| Title | Description | Access Level |
| ACP Medicine | From the American College of Physicians, ACP Medicine is a comprehensive internal medicine reference source for evidence-based medicine and appropriate practice guidelines. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Adverse Drug Interactions Program | A product of "The Medical Letter" that allows a quick check of possible adverse effects of drug interactions, with brief recommendations for precautionary measures. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System) | Gateway to information about AIDS and HIV - its prevention, treatment and management - that is updated hourly. It features links to daily news reports, fact sheets and personal stories. | Free online |
| AGRICOLA | The National Agricultural Library's free online catalog. Provides citations to agricultural literature. | Free online |
| Alt HealthWatch | Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Annual Orations of the Worcester District Medical Society | A list of distinguished orators from 1795-present with a brief synopsis of each oration (if available). | Free online |
| Biography Resource Center | Comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Biological Abstracts® | Coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research, including traditional areas of biology (botany, zoology and microbiology), as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, and environmental studies. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive | Provides access to full-text for nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications in such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Books@Ovid | Includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | Provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. Information available includes statements of a trial's purpose, participation guidelines, locations, and phone numbers for more details. | Free online |
| Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials | CCRCT is a database of definitive clinical trials identified by the Cochrane Collaboration. Only randomized control trials and/or controlled clinical trials are included. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | Articles focus on randomized control trials, controlled clinical trials, products of evidence-based review by ACP Journal Club or National Health Services. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities | Database of available funding sources, including private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, and private business. All disciplines are represented (sciences to humanities). | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Current Index to Statistics | Bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields, from 1974-present. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects | Abstracts of non-Cochrane systematic reviews. Part of Ovid's Evidence Based Medicine Reviews Collection. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Digital Commonwealth | Portal to the cultural heritage held in museums, historical societies, colleges, libraries and other cultural repositories in Massachusetts. You can search or browse the digital collections of member institutions for manuscripts, images, and documents. | Free online |
| Drugs@FDA | Search for official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs and therapeutic biological products. | Free online |
| DynaMed | A clinical reference tool created by a physician for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. Updated daily. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| e-Mental Health in Central Massachusetts | Information about mental health conditions and diseases as well as links to services available to the Central Massachusetts region. | Free online |
| EBSCOhost | A collection of several resources (Biomedical Reference; Health Business Fulltext Elite; Nursing & Allied Health; Alt HealthWatch; and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences). Full-text article coverage includes almost 2400 multi-disciplinary journals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base | eMedicine contains frequently updated, evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on over 7,000 diseases and disorders. It also hosts over 30,000 medical images and other multimedia content. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Encyclopedia Americana® | General reference source from Scholastic Library Publishing. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) | A multi-institutional initiative providing information on species including taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being. | Free online |
| ERIC | Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education, ERIC provides access to over 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles in the area of education. | Free online |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | Provides access to more than 3500 indexed and full-text periodical titles in all disciplines, the majority of which are peer-reviewed. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Facts on File: Science Online | A general science reference source that includes six content categories: Biographies, Essays, Definitions, Diagrams, Experiments, and a Timeline. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| FDsys (Federal Digital System) | Provides public access to information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. FDsys enables the Government Printing Office to manage information from all 3 branches of the U.S. Government. Replaces GPO Access. | Free online |
| FREIDA Online® (Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database) | Indexes over 8,200 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. | Free online |
| General Reference Center Gold | Coverage begins in 1980. Integrates a variety of sources: newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, and hobbies. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Global Health | Indexes over 16,000 serial sources. Provides an alternative, complementary point of reference for the areas of communicable and tropical diseases, parasitology, human nutrition, community and public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Google™ Scholar (Beta) | Search diverse sources for scholarly literature (books, articles and abstracts, etc.) in a wide range of disciplines. Access full-text through the library's Get it service. | Free online |
| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™ | General reference source from Scholastic Library Publishing. Derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Harrison's Online | Updated regularly, this online textbook version provides full search capabilities of the new 17th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Health and Psychosocial Instruments | Information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers and educators to identify measures needed for research studies and grant proposals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Health Business Fulltext Elite | Journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration. Topics covered include hospital management, hospital administration, marketing, human resources, computer technology, facilities management and insurance. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Health on the Net Foundation Media Gallery | A repository of over 6800 medical images and videos, organized by MeSH categories and terms. Images can be used freely as long as a copyright notice and link to the website are provided. | Free online |
| Health Reference Center Academic | Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Hospital Compare | From the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Provides information on how well the hospitals in an area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. | Free online |
| IEEE Xplore® Digital Library | Full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| IHOC, International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse | Designed for health-care professionals and students who are interested in volunteer work with underserved communities at home or abroad. | Free online |
