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  • Sage Data
    Find, explore, visualize, and share detailed data from hundreds of U.S. and international data sources.
  • SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)
    Articles, books (including Little Green and Little Blue book series), case studies, datasets, and video covering quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodologies in social and behavioral sciences. Includes Sage Research Methods Cases (SRMC) and Sage Research Methods Datasets (SRMD).
  • Sanford Guide - Web Edition
    Providing comprehensive infectious diseases treatment recommendations.
  • SciELO
    Scholarly literature published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
  • ScienceDirect
    Articles from Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
  • SciFinder
    Access to Chemical Abstracts databases. Comprehensive chemical info database. Covers journals, patents, conference proceedings & technical papers. Access is restricted primarily to current UW faculty, staff, and students.
  • Small Business Research Funding Opportunities
    (SBIR/STTR)
  • Social Explorer
    Current and historical census data and demographic information to explore demography and social change
  • Social Science Research Network
    Contains abstracts and full text research papers, covering accounting, economics, including health economics, finance, and legal scholarship.
  • Social Services Abstracts
    Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. (ProQuest)
  • Social Welfare History Archives
    Images/media search of posters and pamphlets on social issues such as dance, family, health education, hygiene, mental health, public health, reproduction, and sexual abstinence.
  • Social Work Abstracts
    Social work and social services.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Social work, social welfare, human services and community development.
  • Springer Protocols
    Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences.
  • STAT!Ref Online Library
    Medical and drug texts, including Stedman's medical dictionary.
  • Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
    (Informaworld) Index to books and journal articles on all aspects of women's studies.
  • Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
    Resource by Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) Library that is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder.

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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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