Database Descriptions
- Academic
Search Premier
EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary, full text database
designed specifically for academic Institutions. Through the database, the
HS/HSL has provided links to over 600 full text journals in many areas of
study - including the social sciences, chemistry, medical sciences, ethnic
studies, and more.
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- AGELINE
Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), this database
contains citations and abstracts to books, journals, research reports, consumer
guides and book chapters. The references in AgeLine come from the gerontology
collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles
from 300 magazines and journals, aging-related dissertations from UMI's Dissertations
Abstracts database, and descriptions of videos. It covers topics such as government-sponsored
programs for elders, healthcare costs and policy, elder care, financial and
retirement planning, and fitness. 1978 to present. Updated three times a year.
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- AGRICOLA
Provides access to information on all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines,
including plant and animal sciences, entomology, soil and water resources,
and food and nutrition, and animal welfare. The Journal Article Citation Index
covers information from 1979-present.
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- AIDSLINE
Contains citations (with abstracts, if available) to journal articles, monographs,
audiovisuals, government reports, meeting abstracts, and theses on AIDS and
related topics. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, AIDSLINE is
derived from MEDLINE; CancerLIT; Health Planning and Administration; CATLINE;
AVLINE; International Conferences on AIDS; Symposia on Non-human Primate Models
of AIDS; and AIDS-related abstracts from the Annual Meetings of the American
Society of Microbiology. 1980 to present. Updated monthly.
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- BioethicsLine
Covers ethical and public policy issues in health care and biomedical research
taken from journal and newspaper articles, books and book chapters, case law
and legislation and audiovisuals. Produced jointly by the Kennedy Institute
of Ethics and the National Library of Medicine. 1973 to present. Updated bimonthly.
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- Business
Source Premier
Indexes over 2,100 journals and provides full text for nearly 1,400 scholarly
business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and
international business. (This database is provided through the Maryland Digital
Library Program.)
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- Business
Wire News see Regional
Business News
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- CancerLit
Produced by the National Cancer Institute, CancerLit contains bibliographic
records pertaining to all aspects of cancer therapy, clinical and experimental;
chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis;
biochemistry, immunology and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth
factor studies. CancerLit also contains unique records derived from the proceedings
of professional meetings, government and technical reports, symposia reports,
dissertations, and selected monographs. 1983 to present. Updated monthly.
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- CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
Indexes majority of English-language nursing journals including publications
from state nursing associations, ANA & NLN publications, and primary journals
from allied health disciplines. Links to selected full-text articles. 1982
to present. Updated monthly.
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- Cochrane
Library
A collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of the effects of health
care, maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. Cochrane reviews
are reviews mainly of randomized controlled trials. The Cochrane Library includes
the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of
Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register
and other sources of information on the science of reviewing research and
evidence-based health care. Updated quarterly.
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- Current
Contents Connect (CCC)
The World Wide Web version of the print and online index, Current Contents,
which is produced by the Institute for Scientific Information. The HS/HSL
subscribes to three editions of Current Contents, containing information from
1997 to the present: Clinical Medicine; Life Science; and Social & Behavioral
Sciences. Updated weekly.
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- Current
Index to Statistics - Extended Database (CIS-ED)
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields from
1974 to the present (currently defined as publications through the end of
1998 plus some early 1999 publications). Included are 106 "core journals",
as well as selected articles from about 900 additional journals, and about
8,000 books in statistics. Each year, it is updated with an additional year
of coverage. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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- Current
Research @ University of Maryland, Baltimore
This database contains dissertations and theses from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore that have been published in UMI’s Dissertation Abstract database.
Full-text (PDF) is available free for titles from 1997 to the present. Selected
titles from 1996 are also available full-text. Citations and abstracts are
available for earlier years.
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- EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost provides information on a broad range of academic areas including
general reference, business, social sciences, humanities, science, medicine,
and education. The Health Sciences and Human Services Library subscribes to
the following EBSCO databases: Academic Search Elite, MasterFILE Premier,
Clinical Reference Systems, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition, USP DI Volume II: Advice for the Patient, ERIC,
Business Source Premier, Business Wire News and CINAHL w/Headings.
