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| AccessMedicine (HAM/TMC) |
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Current file. Contains full text for nearly 4,650 serials and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals; this scholarly collection offers information in: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
| AccessSurgery (HAM/TMC) |
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Current file. An integrated database of surgical resources, both written and visual, that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries, from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a core curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context. This is a tool for the student, the educator, and the practitioner, and is available to Educational and Clinical Partner users. |
| Academic Search Complete - EBSCO |
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1990 - present. Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. |
| ACP's PIER: The Physicians' Information and Education Resource w/ AHFS Dl Essentials - STAT!Ref |
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Updated regularly. PIER stands for the Physicians’ Information and Education Resource. Developed by the American College of Physicians (ACP), PIER is designed to be an evidence-based, point-of-care, decision support tool. Currently, PIER consists of approximately 320 disease modules, with 8-10 modules added each month. Features of PIER include consistancy of organization, clear, well-documented recommendations, and links to additional content. |
| AGRICOLA - EBSCO |
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1970 - present. This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. |
| Alt HealthWatch - EBSCO |
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Updated regularly. Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from 140 international and often peer-reviewed reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. |
| American Periodicals Series Online , 1741 - 1900 - ProQuest |
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1741 - 1900. American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. |
| Anatomy.tv (HAM/TMC) |
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Current File. Updated regularly. Representation of the anatomy of the human body derived from medical scan data interpreted by a team of staff anatomists and "built' by an in-house team of graphics specialists. The anatomy is accompanied by 3D animations showing function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Supplementing the core 3D anatomy are clinical videos and text written by medical specialists. Note: if any problems are encountered when logging on, please contact the Information Desk at 713.799.7161. |
| ArticleFirst - OCLC |
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1990 - present. Updated daily. Indexes 13,500+ journals (business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences and technology). Some abstracts are available. |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index - ISI Web of Science - ISI |
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1975 - present. Updated weekly. Contains data on items from more than 1,144 journals, including individually selected relevant items from more than 6,800 science and social sciences journals. Also included are references to poems, short stories, plays, music scores, excerpts from books, bibliographies and filmographies, as well as reviews of books, films, music and theatrical performances that are published in the indexed journals. |
| ARTstor |
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Current Edition. Updated weekly.ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. |
| Beilstein Chemical Database - Elsevier MDL |
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1778 - present. Database of over 7 million organic chemical compounds and 7 million organic reactions from the chemical literature, searchable by structure, substructure, reaction scheme, identification information and chemical data ranges. |
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| Bibliography of Native North Americans - EBSCO |
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Current edition. Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. |
| Biological Abstracts - Ovid |
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1980 - present. Updated monthly. Contains bibliographic references to the life science journal literature. Coverage is international, and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 75% of the records include abstracts. |
| Business Source Complete - EBSCO |
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1886 - present. This database is the world’s largest resource of full text business publications. It contains far more full text business periodicals than any other database currently available. Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) - EBSCO |
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1937 - present. Updated monthly. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. |
| Clinical Evidence |
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Current file. Updated regularly. Clinical Evidence systematic reviews summarise the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions, based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. It is neither a textbook of medicine nor a set of guidelines. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs, and observational studies where appropriate, and if there is no good evidence it says so. |
| Cochrane Library - Wiley InterScience |
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Updated regularly. The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews); Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA); NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED); About The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups (About); |
| Cold Spring Harbor Protocols - CSH |
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Current file. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is a definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database is fully searchable by keyword and subject, and it has many novel features—such as discussion forums and personal folders—made possible by online publication. Its coverage includes cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. Protocols are presented step-by-step and edited in the style that has made Molecular Cloning, Antibodies, Cells and many other CSH manuals essential to the work of scientists worldwide. Protocols will be continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the originators and users of the techniques. |
| Community of Science - CSA |
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Current file. The Community of Science (COS) is a web-based search network for scholars, scientists and R&D professionals in all fields. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center faculty, researchers, and graduate students can join COS and take advantage of free access to all COS databases. COS’s mission is to help you find funding, collaborate with colleagues, and promote your research. COS has been publishing on the Web since February 1994 and currently contains more than 500,000 researcher profiles from more than 1600 universities, government agencies, and other R&D organizations from around the world. |
| Computer Source - EBSCO |
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Updated regularly. Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications |
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| Consumer Health Complete - EBSCO |
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Updated regularly. Consumer Health Complete is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. |
| Contemporary Authors. Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography - Thomson Gale |
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Current edition. Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
| Cross Sectional Anatomy Online - DxR Development Group |
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Cross Sectional Anatomy Online is a web-based application from Gold Standard Multimedia that uses images from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project (male) to provide a helpful resource for teaching and learning anatomy. To create the program, developers took almost 1900 cross sectional images from a human cadaver and identified and labeled over 1400 anatomical structures on these images. |
| CSA Illustrata/Illumina - CSA |
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1997 - present. Updated monthly. CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. The database contains almost one million indexed objects from more than 1000 peer-reviewed journals. The number of objects is projected to increase by approximately 150,000 each month.The majority of objects date from literature published from 2000 forward, however there are approximately 9,000 objects from publications older than 2000. This number will continue to grow as older content will be added along with current material.
