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Electronic Resources
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Most resources are available only from NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center computer network.
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Basic & Applied Sciences
- AGRICOLA - agricultural and life sciences information via WebSPIRS [Free Version]
- Applied Science & Technology Abstracts - via OCLC FirstSearch
- BioMedProtocols - Methods in Molecular Biology/Medicine monograph series
- BIOSIS Previews - biological sciences literature via ISI Web of Knowledge (1926-)
- CAB Abstracts - agricultural sciences literature via ISI Web of Knowledge (1910-)
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - searchable material safety databases including: MSDS, FTSS, CHEMINFO, HSELINE, OSHLINE with NIOSHTIC, RTECS, CHEMINDEX, INCHEM, WHMIS, & Fatality Reports
- Chemical Abstracts: SciFinder Scholar®
- Web version: First-time users must register. Returning users - click here. Please note: Structure/reaction searching not yet available for Mac users.
- Client version: Windows version available from the ITS Downloads page. For Mac OS X version, please email infodesk@med.cornell.edu with your contact information, CWID & OS version number.
- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols - cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging
- Current Protocols:
- Dekker Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
- Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - over 3,000 articles, from Wiley
- Engineering Village 2 - applied science and engineering databases, including Compendex (1884-), INSPEC (1969-), and NTIS (1899-)
- Entrez - cross-database life sciences search engine **
- Faculty of 1000 Biology - literature awareness tool
- Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) - via ISI Web of Knowledge (1969-)
- IEEE
Xplore - full-text access to IEEE transactions,
IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards
- INSPEC - biomedical engineering & information technology abstracts
- ISI Web of Knowledge - search all 9 ISI databases: 3 Web of Science Citation Indexes, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Zoological Record & Web Citation Index
- Knovel Library - over 700 full text books in chemistry, life sciences, materials, and engineering
- Material Safety Data Sheets - WMC's Office of Environmental Health and Safety
- MathSciNet: mathematical reviews on the web
- Methods in Enzymology - monograph series, 1955- present
- Methods in Molecular Biology - monograph series, 1984- present
- Methods in Molecular Medicine - monograph series, 1996- present
- Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics Resources
- Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
- OMIA - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals **
- OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man **
- Patent and Trademark Databases
- Science.gov - search across U.S. federal government science databases and websites **
- Science's STKE : Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - collection of cell signaling information
- SciFinder Scholar® - search Chemical Abstracts Service databases
- Web version: First-time users must register. Returning users - click here. Please note: Structure/reaction searching not yet available for Mac users.
- Client version: Windows version available from the ITS Downloads page. For Mac OS X version, please email infodesk@med.cornell.edu with your contact information, CWID & OS version number.
- Spectroscopy Now - news, features, conferences, and directories in spectroscopy **
- Springer Protocols (formerly: BioMed Protocols) - Methods in Molecular Biology/Medicine monograph series
- TOXLINE - toxicology and chemical literature **
- TOXNET - toxicology and chemical resources including Hazardous Substances Data Bank **
- Twease - WCMC tool to search MEDLINE by relevance and other advanced methods **
- VIVO: Virtual Life Sciences Library - Cornell life sciences research **
- Web of Knowledge - search all 9 ISI databases: 3 Web of Science Citation Indexes, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Zoological Record & Web Citation Index
- Web of Science - Science (1900-), Social Sciences (1956-), Arts & Humanities (1975-) Citation Indexes via ISI Web of Knowledge
- Zoological Record - research in all major areas of zoology via ISI Web of Knowledge (1864-)
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Clinical Medicine & Pharmacology
- AccessMedicine - a suite of resources for clinical practice and education
- AccessSurgery - a suite of resources for surgical practice and education
- AIDSinfo - HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention and Research **
- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations - a.k.a Electronic Orange Book, from the FDA **
- ASH (American Society of Hematology) Image Bank - basic atlas and case study images **
- BMJ Clinical Evidence
- Books@Ovid - Full-text online medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts
- ClinicalTrials.gov - directory of clinical trials **
- Cochrane Library - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE & CCTR
- Drugs@FDA - approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs **
- Drug Digest - noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site **
- DXplain - diagnostic support tool from the Massachusetts General Hospital
- Electronic Orange Book - a.k.a Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, from the FDA **
- EMBASE (Excerpta Medica) - international medical & drug literature 1980-present via OVID
- eMedicine [Registration required] - contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders **
- ePSS - preventive services recommendations tool, for PDA or web **
- Essential Evidence Plus - patient-oriented evidence that matters in a rapid and accessible form; also available for PDA; formerly InfoRetriever and InfoPOEMs
- Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
- Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
- Health Reference Center Academic - multi-source, full-text health information, 1980-present via Gale
