Databases
Databases and Other Resources
| Resource Title | Annotation |
Subject |
|---|---|---|
 General Reference Center Gold |
Coverage begins in 1980. Integrates a variety of sources: newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, and hobbies. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 Health Reference Center Academic |
Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 Health & Wellness Resource Center |
A collection of online books, journals, magazines and pamphlets about alternative and complimentary therapies. Materials are geared for both consumers and health care professionals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| NLM Gateway |
"One-stop shopping" for an increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine® (NLM). Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
 Official Documents of the United Nations |
Covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. 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 |
| Medical Heritage Library |
A digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| InterDok - Directory of Published Proceedings | Access is freely available to all. | General Sites |
| eScholarship@UMMS |
Digital archive offering worldwide access to the research and scholarly output of the University of Massachusetts Medical School community. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Google™ Image Search |
"The most comprehensive image search on the web." Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive |
Provides access to full-text for nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications in such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| ScienceDirect® |
Offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Includes over 2500 peer-reviewed journals. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| news @ nature.com |
Latest news from Nature.com, with archives dating back to 1998. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 STAT!Ref |
Cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core textbook titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| Google™ Scholar |
Search diverse sources for scholarly literature (books, articles and abstracts, etc.) in a wide range of disciplines. Access full-text through the library's Get it service. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| WorldCat® |
A free version of the WorldCat global library catalog, WorldCat.org lets you easily search the collections of many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library near you. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) |
The U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
 Cochrane Library (Cochrane Collaboration) |
Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| SpringerImages |
From Springer, the second-largest publisher of STM journals. This collection of free images is a subset of the full collection, which includes over 1.5 million photos, graphs, and figures. Access is freely available to all. |
General Sites |
| WorldCat Local |
Search for resources owned by the Lamar Soutter Library, other regional libraries, or libraries worldwide. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users. |
General Sites |
| IEEE Xplore® Digital Library |
Full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
 Henry Stewart Talks - The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection |
A growing collection of over 1150 animated audio-visual presentations with synchronized narration by world-leading scientists. Access is restricted to UMMS workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| 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 |
| Library Guides |
Information and library resources on a variety of topics. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |
| Library Guide - Copyright Resources |
Information and library resources designed to aid the UMMS community in complying with copyright requirements. Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. |
General Sites |