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Public Health Databases

Name Description
HealthSTAR
1975-current

The HealthSTAR database contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration and research. In addition to journal article citations and abstracts, HealthSTAR includes citations to meeting abstracts, technical reports and monographs

MEDLINE In-Process
Current

Pre-MEDLINE (PREM) provides basic information and abstracts before a records are indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. New records are added daily to Pre-MEDLINE; completed Pre-MEDLINE records are added as citations to MEDLINE on a daily basis.

MEDLINE via OVID
1950 - Present

The premier medical literature search system, which includes Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.

MEDLINE via PubMed
1966-current

Open Access

NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.

OldMEDLINE
1951-1965

Indexes articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1951 through 1965. For more current articles, see MEDLINE.

POPLINE
1827-current

Open Access

POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment.

PubMed (Medline)
1966-current

Open Access

NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.

PubMed Central
1970-current

Open Access

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine digital archive of life sciences journal literature.

Name Description
Annual Reviews
Dates vary

Annual Reviews volumes, published each year in approximately 30 focused disciplines within the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences, are thorough and timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists and academicians.

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
1987-Current

ASSIA indexes over 500 journals covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.

BioMed Central
1999-current

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. BioMed Central's portfolio of over 100 journals ranges from the general interest to a range of specialist online only journals.

Dietary Supplements Labels Database

The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than three thousand selected brands of dietary supplements.

ETHX on the Web
Dates vary

Open Access

A Bibliographic Database on Bioethics and Professional Ethics.

Expanded Academic
1980-current

A searchable database providing access to humanitities, social science, science and technology journals.

Google Scholar
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

GPO Access
1994-current

Open Access

Use GPO Access to search or browse official, full-text information from the three branches of the Federal Government.

GPO Monthly Catalog
1974-current

A catalog of all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)

Grants.gov
Current

Open Access

Grants.gov is a database designed so that seekers of Federal grants to electronically find, apply for, and manage grants.

GrantsNet.org
Current

Free online registration required

A searchable database of funding opportunities in biomedical research and science education.

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
1985-current

Provides information on measurement instruments (tests, questionnaires, etc.)

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
1975 - present

5 concurrent users maximum.

describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

Household Products Database
Current

This database links over 5,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. With links to PubMED and TOXNET.

Journals@OVID
Dates vary

Provides access to hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

LexisNexis Statistical
1973 - Present

Includes tables, abstracts, and links to statistical information from State, US, and International sources through LexisNexis. The American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, Index to International Statistics.

Population Index
1986-2000

Open Access

Population Index is the primary reference tool to access the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses
1861-current

With more than 1.5 million entries, Proquest'sDissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

ScienceDirect
1995-current

ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.

Scirus
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences.

A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.

SimplyMap

5 concurrent users maximum. Free personal registration is required for access.

a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using United States demographic, business, and marketing data. Data sources include the U.S. Census and Census projections.

TOXLINE via NLM
1966-current

Open Access

TOXLINE is a bibliographic database covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

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