Health and Medicine


Number of resources: 71
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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ACP's PIER: The Physician's Information & Education Resource Authentication Required
PIER is a product of ACP, The American College of Physicians and is a web-based authoritative, evidence-based guidance tool. PIER's disease modules include sections on diagnosis, prevention, screening, drug therapy, patient education and case scenarios. On the PDA application, topics are supported with tables, and references to Web sites for supporting articles in Annals of Internal Medicine and PubMed. PIER adds and revises information as new disease findings become available.
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AGRICOLA Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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AIDSLINE
Covers citations to information about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics in journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals.
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AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Subjects covered include acupuncture, terminal care, symptom control, osteopathy, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, chiropractic, holistic treatments, and podiatry.

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AnimalScience.com Authentication Required
Covers all aspects of veterinary science, including parasitology and zoonotic disease, as well as animal nutrition, equine science, animal production and animal genetics, and aquaculture and fisheries.
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Biological Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal literature. This database enables researchers and students to retrieve references to vital biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Coverage is international, and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 90% of the records include abstracts. Basic truncation symbols are the dollar sign: $ or the colon: :.
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BIOSIS Archive 1926-1969 Authentication Required
Archive of BIOSIS content from 1926 to 1969. Service provided via the OvidSP platform.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications. [BIOSIS Previews consists of Biological Abstracts (journal articles) and Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews, and meetings).] Basic truncation symbols are the dollar sign: $ or the colon: :.

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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health. It provides bibliographic citations with abstracts in English for records of all languages. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety: Web Info Service Authentication Required
Access to over 300,000 current, peer-reviewed international health and safety publications. Access to over 160,000 critical toxicological citations drawn form over 2500 sources. Access to over 200,000 material safety data sheets.
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CANCERLIT
This international bibliographic database pertains to all aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy; chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth factor studies. Indexes journal articles, letters, meeeting abstracts, government and technical reports, dissertations and monographs.
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CCINFOWeb Authentication Required
Collection of toxicology-related databases from Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Databases include MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances)
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CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
Includes information from 16 different databases created by agencies of the US Federal Government. Specific subjects include AIDS, Alzheimer's, arthritis, cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, deafness, diabetes, digestive diseases, epilepsy, health promotion, kidney diseases, maternal & child health, medical genetics & rare disorders, oral health, prenatal smoking cessation, and weight control.
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CINAHL Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, has a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected standards of professional practice.
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Cochrane Library Authentication Required
The Cochrane Library consists of a collection of regularly updated evidence-based health care databases. The Cochrane collection is designed to provide information and evidence to support health care decision-making. The available databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (regularly updated reviews of the effects of health care interventions); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: DARE (critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere); The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: CENTRAL (bibliographic information on controlled trials); The Cochrance Database of Methodology Reviews: CDMR (systematic reviews of methodological studies); Health Technology Assessment Database: HTA (information about health technology assessments); NHS Economic Evaluation Database: NHS EED (National Health Service (UK), structured abstracts of articles describing evaluations of health care interventions); browse by Cochrane Collaborative Review Group; and the Cochrane Reviewer's Handbook.
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Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.Full text statements are available from 2003-present and digests (summaries) are available from 1985-present.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Incorporates Pollution Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and other specialized databases.

Areas of coverage include agricultural and environmental biotechnology, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements (U.S.), pollution, toxicology & toxic emissions, and water resource issues.

