Databases
Databases and Other Resources
Resource Title |
Annotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
 Science in Context |
Features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. Contains over 1.5 million periodical articles. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Science |
| Science Citation Index Expanded |
Covers 150 scientific areas. Includes 5,900 journals from medical research and clinical fields as well as from the "hard" sciences. Investigate particular subjects and see who is citing specific articles and authors. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 Sage Research Methods Online |
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects, by linking over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| SafetyLit |
Abstracts from scholarly peer reviewed journals, selected reports from government agencies, university-based research centers, and professional organizations on injury prevention research. Maintained at San Diego State University. Access is freely available to all. |
Occupational Medicine |
| RxList: The Internet Drug Index | Access is freely available to all. | Pharmacology |
| Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health | Access is freely available to all. | Public Health |
| ReproLine®: Reproductive Health Online | Access is freely available to all. | Reproductive Medicine |
| Reports of the Surgeon General, The |
Contains official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings from the Office of the Surgeon General. Access is freely available to all. |
Public Health |
| RePORTER (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results) |
Replaces the CRISP database. Provides reports, data and analyses of NIH research activities. Access is freely available to all. |
Research Support |
| REPIDISCA |
Citations, emphasizing documents produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, on the topics of environmental health, water supply and wastewater, solid and hazardous wastes, and healthy cities. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
| RefWorks |
An online research management, writing and collaboration tool. Classes and a handout are available through the library's website. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Writing |
| RAND Books and Publications | Access is freely available to all. | General Sites |
 R2 Library |
Access over 100 electronic textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health. Users can save, organize, and export over 68,000 images from all available R2 Library resources. The My Images feature gives users easy access to often-used images. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Medicine |
| Quantitative Biology | Access is freely available to all. | Biology |
| Purdue Online Writing Lab, The (OWL) |
Comprehensive guides to using APA, MLA and Chicago styles, and over 200 free resources for writing, teaching, research, ESL, and job searching. Access is freely available to all. |
Writing |
| PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset |
Succeeds IBIDS database. Limits PubMed search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. Access is freely available to all. |
Nutritional Sciences |
 PubMed |
Public access database to citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Public Technical Reports |
From the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®). Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Public Health Image Library (PHIL) |
Content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files. Many images are copyright protected. Access is freely available to all. |
Public Health |
| Pubget |
View, share, and bookmark PDFs. Pubget also provides tools like PaperPlane which allows you to search PubMed and still get the PDF through Pubget from the abstract page. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| PubChem |
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. Access is freely available to all. |
Chemistry |
| PsycINFO® (1967 - present) |
Citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Journal coverage includes material selected from approximately 2000 periodicals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Psychology |
| PsycINFO® (1806 - 1966) |
Citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Journal coverage includes material selected from approximately 2000 periodicals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Psychiatry |
 Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
Nearly 575 full text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Behavioral Sciences |
| PsychiatryOnline |
Portal from American Psychiatric Publishing for resources including DSM® Library, textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, self-assessment tools, news and information handouts for patients. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
Psychiatry |