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| Current Index to Statistics - CIS |
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1974 - present. Updated annually. The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 111 core journals that are fully indexed, selected relevant articles from non-core journalst, proceedings, edited books, and other sources. |
| Dissertations and Theses - ProQuest |
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Current edition. The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full text in pdf format is available for about 1 million records with hard copy available for all records through the UMI service. |
| DynaMed (HAM/TMC) |
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Current edition.
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full text in pdf format is available for about 1 million records with hard copy available for all records through the UMI service. |
| EBSCO Animals - EBSCO |
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Current edition.
Animals (for elementary school students) provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images. |
| EBSCO Database Collection - EBSCO |
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Dates of coverage vary. Updated regularly. Provides a listing of all databases available through the EBSCOhost interface, organized either alphabetically or by subject. Also provides links to individual databases titles. |
| EBSCOhost Espanol Database Collection - EBSCO |
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The Spanish language version of the Ebsco Database Collection. Directions and explanations are given in Spanish but the retrieved data are in English. Dates of coverage vary. Updated regularly. Provides a listing of all databases available through the EBSCOhost interface, organized either alphabetically or by subject. Also provides links to individual databases titles. |
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| Economia y Negocios - EBSCO |
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Current edition. Economía y Negocios is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. |
| efacts-Facts & Comparisons 4.0 - Wolters Kluwer |
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Current edition. Updated regularly. A comprehensive database of information on drugs with advanced search capabilities. It includes detailed information from several sources. |
| Electronic Collections Online (ECO) - OCLC |
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1995 - present. Updated daily. A collection of more than 3,000 scholarly journals in a wide range of fields from OCLC. Full text is available for some journals. |
| eLibrary Curriculum - Proquest |
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Current edition. Designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video content. |
| ERIC - EBSCO |
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1966 - present. Updated monthly. Access through EBSCO. This database contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. |
| ERIC - OCLC |
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1966 - present. Updated monthly. Access through OCLC. This database contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. |
| Evidence Matters |
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Current file. Updated daily. Designed by clinicians, Evidence Matters (EM) is a clinical knowledge management system to help support the use of research in decision-making. It helps to answer questions on the effectiveness, safety, and costs of therapy options for a particular patient, in an evidence-based manner. It includes over 100,000 outcomes covering 1,300 treatments from the following disease categories: Oncology, Cardiology, Endocrinology/Metabolism, Respiratory Disorders, Gastroenterology and Neurology. All results are built on trusted peer-reviewed research and organized in an evidence-based manner into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety, and cost. |
| Exam Master (HAM/TMC) |
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Question bank contains questions for USMLE, Steps 1, 2, and 3; Medical Board Exams, including family practice, internal medicine, and surgery; and several medical subject areas, including anatomy, microbiology, and physiology. |
| FirstSearch - OCLC |
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The OCLC FirstSearch service connects you to information in a wide range of subjects in 11 databases. |
| Faculty of 1000 Biology (HAM/TMC) |
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Current File. Online research service that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 researchers. Provides a rapidly updated consensus map of the important papers and trends across biology, including biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cell biology, chemical biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, genomics and genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, molecular medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology and drug discovery, physiology, plant biology, and structural biology. Faculty of 1000 Biology highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear and offers the researcher a consensus of recommendations from well over 1000 leading scientists. |
| Faculty of 1000 Medicine (HAM/TMC) |
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Current File. Aimed at clinicians (highlighting evidence that questions current clinical practice) and researchers (highlighting important areas of research and drawing attention to new developments); provides a rapidly updated consensus map of the important papers and trends across medicine, including anesthesiology, cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and endocrinology, and evidence-based health care. |
| Fuente Academica - EBSCO |
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Updated regularly. This is a a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - EBSCO |
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This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library - Thomson Gale |
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Updated regularly. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
| Galenet Collections Menu - Thomson Gale |
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This links to a page which provides access to all of the databases available through the Gale Group. There are 13 databases covering a wide variety of topics and information. |