- Images.MD - an encyclopedic database of medical images that can be used for personal presentations
- Lexi-Comp Online - drug information
- MD Consult - full-text books, journals & pamphlets
- MEDLINE - 1950 to present via OVID
- MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations - (formerly known as PreMEDLINE) via Ovid
- MICROMEDEX - DRUGDEX, IDENTIDEX, MARTINDALE, DRUG-REAX, AltMedDex, Patient CareNotes
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NCG) - a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines **
- NLM Drug Information Portal - gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine **
- NLM Gateway - multiple resources (AIDS Meeting abstracts, OLDMEDLINE) **
- NYP Hospital Formulary - via Lexi-Comp
- OVID
- PDQ® - NCI's Cancer Database **
- PubMed **
- R2 Library - ebooks covering medicine, nursing and allied health from leading publishers
- STAT!Ref - full-text medical and drug texts
- TRIP Database - search multiple high-quality and evidence based medical sources **
- UpToDate - online resource designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice
- Web of Science - search Science or Social Science Citation Index
- WCMC Publications Search - citations to WMC-authored publications via Web of Science
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Evidence-Based Resources
- Essential Search Skills - Powerpoint tutorial on using select Library resources to answer clinical questions **
- Evidence Based Resources of WCMC Library - concise overview of medical resources for evidence-based practice; includes an EBM pyramid **
- ACP Journal Club - summaries and commentaries by clinical experts on selected "articles that report original studies and systematic reviews that warrant immediate attention by physicians attempting to keep pace with important advances in internal medicine." Published bimonthly by American College of Physicians.
- BMJ Clinical Evidence - an "international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions." Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - provides "research-based information about the effects of interventions used in health and social care." From University of York, UK.
- Cochrane Library:
- Essential Evidence Plus - patient-oriented evidence that matters in a rapid and accessible form; also available for PDA; formerly InfoRetriever and InfoPOEMs
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) - "a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines." From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. **
- Natural Standard - "evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies."
- Physician's Information and Education Resource (PIER) - evidence-based guidance tool to improve clinical care. From the American College of Physicians.
- PubMed Clinical Queries - filter searches in PubMed by specific study categories, systematic reviews or topics in medical genetics**
- SUMSearch - a metasearch engine of evidence-based web resources **
- TRIP Database - search multiple quality and evidence-based resources **
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Nursing, Allied Health, Nutrition, Complementary/Alternative Medicine and Patient Education
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Psychosocial Issues / Mental Health / Behavioral Science
- Abstracts in Social Gerontology - bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, and society and the elderly
- AGELINE - psychological, health-related, social issues in aging [Free Version]
- Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Databases - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism portal to alcohol research, including the ETOH archival database**
- CogNet Library - electronic texts and abstracts for the cognitive and brain sciences **
- ERIC - education database of journal and document abstracts via WebSPIRS [Free Version]
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) 1985-present via OVID
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - abstracts of language-related research via ILLUMINA
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database - covers crime, drug abuse, victimization **
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Full-Text Publications - 15,000+ crime, drug abuse, victimization documents **
- PIE Online (Mental Health Policy Information Exchange Online) - Missouri Institute of Mental Health ** Please note: no new content added since 2005
- PREVLINE (Prevention Online) - SAMHSA (NCADI) **
- PsycARTICLES - full text APA journals
- PsycINFO - psychology and mental health literature from 1806 - present via WebSPIRS
- Social Work Abstracts - via WebSPIRS
- Sociological Abstracts - via OCLC First Search
- Web of Science - Social Science Citation Index
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Other Topic & General Databases / Dissertations
- Academic Search Premier - multidisciplinary; citations/abstracts from 4,140+ journals, full text from 3,170+ journals circa 1975-present, via EBSCOHost
- American FactFinder - Census statistics **
- Book Review Digest - from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media
- Cornell Ithaca Library Gateway
- Dissertations & Theses @ Cornell University and the Weill Medical College - full-text digital dissertations from ProQuest
- Directory of Published Proceedings
- Dissertations & Theses - via ProQuest, 1861 to present
- EBSCOHost Research Databases - 24 general & subject-specific databases
- EconLit - books and articles in health economics via OCLC FirstSearch
- Environment Index - deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, and more
- ERIC - education database of journal and document abstracts via WebSPIRS [Free Version]
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library - business, history and medicine encyclopedias and other reference books
- Google™ Scholar - broad search for scholarly literature **
- GreenFILE - well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment
- HEIN Online - full-text of legal journals, current and historical
- IEEE
Xplore - full-text access to IEEE transactions,
IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards
- IndexCat - searchable version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.
