Database Coverage
Access to the Library's collection of electronic resources is restricted to affiliated users of The Queen's Medical Center. ID and Password are required from remote locations. Remote access may be further limited to certain affiliated users for selected resources.
Users agree to abide by all rules and regulations of The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Medical Library including its Electronic Resource Use Policy and not to make unauthorized use of another party's intellectual property.
ACP PIER: Physicians' Information and Education Resource
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A web-based authoritative, evidence-based guidance tool to improve clinical care. Topics are selected based upon prevalence in clinical settings. Evidence for all diseases is evaluated, and the credibility of the evidence is displayed with a rating.
AgeSource Worldwide
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AARP's database, AgeSource Worldwide, identifies and provides links to over 300 major or unique libraries, clearinghouses, databases, directories, bibliographies, and Web metasites around the world that focus on aging or closely allied subjects. Some 30 countries are represented in AgeSource Worldwide.
Agricola
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This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
AHFS Drug Information
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The premier source of comprehensive, unbiased, evaluative drug data available for healthcare professionals.
AIDSinfo
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A central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with HIV. AIDS clinical trials evaluate experimental drugs and other therapies for adults and children at all stages of HIV infection -- from patients who are HIV positive with no symptoms to those with various symptoms of AIDS.
Alt-HealthWatch
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This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
American Indian Health
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An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of American Indians.
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
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This is a peer reviewed on-line journal and database providing free access on the Internet to information on genes, cytogenetics, and clinical entities in cancer, and cancer-prone diseases
Bandolier
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Premier source of evidence based health care information in the UK. Reviews systematic reviews and meta analyses.
BioWizard
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BioWizard keeps you up to date with the most important published literature as chosen by the global biomedical research community.
bmj.com
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Contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ since January 1994. In addition, it contains material that is unique to the website.
Business Source Premier
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Provides the full text for more than 8,800 serials. The database contains full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Its coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. It is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
ChemIDplus
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Provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substance cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. Records may searched by name, synonym, CAS registry number, molecular formula, classification code, locator code, and structure. ChemIDplus is searchable through TOXNET's Toxicology data search.
CINAHL Plus
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Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
Selected journals are also indexed in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship. The database also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials, and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Searchable cited references for more than 1,190 journals are also included. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
CINAHL Plus includes PreCINAHL™ as a companion database for subscribers. PreCINAHL provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject indexing) that is available to searchers only while these articles are being indexed. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from PreCINAHL.
Clinical Study Results
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Contains the results of all controlled clinical trials (mainly Phase III and IV studies), both positive and negative, completed since October 2002 for PhRMA-member company drug products approved in the United States. The database includes both published articles and unpublished study summaries.
ClinicalTrials.gov
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Offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. A clinical trial (also clinical research) is a research study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Interventional trials determine whether experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled environments. Observational trials address health issues in large groups of people of populations in natural settings.
Cochrane Library
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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. It consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. 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 Methodology Register (Methodology Register), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED).
DailyMed
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DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.
Dietary Supplements Labels Database
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Includes information from the labels of over 3,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
Directory of Published Proceedings
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Search through over 50,000 records to conference literature. Search for subjects by category: Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, Pollution Control/Ecology, Social Sciences/Humanities. Or locate proceedings by the sponsor and publisher, country, State/Province and year the event took place. Located items can be purchased through the DoPP acquisitions service.
DIRLINE
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A National Library of Medicine online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided. DIRLINE contains approximately 10,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine, although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests.
DoD Biomedical Research
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This database has been developed from biomedical research, testing or training programs being federally funded in FY1998, FY1999, and FY2000. The areas of research, testing and training include, but are not limited to, the following: infectious diseases, biological hazards, toxicology, medical chemical defense, medical biological defense, clinical medicine, clinical surgery, physical protection, training, graduate medical education and instruction. This information is updated on an annual basis at the beginning of the fiscal year.
DrugPoints® System
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DrugPoints® System is intended to provide coverage similar to the USP DI Volume I, but in a more streamlined format. New features to be added include clinical teachings, evidence-based indication ratings, and toxicology information.
EBSCO Consortium
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A collection of databases available to anyone from the Hawaii Medical Library or Queen's Medical Center. The databases can also be accessed remotely through the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) web site by Hawaii State residents with a valid HSPLS Library Card. Many of the databases provide full-text access, in total, there are over 10,000 resources that are available full-text through the EBSCO Consortium.
