Academic Search Complete      Remote Access
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Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.

AGRICOLA      Remote Access
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AGRICOLA (free access)

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      Remote Access
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This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990

Annual Reviews      Remote Access
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Full text of the Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Immunology, Annual Review of Medicine, Annual Review of Nutrition, and Annual Review of Psychology from 1995-present. Searchable tables of contents and abstracts of more than 20 other annual reviews in the sciences and social sciences

Consumer Health Complete      Remote Access
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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.

Health and Wellness Resource Center      Remote Access
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Includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, the Medical and Health Information Directory, the Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, USPDI vol.2: Advice for the Patient, PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies, the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Health, and current health-related news.

Health Reference Center Academic      Remote Access
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" Provides integrates access to the indexing, abstracting, full text, and images of nursing, allied health, and medical journals, consumer health magazines; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. Health Reference Center Academic includes the full-text of approximately 200 journals including JAMA, JAAPA, The Lancet, and British Medical Journal. In addtion to the core journals, HRCA provides selected articles from more than 1500 additional journals. Core reference content include Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary; Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; The Consumer Health Information Source Book; USP-ID Ver 2.3; Advise for the Patient, Drug Information in Lay Language; Everything you Need to Know about Medical Tests;The Complete Directory for People with Chronic Illness; The Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide; PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health, and Clinical Reference Systems Ver. 2.5. " Search tip sheet available.

Health Source: Consumer Edition      Remote Access
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A rich collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition      Remote Access
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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. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Highwire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles

An archive of free online abstracts and full-text articles from respected science journals

MedicLatina       Remote Access
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A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Medline with MESH (Ebsco)      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. Authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences; includes Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) index with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities

Medline: NLM Gateway (National Library of Medicine)

Group of searchable databases from the National Library of Medicine: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus, and DIRLINE.

Medline: PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

A different search interface to the Medline database. The PubMed search interface includes links to several dozen full text journals.

MedlinePlus

Full-text quality healthcare information from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health organized by topic. This does not search the original Medline database as linked above; it contains supplementary fulltext information.

Medscape

Includes several different searchable full-text databases: " Full Text Articles " features peer-reviewed clinical journal articles and clinical commentary on medical publications and meetings. These articles can also be browsed by journal. This resource is free with registration but you will have to fill out the registration form to login the first time.

Natural and Alternative Treatments      Remote Access
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Contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information. The Enhanced Interface provides another way to search the same database.

PDR Health

The consumer Web portal of the Physicians’ Desk Reference, offering consumer-friendly explanations of disease states and conditions as well as the use of prescription and non-prescription drugs and herbal medicines.

PubMed Central

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

WebMedLit

Search for abstracts and fulltext articles on recent medical developments in 23 medical journals and news reports. Primarily concerned with human epidemiology and clinical reports.

More Biology Databases

All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Resources

Search for the correct title of a journal when you have the abbreviation or vice versa.

American Medical Association Publications

Tables of contents, abstracts, and some full text articles from several years of AMA journals.

American Type Culture Collection

Searchable catalog of cell cultures available from ATCC.

Biodidac: A Bank of Digital Resources for Teaching Biology

Searchable database of biological images including photos and diagrams.

CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service

Listing of more than 7,500 clinical trials worldwide

Clinical Trials at NIH

Search for clinical trials being conducted by the National Institutes of Health

Common Molecules

Data on and simple rotatable models of amino acids, vitamins, poisons, and many other molecules.

Consultant A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine

Search for a possible disease diagnosis by species and symptom or sign

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)

a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects

Databases at the National Agricultural Library

Search the genomes of various plants, livestock, and other organisms.

Food Finder

Search for nutritional information on more than 1000 fast food items from 19 chains

Global Amphibian Assessment

A comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world's 5,918 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians. This website presents results of the assessments, including IUCN Red List threat category, range map, ecology information, and other data for every amphibian species.

Human Anatomy On-Line

Online animated and interactive illustrations of human anatomy

Introductory Biology Laboratories Instructional Website

"Labs for three courses: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Animal Organ Systems, and Survey of the Animal Kingdom. In each case, users will find course syllabi, links to an online textbook (Campbell 1998), descriptions of labs, and graphic images."

Kimball's Biology Pages

Alphabetized lists of biological terms (a glossary) mostly from the areas of molecular and cellular biology

LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body

Resources for human anatomy students to review structural nomenclature and relationships.

Medicine Net

Diseases, treatments, procedures, and pharmaceuticals with materials contributed by physicians.

Medline Plus Medical Dictionary

Search terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

" From a disease orientation, The Manual covers all but the most obscure disorders of mankind... Current therapy is presented for each disorder and supplemented with a separate section on clinical pharmacology that describes general principles, new advances (eg, the role of drug receptors, plasma concentration monitoring), and details of pharmacologic groups and specific agents. " Free but registration is required. The text is presented exactly as it appears in the printed version, complete with tables and figures, with the addition of a few hypertext cross-references to related material in the manual.

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Focusses on medical problems and care of the elderly

Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition)

The Home Edition of the Merck Manual " transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining all of the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. "

National Research Register

For medical researchers, this " register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by the United Kingdom's National Health Service " can be searched for clinical trial data.

Pediatric Database

Information on more than 500 pediatric disorders. Search online or download a copy of the database.

RxList - The Internet Drug Index

Search for information on various psychoactive and other drugs

Science Daily

Several months of science news stories from a variety of science news services and institutions.

Sparknotes

Biological concepts explained

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)

Searchable databases that provide references to research literature on sociological, psychological, and medical aspects of substance abuse.

TOXLINE

Searchable National Library of Medicine database of abstracts, journal articles, and other documents on toxicology. Free with registration.

Visionary: A Dictionary for the Study of Vision

Searchable dictionary of over 350 terms related to human and animal vision, including " biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields. " Entries offer brief descriptions with occasional graphics and hot-linked cross references to related terms. Includes an appendix on cortical areas, which maps each definition to its location on an outline of a Rhesus monkey brain.