| GenBank - NIH |
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Updated monthly. GenBank®, the NIH genetic sequence database, is an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. There are approximately 20,649,000,000 bases in 17,471,000 sequence records as of June 2002. |
| GPO Monthly Catalog - OCLC |
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July, 1976 - present. Updated monthly. Contains over 380,000 citations to the publications of U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Congress. |
| Hand Book of Texas - Texas State Historical Society |
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Current edition. The Handbook of Texas, provided by the Texas State Historical Association is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture. |
| Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) - Ovid |
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1985 - present. Updated quarterly. Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) is a bibliographic database that provides descriptions of tests, manuals, rating scales and other instruments used to assess health and behavior. The information can assist researchers and others in locating a variety of instruments used in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. |
| Health Reference Center Academic - InfoTrac - Thomson Gale |
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Dates of coverage vary. Updated daily. Provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles covering patient and consumer health information. |
| Health Source Consumer Edition - EBSCO |
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Updated daily. This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCO |
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Updated daily. This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center With Health Reference Center and Alternative Health Module - Thomson Gale |
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Current edition. This database provides a one stop, full-service resource for alternative and complimentary therapies. It provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines and pamphlets for consumers and health care professionals. This module displays additional information on alternative topics such as, herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, chiropractic and more. |
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| HeritageQuest Online- ProQuest |
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Most current file. Updated monthly. Contains genealogies, local histories, third-party histories, and primary source materials of towns and families in all 50 states, as well as Canada, England, and Ireland. Search by title, family name, geographic area, or subject. |
| Historical Newspapers - ProQuest |
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1851 - 2005. ProQuest Historical Newspapers™offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format. Some of the newspapers included are the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wahington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and others. |
| Human Genome Database |
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Updated continuously. At present, the Genome Data Base which is a project of the Human Genome Initiative, comprises descriptions of the following types of objects: Regions of the human genome, including genes, clones, amplimers (PCR markers), breakpoints, cytogenetic markers, fragile sites, ESTs, syndromic regions, contigs and repeats. Maps of the human genome, including cytogenetic maps, linkage maps, radiation hybrid maps, content contig maps, and integrated maps. These maps can be displayed graphically via the Web. Variations within the human genome including mutations and polymorphisms, plus allele frequency data. |
| IEEE Xplore |
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Updated regularly. IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. |
| Images.MD |
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Updated regularly. An online encyclopedia of medical images. |
| InfoTrac Newspapers - Thomson Gale |
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Updated continuously. Growing collection of over 100 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers. Dates of coverage vary with start dates beginning January of 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times. |
| InterDok: Directory of Published Proceedings |
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Updated coninuously. Since 1965, InterDok, a directory of published proceedings has identified resulting material from 280,000+ conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia. Subject areas include medicine, life science, engineering, technology, pollution, ecology, social sciences, and the humanities. |
| International Pharmaceutical Abstracts - Ovid |
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1970 - present. Updated monthly. International coverage of pharmaceutical science and related health literature. Topics covered include drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics. |
| Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts - EBSCO |
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Updated regularly. This database provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. |
| Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factors) - ISI Web of Science |
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Updated annually. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. |
| Journals Indexed in Index Medicus (PubMed Journal Search) |
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This site can be searched in a variety of ways for journals that are included in MEDLINE/Index Medicus. You may enter the journal name, MEDLINE abbreviation or ISSN. You may also enter a single word from the journal title or several adjacent words in the title. Use an asterisk * at the end of a word to truncate. For example, engl* would match england, english, etc. |
| Journals@Ovid Full Text - Ovid |
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This database contains only journals for which there is full text available through Ovid. The database may be searched by subject, author or journal title. |
| JSTOR (Journal Storage - the Scholarly Journal Archive) |
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The JSTOR archive is a searchable electronic database of full-text research journals in a variety of academic disciplines and is part |