Some of the databases available are: Academic Search Premier; Alt HealthWatch; Business Source Premier; Computer Source; ERIC; Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; Health Source: Consumer Edition; Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Legal Collection; MAS Ultra - School Edition; MasterFILE Premier; Military & Government Collection; Newspaper Source; Professional Development Collection; Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection; Regional Business News; Religion & Philosophy Collection; and TOPICsearch.
eMedicine
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Over 7,000 physician authors and editors have created thousands of peer-reviewed, disease specific articles using a patented Group Publishing System. Over 400 new review articles are published monthly. Each article incorporates 4 levels of physician peer-review. eMedicine also includes over 100 useful medical tools and calculators, as well as clinical image case, radiograph and ECG of the week.
Entrez: The Life Sciences Search Engine
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Allows simultaneous searching of 23 databases supported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) Entrez search system. Databases include PubMed, PubMed Central, OMIM, Books, Journals, and MeSH.
Framingham SNP Health Association Resource (SHARe)
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In 2007, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) entered a new phase with the conduct of genotyping for the FHS SHARe (SNP Health Association Resource) project, for which genotyping is conducted using approximately 550,000 SNPs (Affymetrix 500K mapping array plus Affymetrix 50K supplemental array) in over 9,300 subjects from the three generations of subjects (including over 900 families). The SHARe database is housed at NCBI's dbGaP and will contain all 550,000 SNPs as well as SNP and microsatellite genotyping conducted previously in the FHS. The phenotype database will contain a vast array of phenotype information available in all three generations.
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
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This database is a bibliographic index to journals and magazines published in or about Hawaii and the Pacific.
Haz-Map
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An occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
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Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation. By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information, HAPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost, and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
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A digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Consumer health information database. A new feature is searching by specific source type. On entering the search screen, users are presented with a source selection list, where they can opt to search by all sources, a combination of sources or just one source. The source list includes options to search such sources as pamphlets, reference books, periodicals, book reviews, clinical reports and drug information. In addition to its new sophisticated search functionality, Health Source: Consumer Edition WEB features the most full-text from the largest selection of data sources on consumer health and patient education information. Health Source: Consumer Edition now includes PDF images for many of these titles.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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This database provides access to nearly 600 scholarly full-text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Healthcare Standards Directory
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This is a searchable index of more than 37,000 healthcare standards, clinical guidelines, laws, and regulations. The standards are not actually present in this database, but it does provide contact information for the issuing organization.
Household Products Database
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Health & Safety Information on Household Products
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office
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Contains bibliographic citations to monographs, journal articles, dissertations, theses, pamphlets, and reports published from the 17th-20th century (cataloged and uncataloged). This database represents an electronic equivalent of the printed subject catalog, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961).
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
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The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Users can choose to search the Full IBIDS Database, a subset of Consumer Citations Only or Peer Reviewed Citations Only.
JAMA & Archives Journals
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Full-text access to journals published by the American Medical Association.
Journals@Ovid
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The second generation of Ovid full-text, which combines all the capabilities of Ovid full-text Collections with several important features and functions. The database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
LactMed (Drugs and Lactation Database)
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A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
Legal Collection
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Contains a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, much more. Full text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
LOCATORplus
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Books, journals and audiovisuals in the National Library of Medicine collections.
MD Consult
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A family of online medical information sites serving the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. Founded by leading medical publishers that include Mosby and W.B. Saunders, MD Consult integrates peer-reviewed resources from over 50 publishers, medical societies, and government agencies. Includes FIRST Consult, clinical information from journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education materials, drug information and more.
MedicalMnemonics
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A free searchable database of mnemonics to help students and clinicians remember the important medical details.
MEDLINE OvidSP
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Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database iswidely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 11 million records from more than 4,000 journals are indexed, plus records formally indexed in Healthstar, Bioethicsline and Aidsline. Abstracts are included for about 60% of the records.
Note: Ovid Online Services has scheduled downtimes every Saturday from 7pm - 10pm (Mountain Time). This is the only time intended for scheduled downtime, but only with advance notice.
MEDLINEplus
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A gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.
MerckMedicus
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Designed specifically for physicians and other healthcare providers, Merck Medicus provides breaking medical news, a wide variety of scientific learning resources, and cutting edge diagnostic tools. Access to MD Consult and the full-text of Harrison's Online, Merck Manual (17th ed.), Cecil Textbook of Medicine, Best Practice of Medicine, and Dorland's Dictionary is available.
