • NCBI Genome Data Viewer
    Directly view DNA sequences/genes in the context of chromosome structures for all higher organisms.
  • NCSES Survey Data
    National Science Foundation data system providing access to a large body of statistical data resources for science and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions. Emphasizes S&E, but its data resources also provide information on non-S&E fields and higher education in general.
  • NEJM Resident 360
  • Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide
    The goal of the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide is to promote and facilitate the use of electronic health data standards in recording and transmitting newborn screening test results.
  • News: E-Newspapers
    US and global news sources.
  • NGO search engine
    Custom Google search engine designed to search across hundreds of NGO websites.
  • NIH RePORTER
    RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool of research funded by NIH and other Public Health Services agencies. Includes NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). Replaced CRISP.
  • NLM Drug Information Portal
    See PubChem.
  • North American City Reports
    Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.

Select Databases

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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