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Databases

AGRICOLA
US Dept of Agriculture
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
The National Agricultural Library is one of four national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
BRFSS is the world's largest phone survey. It tracks health risks of adults in the U.S.

Business and Law Literature Databases
UAMS Library
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
Use the Ebsco access to search the business and law literature databases. The database contains full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals and full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals.

Canary Database
Yale School of Medicine
http://canarydatabase.org
The Canary Database contains studies in the biomedical literature that explore the use of wildlife, domestic, and companion animals as "sentinels" for the effects of chemical, biological, and physical hazards in the environment that may be a risk to human health.

CDC Wonder
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
http://wonder.cdc.gov
Allows users to query dozens of numeric data sets on CDC's mainframe & other computers, via "fill-in-the-blank" request screens. Public-use data sets about mortality, cancer incidence, hospital discharges, AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, and many other topics are available for query. The requested data can be readily summarized and analyzed.

Current Index to Statistics
CIS
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
An index to journal articles, proceedings, edited books, and other sources in statistics and related fields from 1975 to present.

Databases from National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
NIOSH
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/database.html
The NIOSH Web site features many different types of databases and information resources. They are categorized here by Chemical; Injury, Illness & Hazards Data and Information; Publications; Respirators and other Personal Protective Equipment; Agriculture; and Construction.

Epi Info
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
With Epi Info™ and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.

Epidemiology.net
UNC, Chapel Hill
http://ww.epidemiology.net
This site has been created as a vehicle for disseminating the current version of Understanding the Fundamentals of Epidemiology - an evolving text and other learning materials. This site is maintained at UNC, Chapel Hill.

ERIC Database
Ebsco
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
Index to education journals and resources, including full-text ERIC digests. Access available from the UAMS Library Ebsco databases.

Federal Register
GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

Genetics Home Reference
NLM
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
Genetics Home Reference provides consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variations on human health.

Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
NLM
http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/
Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
NLM & NICHSR
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
Information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health with links to PubMed.

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
AHRQ
http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/
HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. Use HCUPnet (free) to query HCUP data directly and to view ready-to-use tables of commonly requested information.

HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map
Children's Hospital and Harvard MIT
http://www.healthmap.org/
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization).

Household Products Database
National Library of Medicine
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/
This database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients. It can answer questions such as: What chemicals ingredients are in a specific brand? What are the acute and chronic effects of chemical ingredients in a specific brand? Who manufactures a brand and how do I contact them?

John Hopkins OneSource Database
http://www.infoforhealth.org
This source provides one-stop access to 360,000 resources and six separate databases. Quickly search reports, articles, documents, posters, photos and websites.

LactMed
National Library of Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

MedlinePlus
NLM
http://medlineplus.gov/
The consumer health information (CHI) website from the National Library of Medicine. Contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, drug information etc. Also available in Spanish.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Buros Institute
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
Contains critical reviews and descriptive information of English-language standardized tests covering education, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Access available from the UAMS Library, Ebsco databases.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse
DHHS
http://www.guideline.gov/
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

National Library of Medicine Gateway
NLM
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
The NLM Gateways allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the US National Library of Medicine. The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE, NLM Catalog, consumer health databases and more.

National Vital Statistics System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
Compiles information from States on vital events: births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.

Open J-Gate
Informatics India
http://www.openj-gate.com/
Open J-Gate provides access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
CDC
http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp
Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Many historical images in medicine are searchable in this resource.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Resource Conservation & Recovery Act
RCRA
http://www.epa.gov/rcraonline/
The RCRA Online database is designed to enable users to locate documents, including publications and other outreach materials, that cover a wide range of RCRA issues and topics.

Search Autism Data
The National Autistic Society
http://www.autism.org.uk/autismdata
Autism Data is the ideal research tool for anyone researching autism and Asperger syndrome. It lists over 17,000 published research papers, books, articles, videos and other materials.

Summary of CDC Wonder Data Sets
CDC
http://wonder.cdc.gov/datasets.html
Select this site for a brief summary of various CDC data sets. This is an alphabetical list of the data available from the CDC Wonder Site.

The Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Library
http://www.cochrane.org/
A not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. The Cochrane Library contains regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases.

THOMAS
Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/
THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.

TOXMAP
NLM
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp
TOXMAP maps show where TRI chemicals are released on-site into the air, water, and ground, and identify the releasing facilities, single year releases, and chemical release trends over time.

TOXNET
NLM
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

ToxSeek
NLM
http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/
ToxSeek is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different information resources on the World Wide Web.

TRIP Database
Turning Research Into Practice
http://www.tripdatabase.com/AdvancedSearch.html
Includes evidence-based medicine resources, medical image searching, and patient leaflets.

UAMS Library Databases
UAMS
http://www.library.uams.edu/resources/databases.aspx
NOTE: UAMS Site
All databases are available throughout the UAMS campus and to UAMS faculty, students, and staff from off-campus unless noted. Those with an asterisk (*) are open to anyone from any location.

WISER
NLM
http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov
WISER is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. It provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice. Also available for a PDA.