The ESPM database is comprised of the following component databases:

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/agabstracts
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/asfa3
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/bacabs
Ecology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ecolabs
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eisdigests
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/envengabs
Health and Safety Science Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/healthsafetyabs
Human Population & Natural Resource Management
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/hpnrm
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/indappmicroabs
Pollution Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/pollabs
Risk Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/riskabs
Sustainability Science Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sustabs
Toxicology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/toxicabs
Water Resources Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/waterabs



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Essential Evidence Plus (InfoPOEMS) Authentication Required
Essential Evidence Plus formerly InfoPOEMs, consists of two products -- InfoRetriever and the Daily InfoPOEMs. InfoRetriever provides filtered, graded, summarized evidence and clinical tools for use in the office or at the bedside. Daily InfoPOEMs provides a complete clinical awareness system for knowledge management.
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Faculty of 1000 - Biology Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Current literature awareness service which highlights the "most interesting papers" in biology, based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading scientists.
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FIRSTConsult Authentication Required
FIRSTConsult contains electronic text books, e-journals, drug info and more. First Consult provides evidence based answers to clinical questions and is designed for point of care professionals.
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Global Health Authentication Required
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the Global Health database, to produce approximately 25,000 new entries per year. Nearly all records have informative English abstracts prepared by scientists and linguists.
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Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty Authentication Required
Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

When using any one of the three access methods below, the text link, "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities", will appear in your Google Scholar search results. Then clicking the "Find It" link will present you with a menu of full-text and related service options for the Scholar search result you followed. To benefit from this service, access Google Scholar via:

  1. any U of M Twin Cities Campus Internet connection,
  2. the "special" link to Google Scholar that the Libraries provide (below or from the Libraries' Google Scholar listing on "Indexes"), or
  3. the regular link to Google Scholar when having set up your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities)."

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GreenFILE Authentication Required
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Describes instruments used to assess health and behavior of infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Topics covered include public health, communication, psychology, management, nursing, organizational behavior, medicine, sociology, physical education, psychiatry, human resources, gerontology and dental medicine. Covers questionnaires, interview schedules, observation checklists and manuals, index measures, coding schemes, scenarios and vignettes, rating scales, projective techniques and tests. Includes title, author, publication resource, development date, publication date, subjects, description and reliability and validity information. International coverage.

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Health and Safety Science Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Health Economic Evaluations Database Authentication Required
The Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) covers worldwide bibliographic citations and economic evaluations of medicines, medical interventions and other treatments as well as studies on the cost of illness. It also contains over 700 non-English language economic evaluations and assesses all the major European Languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian. The database contains more than 33,500 evaluations that have been selected by health economists for use by health economists.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology.
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HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health and biological sciences database. Provides a number of powerful features not included in PubMed (e.g., direct export of citations to your RefWorks account), and retains many advanced functionalities of PubMed (e.g., ability to use PubMed's syntax to refine your searches).
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Hypnosis and Related States Research Database
Database from the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis containing 11465 references to hypnosis related materials in journals and books.
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IBIDS - International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
IBIDS contains bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements from the Office of Dietary Supplements at the NIH.
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Illustrata - Natural Sciences Authentication Required
Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Search results – the objects – can be viewed in full, in either (thumbnail or enhanced format) along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper.
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images.MD Authentication Required
images.MD compiles over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text.
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Index to Chiropractic Literature
Index to Chiropractic Literature is created by a group of health science librarians working in chiropractic colleges throughout the world. It includes citations to articles in 40 journals, and is searchable by keyword, subject, or author.
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IndexCat
Digital version of the printed "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Includes all five series of the publication.
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InfoPOEMS (Essential Evidence Plus)
January 2008 this resource had a title change to Essential Evidence Plus.
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IngentaConnect Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications. Full text of articles is sometimes available for subscribed journals.
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International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA via OvidSP) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice.

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Journal Citation Reports Authentication Required
Journal Citation Reports on the Web provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare approx 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Includes the Impact Factor for these journals.
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LexisNexis Academic (Classic) FOR OFF-CAMPUS, WIRELESS, & ON CAMPUS USE Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. (Classical interface)
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LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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LexisNexis Government Periodicals Authentication Required
Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles. Check periodical title in MNCAT to locate copies in the Libraries.
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Literature, Arts & Medicine Database
The Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. It is a multi-institutional project (see Editorial Board) which was initiated by Drs. Felice Aull, Martin Nachbar, Karen Brewer, Roy Smith and Irene Chen '96 of the New York University School of Medicine in the summer of 1993. This Web site is produced and maintained by the Hippocrates Project, the multi-disciplinary development laboratory for application of information technologies to medical education at New York University School of Medicine.
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MasterFile Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975.
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MD Consult Authentication Required
Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.
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MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
MEDLINE includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

