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Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on physical and mental health.  1986 to present.

International coverage of over 3,800 journals in the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences.  Medline encompasses information from three print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.  1966 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

PubMed includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 5100 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.  The molecular biology databases include DNA and protein sequences, genome mapping data and 3-D protein structures.  1950 to present.

Combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  1980 to present.  VPN recommnded for off-campus access.

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Provides full text for over 7,000 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more.  Coverage varies by publication.  Some full-text PDFs from 1985 to present.

AccessScience is the online version of the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with access to all the articles, fully illustrated.  In addition, it includes new trends and developments in science and technology from the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology volumes, and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.  AccessScience also includes biographies of scientists, Nobel Prize winners in all fields for all years, headlines from the journal Science News, and links to related web sites.

Indexes research and professional materials on alcohol, its use, and related consequences.  Includes bibliographic citations to over 70,000 journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and audiovisual materials compiled by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies.  1987 to present.

Provides access to professional and consumer publications focused on alternative approaches to health and medicine.  Full text of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters.  Coverage varies by title.  Good coverage from early 1990s to present; some coverage of earlier years.

Provides indexing, abstracts and some full text articles for more than 390 periodicals.  Includes aeronautics and space sciences; atmospheric sciences; chemistry; computer technology and applications; construction industry; energy; engineering; food and food industry; geology; mathematics; metallurgy; meteorology; mineralogy; oceanography; physics; textiles; transportation; and other industrial and mechanical arts.  Indexing 1983 to present; abstracts beginning in March 1993; some full text beginning in 1997.

Journal literature on complementary and alternative medicine.  Includes some links to freely available full-text articles.  1966 to present.

Uses a specialized search strategy to retrieve citations from the cancer subset of PubMed.  Indexes over 4600 biomedical journals.  1960's to present.

Indexes journals in nursing and allied health, selected healthcare books, nursing dissertations, audiovisual materials, standards of practice and conference proceedings.  Includes full-text of over 600 journals.

Searchable database of biomedical research projects funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.  Includes: Grant number, primary investigator and address of affiliated institution, project title, initial review group, and abstract for each project.  1972 to present.

Provides approximately 10,000 records with location and descriptive information for government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, self-help groups, and academic and research institutions in health and biomedicine.  Topics include maternal and child health, diseases and conditions, and health services research and technology assessment.  Current information only.

This database contains records for more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Also included is the full text content for nearly 900,000 dissertations.  Includes extensive coverage of North American graduate schools, with coverage of some European universities beginning in 1989.  Includes bibliographic record of dissertations written in the United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts, for titles available from 1986 in 'ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.  A separate database contains the subset of Marquette University doctoral dissertations in full text.

Dynamed is a clinical reference tool designed primarily for point-of-care use.  It provides information on over 3,000 topics with content updated daily.  It can be searched on or off campus and is deliverable via a hand-held device.

Information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts.  Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.  Current edition only.

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Full-text systematic reviews of health sciences literature, abstracts of additional reviews with commentary, and an extensive database of citations to controlled clinical trials.  1991 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Empirical data collected by health care researchers, public and private agencies.  Covers health care providers, costs, substance abuse, chronic health conditions, etc.  Includes Abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  Before retrieving data users will be asked to set up a "MyData" account and provide information to verify their Marquette status.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Two databases are included: Health Source: Consumer Edition - Provides full text for over 255 health periodicals, over 1,065 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books; and Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition - Provides full text for over 480 journals focusing on multiple medical disciplines.  This product also includes Clinical Pharmacology, providing information on prescription, over-the-counter and investigational drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, and Stedmans Medical Dictionary.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on physical and mental health.  1986 to present.

Microscopic samples of human tissues from the cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, immune, integumentary, renal, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems.  The digitized slide images are available at one or more of the following magnifications: 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 100x.

Includes over 730,000 citations to articles from four databases - Medline, Agricola, Agris, and CAB Abstractson pertaining to the use and function of vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition.  1986 to present.

Abstracts, longitudinal studies, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  ICPSR holds a wealth of data from a number of sources.  Among them:

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Health and Medical Care Archive
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
International Archive of Education Data
2000 Census Data
Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys
Crimestat
Data Preservation Allicance for the Social Sciences
Data Sharing for Demographic Research
General Social Survey Data and Retrieval Information Systems
Homicide Research Working Group
Human Subject Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis
Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Geography, and Intermarriage Across a Century
Minority Data Resource Center
Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center

Before retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData" account and to provide information verifying their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.  Instructors - check out the Online Learning Center (OLC) for tips on incorporating data analysis into your curriculum.

This full-text database contains in-depth and balanced articles dealing with contemporary issues and controversies.  Keyword and subject searching is available as well as being able to browse by topic.  A list of current hot topics is provided.  This resource (in addition to CQ Researcher) is an EXCELLENT starting point for research on contemporary topics.  September 25, 1995 to present.

This unique multidisciplinary resource presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories, including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, ‘hottest’ journals, and largest journals. The "Science" portion covers about 5,000 leading international science journals from ISI database and the "Social Science" portion covers 1700 leading journals from Social Science Citation Index.  Basic information about each journal is also included, e.g. publisher, frequency, title changes, subject categories assigned, etc.  Covers 2004 to 2006.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

Provides a single interface for searching multiple resources from the National Library of Medicine including Medline, Old Medline, LOCATORplus (NLM's online catalog), and Medlineplus.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles; NLM catalog records for books, journals and audiovisual materials; meeting abstracts on AIDS/HIV; and consumer information on health conditions and medications.  Journal citations are available from 1958 to the present.

A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.  Contains nearly 100 full text journals, including more than 80 peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.  Coverage varies by title with some dating from 1965 to current.

Based on Dr. Victor A. McKusick’s book Mendelian Inheritance in Man, this database includes information on human genes and genetic disorders.  It is updated daily and includes links to other resources.  Includes textual information and references; links to Medline citations, sequence records, and other related resources.  Most content is from 1998 to the present.  Some references date back to the early 20th century.

This subset of Health Sciences in ProQuest, includes over 650 full-text journals, more than 12,000 dissertations in nursing and related fields, and easy access to evidence–based content from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI.)  Click Browse to view evidence summaries, systematic reviews, and best practice information sheets from JBI; cultural competency and video training resources; and study paths.

Multidisciplinary database with 11,000+ titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text.  It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

Indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range of magazines and journals.  It includes general interest and news publications as well as selected scholarly journals.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full text and full image articles.  Coverage varies by title with good coverage for late 1980's to present, some earlier coverage.

Science.gov is an interagency cooperative providing a unified search of the government’s scientific and technical information.  30 databases and over 1,700 web sites are included.  Material is selected by the following agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Interior as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.  Science.gov mainly provides citiations and in some cases abstracts.

Included in Web of Science which combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of science topics including agriculture, biology, chemistry, computing, engineering, physics and telecommunications.  Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.  1986 to present.

Data collected by public and private health care agencies related to substance abuse and mental health.  Includes abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  When retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData Account" and provide information to verify their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.

Provides access to the following databases on toxicology and hazardous chemicals: HSDB - Hazardous Substances Data Bank, TOXLINE, ChemIDplus, IRIS - Integrated Risk Information System, ITER - International Toxicity Estimates for Risk, TRI - Toxic Chemical Release Inventory, CCRIS - Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System, GENE-TOX - Genetic Toxicology, and DART/ETIC - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center.  Includes citations to journal literature, government documents and special reports; chemical records and excerpts from monographs.  1950 to present.

Digital color images obtained by CT & MRI scanning and cryosectioning of a 39-year-old representative male cadaver and a 59-year-old representative female cadaver.