| Images from the History of Medicine | Access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of NLM's History of Medicine Division. The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media. | Free online |
| images.MD | Online encyclopedia of over 50,000 medical images. UMMS users can also register to create their own image libraries. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| InfoTrac | General and health reference information, Expanded Academic ASAP, business and company resources, and biographical information (the Complete Marquis Who's Who®). | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences | Links to over 3500 journal sites. From The University of Toledo Health Science Campus. | Free online |
| Journal Citation Reports® | JCR is a tool used to identify the highest impact and most frequently used journals in your field (includes data from about 5,000 journals). | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| JSTOR | JSTOR specializes in backfiles of scholarly journals, some dating back to the 17th century, in a variety of disciplines. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| LexisNexis® Academic | LexisNexis® provides five databases of full-text news items, company and financial information, federal, state, and international legal materials, medical and general reference sources. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Massachusetts Newsstand | Full-text of 12 Massachusetts newspapers, including the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Massachusetts Physician Profiles | From the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, this tool aids patients in making better health care decisions. | Free online |
| MassCHIP | Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP) provides free access to many health and social indicators. Community-level data is available to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs. | Free online |
| MD Consult | MD Consult includes a number of electronic information resources (reference books, journals, practice guidelines, etc.) that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| MEDLINE® (Ovid) | Ovid's interface to the MEDLINE database provides access to bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| MedlinePlus | Consumer health information on more than 700 topics provided by the National Library of Medicine. | Free online |
| MedlinePlus: Go Local Massachusetts | Find local services and healthcare providers across Massachusetts. | Free online |
| MICROMEDEX® | MICROMEDEX provides access to drug information, drug interactions, dosing tools, toxicology information, patient handouts, acute care and reproductive risk databases. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| National Guideline Clearinghouse | A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, the National Guideline Clearinghouse is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. | Free online |
| Natural Standard | Provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Now includes contributors from more than 100 academic institutions. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| NCMETV™ | NCMETV™ is a web-based interface for the CME videos and DVDs to which the library has subscribed for years. Registration for a personal account is required; contact the library at 508-856-6099 to obtain the necessary information. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| NESCSO (New England States Consortium Systems Organization) | A non-profit corporation organized by the six New England Health and Human services agencies and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. NESCSO's goal is to support the health and human services policy and system needs of the New England states. | Free online |
| news @ nature.com | Latest news from Nature.com, with archives dating back to 1998. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive | This EBSCOhost database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Ovid Databases | A gateway to several vital clinical resources, including MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and EBM Reviews, as well as full-text books and journals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Covers words from across the English-speaking world. Updated quarterly with at least 2,500 new and revised entries. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection | Nearly 575 full text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| PsycINFO® | Citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Journal coverage includes material selected from approximately 2000 periodicals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | Content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files. Many images are copyright protected. | Free online |
| PubMed | Public access to the MEDLINE database of over 18 million citations. PubMed also provides access and links to other Entrez molecular biology resources. | Free online |
| R2 Library | Access over 100 electronic textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health. Users can save, organize, and export over 68,000 images from all available R2 Library resources. The My Images feature gives users easy access to often-used images. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| RefWorks | An online research management, writing and collaboration tool. Classes and a handout are available through the library's website. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| RePORTER (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results) | Replaces the CRISP database. Provides reports, data and analyses of NIH research activities. | Free online |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | Covers 150 scientific areas. Includes 5,900 journals from medical research and clinical fields as well as from the "hard" sciences. Investigate particular subjects and see who is citing specific articles and authors. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| ScienceDirect® | Offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Includes over 2000 peer-reviewed journals. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| SciFinder® | A research tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases for literature from many scientific disciplines. SciFinder is now on the web; the client will not be available after 3-15-09. Contact Sally.Gore@umassmed.edu for a personal login and password. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Scitable | A free science library and personal learning tool presented by Nature Publishing Group. | Free online |
| STAT!Ref | Cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core textbook titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Statistical Abstract | The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Published since 1878, data are provided by many federal agencies as well as private organizations. | Free online |
| TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) | National Library of Medicine's portal to databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. | Free online |
| UpToDate | UpToDate is a comprehensive clinical information resource specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice. On-campus access only. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Virtual Catalog of the Boston Library Consortium | The Virtual Catalog provides a single, searchable catalog of books held by participating libraries of the Boston Library Consortium and two major Boston-area public library networks. Registered UMMS/UMMHC barcode holders may request books at no charge. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| Who Named It? | A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, surveying medical phenomena named for a person. | Free online |
| WorldCat | Check other libraries nationally and internationally for books, journals, audiovisuals and electronic media. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| WorldCat Local | Search for resources owned by the Lamar Soutter Library, other regional libraries, or libraries worldwide. | Restricted to UMMS/UMMHC users |
| WorldCat.org (Beta) | A free version of the WorldCat global library catalog, WorldCat.org lets you easily search the collections of many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library near you. | Free online |
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