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ABI/Inform
Business and management periodicals. Includes full-text. 
* ABLEDATA
Detailed descriptions of currently available products for people with disabilities. Includes full text.
Academic Search Premier (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Includes full text.
AccessSurgery
* ACTIS - AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
A central resource for federally and privately funded HIV/AIDS clinical trial information, including information about drugs. Includes full text.
AgeLine - Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books,
and reports.
* AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
A bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The database covers materials in all formats. The records encompass all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to online full-text documents.
ArticleFirst (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Index to 12,500 general periodicals. Citations/abstracts only.
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Business and Company Resource Center with Investext Plus (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Premier (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
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* CAM Citation Index
Bibliographic citations related to complementary and alternative medicine extracted from MEDLINE.
* CancerNet
Full text state-of-the-art information from the National Cancer Institute on screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, for consumers and health care professionals.
* CCINFOweb
Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (except for Canadian enviro OSH Legislation & INCHEM IPCS Publications). Includes full text.
* CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System)
Full-text information on carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
* CHID
Information from health-related agencies of the Federal Government. Includes full text.
CINAHL (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Includes links to full text.
CINAHL (OvidWeb)
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Includes links to full text.
* CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research
Index to published research conducted outside of the United States.
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register - CCTR
A comprehensive effort to gather all controlled trials in health care, which meet the necessary quality criteria, into one database, compiled from bibliographies of systematic reviews, searches of computerized databases and hand-searching of the literature.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - CDSR
Considered one of the premier sources of EBM, CDSR is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality, reliable evidence about the effects of health care interventions. Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.
Cochrane Library
The Library contains multiple evidence based databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness which can be searched simultaneously using medical subject headings (MeSH) and textwords. See description under specific database name.
ContentsFirst - Now part of ArticleFirst (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Tables of contents to 12,500 general periodicals.
Custom Newspapers (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.
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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness - DARE
DARE contains summaries and assessments of systematic reviews, published in the journal literature on the effectiveness of health care interventions, which meet the Cochrane Collaboration's standards/criteria.
* Directory of Health Information Online
Directory of health and biomedical information resources.
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EBSCOHost (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Academic and interdisciplinary periodicals. Includes full text.
* Entrez Databases
Access to genomics databases.
ERIC (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Educational Resources Information Center. Citations/abstracts only.
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Faculty of 1000 Biology
Research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published
in the medical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of nearly 2500 leading researchers.
FirstSearch
Gateway to a variety of databases. Full text or citations/abstracts depending on the database searched.
* Freida
Directory of residencies from the AMA.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
* Gene Cards
Human genes, maps, proteins & diseases.
GPO (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Index to government documents. Citations only.
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HAPI - Health & Psychosocial Instruments (Ovid)
Measurement instruments for medical or medically related conditions or treatment outcomes.
HarpWeek (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Harper's Weekly: The Civil War Era (1857-1865). Full text and illustrations.
* Health
Library (Consumer Health)
Consumer health and patient education resource which is evidence based and free to the public. Thousands of health articles in English and Spanish, and 25 animations on medical procedures. Natural & Alternative Treatments, Herbs & Supplements and medical news called "Journal Notes" and much more are also included in this comprehensive source.
Health Reference Center (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
Health Reference Center Academic - Health related database with strong consumer focus. Includes full text of articles, consumer health pamphlets, and more.
HealthSTAR (Ovid)
Periodicals and reports related to health planning and administration, patient outcomes and effectiveness of care. Includes links to full text of electronic journals.
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* IBIDS
International, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. Citations/abstracts only.
Images MD
An online encyclopedia of medical images that can be used in PowerPoint presentations and more.
Informe (New York State NOVEL resource)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoPOEMs
Database system of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information.
How to re-register hand-held devices to use InfoRetriever.
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The Joanna Briggs Institute
The Institute brings together a range of practice-oriented research activities to improve the effectiveness of nursing practice and health care outcomes.
Journals@Ovid
Over 200 full text journals.
