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Health, Medical, and Related Resources
AccessMedicine Vendor: McGraw-Hill Availability: All Wegner Partners Description: Key medical reference texts such as Harrison's Online, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. Also includes the LANGE Basic and Clinical Science texts for study and review. Drug information, diagnostic tools, practice guidelines, audio and video clips, photos, illustrations, patient education handouts, case files, self assessments with USMLE review questions and current medical news items are also available.

AIDSearch Full-Text: No Covers:1980 - Vendor: NISC BiblioLine Description: A combination of three database files (MEDLINE, AIDS/HIV subset, and AIDSTRIALS) providing information about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related topics.

Biology Digest (BioDigest) Full-Text: No Covers:1989 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Covering the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students. Contains comprehensive abstracts of articles in over 300 journals.

BIOSIS Previews Vendor: OVID ; Thomson Scientific, Inc. Availability: University of South Dakota Only and Inside the Wegner Library Description: BIOSIS Previews contains a vast collection of records from thousands of life science literature sources across the globe. Subjects covered include the medical sciences, biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, biochemistry, food science, and plant sciences to name a few. This is an excellent place to look for unique resources in addition to those found in MEDLINE/PubMed. It includes references to journal articles, books, patents, and materials from conferences (meeting abstracts and posters). The library has access to BIOSIS Previews from 1991 to 2007.

Blackwell Synergy Vendor: The journal content previously available on Blackwell Synergy is now being delivered through Wiley InterScience.

CINAHL Vendor: EBSCO Availability: All Wegner Partners Description: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature is the pre-eminent indexing and retrieval system for nursing literature and for literature in the allied health professions. CINAHL's indexing is uniquely nurse-friendly and therapist-friendly, providing standardized terms that make it easier to retrieve focused lists of articles on specific care practices used in the allied health professions. EBSCO's CINAHL with Full Text includes links to the complete articles for many of the journal references.



ClinicalTrials.gov Vendor: National Library of Medicine Availability: All Wegner Partners Description: ClinicalTrials.gov provides health care professionals and the public easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. It includes criteria for patient participation, location and contact information for the trial, research study design and phase of the trial. The clinical trials are sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, government agencies, the pharmaceutical industry, universities, foundations, and several international organizations.

Cochrane Controlled Trials Register Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Ovid Description: A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Ovid Description: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.

DIRLINE Vendor: National Library of Medicine Availability: All Wegner Partners Description: DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) is the National Library of Medicine’s online database containing location and descriptive information for organizations in the health and biomedical sciences. Toll-free / 800 numbers, Web sites, services and publications are listed for many federal, state, and local government agencies; information centers; self-help groups, professional societies; voluntary associations and academic/research institutions.

EBSCOhost Description: EBSCOhost is a group of databases of references and full-text journal articles in several disciplines, including medicine, nursing, health and health business, business management, humanities, and education. Each resource can be searched separately, or together in a group for a transdisciplinary view.

FIRST Consult Full-Text: Yes Covers: Vendor: Elsevier Description: First Consult is a reference source for “concise, evidence-based information diagnosis and support.” This easy to use database is designed for point of care use and includes a PDA module allowing you to carry vital information with you. You can access First Consult by clicking on the link in the upper-right hand corner of the MD Consult home page.

Health Business FullText (EBSCO) Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1984 - , full-text: 1990 - Vendor: EBSCOhost Description: Provides full text for over 160 periodicals covering the business of health care administration, and more.

Health Source Consumer Edition Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1984 - , full-text: 1990 - Vendor: EbscoHost Description: Contains health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health with searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1984 - Vendor: EbscoHost Description: This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Helpline Directory

HighWire Full-Text: Covers: Vendor: Stanford University Description: Contains 14,502,141 articles in over 4,500 Medline journals, 696,569 free full text articles from 357 HighWire-hosted journals

InfoTrac - Professional Collection

Kluwer Online (See SpringerLink) Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Kluwer Online Description: Electronic access to a vast and growing collection of the most respected scholarship in the world. Complete tables of content, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 650 journals.

