Health Sciences Databases

PAIS Index
Social and public policy literature.
PEDro
Physiotherapy evidence database including randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.
PolicyMap
Online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the United States
Project Muse
ebooks and ejournals in humanities & social sciences, including gender studies, health policy, medicine, public health, psychiatry, and more.
Properties of Organic Compounds
Search an extensive database of chemical compounds by name, physical property, structure, CAS registry number, and more.
ProQuest Congressional
Provides daily updated information, including full text of US bills, public laws, committee reports, House & Senate documents; Congressional Record, Federal Register, National Journal and other government information.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (Web of Science)
Multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over five million citations and three million full-text works from thousands of universities.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Index to doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from 1861 to the present; includes 2 million+ full text dissertations published since 1997.
Proquest Ebook Central
Books on all subjects from a wide range of academic publishers.
Proquest Statistical Insight
Index to governmental and private statistical data. Includes tables from the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
PsycARTICLES
(Ebsco) Collection of electronic journals published by the American Psychological Association and others.
Psychiatry Online
Books, journals, guidelines, clinical cases, video & DSM Library.
PsycInfo
(Ebsco) Covers academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines; 1872 to the present.
PsycTESTS
(EbscoHost) Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments, as well as descriptive information about test development and administration, mostly drawn from articles in peer-reviewed journals or books.
PTSDpubs
(Proquest) Citations to worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health consequences of traumatic events. National Center for PTSD. Formerly called PILOTS.
PubChem
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for potentially hazardous chemicals. Provides information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, nanomaterials, and related areas. Includes ChemIDplus content and more. Previous Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB).
PubMed
(MEDLINE) Major index to articles covering all aspects of medicine.
PubMed Central (PMC)
Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
PubMed Clinical Queries
Searches Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, Medical Genetics Topics
PubMed Health Services Research (HSR) Queries
PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs.

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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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