Alumni Access to Library Resources: All Databases

It serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The free database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. Search separately for books or journal articles. Also known as the NAL Catalog.

Research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences.The database contains over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials. From Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies and Rutgers University Libraries. (1987-2007)

An international listing of clinical trials. You can find clinical trials by medical condition or geographic location. You can find research centers by medical speciality or geographic location. You can find drug information by FDA drug approvals or new drugs in research.

Current information about clinical research studies. Database provides patients, healthcare professionals, researchers and public with access to publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world. Find and view studies, learn about clinical research, manage study records, view statistics and download study records for analysis.

ClinVar is a freely accessible, public archive of reports of the relationships among human variations and phenotypes, with supporting evidence. ClinVar accepts submissions from researchers reporting variants found in patient samples, assertions made regarding their clinical significance, information about the submitter, and other supporting data. The alleles described in submissions are then mapped to reference sequences, and reported according to the HGVS standard.

Information on over 8,000 consumer products, allowing users to research products based on chemical ingredients. Can browse or search this database by products, ingredients, or Material Safety Data Sheets to easily locate the desired information. From DeLima Associates. Funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health & Human Services. The former Household Products Database was based on CPID data.

Find citations for articles that evaluate the cost-effectiveness of specific interventions. All articles link to PubMed abstracts and include a quality score. You can also see results by cost effectiveness ratio or by utility weight.

MCPHS has access to the public version, not the full version. You will only see the first 100 results.

Looking for drug labels or comprehensive drug information? Search over 45,000 drugs (and counting!) on this free website provided by the National Library of Medicine. Find FDA approved and unapproved products for use in humans or in animals. Search for specific products or for lists of drug by class. Sign up to receive updates on changes to labels.

"DiTA is the Diagnostic Test Accuracy database, a free database that indexes primary studies of diagnostic test accuracy and systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies related to physiotherapy practice. DiTA has been designed to enable clinicians, researchers and patients to easily access information on the accuracy of diagnostic tests used by physiotherapists. For each indexed study or review, DiTA provides citation details, abstracts and links to full-text. DiTA is produced by the PEDro Partnership (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at The University of Sydney) and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA)." (Description from the homepage.)

Search the labels of over 125,000 dietary supplements. Find lists of ingredients for dietary supplements. See products currently being sold and products that have been taken off the market. From the National Insititutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements.

A catalog of FDA approved drug products; From CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) at the FDA. Search by Drug Name, Active Ingredient, or Application Number.

Search for guidelines for a topic. Filter by the patient's age, clinical area / discipline, type of intervention, or guideline source. Labels indicate if guidelines were based on systematic reviews, ratings of evidence quality, or ratings of evidence strength. Each result links to the original source.

A clinical reference tool that contains articles on over 7000 diseases and disorders written and edited by physicians. Each article is peer-reviewed by physicians and a PharmD before it is published; Also provides practice guidelines, images, & references; Updated regularly. From WebMD.

A free government-sponsored database on education that includes current research on education as well as government documents; majority is peer-reviewed; some full-text; sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education. (1966+) ERIC will add less new content in 2025 than in previous years.

Search for electronic theses and dissertations from UK institutions. Register for a free account to be able to download the full text of many of those dissertations. Some dissertations are not yet available as full text. EThOS is still unavailable after a serious ransomware attack in late 2023, and we do not know when EThOS will be available again.

"Journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics." From the Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University. The database has not been updated since 2011.

It provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.The official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. (1995 +)

FindLaw helps you better understand the law, make more informed legal decisions, and find quality legal help. It is a legal resource for up to date legal information. There is a list of Blogs, a live Q&A, lawyers directory, and a state laws collection, featuring state-specific laws across dozens of popular legal topics.

Access nutritional data for many different types of food. Check the ingredients in a type of prepared food. Download datasets related to nutrition (as CSV files). From United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Research Service. Replaced USDA Food Composition Database and other USDA sites.

The NCBI Gene database provides detailed information for known and predicted genes (in humans and other species) defined by nucleotide sequence or map position. A record may include nomenclature, Reference Sequences (RefSeqs), maps, pathways, variations, phenotypes, and links to genome-, phenotype-, and locus-specific resources worldwide.

