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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [Acceptable Use Policy]

 Medicine and Health: 25 Databases


Access Science
Type: Reference
Coverage: Began in 2000?
Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Biological Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
C. Elegans II
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Cancer Medicine E.5
Type: eBooks & eTexts
EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Immunobiology 5
Type: eBooks & eTexts
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An enhanced, online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) (full text: 1998- ) integrated with other sources of cancer information. "Search All" screen returns results from JNCI, more than 25 additional journals with cancer-related content, cancer statistics from various health agencies, recent news coverage, Physician data query, selected relevant entries in Physicians' desk reference, and abstracts from Cochrane reviews and from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans.
Malaria: Topics in International Health (2nd Ed.)
Type: Reference
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Contains 13 interactive tutorials and a collection of approximately 850 images.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology
    (Use Access Science)
MEDLINE (EBSCO)   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
    (Use PubMed)
MEDLINE Plus
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: An extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Presents the full-text of the "Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy," Seventeenth Edition, Centennial Edition, published by Merck and Co., Inc. in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Offers searchable medical information.
Molecular Cell Biology
Type: eBooks & eTexts
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Home page of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), a specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. Includes access to services and publications of the NRCBL.
Pollution abstracts
    (Use Biological Abstracts)
PsycINFO  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1872-
Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
PubMed 
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Radiation Oncology Investigations, an affiliated section of International Journal of Cancer, beginning 2000
    (Use International Journal of Cancer)
Retroviruses
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Schistosomiasis: Topics in International Health
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Schistosomiasis.
Description: Provides an introduction to this major disease caused by infection with parasites of the genus Schistosoma, its prevention and treatment.
Sickle Cell Disease: Topics in International Health
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Sickle Cell Disease.
Description: Provides an introduction, biology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of sickle cell disease.
Social Science Electronic Data Library
Type: Reference, Data/Statistics/GIS
Description: "The Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) is a premium health and social science resource that consists of ... data sets from ... comprising six topically-focused collections. SSEDL is a unique source of high quality social science data and documentation for researchers, educators, students, and policy analysts ... contains ... data sets from AIDS/STD, Disability in the U.S., American family, Adolescent pregnancy & pregnancy prevention, Aging, Maternal drug abuse, Contextual data archive"--Title screen.
Sport Discus  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Indexed citations on exercise physiology, physical education, physical fitness, sports, and sports medicine, including books, sections of books, conference proceedings, periodical articles and research papers.
Tuberculosis: Topics in International Health
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Tuberculosis.
Description: Provides an introduction to tuberculosis, with interactive tutorials, an image collection, and glossary.
WDI online
    (Use World Development Indicators)
World Development Indicators  
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.

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