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MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed. Covered are basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health and pre-clinical sciences as well as life sciences that are important to practitioners and researchers - biology, environmental science, biophysics, chemistry and plant & animal science. Ovid, a software company specializing in text retrieval applications and search interfaces, provides an easy to use interface for searching MEDLINE.
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MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 590 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook Authentication Required
MMY, from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th and more recent Yearbooks. The electronic version complements the print version.
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MICROMEDEX Authentication Required
Provides access to drug information resources, including DRUGDEX; POISINDEX; Martindale, the Extra Pharmacopoeia; Index Nominum; and Physician's Desk Reference.
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Morgue, The
The Morgue attempts to provide students, scholars and researchers with an on-line tool specifically targeted at the literature in field of Mortuary Science.The database can be searched by subject heading by scrolling through the subjects indexed list. The database can be searched by author's name by scrolling through the authors indexed list. Covers 30 English language journals within the field of Mortuary Science. Years 1997-present (not all journals all years).
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National Guideline Clearinghouse
The National Guideline ClearinghouseTM (NGCTM) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Authentication Required
This database contains authoritative, current information on herbal medicines and supplements, including safety, effectiveness, known constituents, and possible interactions with other substances. The database also includes alternative names, common uses of herbal medicines, and reference citations.

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Natural Standard Authentication Required
Natural Standard is an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board. Includes these databases: Foods, Herbs, & Supplements; Health & Wellness; Genomics & Proteomics; Medical Conditions; Comparative Effectiveness; Brand Names; and Interactive Tools.
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OT Search (formerly OT BibSys) Authentication Required
This bibliographic index covers the literature of occupational therapy and related subject areas. It includes citations to journal and newsletter articles, books, proceedings, and doctoral and masters theses. Produced by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation.
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Patents (United States)
The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date. Publisher/Producer is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Physical Education Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Search PEI for a wide range of Physical Education & Kinesiology topics including physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sports psychology & sociology. Scholarly and trade literature references are included. Abstracts were added starting in 2001.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. Includes material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents, along with information from primary journals in the field. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)" database. To identify additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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POPLINE
Covers information family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries in journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished works.
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PsycINFO Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations. PsycINFO supports searching cited references.
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Public STINET
Public STINET provides access to citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) Technical Reports Collection since December 1974 as well as some full text reports for those citations.
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PubMed - Public Version
Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles. Includes Medline and Pre-Medline (articles more recent than found in Medline).
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PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the most of the sciences, including veterinary medicine and zoology. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 70% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Impact factors for many journals is also available. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.

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SciFinder Scholar Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics; Access it online, download software to use it on your home or office computer, access it from public computers in Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath Libraries by clicking on the SciFinder desktop icon (note: access contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff). SciFinder Scholar includes journal and patent literature with references as far back as 1907 as well as information on chemical regulatory data, suppliers, reactions, and substances. You will need to download and log in to VPN before you can access SciFinder from off-campus.
Non-affiliates should see this guide for options.
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Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences Authentication Required
Proceedings from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada.
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SPORT Discus Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
The world's most comprehensive bibliographic resources for all aspects of sport and fitness. Includes Internet sites, conference papers, journal articles, unpublished papers and theses. Includes Full-text access to over 350 journals.
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STAT!Ref Authentication Required
Provides keyword searchable access to the full text of more than thirty medical and drug textbooks.

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Toxicology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers social poisons and substance abuse, natural toxins, legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues; toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and other substances, and the in vivo effects of toxic substances; the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials; and toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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TOXLINE
TOXLINE includes citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, and meeting abstracts, papers and reports on Toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals
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TOXNET
Online collection of toxicology-related databases including HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), TOXLINE, and several others. All databases can be searched at once.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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