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- eFacts
eFacts is provided by Facts and Comparisons and includes Drug Facts
and Comparisons®, Drug Interaction FactsTM, The Review of Natural Products®
and Med Facts: Patient Information. Drug Facts and Comparisons is
a comprehensive drug information compendium. Drug Interaction Facts includes
more than 1,200 interactions monographs detailing possible drug interactions.
The Review of Natural Products provides detailed information about natural
products; including their botany, history, chemistry, pharmacology, medicinal
uses, toxicology, and patient information. Med Facts: Patient Information
Hand-outs is designed for patient education, counseling and drug therapy management.
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- Entrez
Integrates information from a number of databases (nucleotide sequences, protein
sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE) at the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Entrez provides access to over
10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases with
links to participating online journals.
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- ERIC
Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals
and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center as
well as educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967. (This
database is provided through the Maryland Digital Library Program.)
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- ETOH
(Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database)
Produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),
ETOH covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. It includes abstracts
and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertations, conference
papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works.
Updated monthly, ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to the
present, as well as historical research literature.
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- Gartner
Research
Research and analysis of information technology issues, trends, companies,
and products.
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- Haz-Map
Haz-Map is an occupational health and toxicology database, designed to link
jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure to chemicals and occupational
diseases and their symptoms.
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- Health
and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
A database of testing/evaluation instruments in health, the psychosocial sciences,
organizational behavior, and library and information science. Identifies measures
needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, and
program evaluation. 1985 to present with many earlier measures. Updated quarterly.
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- Health
Source: Consumer Edition
Provides full text for nearly 280 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets
and 20 health reference books. Updated twice a week.
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- Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexes over 510 journals and provides full text for nearly 480 scholarly
journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Updated weekly.
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- HealthSTAR
Contains citations to the published literature on health services technology,
administration, and research. Topics include evaluation of patient outcomes;
effectiveness of procedures, services and processes; administration and planning
of health facilities; health insurance; health policy; health economics; laws
and regulations; licensure; and accreditation. HealthSTAR is derived from
MEDLINE, CATLINE, Hospital Literature Index, and selected journals and is
produced by the National Library of Medicine and the American Hospital Association.
1975 to present. Updated monthly.
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- LexisNexis
Primary Sources in African American History
The full text of every major law passed by the U.S. Congress impacting the
lives of African Americans since 1792, as well as the full text of core African
American biographies and autobiographies. (This database is provided through
the Maryland Digital Library Program.)
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- ingenta.com
Provides access, where available, to the article summaries from over 25,000
publications.
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- International
Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
Contains pharmaceutical literature, including clinical drug information, pharmacy
practice, and legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs. Comprehensive information
is included for drug therapy; toxicity; technology; pharmacy practice; biopharmaceutics;
and ethics, as related to pharmaceutical science and practice. Produced by
the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 1970 to present. Updated
monthly.
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- Journal
Citation Reports on the Web
A resource for scholarly and technical journal evaluation and comparison,
using citation data drawn from more than 8,400 journals worldwide. Coverage
is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from
over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations. JCR Web is available in two editions:
The Science Edition and The Social Sciences Edition. Updated annually.
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- Journals@Ovid
The Journals@Ovid database is an aggregate of scientific, technical, and medical
journals from selected publishers and societies. The Health Sciences and Human
Services Library subscribes to eighty-four of these journals, which are linked
to the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases to provide full-text access to articles.
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- Maryland
Digital Library (MDL)
The state-funded MDL program provides access to the following databases: Academic
Search Elite, Business Source Premier, CINAHL w/ Headings, ERIC, Health Source
Plus, Project Muse, NetLibrary, The Oxford English Dictionary, Access Science,
and CIS History Universe: Access to African American Studies. A Library barcode is required.
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- MasterFile
Premier
Provides full text for approximately 1,840 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. It also offers indexing
and abstracts for approximately 2,810 periodicals. Full text backfiles go
as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as
far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.
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- MD
Consult®
Provides access to over 30 medical texts, articles from more than 40 clinical
journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2500 patient education handouts,
CME and daily medical updates. This resource is available only to faculty,
staff and students of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and to staff of
the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).