Covers material from Antiquity through 1950 imprints **
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - mid-1960s to present, via EBSCOHost [Free Version]
- Library Literature
- PAIS International - citations to public policy literature via CSA Illumina
- ProQuest (ABI/INFORM) - business, news and scholarly citations and full-text articles
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - 1861 to present
- Statistical Universe - statistics and data tables via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Tri-Cat Online Catalog - joint catalog of WMC, MSK and Rockefeller Libraries **
- WISER - searchable system designed to assist first responders in hazardous materials incidents **
- WorldCat - combined catalog of libraries worldwide via OCLC FirstSearch
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Electronic Book Collections & Select Titles
Search Tri-Cat (online catalog) for all electronic books owned by the Library.
- AccessMedicine - a suite of resources for clinical practice and education
- AccessSurgery - a suite of resources for surgical practice and education
- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations - a.k.a Electronic Orange Book, from the FDA **
- BioMedProtocols - Methods in Molecular Biology/Medicine monograph series
- Books24x7.com - Full-text online books covering technology topics, including networking, programming languages, desktop applications, and the Web
- Books@Ovid - Full-text online medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts
- Cornell University Library Catalog - limit to networked resources to find online materials
- Dekker Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
- Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Electronic Orange Book - a.k.a Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, from the FDA **
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - over 3,000 articles, from Wiley
- Foundation Directory Online - a database of funding opportunities
- FreeBooks4Doctors - hundreds of free online books, not just for MDs
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library - business, history and medicine encyclopedias and other reference books
- Harrison's Online - Internal Medicine textbook
- Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module - full-text information from journals, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets & reference books
- Knovel Library - over 700 full text books in chemistry, life sciences, materials, and engineering
- MD Consult - full-text books, journals & pamphlets
- Merck Manual **
- Merck Manual of Geriatrics **
- Merriam-Webster - Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Methods in Enzymology - monograph series, 1955- present
- Methods in Molecular Biology - monograph series, 1984- present
- Methods in Molecular Medicine - monograph series, 1996- present
- National Academy Press/Institute of Medicine - search and read full text online **
- NetLibrary - searchable collection of electronic books in the public domain and available for purchase
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference Online - dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
- PubMed Books - genetic analysis and molecular biology texts **
- R2 Library - ebooks covering medicine, nursing and allied health from leading publishers
- Safari Books Online - computer programming and other information technology texts, including the "Missing Manual" series, via ProQuest
- STAT!Ref - medical and drug resources full-text
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary
- Thieme ElectronicBook Library - color atlas and textbook series
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Electronic Journals, News and Periodicals Full-Text
- Electronic Journal page - alphabetical by title or word search
- Cornell University Library Catalog - limit to networked resources to find online materials
- Custom Newspapers - search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international, 1985 to present
- Factiva (search tips) - general and business news, including the Wall Street Journal
- Free Medical Journals **
- Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module - full-text information from journals, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets & reference books
- HEIN Online - full-text of historical and some current legal journals
- IEEE
Xplore - full-text access to IEEE transactions,
IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - full-text articles (NY Times) & Statistical Universe
- MD Consult -full-text books, journals and pamphlets
- National Newspaper Index - citation/abstract only (no full text) for 5 major U. S. newspapers, 1977 to present
- New York State Newspapers - ten major newspapers, 1985 to present
- news@nature.com - breaking news, extended features and analysis, acclaimed columnists, interactive multimedia specials and blogs
- ProQuest - full-text of journals and magazines
- PsycARTICLES - full text APA journals
- PubMed Central - full-text of some journals **
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Career & Publishing Resources
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Research Funding Resources
Guides to Locating Additional Resources
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