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Abstracts in Social Gerontology

This bibliographic database makes essential age-related content readily available to researchers of gerontology. Those interested in the field of geriatrics will benefit from this resource, which includes records covering psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas relevant to geriatric studies.
 

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Academic Search Ultimate

Academic Search Ultimate offers an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.

With thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America, Academic Search Ultimate provides an enormous advantage to students seeking a broader, more global perspective in their research.

Academic Search Ultimate includes more than 67,000 videos from the Associated Press, which appear in a carousel in the result list. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research.

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Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online (AVON) is the largest academic streaming video collection available to libraries. This new resource is provided through the University of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) consortium of libraries. 

Academic Video Online is hosted on the Alexander Street platform and includes more than 85,000 streaming titles across a broad range of subjects. The collection features documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, tutorials and demonstrations curated for educational use. 

Key Features 

  • Extensive subject coverage, including Nursing, Counseling and Therapy, Health Policy, Rehabilitation Therapy, Science, and more. 

  • On-demand streaming is available any time, on or off campus. 

  • Access for all UMB students, faculty, and staff. 

  • Create playlists and embed them in your LMS. 

  • Integrate assessment and pedagogical tools within videos. 

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AccessMedicine

AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, with essential information accessible anywhere. It provides access to medical textbooks including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, and Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basic of Therapeutics. It also provides access to practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, and has a variety of self-assessment tools including LANGE textbooks.

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AccessPharmacy

AccessPharmacy provides online access to 29 titles for pharmacy education. It includes lab tests, calculators, and organ system quizzes. Users can select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks or search across online references.

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AccessPhysiotherapy

AccessPhysiotherapy (APT) is devoted exclusively to the study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online physiotherapy resource integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, and a unique cadaver dissection tool.

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AgeLine

Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), this database contains citations and abstracts to books, journals, research reports, consumer guides and book chapters.

The references in AgeLine come from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals, aging-related dissertations from UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and descriptions of videos. It covers topics such as government-sponsored programs for elders, healthcare costs and policy, elder care, financial and retirement planning, and fitness.

1962 to present. Updated weekly.

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AHFS DI (American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information)

Written and published by pharmacists and reviewed by over 500 experts, AHFS DI is the most comprehensive evidence-based source of drug information complete with therapeutic guidelines and off-label uses. Lexi-Comp ONLINE gives you the ability to search AHFS DI, as well as link to this information directly from a Lexi-Comp or AHFS Essentials drug monograph.

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AMA Manual of Style

The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing. The site has relaunched with a brand new look and feel and enhanced functionality. Our aim is to ensure the site continues to deliver the highest quality content, in an easy-to-use way, helping you find the information you need to produce well-organized and authoritative articles and research papers.
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BrowZine
 
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Business Source Complete

With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is an essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

Business Source Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 67,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics.

The Company View component of Business Source Complete provides detailed company information for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies. Data includes financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information and more.

With the Company View Content in Context feature, users gain a broader and deeper approach to investigating a company through contextual access to related information including:

Case studies
Industry profiles
SWOT analyses
Books/Monographs
Articles from business journals, magazines and trade publications
Market research reports
Product reviews
News articles
Country reports

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

This comprehensive research database provides full text for nursing and allied health journals indexed in CINAHL Plus. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Many of the most popular full-text journals are available with no embargo. In addition, this resource offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

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ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, health care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The Web site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
 

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Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.

The Cochrane Library consists of the following databases: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL),  and the Cochrane Methodology Register (Methodology Register.

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Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest)
 
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Counseling and Therapy in Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts

Criminal Justice Abstracts is the leading bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 476 journals.

Subjects Covered

  • Criminology
  • Criminal justice
  • Criminal investigation
  • Criminal law and procedure
  • Corrections and prisons
  • Forensic sciences and investigation
  • History of crime
  • Police and policing
  • Probation and parole
  • Substance abuse and addiction
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Dissertations and Theses

ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global (PQDT Global) simplifies searching for dissertations and theses via a single access point to explore an extensive, trusted collection of 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations. 
 

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EMBASE

Embase is a valuable resource for discovering biomedical evidence within published, peer-reviewed literature, in-press publications and conference abstracts. A search in Embase delivers the most relevant abstracts from the biomedical literature based on deep, full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device information. The Embase database covers over 25 million indexed records and more than 7,600 currently indexed peer-reviewed journals from the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. All MEDLINE records produced by the National Library of Medicine are included, as well over 5 million records not covered on MEDLINE.

Embase’s comprehensive journal and conference coverage, together with in-depth drug indexing and daily updates including Articles in Press, supports tracking and precise retrieval of drug and disease information.

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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center as well as educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.