MDConsult Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Elsevier Description: MD Consult provides access to an extensive collection of standard medical textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, drug information, CME, and patient education information. Journal coverage includes many of the “Clinics of North America” as well as additional Medline references. In addition to the standard medical textbooks, this product includes several specialized texts in the area of Cardiology.

MEDLINE (see PubMed) Full-Text: Yes Vendor: National Library of Medicine Description: PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

MEDLINE (via EBSCO) Vendor: EBSCO Availability: All Wegner Partners Description: This is the same MEDLINE database (see description under PubMed) as offered through the National Library of Medicine but with an EBSCO Web searching interface. MEDLINE contains citations from medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, the health care system, health administration, and the pre-clinical sciences back to 1865. Advantages of searching EBSCO MEDLINE: Under the “Choose Databases” tab within EBSCO MEDLINE, more than one database can be searched at a time such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, Academic Search Premier, etc. Also, it is possible to search words next to each other with “adjacency” searching which is unavailable within PubMed MEDLINE. Disadvantages of searching EBSCO MEDLINE: There is a time lag for citations to be added to EBSCO MEDLINE. Citations are added to PubMed MEDLINE first.

MedlinePlus Full-Text: Yes Vendor: National Library of Medicine Description: MedlinePlus contains over 600 Health Topics, drug information, directories, and more, and is also available in Spanish.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Full-Text: Yes Covers:1985 - Vendor: Silver Platter Description: Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

MICROMEDEX

NARIC's REHABDATA Literature Database

OVID

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO) Full-Text: Yes Covers: Vendor: Ebsco Description: Peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. More than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Full-Text: Yes Vendor: EbscoHost Description: Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO Full-Text: No Covers: 1887 - Vendor: EBSCOhost Description: PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

PubMed Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine Availability: All Wegner Partners and the Public Description: PubMed is the most current Web-based search interface for searching the MEDLINE database. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database that contains over 16 million references to journal articles in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. This free database contains citations from 1950 to the present. Approximately 5,000 journals published in the U.S. and more than 80 other countries have been selected and are indexed in MEDLINE. MEDLINE uses a controlled vocabulary, or key words, called MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to provide better searching. You can save search results, save search strategies, email results of a search, highlight in color search terms, and have a search topic run automatically based on personal time preferences through a PubMed function called MyNCBI. For more information about MyNCBI, please contact the Wegner Library staff.

Science Direct Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1996 - Vendor: Elsevier Description: Science Direct is based upon the Elsevier Science journal collection which provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of scientific disciplines.

Sport Discus Full-Text: No Covers: 1975 - Vendor: EBSCOhost Description: An international database containing information on sports medicine, exercise, physiology, biomechanics, and more.

SpringerLink Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Springer Description: Electronic access for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, math, computer science, humanities and economics. Content from more than 1,250 journals and 2,500+ books.

STAT!Ref Full-Text: No Vendor: Description: Browsable and searchable e-books from the Lange series; Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER) from the American College of Physicians; and under Resouces, Stedman's Medical Dictionary and the MedCalc program for computations with formulas and for diagnostic criteria lists.

Test Review Locator - Search Full-Text: No Covers: Vendor: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements Description: Search for citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests and measures that The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements and ProEd (book publisher) have included in their directories. See Mental Measurements Yearbook for reviews.

TRIP Database: Evidence Based Medicine Vendor: TRIP Database LTD Availability: All Wegner Partners and the Public Description: The TRIP database searches several evidence-based medicine resources found on the Internet. It includes content from critically appraised topics (CATs), systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, medical images, and information from some evidence-based journal clubs. Other EBM links are available. The database dates back to 1997 and is based in the United Kingdom.

USPTO Web Patent Databases Full-Text: Yes Covers:1976 - Vendor: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Description: The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) now offers World-Wide Web access to separate bibliographic and full-text patent databases.