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Krames On-Demand
Patient Education
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* LactMed
Free
online database with information on drugs and lactation.
Lexi-Comp
On-line drug information system including sections for interactions, pediatric, geriatric, nursing, patient education, and toxicology information. Lexi-Comp Guide
* Linscott's Catalog of Immunological and Biological Reagents
Free online access to supplier listings: antibodies, assays, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins,
tissues, organs and custom services.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Resource Center (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Novelists, poets, essayists, journalists.
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MEDLINE (Ovid)
International biomedical journal literature. Includes links to full text of electronic journals.
* MEDLINEplus
Information about specific diseases and conditions, including links to consumer health information.
* Medscape Publications
Public access to selections from over 100 medical publications
Micromedex
Full text drug and toxicology clinical information system.
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* NARIC's Instant Disability Information Center
Disability and rehabilitation research from the United States.
* NAIC Bibliographic Database (National Aging Information Center)
References to program- and policy-related materials on aging produced by Administration on Aging grantees.
National Newspaper Index (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
Search The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
* Native American Health History
Information on historical American Indian and Alaska Native medical/health research reports.
* New Medicines in Development Database
From the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
New York State Newspapers (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
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* Office of Minority Health Resource Center Databases
Publications, programs and funding sources.
* OLDMEDLINE
Citations to articles from international biomedical journals published from 1958 through 1965.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Information on social issues, contains viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
* OTseeker
OTseeker provides rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in occupational therapy.
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PA Research II (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Articles from general periodicals. Includes full text.
* PEDro
PEDro provides rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.
PREMEDLINE
Basic citation information and abstracts of journal articles before the records are indexed and put into MEDLINE.
Primal Pictures Interactive Anatomy
Interactive, multi-media three-dimensional human anatomy modeling.
ProceedingsFirst (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Listing of published conferences. Citations only.
ProQuest
Gateway to newspapers, general & business periodicals. Includes full text.
PsychiatryOnline
Collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., including DSM-IV-TR and The American Journal of Psychiatry.
PsycINFO (Ovid)
Index to psychology journals, books, dissertations. Citations/abstracts only.
* PubMed
Bibliographic information from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, HealthSTAR, and publisher-supplied citations. Also, special features such as CUBBY (store and update searches) and Clinical Queries (built-in evidence-based search filters).
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* Reports of the Surgeon General
Official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings from the Office of the Surgeon General.
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ScienceDirect (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Full text articles from journals across all fields of science.
Scopus
Scopus replaces Web of Science for searching cited references. It contains abstracts and references from over 15,000, journals making it the largest single database of scientific research literature.
* Smoking and Health Database
Abstracts of articles, books, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, and government documents. Site has a separate database of citations to Tobacco Industry Documents.
STAT!Ref
Full text of over 30 clinical texts, including drug information.
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* TOXNET
Includes several databases on toxicology, hazardous substances, carcinogenesis & others.
* Turning Research into Practice - TRIP
The TRIP Database provides direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web, searching over 55 sites of high-quality medical information. Multiple resources can be searched simultaneously. Text is available.
Twayne Authors Series (New York State Library NOVEL resource)
F ull text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.
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Unbound Surgery Unbound Surgery offers comprehensive information that is specifically
engineered to provide detailed, focused answers to diagnostic and
therapeutic surgical questions
UpToDate
UpToDate is a comprehensive synthesis of the latest scientific evidence and expert opinion that is organized to answer specific clinical questions. This resource is not currently available off-campus.
* USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
Includes USDA Nutrient database for Standard Reference, Release 14, and other resouces.
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VisualDx
A visual clinical decision support system.
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WilsonSelectPlus (On campus access | Off campus access)
Full text access to US and international professional publications, academic journals and trade magazines.
WorldAlmanac (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Book of Facts '98, almanac USA, US Politics.
WorldCat (SUNYConnect Electronic Library Initiative)
Worldwide book catalog. .
* WorldCat.org
A free version of the WorldCat catalog.