Mosby's Nursing Consult
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This comprehensive online resource for nurses brings together authoritative information to help provide better patient care. Mosby's Nursing Consult integrates information from several resources including drug information, patient education, professional journals, reference books, current news, evidence-based content, and care planning tools.
Mosby's Nursing Skills
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Mosby's Nursing Skills is an online skills and procedures reference system. It offers the most comprehensive combination of skills and multimedia content available. Over 500 skills from leader reference works in nursing are available.
National Cancer Data Base
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The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is a nationwide oncology outcomes database for more than 1,400 CoC-Approved Cancer Programs in the United States and Puerto Rico.
National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials
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Search NCI's list of 5,000+ clinical trials now accepting participants, and browse recent clinical trial results by type of cancer or topic.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
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A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
National Health Information Center Resource Database
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A health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.
Native Hawaiian Health Database
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Provides a comprehensive bibliographic resource covering all aspects of Native Hawaiian health. Priority is given to providing access to recently published works, but older materials will be added to the database as time permits.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
NLM Gateway
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The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that allows simultaneous searching in several information resources and databases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Searchers may find journal citations, consumer health information, meeting abstracts, and bibliographic records for books, serials, and audiovisual materials. These systems include PubMed, Medline, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, and DIRLINE.
OLDMEDLINE
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The citations in Ovid OLDMEDLINE database are for articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1949 through 1965.
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
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This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. The database contains textual information and references. It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere. World Wide Web access was developed by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Ovid Databases
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A collection of databases available for member use only. Databases available are: Books@Ovid, Journals@Ovid, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), and Medline.
PDQ (Physician Desk Query)
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PDQ (Physician Data Query) is the National Cancer Institute's comprehensive cancer database. It contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 5,000 open and 16,000 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care.
POPLINE
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A bibliographic population database. POPLINE brings together over 280,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is updated twice each month; approximately 10,000 records are added annually.
PsychiatryOnline
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This website features a collection of psychiatric references published by the American Psychiatric Association. The site's content includes access to APA journals, the DSM-IV-TR Library, American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines in comprehensive and quick reference formats, and American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. In addition to the individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable you to quickly target all the information you need.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
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This database provides access to nearly 550 full-text publications, including more than 500 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PubChem
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Contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. Organized as three linked databases, they are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay.
PubMed@HML
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PubMed@HML is a customized version of the PubMed database from the National Library of Medicine. It enables Hawaii Medical Library Authorized Users to link directly to electronic journals licensed by the Library or verify print access at the Library through a program called LinkOut. When viewing search results in the ABSTRACT or CITATION display, HML icons indicating "Online Article" or "In the Library" will indicate full-text access is available. Clicking on these icons will access either the full-text of the article through a participating provider licensed by HML and working with the National Library of Medicine's LinkOut program or verify what years HML owns of a journal in their print collection.
A sample of what a PubMed@HML citation displayed in the ABSTRACT format looks like:
Registry of Nursing Research Database
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Search nursing study and conference abstracts.
ResearchNow
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ResearchNow allows you to search or browse through the quasi-open access Berkeley Electronic Press journals, plus a wealth of unrestricted working paper series, preprints, monographs, and other content from institutional and subject-matter repositories hosted by bepress.
ScienceDirect
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Full-text access of selected journals published by Elsevier Science.
TOXNET
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A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Databases include: Hazordous Substances Data Bank, TOXLINE, ChemIDplus, and others.
TRIP Database
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Brings together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet.
UpToDate (remote access is unavailable and prohibited)
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Specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care. The Topic Reviews are written exclusively for UpToDate by physicians for physicians. The content is comprehensive, yet concise, and is FULLY referenced. It goes through an extensive peer review process to insure that the information and recommendations are accurate and reliable.
USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
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This database contains nutrient information, including minerals, vitamins, lipids, and amino acids, for a wide variety of food products.
WHO International Digest of Health Legislation
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The International Digest of Health Legislation contains a selection of national and international health legislation. Texts of legislation are summarized in English or mentioned by their title. Where possible, links are provided to other websites that contain full-text of the legislation.
Wiley Interscience Journals
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Full-text access to some journals published by the Wiley Interscience.
Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)
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WISER is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice. Available to download to a standalone application on Pocket PC PDAs, Palm OS PDAs, and Microsoft Windows PCs or via the Internet.