Web of Science Vendor: Thompson Scientific Covers: Vendor: 1995 - Present Description: Science Citation Index Expanded 1995 – present. Number of Users: 3

Wiley InterScience Vendor: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Availability: USD Only Description: Full text journals in medicine, veterinary, and the health sciences as well as in other fields such as the life sciences. Wiley InterScience now includes journal content from Blackwell Synergy. Maternal-child journals such as Birth; Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing; and Nursing for Women’s Health (AWHONN) are examples of journals merged from Blackwell Synergy. Wiley also provides access to certain genetic journals such as the American Journal of Medical Genetics and Annals of Human Genetics.

Other Resources

Academic Search Premier Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1984 -, full-text: 1990 - Vendor: EBSCOhost Description: Provides full text for over 1,230 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more. ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library Full-Text: Yes Covers:1947 - Vendor: Association for Computing Machinery Description: Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings together with selected works published by affiliated organizations. AGRICOLA - via NAL, via FirstSearch Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1970 - Vendor: National Agricultural Library Description: AGRICOLA (Agriculture Online Access) is a bibliographic database containing selective worldwide coverage of agriculture Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute Full-Text: No Covers:1970 - Vendor: Royal Anthropological Institute Description: Anthropological Index Online is an index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library) Art Abstracts (ArtAbstracts) Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers:1984 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: A dependable, comprehensive, and authoritative information source about the world of the arts from architecture to video. Covers more than 300 leading art publications. Restricted to 1 user license. Books in Print Full-Text: No Covers: Current Vendor: WebPals (SDLN) Description: Books in Print is a databases that contains over 2 million entries from Books in Print publications and addresses for more than 100,000 publishers. Bureau of Arms Control - Reports Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1996 - Vendor: U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Description: The Bureau of Arms Control is responsible for international agreements on conventional, chemical/biological, and strategic forces, treaty verification and compliance, and supporting ongoing negotiations and policy-making. Business and Company Resource Center Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1980 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Search for company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals, detailed company and industry news and information. Business Source Premier Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1990 - Vendor: EBSCOhost Description: Provides full text for over1,320 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1994 - Vendor: U.S. Government Printing Office Description: The Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Computer Database Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1997 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Use Computer Database to find computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. County and City Data Books Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1988, 1994 Vendor: University of Virginia Library. Geostat Description: This resource provides WWW access to the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books Current Issues Full-Text: Yes Covers: Current Vendor: CIS - LexisNexis Description: Contains the full texts of some 3,000 publications from advocacy groups, professional associations, research institutes, and government agencies. For each source organization there is a brief profile describing the group's scope and and mission. ECO (Electronic Collections Online) Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1995 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: This database covers 5000+ journals in a variety of subject areas; provides bibliographic information with some full text available. EDGAR Database Full-Text: Yes Covers:1994 - Vendor: U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Description: EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with SEC. Education Abstracts Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1983 -, abstracts 1994 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Includes citations to articles in over 400 leading English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and more. Restricted to 2 user licenses. Energy Citations Database - Access Instructions Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1948 - Vendor: U.S. Department of Energy Description: Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science and related disciplines. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Publications Full-Text: Yes Vendor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Description: Providing access to EPA technical and public information. ERIC - SDLN, via EBSCOhost Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1967 - Vendor: EBSCOhost, SilverPlatter, SDLN Description: ERIC is a databases that contains over 900,000 citations for journal articles and documents in the field of education. ERIC E Subscribe Full-Text: Yes Covers:1993 - Vendor: Provided by South Dakota State Library Description: ERIC ESubscribe provides ERIC documents in .pdf format including full text of most of ERIC's educational documents. Expanded Academic ASAP Full-Text:* Yes - Selective Covers: 1980 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. FedStats Full-Text: Yes Vendor: Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy Description: The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government. FindArticles.com Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1998 - Vendor: Gale Group & LookSmart Description: Use this database to find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Foundation Directory Online Full-Text: No Covers: Current Vendor: The Foundation Center Description: See Access Instructions regarding accessing information within the Foundation Directory Online Database. General Business File ASAP Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1980 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Use this database to find articles on: Finance, Acquisitions & Mergers, International Trade, Money Management, New Technologies & Products, Local & Regional Business Trends, Investments and Banking. General Reference Center Gold Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1980 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. GrayLIT Network Full-Text: Yes Vendor: U.S. Department of Energy Description: GrayLIT is a portal to more than 1,000,000 full-text technical reports from the Departments of Energy and Defense, the EPA, and NASA. GrayLIT's search engine enables searching across five sources. HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources Full-Text: No Covers: 1998 - Vendor: Gary Perlman Description: The HCI Bibliography is a free-access online bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction. Ingenta Full-Text: No Covers: 1988 - Vendor: Ingenta Description: Ingenta is a commercial table of contents and article delivery service. The database contains citations to over 11 million articles. Faculty wishing to sign up for the table of contents alerts should contact Tess Gibson at 677-6088. International Plant Names Index (INPI) Full-Text: No Vendor: Harvard University Herbaria Description: The International Plant Names Index currently includes over 325,000 citations of names of New World vascular plants LegalTrac Full-Text: No Covers: 1980 - Vendor: InfoTrac Description: Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, and more. LEXIS NEXIS Academic Full-Text: Yes Vendor: LEXIS NEXIS Description: Contains the full texts of some 3,000 publications including news, business, legal research, medical and reference LEXIS-NEXIS Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers:1970 - Vendor: LEXIS-NEXIS Description: Is a general, multi-discipline database that includes material from over 14,000 sources, including the full-text of over 100 daily newspapers, magazines, and academic journal articles, company and industry information, court decisions, and more. Library Catalog (ALEPH) Full-Text: No Description: ALEPH is the library's computerized catalog. It provides access to all of the materials in the Wegner Library, including books, periodical titles, and audiovisual materials. On-Line Books Full-Text: Yes Covers: Vary Vendor: John Mark Ockerbloom Description: The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. Online Texts Collection Full-Text: Yes Covers: Vary Vendor: The Internet Public Library Description: The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 13,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. It can also be searched. PapersFirst Database Full-Text: No Covers: 1993 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. Population Index Full-Text: No Covers:1986 - Vendor: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Description: Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. ProceedingsFirst Full-Text: No Covers: 1993 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. ProQuest Full-Text: Yes - Selective Covers: 1986 -, full-text: 1992 - Vendor: ProQuest Description: Multidiscipline database Regional Business News Full-Text: Yes Vendor: EbscoHost Description: Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. SoDakLIVE Full-Text: Covers: Vendor: South Dakota State Library Description: SoDakLIVE is a World Wide Web-based one-stop directory for state government publications and information. Statistical Abstract of the United States Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1995 - Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau Description: Provides publications and statistical data in areas such as population, labor, agriculture, income, and more. Stat-USA Full-Text: No Covers: 1984 - Vendor: U.S. Department of Commerce Description: Delivers vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Description: The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers is a source of identification of U.S. manufacturers arranged by product in a large multi-volume set. Ulrich's Periodical Directory Full-Text: No Vendor: R.R. Bowker Description: Global source for finding information about periodical publishers. United States House of Representatives: Members and Committees Full-Text: Yes Covers: Current Vendor: The Office of the Clerk Description: Provides information about Members and Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as the latest congressional news and important links to congressional information. United States Senate Full-Text: Yes Covers: Current Vendor: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Wall Street Journal Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1992 - Vendor: ProQuest Description: Full text articles from the nation's financial newspaper of records. Wilson Select Plus Full-Text: Yes Covers: 1994 - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Provides citations and full-text of articles in science, humanities and business. World Factbook Full-Text: Yes Covers: Current Vendor: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Description: The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style. format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements. WorldCat Full-Text: No Covers: Before 1000 BC - Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch Description: Includes records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.