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- MEDLINE
The MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine includes citations
with abstracts from approximately 3,900 biomedical, dental and nursing journals.
MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature,
International Nursing Index and selected journals. Provides links to 84 full-text
journals (Journals @ Ovid Full Text). 1966 to present. Updated weekly.
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- MICROMEDEX®
Healthcare SeriesT
A collection of twelve databases which support clinical decision-making and
high-quality patient care by providing comprehensive drug, acute care, and
toxicology information. Updated quarterly. Micromedex® is available free
to current faculty, staff and students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
and to staff at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). Through
special agreements, School of Pharmacy preceptors may also access the system.
A Library barcode is required.
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- NLM
Gateway
This site provides a single interface that lets users search multiple retrieval
systems at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The NLM Gateway accesses
MEDLINE/PubMed (includes PREMEDLINE), OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus (NLM's online
catalog), AIDS Meeting abstracts, MEDLINEplus (consumer health), HSRProj (health
services research projects), DIRLINE (directory of health organizations),
document delivery through Loansome Doc and the UMLS Metathesaurus.
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- OLDMEDLINE
via NLM Gateway
OLDMEDLINE contains citations to articles from international biomedical journals
covering the fields of medicine, pre-clinical sciences and allied health sciences
during the period 1957 through 1965. Subject searching of this database is
available through key words (the original Medical Subject Headings, assigned
prior to 1965) and text phrases. Unlike MEDLINE, this file contains neither
abstracts nor MeSH heading (MH) field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.
Search hint: To limit retrieval to OLDMEDLINE citations, perform a
search in the NLM Gateway. Chose "Journal Citations" from the Result
Summary page. From the Result page select OLDMEDLINE from the "Pick A
Collection" drop down menu, and then press the "Jump to Collection"
button.
Search OLDMEDLINE via the NLM
Gateway.
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- Pre-Medline
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, includes records with citations
and abstracts that are in the process of being indexed for MEDLINE. After
indexing is completed, records are added to MEDLINE and the preliminary record
deleted from Pre-Medline. Updated daily.
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- PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, book chapters,
technical reports and other documents. Covers literature in psychology and
the behavioral sciences as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Updated monthly. 1967 to the present.
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- PubMed
Provides access to a combined file of MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE, as well as linking
citations to full-text. The full-text option is currently available for a
limited number of journals. If there are any charges for an article, it is
the user's responsibility to pay. PubMed also provides access to several genome
databases.
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- Regional
Business News
This is a full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from
all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa
News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American
Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate
News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights.
This database is updated on a daily basis.
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- Science
Citation Index ExpandedT
SCI Expanded is a multidisciplinary database covering over 5,300 scientific
and technical journals across 164 disciplines from around the world. Approximately
70% of the articles indexed include searchable, full-length, English-language
author abstracts. 1992 to present. Updated weekly. NOTE: Click on ISI Web
of SCIENCE to access the database.
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- ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a database of full text journals. Several academic libraries
in Maryland have joined together to subscribed to this service. By participating
in this agreement, the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL)
can now provide electronic access to over 200 of its print Elsevier journals
in addition to Elsevier titles owned by the other participating academic libraries.
ScienceDirect also allows you to search by topic within its journal collection.
However, full text is only available for those journals to which the consortium
subscribes.
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- Social
Sciences Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the
journal literature of the social sciences. Indexes 1,700 journals spanning
50 disciplines, as well as individually selected items from over 3,300 of
the world's leading scientific and technical journals. 1992 to present. Updated
weekly. NOTE: Click on ISI Web of SCIENCE to access the database.
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Sociological
Abstracts
A primary resource for accessing information about the latest research sponsored
in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Subjects covered include anthropology, business, criminology, demography,
education, law, and social psychology. 1963 to present. Updated quarterly.
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- TOXNET
(Toxicology Data Network)
Provides information on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
It includes databases for toxicology data, toxicology literature, toxic release
information and chemical information. It is sponsored by the National Library
of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program
of its Specialized Information Services Division.
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- USP
DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
Provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language. Monographs are
organized into the following sections: Brand Names commonly used in both the
United States and Canada; Description; Before Using This Medicine; Proper
Use of This Medicine; Precautions and Side Effects.
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