"Citations, some with abstracts or tables of contents, to literature on ethics and public policy issues in genetics from many disciplines and publication types including journals, newspapers, books, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, and audiovisuals." From the Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University. The database has not been updated since 2011.

The Genetic Testing Registry (GTR®) provides a central location for voluntary submission of genetic test information by providers. The scope includes the test's purpose, methodology, validity, evidence of the test's usefulness, and laboratory contacts and credentials.

Medical information from around the world. Search across all of the World Health Organization's regional databases OR choose to search just for information from a single geographic region: Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Western Pacific (Asia-Pacific). You can search with MeSH or with keywords.

Access scholarly articles, patents, and book chapters on many topics through links in the Google Scholar search results pages. You can read the full-text of some of these items.
To use Google Scholar and find your institutions' links, you will need to set up your Google Scholar preferences: •Go to https://scholar.google.com • Depending on your screen's size, you may need to click More. •Click on Settings. •Click on Library Links on the left. •Type the name of your institution and click the Find button. •Select your institution. •Save your changes.

A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and state level. Part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Includes a national database and database of states.

This site provides a gateway to a number of more specific publications, projects, and databases on topics related to public health. Learn about informatics, the health of specific ethnic populations, and tools you can use when exploring public health topics. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Some full-text available. Provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Welcome to this free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health-care decision making. It has evidence reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Includes protocols from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Includes recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Includes Clinical Practice Guidelines. Includes guidance and research on methods from the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program. Archived guidelines and reports. From the National Library of Medicine.

The primary goal of the Index to Chiropractic Literature is to provide indexing of the peer-reviewed literature produced by chiropractic publishers. Indexes articles in chiropractic journals. From the Chiropractic Library Consortium with funding from the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. Some full-text available.

Learn about research happening at MCPHS. Access digitized theses and dissertations, faculty publications, old course catalogs, and more. Includes full-text of open access materials and information about materials that require a subscription. Content will continue to be added throughout the year.

Access to historical collections that exist in digital format (including texts, videos, audio clips, software, and archived web pages [the Wayback Machine])

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. From the National Library of Medicine.

Search for books, videos, and more from MCPHS. Select MCPHS from the "Limit to:" menu on the search page. Or, select MCPHS from the "Location" list on the results page. Visit one of our libraries in person to check out our print books or access some of our electronic book. Some items may not be available to alumni at all due to licensing.

The Latin American equivalent of Medline, covering 669 journals in Portuguese, Spanish & English. Although the majority of articles indexed are in Portuguese or Spanish, it's possible to search using English keywords. (1982+)

An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video, and art developed to be a medical/health humanities resource for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. Produced and maintained by the Hippocrates Project, the multi-disciplinary development laboratory for application of information technologies to medical education at New York University School of Medicine

MedGen is the US NCBI's portal to information related to Medical Genetics, designed to organize information related to human medical genetics, such as attributes of conditions with a genetic contribution. It can be searched by the name of a condition, or by the clinical features or genes associated with that condition. It includes summary information as well as links to medical and research literature, consumer and patient information, practice guidelines, and genetic tests.

Free government research website under the National Library of Medicine, contains Consumer Health information as well as dozens of links to other resources, email notification available, and subject searching as well as papers on specific therapies, diseases, drugs, and more. Includes health information in a variety of languages.

A free, publicly available medical research site; returns results from across the Web, including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources. It searches multiple databases, websites, and resources including commercial databases, medical socities, government resources, patents, and National Institute of Health resources.

Hundreds of case studies in many different areas of science. Faculty members will need to purchase a personal subscription to use these cases. Search or browse by topic or date. Some supplemental teaching resources are freely available. Created by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University of Buffalo. Managed by the National Science Teachers Association.

Trade name, dosage form, National Drug Code, active ingredients, strength and packaging information for all commercially distributed prescription drugs, as well as a few selected over the counter products. From the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Reports, data, and analysis of National Institute of Health Research activities, including info on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH sponsored research.

An A-Z list of resources from the National Library of Medicine; Includes descriptions and links.

Contains bibliographic information and abstracts of resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

Different molecular databases for sequences, structure, taxonomy, DNA, RNA, genes, proteins, genomes, homology, etc. There is also training and tutorials.

