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• AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online and The McGraw-Hill Dictionary. Click on "Subscriber Log-in." (NIH/NCIF)

• AGRICOLA - (1970 - ). via the NIH Ovid gateway, this National Agricultural Library (NAL) database contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the NAL and cooperating institutions in agricultural and related sciences. Records come from the NAL Online Catalog and NAL's Article Citation Database. (NIH/NCIF)

• Biological Abstracts via ISI - (1990 - ). Biological Abstracts, a bibliographic database that emphasizes basic life sciences, is available via ISI Web of Knowledge. Search options include Topic, Source Publication, Taxonomic Data, and CAS Registry Number. Results may be emailed, saved, exported to reference software, or analyzed by author, major concept, super taxa, and other criteria. Thomson Scientific provides an online Biological Abstracts Tutorial describing how to search the database. A link to the Tutorial appears at the bottom of the search screen. For further assistance with searching, see Searching BIOSIS on the ISI Web of Knowledge or contact the Library at NCIFredLibrary@mail.nih.gov. Please Logoff after each session. (NIH/NCIF)

• Britannica Online | About : Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 'Premium' access. (NIH/NCIF)

• Chemical Databases - Information about access to Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM, Beilstein, and DiscoveryGate in the Scientific Library. (NCIF)

• CHID Online - Note: The Combined Health Information Database, effective September 1, 2006, will be discontinued in its present form though most subfiles will be available through other means. You may continue your search at the databases and/or websites listed on the page.The Combined Health Information Database (CHID) is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government, providing titles, abstracts, health promotion and education materials with program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere.

• CINAHL Plus - (1982 - ). If not taken directly, click on EbscoHost Research Databases link to search the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL Plus) database, indexing over 3,200 journals with access to evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, research instruments, and continuing education modules. (NIH/NCIF)

• ClinicalTrials.gov - (1982 - ). This database, a service of the NIH, is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world.

• Cochrane Library | About - The Cochrane Collaboration, an international non-profit and independent organisation, produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, promoting the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library. Reviewers are health care professionals who volunteer to work in a Collaborative Review Group, with editorial teams overseeing and applying rigorous quality standards to the reviews, . (NIH/NCIF)

• Cold Spring Harbor Protocols - over 700 methods in molecular and cell biology. Free individual registration is required prior to your first use. Login with your personal username and password for each future use. For more protocols, see also Springer Protocols, Methods in Enzymology and the Current Protocols series. (NIH/NCIF)

• Community of Science (COS) Expertise® Database | About - provides detailed professional information including affiliation, area of expertise, publications, and contact information for over 480,000 researchers worldwide. COS registration is required for use. From the menu bar at the top of the COS main page, click on "Join," then the "Join" button on the following page. Type in required information, being sure to select "National Institutes of Health (NIH)" as your institution, then "Continue". (NIH/NCIF)

• Current Index to Statistics | About - indexes publications in statistics and related fields. (NIH/NCIF)

• EcoSal - continually updated Web resource based on ASM Press's Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. (NIH/NCIF)

• EFacts Drug Database - online reference Facts & Comparisons, with drug information, interactions, herbal information, and patient medication handouts. [Click on 'eFacts login page link' if your session has timed out]. (NIH/NCIF).

• EMBASE - searchable drug-related information. Indexes over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. EMBASE: dated from 1974 to present, with a some records from earlier years. MEDLINE: covers 1966 to present with somerecords from earlier years. Note: to include records from earlier years than 1966 in your search, select as starting year the option: <1966. See PubMed for complete access to MEDLINE. (NIH/NCIF).

• Faculty of 1000 Biology | About - online research service that highlights and reviews interesting papers in the life sciences, based on recommendations of over 2300 selected researchers. (NIH/NCIF) .

• Health and Psychosocial instruments - (1985 - ). via the NIH Ovid gateway, provides access to information on measurement instruments (questionaires, checklists, interview schedules, index measures, coding schemes, manuals, etc.,) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, and organizational behavior. (NIH/NCIF)

• Henry Stewart Talks Collection - Biomedical & Life Sciences: this series of specially prepared animated audiovisual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists is keeping researchers informed throughout the world. The collection is constantly being expanded and updated and already over seven hundred leading world experts have recorded presentations especially for Henry Stewart Talks . (NCIF)

• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - via ISI's Web of Knowledge interface provides "Impact Factors" & "Journal Rankings," to help evaluate scholarly journals, using citation data from over 8,400 journals. (NCIF)

• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Click on 'Article Titles A-Z' or 'Topics' under 'Browse this title' on right side of screen. Includes articles on chemical substances, with their properties, manufacturing, and uses; also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, and environmental issues concerning chemical biology. (NIH/NCIF)

• MedlinePlus | About - Free to all, a consumer health information service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

• Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database | About - free resource for in vivo molecular imaging agents established as a key component of the 'Molecular Libraries and Imaging" program of the NIH Roadmap, a set of inter-agency initiatives accelerating medical research.

• MSRS Primary Antibody Database - searchable database with over 185,000 Primary Antibodies & contact details. Click on 'Full Catalog Search' in left column. Single user access only; NCI-F employees may call the Library at x1682 for access details. (NCIF)

• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database - updated daily, searchable by ingredient, name; covers herbal medicines, supplements, vitamins, minerals, & natural medicine. Note: click 'Login' with no user name & password needed. (NIH/NCIF)

• Natural Standard - founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies, this international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions. (NIH/NCIF)

• NCI Statistical Tools and Data - for use in statistical cancer research.

• NIH OVID Databases - inlcudes AGRICOLA, Books@Ovid, Health & Psychosocial Instruments, PsychINFO and more. Click "Connect to the Ovid Databases." [Click 'Start Ovid' without user id or password if prompted.] Logoff after each session. (NIH/NCIF)

• NLM Gateway - allows simultaneous searching in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

• Proceedings Resource - InterDok - searchable life sciences-related directory of published proceedings (DoPP) of conferences, symposia, meetings.

• Proteome BioKnowledge Library - six databases of biological volumes about proteins comprise BIOBASE's Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a different organism important in pharmaceutical research. Proteome scientists manually collect information in each BioKnowledge volume from current scientific literature. Note: To Login, NIH & NCIF employees must also register individually to obtain personal user name & password to be used each time you access the database. (NIH/NCIF)

• PsychInfo - (1806 - ) via the NIH Ovid gateway, provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. (NIH/NCIF)

• PubMed @ NCIF | FAQ - Use the 'PubMed @ NCIF' link to view the Scientific Library's 'Full-Text' and 'Print' icons while searching PubMed. PubMed is a free version of MEDLINE with access to an index of biomedical literature journals from 1950 forward, as well as a growing collection of free reference books [NCBI Bookshelf] that can be searched by keyword within the PubMed interface.

• QUOSA Information Manager - QUOSA Information Manager for biomedical researchers enables you to search certain databases, e.g. OVID, and retrieve all full-text articles at one time. Software is designed for individual desktops. Click on the "Download" link on the left side of the QUOSA main page; then download either Windows or Mac Subscriber Version; demos are available on the QUOSA page. Questions about the software or problems with access should be directed to support@quosa.com.
  
  QUOSA archived videocast presentations: November 14, 2007 (http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14151); and September 13, 2006 (http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?13360). The QUOSA software is available through the institutional license purchased by NCI. (NCI/NCIF)

• Science Citation Index Expanded & Social Sciences Citation Index - (also known as Web of Science); see Web of Knowledge below for description. (NIH/NCIF)

• ScienceDirect Database - link to the main page of ScienceDirect's electronic collection of full-text science, technology, medical journals and books and bibliographic information; you can also find a wide variety of other features and content. (NIH/NCIF)

• SCOPUS - an abstract and indexing database from Elsevier Science, Scopus, offers access to over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science literature and 15 million patents. In Scopus, you can set up an email alert to let you know each time a particular article of interest is cited in Scopus. (NIH/NCIF)

• Springer Protocols - Joining the Current Protocols series, the Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, and Methods in Enzymology online, is Springer Protocols, from Springer, providing full-text access to over 16,000 online biomedical research protocols from the authoritative series Methods in Molecular Biology (1984-), Methods in Molecular Medicine (1996-) as well as content found in Neuromethods, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Methods in Biotechnology. Available protocols can be located using a searchable database from the main page or by unique volume title using the Advanced Search link just below the search box.
  
  Access titles in Springer Protocols from the Online Catalog using either the Series title (Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine) or the unique volume title. (NIH/NCIF)

• Stem Cell Information - the NIH Library's Stem Cell Literature Database. (NIH/NCIF)

• ToxNet - from NLM, databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

• Ulrich's Web - | About . Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. Search by "Open Access" on the Advanced Search screen to identify Open Access titles. Be sure to Logout after each session, as access is restricted to 2 users at a time. (NCIF)

• UpToDate - an evidence-based tool for answering clinical questions and identifying treatments with over 75,000 pages of peer-reviewed text, written and reviewed by clinicians. (NIH/NCIF)

• Web of Knowledge (WOK) - in March 2007, access to Web of Science was transferred from the NIH intranet to the Thomson ISI commercial server. As part of this migration, all Porpoise Alerts had to be converted to Thomson ISI's Alert Service by April 18, 2007. Learn more about what the Library can do to help you with Alerts.
  
  WOK features a number of online reference products including Web of Science, online version of ISI's Science Citation Index Expanded (1955 - present) & Social Sciences Citation Index, (1956 - present); with "Cited Reference Search," a unique tool for citation reference searching, Journal Citation Reports, for impact factors and citation data for over 8,000 journal titles; ISI HighlyCited.com, to identify highly cited researchers, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, BiologyBrowser, and Index to Organism Names. (NIH/NCIF)