Primary Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

MEDLINE (latest years)
The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as othe...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

MEDLINE (complete file)
The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as ot...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Pre-MEDLINE
    MEDLINE (latest years)

PubMed Plus (Penn Only)
Also Known as: PubMed Medline Pub Med
- from PubMed Central
PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1950 to the present. Updated daily.
Supplemental URLs
    PubMed Help
    PubMed Tutorial
    Search Interface

MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations
Also Known as: Pre-Medline
Represents the National Library of Medicine's in-process database for MEDLINE. It provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. This d...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Also Known as: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, SSCI, SCI, AHCI,ISI
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    ISI Citation Indexes Tutorial
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

CINAHL/ Nursing
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Topics covered include: cardiopulmonary techn...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1982 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    new access coming Jan 2009

OVID Multi-Database Searching
This OVID interface allows users to search multiple databases simultaneously. Deduping allows one to remove duplicates from the resulting search before viewing, saving, or printing the set....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Ageline
Also Known as: AARP Ageline
Collection of materials related to aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective. Works from many fields including psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, and health are covered. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1978 to the present. Updated monthly.

AGRICOLA
The topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, ent...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1979 to present. Updates monthly.

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) Database
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) database covers a selection of journals in complementary ("alternative") medicine (CAM), palliative care, and several other allied professions. AMED incl...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1985-

BIOSIS Previews
The world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biolo...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1993-

CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human he...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    CABICODE Alphabetical List (CABI web)
    CAB Thesaurus (beta version - CABI web)
    CAB Abstracts Serials Scanned (CABI web)

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Also Known as: CENTRAL
- from Wiley InterScience
CCTR is a bibliographic database of definitive controlled trials. These controlled trials have been identified by the distinguished contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. They and others, as part...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider Ovid

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (evidence-based medicine)
Also Known as: CDSR OVID
- from Wiley InterScience
Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: 1) Complete reviews -...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1991 to the present. Updated quarterly.
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider Ovid

Consultant - Vet Diagnostic Support
This diagnostic support system is used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause including: 1) a general descriptio...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Current and retrospective
Unrestricted Access

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness - DARE (evidence-based medicine)
- from Wiley InterScience
A full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE is produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Ser...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Reviews literature published from 1987 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider Ovid

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Full-text of Penn Dissertations from 1997 to present. Dissertations from...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, full-text PDF for most Penn dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

EMBASE
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Holdings: 1980-

Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Multifile
Also Known as: EBMR Reviews
- from Wiley InterScience
In Medline a limit to Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews will restrict your retrieval to those articles or studies that have been included by the Cochrane Collaboration when creating a Topic Review or ar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider Ovid

Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Also Known as: HAPI
Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI helps identify measures needed for res...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

LexisNexis Environmental
Database collection for environmental studies. Environment Abstracts is the principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and olicy literatures on the...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

MD Consult
Also Known as: mdconsult
Web portal containing full-text content of over 50 publishers and other organizations. Access includes full text textbooks, Clinic...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Search journal collection
    Search e-book collection

NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    NCBI Education and Tutorials Information

NLM Gateway
A unique Web-based system that provides simultaneous searching of multiple databases and resource types located at the National Library of Medicine. Individual searches can yield journal citations, bo...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

PsycINFO
- from CSA Databases
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)
    Search Guide for PsycINFO on CSA IDS (APA Online, PDF)
    Guide to Fields in PsycINFO Records (APA Online)

Scopus
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Toxnet
A collection of government databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals and related areas. Includes TOXLINE and [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

UpToDate
Also Known as: Up to Date , Up-to-Date
(ONLY accessible from UPHS and School of Medicine locations, NO remote access) UpToDate is a practical clinical reference designed to provide instant access to the informatio...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

WILDPro
Provides information on the natural history, health and management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. This electronic tool includes encyclopedic links to topic modules and a library of externa...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Important Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

Aquaculture Abstracts (ASFA)
Also Known as: ASFA
- from CSA Databases
Information on all aspects of marine and freshwater aquaculture. Major areas of coverage include; Aquaculture management and economics, Growth and development of cultured species, Techniques, equipme...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated Bimonthly.

Beilstein via Crossfire
Accessed via a Mac or Windows client (Commander) which can be downloaded to any campus workstation, Beilstein contains information on approximately 9.6 million organic substances. Records in the data...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1770-present. Updated quarterly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Beilstein Crossfire Tutorial

CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human he...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1910-present.

CABI Publishing Reading Room
Fulltext page images of recent books from CABI Publishing, the publishing arm of Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. Titles in many subjects relating to agriculture, veterinary science and animal healt...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Cancer Mondial (World Cancer Statistics)
This website provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

CDC Wonder - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Database of reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data by mortality, natality, disease and demographic groups. Access is free and registration is optional....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
Searchable biomedical database of federally-supported proposed research conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

esp@cenet - European Patent Office
Also Known as: espacenet
Full text of EP, WO and other patents back to the 1970's (Also contains links to individual European country patent databases) ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Esp@cenet Help
    Esp@cenet Assistant - tutorial
    European Patent Classification
    International Patent Classification (IPC) 8
    Glossary

FirstGov for Science
Also Known as: science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Two major types of information are included - ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System (GeMCRIS)
The NIH/FDA Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System (GeMCRIS) is a comprehensive information resource and analytical tool for scientists, research participants, sponsors, institution...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Global Health
Also Known as: Global Health Archive
Global Health consists of more than 800,000 records from 1910 on - equivalent to 300 volumes of research covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomolo...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1910-

HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
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Unrestricted Access

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

HealthSTAR/OVID Healthstar
Contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The follo...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1975-present
Supplemental URLs
    telnet access

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

LexisNexis Statistical
Also Known as: Statistical Universe
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

MedlinePlus
Consumer health resources...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Also Known as: MMY
Descriptive information and reviews of English-language test instruments. Subject areas include achievement, behavior assessment, development, education, intelligence and scholastic aptitude, En...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

PennAlerts
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Primatelit Database
Also Known as: Primate Literature
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
Also Known as: Chemical Abstracts
Chemical information: bibliographic, compound and reaction information. Accessed via a Mac or Windows client (SciFinder Scholar) which can be downloaded to any campus workstation. The database can on...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1907-present. Abstracts updated daily; compound registry and indexing updated weekly
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Penn SciFinder Scholar 2007 Guide
    SciFinder Scholar Resources from the CAS Learning Center
    SciFinder Scholar Interactive Tutorial

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes (CSA)

The DataWeb
The DataWeb provides access to economic, health and demographic databases from the US government and private organizations. The portal is maintained by the Census Bureau and the CDC. You will need to ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Also Known as: USPTO
Covers all US patents from 1790 onwards. Download or view high-quality images of the actual pages of the patents, including diagrams and structures from 1790 onwards. Patents from 1976 - present are a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Free PDF download of all pages

Unbound Medicine
Also Known as: Unbound Central
Unbound Medicine is a portal to medical information including Medline, journal table of contents, e-book content (Current Consult Medicine 2006 and Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests 4th ed.) and other ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Related Health & Life Sciences (General) Databases & Article Indexes

Derwent Innovations Index
Search more than 11 million patent records from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. These include the US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, PCT (WO) applications and the Japanes...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Derwent Classification System
    Derwent Manual Coding and Classification Lookup
    Derwent Patent Assignee Codes Lookup
    Kind Codes (application, examined, granted, etc.)
    International Patent Classification (IPC) 8