This database has the same content as OMIM (Online Medelian Inheritance in Man) (via NCBI). You do not need to search both places.
A comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources.

This database has the same content as OMIM (Online Medelian Inheritance in Man). You do not need to search both places.
A comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources.

Find open access dissertations and theses from across the world. Search on OATD and click on the link provided to find the full-text at the author's institution or in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. You may see some results that are not yet available as full-text. Some authors have asked that the full-text of their work only become freely available after a period of time. Unfortunately, OATD does not mark these results in any way. You will only see the message when you click on the link. From OATD.org and hosted by Wake Forest University.

A comprehensive database of information and peer-reviewed summaries about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics & supportive care, plus clinical trials. Features: drug dictionary, cancer terms dictionary, search for clinical trials. From the National Cancer Institute.

Bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy;a free database of over 23,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. Developed by the CEBP (Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy based at The George Institute of Global Health. Maintained by PEDro Partership (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District).

Find open access theses and dissertations on many different subjects. Anyone can read these dissertations and theses without paying a fee. Some authors have asked that the full-text of their work only become freely available after a certain time. You will only see the abstract for those authors' works during that time period. From ProQuest.

Comprehensive details about chemicals, compounds, and bioassays. Find by description, chemical properties, or structural similarity. Provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Provided by the National Library of Medicine, this free database includes access to Medline, citations to other life sciences journals not indexed in Medline (primarily general sciences and chemistry), and links to the molecular biology databases maintained by National Center for Biotechnology Center (NCBI). Read free articles.

RefSeqGene defines genomic sequences to be used as reference standards for well-characterized genes. These sequences serve as a stable foundation for reporting mutations, for establishing conventions for numbering exons and introns, and for defining the coordinates of other variations.

A database covering disability and rehabilitation research; Includes over 65,000 abstracts of books, reports, articles, and AV materials. (1956+) From NARIC (National Rehabilitation Information Center). Some full-text available.

A collection of instruments for evaluating rehabilitation patients' outcomes. Filter your search by type of assessment, body part, cost, or other criteria. Descriptions explain how the instrument should be used and share background information on its creation. Source information, including available PubMed abstracts for related publications, are included. Created by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now known as the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab), Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Medical Social Sciences Informatics group, the database is now maintained by a wide community.

ResearchGate was built for scientists, by scientists, with the idea that science can do more when it's driven by collaboration. Create a profile and present yourself and your work, grow your contacts and connect with a global scientific community. Work with others to discuss your work, help others, and find solutions together. There are specialized listings of jobs devoted to science and research. Millions of publications at your fingertips with tools available to make it easy to search and find articles. Free registration is required.

Science.gov searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance.

A worldwide collaborative of over 219,000 authors and more than 1.3 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. Consists of two parts: 1) an Abstract Database containing abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and 2) an Electronic Paper Collection containing downloadable full text documents.

The Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation (CTTV) database search platform brings together information on the relationships between potential drug targets and diseases. The core concept is to identify evidence of an association between a target and disease from various data types, including genome-scale experiments and analysis. The CCTV is a public-private partnership among GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. As well as research evidence it also allows clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news. Full-text might be available. In 2025, the ability to filter results may only be made available to individuals who purchase a Pro account.

As the U.S. government's official web portal, USA.gov makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web.

Patent Public Search is the new version of the U.S. Patent Full Text and Image Database. If you had bookmarked links to documents before the change, you will need to create new bookmarks. Includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Can search issued patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. Some full-text available. From the US Patent and Trademark Office.

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can find books, music, videos, research articles, digital items, etc. It is a good tool for finding out who owns an item that you want to find. You can use WorldCat on your mobile device.

View information about medical schools across the globe. Search or browse by country, city, or school name. The directory provides contact information for the school, an overview of the program's requirements, and other helpful notes. It also indicates if the school is still active or if it has closed. Records are available in a variety of languages, but the options change from institution to institution. This database replaces the Avicenna Directory for Medicine. The directory lists only schools that train general medical doctors/physicians. Developed through a partnership between the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER).

A global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. Allows the user to search multiple scientific sources around the world with a single query. Currently, approximately 80 databases and portals from over 70 countries are searchable. It was developed and is maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) within the U.S. Department of Energy.