Databases
Databases and Other Resources
| Resource Title | Annotation |
Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Water Resources Abstracts (Selected) |
Database of bibliographic citations and other resources published by the U.S. Geological survey. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
| ECOTOX |
Database of the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection agency providing single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
 National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) |
Includes over twenty participating federal agencies. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
| BCERF, Environmental Risk Factor Database |
Database for bibliographic information on environmental risk factors topics. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
| 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 |
| MassHEIS - Massachusetts Health and Environment Information System |
Web-based, interactive mapping tool that provides community access to health and environmental information about communities in Massachusetts. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
| Envirofacts |
Searches several EPA databases for environmental information in your area. Access is freely available to all. |
Environmental Health |
 InfoTrac |
General and health reference information, Expanded Academic ASAP, business and company resources, and biographical information (Biography in Context). Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| MEDLINE® (Ovid) |
Ovid's interface to the MEDLINE database provides access to bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| National Guideline Clearinghouse |
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, the National Guideline Clearinghouse is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| WorldCat (FirstSearch) |
Check other libraries nationally and internationally for books, journals, audiovisuals and electronic media. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 DynaMed |
A clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. Updated daily. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 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 |
 EBSCOhost |
A collection of several resources (Biomedical Reference; Health Business Fulltext Elite; Nursing & Allied Health; Alt HealthWatch; and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences). Full-text article coverage includes almost 2400 multi-disciplinary journals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 MD Consult |
MD Consult includes a number of electronic information resources (reference books, journals, practice guidelines, etc.) that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases | Access is freely available to all. | General Sites |
| 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 |
| Library News and Events |
Keeping current with the library. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| IngentaConnect |
Search and browse over 15,000 publications. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in backfiles of scholarly journals, some dating back to the 17th century, in a variety of disciplines. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| Highly Cited Research |
Gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations a tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| CDC Wonder |
A portal of links to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| MedlinePlus |
Consumer health information on more than 700 topics provided by the National Library of Medicine. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Medscape Reference (formerly eMedicine Medical Reference) |
"Medscape's Continually Updated Clinical Reference." Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| World Digital Library |
Makes available on the Internet significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. A project of UNESCO and the Library of Congress. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |