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ABI/INFORM (Available thru ProQuest Direct) NYU community only
Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics. It gives you informative indexing and substantive abstracts and full-text articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S.

AIDSinfo NYU community only
ACTIS, the AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service, is a central resource for locating both federally and privately funded HIV/AIDS clinical trials information.

AGELINE (SilverPaltter Database) NYU community only
The AGELINE database is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). AGELINE provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policy makers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.

Aidsline (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Provides comprehensive coverage of research, clinical and policy issues on the topic of AIDS. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Data sources for Aidsline include Medline, HealthSTAR, CancerLit, CATLINE, AVLINE the International Conference on AIDS, the American Society for Microbiology and the Symposium on Non-human Primate Models for AIDS. Produced and maintained by the National Library of Medicine..

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge database) NYU community only
Contains cited and citing references to specific papers and authors in the arts and humanities.

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Bioethicsline (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research.

Biological Abstracts (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Comprehensive indexing and abstracting tool in the biological sciences, including biology and biomedicine.

Biomed Central NYU community only
BioMed Central Ltd., an independent publisher in London, England, provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.

Books@Ovid (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Online collection of clinical textbooks, including nursing texts.

Books 24x7 NYU community only
Online collection of books on computing topics, including networking, programming, Internet and more.

Books in Print NYU community only
Comprehensive listing of books currently available from publishers, including 1.8 million bindings, more than 77,000 subject headings, and 49,000 publisher, wholesaler and distributor profiles. In includes reviews for many titles. Also contains listing of out-of-print titles going back to 1979.
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Britannica Online NYU community only
The online version of Encyclopedia Britannica

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Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts (Available thru Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases) NYU community only
Major areas of coverage include: bone grafts, implants, and biomaterials; bone growth and remodeling; bone pharmacology and toxicology; bone tumors; cartilage and cartilage diseases; cellular calcium, channels, and currents; corticosteroid hormones; fractures and bone healing; hormones; ion transport; muscle; osteoporosis; physical exercise and biomechanics; pyrophosphate and other inhibitors; radiology; renal pathology; teeth; vitamins; weightlessness and immobilization. Coverage from 1982 to the present.

CancerLit (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Produced by the National Cancer Institute in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine CancerLit is the primary bibliographic resource for information on cancer, cancer research and related subjects. The database includes references, meeting abstracts, and commentaries on cancer and related subjects. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.

Cares Directory: Social and Health Services in the Greater New York City Area public use

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications public use
The Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information resources. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage begins with January 1994 and new records are added daily.

ChemID Plus public use
CHEMID is a chemical dictionary file for over 339,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Updated approximately quarterly.

CINAHL (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. All English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. . Coverage is from 1983 to the present.

Clinical Alerts public use
NLM has made new arrangements with the NIH institutes to receive Web-based clinical alerts as they are issued.

Clinical Pharmacology NYU community only
Pharmacological database which provides concise drug information and clinical reports for medical professionals and health care consumers. Includes section on drug information, product ID's, patient education and clinical reports.

ClinicalTrials.gov public use
ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients and members of the public easy access to information about the location of clinical trials, their design and purpose, criteria for participation and additional disease and treatment information. The press release and more detailed information are available at the NLM web site.

Cochrane Library NYU community only
Produced and maintained by the Cochrane Collaboration this is the premier site for evidence-based medicine. Offers full-text systematic reviews, controlled trials, methodology, and health technology assessment.

CogNet NYU community only
MIT database for research in the cognitive and brain sciences.

Community of Science NYU community only
The largest and most comprehensive database of professional researcher profiles in North America. Contains over 60,000 profiles. COS also offers Funding Opportunities. The Company also publishes a number of databases on the Web, including MEDLINE, AGRICOLA, GeoRef, Ei Compendex, U.S. Patents, Funded Research, Federal Register, and the Commerce Business Daily. COS is also developing collaborative authoring systems for the online development of scientific and scholarly content. The COS Abstract Management System, the Company's first product in this new area, permits professional societies to manage abstract submission, peer review, and meeting management in a seamless database environment.

Comprehensive Microbial Resource (Institute of Genomic Research) public use
"The Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) is a tool that allows the researcher to access all of the bacterial genome sequences completed to date."

Congressional Universe (Available thru Lexis-Nexis databases) NYU community only
Congressional Universe displays the tables of contents from more than 7,000 journals and 2,000 books, and conference proceedings, and provides complete bibliographic data for every item covered: articles, editorials, corrections, meeting abstracts, commentaries, reviews and letters to the editor. Editions include: Life Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Engineering, Computing & Technology; Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.

CRIS Good Clinical Practice NYU community only
From the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). Provides the user with a source of current information including clinical research regulations, and training and reference materials relevant to new clinical investigators, study coordinators, and others involved in the clinical trials process.

CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects public use
CRISP is a pair of large searchable databases of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other institutions. Visitors to the CRISP site can gather information on a wide variety of projects, research grants, cooperative agreements, and other projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies. The site hosts two databases, one containing current awards and the other historical awards. Both can be searched by keyword with a number of modifiers. Returns include grant number, PI name and title, project title, an abstract, institution, and dates. An overview and FAQ are provided. CRISP is updated weekly.

Current Protocols NYU community only
CP Online provides access to all Current Protocols manuals including those for Cell Biology, Cytometry, Human Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Pharmacology, Protein Science, and Toxicology.

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Digital Dissertations ( Available thru ProQuest Direct) NYU community only
Digital Dissertations now provides NYU users with electronic access to ALL dissertations submitted to Digital Dissertations since 1997. Titles published since 1997 are available for download in PDF format free of charge. Once you have identified a dissertation that you would like to download, simply click "download now."

DirLine public use
DIRLINE focuses primarily on health and biomedical information resources including organizations, government agencies, information centers, professional societies, voluntary associations, support groups,academic and research institutions, and research facilities and resources. Records contain resource names, addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of services, publications, and holdings.

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Embase (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Produced by Elsevier Science,a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine. (This database is the European counterpart of MEDLINE).

ERIC (SilverPaltter Database) NYU community only
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, is a bibliographic database that contains education-related documents and journal articles. Information in ERIC corresponds to two printed abstract/index journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). RIE announces some 14,000 documents each year, and CJE announces some 20,000 journal articles, extracted from more than 750 serials. "

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Faculty Bibliography (NYU Dental Center) public use
For citations to literature authored by faculty at NYU College of Dentistry, published 1994 - present. This list is maintained by Waldmann Dental Library.

Federal Register via Community of Science or via GPO Access public use
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents

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Gale's Ready Reference Shelf NYU community only
Gale's Ready Reference Shelf integrates 14 of Gale's most popular reference directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations, and more.

GeneBank public use
NLM's search service via PubMed. Search DNA or protein sequences, or complete genomes..

GrantsNet public use (registration required)
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Lists funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences.

Gray Literature public use
The GrayLIT Network, published by the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It links into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections. Gray literature is foreign or domestic open source material available through specialized channels that may not enter normal channels of publication, distribution, bibliographic control, or acquisition by booksellers or subscription agents.

Growth & Development NYU community only
Growth and Development is an interactive computerized program
developed at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry
under the direction of William R. Proffit, DDS, Ph.D., Professor
and Chairman of the Department of Orthodontics. Level One focuses discusses growth and its relevance to craniofacial and social-emotional growth and development. Level Two focuses on malocclusion.
Growth & Development Level I

Growth & Development Level II

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Health & Psychologically Instruments (HAPI) OVID (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Keyword searchable database of surveys and questionnaires in the health sciences.

Harrison's Online NYU community only
Harrison’s Online makes the world’s leading textbook of medicine, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, into an updated medical database that delivers the high-quality information synonymous with the Harrison’s name with the immediacy that only the online environment can provide. Updated daily.

Health Reference Center (A Gale Group database) NYU community only
Subject and keyword searchable database of articles in the health sciences from hundreds of publications, including both professional and general periodicals.

HealthSTAR (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Bibliographic database on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. It covers patient evaluation outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.

Histology of the Periodontium public use
FREE on-line course! Take your time reviewing the microscopic anatomy of the periodontium: Gingiva, Periodontal ligament, and Cementum.

HRS Project public use
HSRProj provides project records for research in progress funded by federal and private grants and contracts. Records include project summaries, names of performing and sponsoring agencies, names and addresses of the principal investigator, beginning and ending years of the project, and when available information about study design and methodology.

Human Genome public use
The DNA sequence of the Human Genome is now freely accessible to all, for public or private use, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The Center is a part of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. An ongoing research challenge is to piece together and analyze the multitudes of data produced by the Project. NCBI has completed its first assembly of the DNA sequence into an organized and easily accessible resource-including labels that point to important regions of the sequence such as those containing genes-and is now making it public.

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IDEAL NYU community only
"Fulltext of over 200 e-journals from Academic Press, W.B. Saunders Co., and Churchill-Livingstone. Also offers a site search engine, and the ability to browse by broad categories."

International Grants Finder public use
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Lists funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences.

Internet Search public use
Eleven different World Wide Web search engines as selected by the staff of the Waldmann Dental Library.

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Journal Citation Reports (ISI Web of Knowledge database) NYU community only
Find citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations. Its the only source of citation data on journals, includes all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences. The Science Edition contains data from roughly 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. The Social Sciences Edition contains data from roughly 1,500 journals in the social sciences.

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LEXIS-NEXIS Universe NYU community only
A suite of databases geared towards current news, government and company profiles, directories, and legal information.

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MEDCat public use
MEDCat is the online catalog of the Waldmann Dental Library, the Ehrman Medical Library, the Environmental Medicine Information Resource, the NYU Downtown Hospital, and the Helpern Library of Legal Medicine. Search this catalog to locate materials owned by these libraries. You can also telnet to MEDCat.

MEDLINE (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
Medline is the premiere database of the biomedical journal literature. As the computerized version of Index Medicus, it is the bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine. Medline contains over 14 million references to journal articles from over 3,600 selected journals from 1966 to the present, 75% of which are in English. The majority of citations entered after 1975 include abstracts.

MEDLINEplus public use
This is a major enhancement to NLM's consumer health database. In addition to nearly 400 medical topic pages, MEDLINEplus includes over 4,000 articles from the adam.com medical encyclopedia. This encyclopedia brings health consumers an extensive library of medical images as well as thousands of articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (SilverPlatter databases) NYU community only

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National Academy Press NYU community only
NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering,and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

Newspaper Abstracts (Available thru ProQuest Direct) NYU community only
Newspaper Abstracts provides comprehensive indexing to articles (some full-text) from leading national newspapers. In addition to complete bibliographic information, records include either an abstract or annotated headline. Newspapers included are: The Atlanta Constitution/Journal, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Coverage is from 1989 forward, with backfiles available from 1985-1988.

NLM Gateway public use

NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OldMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.

NOAH NYU community only
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) provides high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. Both English and Spanish language documents are supported.

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OldMEDLINE public use
OLDMedline contains citations published in the Cumulated Index Medicus 1960 through 1965, and covers the fields of medicine, pre-clinical sciences, and allied health sciences. Subject searching of this file is available through key words (the original Medical Subject Headings, MeSH, assigned in 1960-65) and text phrases. Unlike Medline, this file contains no abstracts nor MeSH heading (MH) field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.

OVID GATEWAY Databases NYU community only
Collection of biomedical databases including Medline, PsycInfo, Embase and a collection of evidence-based medicine resources. No user ID or Password required if you are using a computer on the NYU network. Click here for instructions on connecting to Ovid from your computer. Click here for searching help.

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Periodicals Abstracts (Available thru ProQuest Direct) NYU community only
The Periodical Abstracts database offers researchers comprehensive abstracting and indexing to articles (some full-text) from hundreds of key publications in a variety of subject areas. Periodical Abstracts provides complete bibliographic information, plus informative article abstracts. Coverage is from 1990 forward for most titles, with backfiles available to 1986.

Pharmaceutical News Index (Available thru ProQuest Direct) NYU community only
PNI contains bibliographic information and indexing for all articles published in 20 key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, and medical device industry newsletters. Coverage is available from 1974 forward for most publications. The database also includes citations to company and industry reports from Thomson Financial Networks' Investext database. The reports are prepared by leading brokerage firms and financial research organizations.

PopLine public use
Popline provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. Popline focuses on particular developing-country issues including demographics, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. Popline citations are searchable with Popline keywords as well as MeSH headings.

ProQuest Direct NYU community only
ProQuest Direct provides immediate online access to UMI's collection of newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. Abstracts and indexing to articles from over 3,000 publications. Full text for many of the articles is available. Coverage is from 1988 to present. Full-text starts from 1995.

PsycInfo (Available thru OVID databases) NYU community only
For references to psychology, PsycInfo contains summaries of the world's serial and monographic literature in psychology and related disciplines. To integrate behavioral information from other fields, PsycInfo scans publications from related disciplines such as sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. PsycInfo is produced by the American Psychological Association. Coverage is from 1974 to the present.

PubMed (Medline) public use
NLM's free MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE versions. Includes over 14 million citations from more than 4000 biomedical journals (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.

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Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge database) NYU community only .
For tracking citations in the published scientific literature. Contains cited and citing references to specific papers and authors in the field of sciences.

Science Direct NYU community only
Offers full-text access to thousands of Elsevier academic journals collection. Also allows searching of the complete holding of Elsevier's collection of nearly 1,000 online electronic journals.

Science's Next Wave NYU community only
Current career information and opportunities for scientists beginning their careers.

Search Systems public use
Created and maintained by Pacific Information Resources, this useful meta-site links to a wide array of free searchable public record databases, more than 1,500. The links are organized geographically, with nationwide databases for the US and Canada, and state databases broken down into statewide, county, and city. The number of databases listed for each state varies widely, but most include property records, court dockets and filings, professional licenses, and administrative code. Other databases include city job postings, restaurant inspections, most wanted, inmate locator, lottery winning numbers, toxic release inventory, births and deaths, and charitable organizations.

Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge database) NYU community only
For tracking citations in the published literature. Contains cited and citing references to specific papers and authors in the social sciences. Included as part of the Web of Science.

Social Security Death Index public use
Presents the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), a database of deceased individuals who died after 1937 and for whom a lump sum death benefit was claimed. Includes Social Security numbers, first and last names, birth dates, death dates, states of primary residents, and other related information for each person listed. Notes that the information is needed to obtain a copy of the original Social Security application. Records are filed by Social Security numbers and are searchable via name, birthplace, and parents' names. Posts contact information for the Social Security Administration via street address and toll-free telephone number. Links to a FAQ section and the Administration's home page, as well as other genealogy resources.

Social Work Abstracts (SilverPlatter databases) NYU community only
Comprehensive abstracting tool in Sociology and related fields, both theoretical and applied. Abstracts are selected from over 2500 journals. Also included are abstracts from conferences, meetings, and dissertations. Included as a part of Web Spring.

Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. NYU community only
From the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Contained within CIA Statistical Universe (Lexis-Nexis).

STAT!REF Medical Reference NYU community only
STAT!REF delivers the most powerful search and retrieval capabilities across a wide variety of nationally recognized medical references. Because STAT!REF is so easy to use, you can start searching and retrieving the information you require instantly.

Statistical Universe (Available thru Lexis-Nexis databases) NYU community only
Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on Statistical Universe and government websites.

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TOXNET public use
TOXNET covers the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical, and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals. It is composed of a number of subfiles, several of which are unique to TOXNET. About 45% of the approximately 120,000 records added per year are from the TOXBIB subfile, which is derived from MEDLINE. The TOXBIB and BIOSIS (since August 1985) subfiles may be searched using the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). An Online thesaurus is available to aid in locating MeSH descriptors.

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USDA National Nutrient Database public use
"This interface allows simple searches. Enter one keyword which best describes your food item or the NDB number."

U.S. Patents public use
A fully searchable bibliographic database containing all of the approximately 1.7 million U.S. patents issued since 1975.

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Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge database) NYU community only
For tracking citations in the published literature, Web of Science contains both cited and citing references to specific papers and authors. It includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index from 1988 - present.

WorldCat NYU community only
The largest collection of bibliographical information in the world. Updated daily, the catalog contains over 39 million records for books, journals and other materials in all formats.

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