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F. A. Davis PT Collection

The F.A. Davis PT Collection on AccessPhysiotherapy brings you a comprehensive online PT resource that covers the entire spectrum of physical therapy.

What makes the F.A. Davis PT Collection unique?

Contains—29 F.A. Davis physical therapy references, fully searchable and continuously updated, including Dutton’s Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention and O’Sullivan, Physical Rehabilitation.

Physical Therapy Cases—A wide range of cases designed to help physical therapy students learn in the context of real patients by applying the PT principles to real-life situations. 

Extensive Video Library—A robust library of over 400+ videos from leaders in the PT field designed to teach exercise and rehabilitation techniques, kinetics, and physical therapy interventions.

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Facts & Comparisons Online 4.0

Facts & Comparisons includes Drug Facts and Comparisons ®, Drug Interaction FactsTM, The Review of Natural Products® and Med Facts: Patient Information. Drug Facts and Comparisons is a comprehensive drug information compendium. Drug Interaction Facts includes more than 1,200 interactions monographs detailing possible drug interactions. The Review of Natural Products provides detailed information about natural products; including their botany, history, chemistry, pharmacology, medicinal uses, toxicology, and patient information. Med Facts: Patient Information Hand-outs is designed for patient education, counseling and drug therapy management.

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Family Studies Abstracts

With bibliographic records spanning a wide range of topics revolving around family dynamics, Family Studies Abstracts is an excellent source for researchers interested in learning more about the many facets of this discipline. Scholars within this field are treated to a wide array of unique content, as well as highly regarded works made popular in the realm of family studies.
 

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Food Chemicals Codex Online

The Food Chemicals Codex is the internationally recognized compendium of purity and quality standards for food ingredients.
 

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Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
 

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GreenFILE

This complimentary research database provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. This free research database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 806,000 records and open access full text for more than 12,000 records.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)

A database of testing/evaluation instruments in health, the psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Identifies measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, and program evaluation. 1985 to present with many earlier measures. Updated quarterly.

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Health Source - Consumer Edition

This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to more than 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times and many others. Also included in this database is searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and 110 full-text health reference books.
 

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This full-text database offers a trusted source of nursing and allied health literature. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition covers an array of relevant topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and many more.
 

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ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

An international consortium more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

ICPSR collaborates with a number of funders, including U.S. statistical agencies and foundations, to create thematic data collections and data stewardship and research projects.

ICPSR's educational activities include the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, a comprehensive curriculum of intensive courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. ICPSR also leads several initiatives that encourage use of data in teaching, particularly in undergraduate instruction.

ICPSR-sponsored research focuses on the emerging challenges of digital curation and data science. ICPSR leads or takes part in many policy initiatives and grant-funded activities that result in publications that address issues related to data stewardship. ICPSR researchers also examine substantive issues related to our collections, with an emphasis on historical demography and the environment.

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International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)

Contains pharmaceutical literature, including clinical drug information, pharmacy practice, and legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy; toxicity; technology; pharmacy practice; biopharmaceuticals; and ethics, as related to pharmaceutical science and practice. Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 1970 to present. Updated monthly.

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Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a peer reviewed scientific video journal. JoVE publishes scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today; poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.

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JSTOR - Journal Archives

Scanned images of full text journal articles from the late 1800's to the late 1900's.

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LGBTQ+ Source

This database provides full-text coverage for the most important literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Offering a variety of scholarly, popular and regional resources, it includes journals, books, magazines and more.
 

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

 This database provides indexing and abstracting for key library and information science journals, books, research reports and more. It is EBSCO's intention to provide access to this resource on a continual basis. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 core journals and more than 80 selective journals. Coverage in this free research database extends as far back as the mid-1960s. LISTA also includes author profiles and a robust thesaurus.

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Masterfile Premier

Provides full text for approximately 1,840 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for approximately 2,810 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.

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MEDLINE EBSCO (1809 to the present)

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

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MEDLINE Ovid ALL (1946 to current with Daily Update)

Updated daily, MEDLINE on Ovid offers access to bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,500 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.

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MedOne Neurosurgery

From Thieme Publishers, a comprehensive source of neurosurgical content.  It contains: 186 e-books, 418 procedures, 225 cases, 85,600 images, 1,102 videos and the Greenberg Rapid Review (8th ed.) training center for self-testing.

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Micromedex 2.0

A collection of databases which support clinical decision-making and high-quality patient care by providing drug information, including drug interactions, drug comparisons, and drug ID. Micromedex® is available free to current faculty, staff and students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Through special agreements, School of Pharmacy preceptors may also access the system.

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Military and Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 260 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracting for 430 journals and periodicals. 

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National Newspapers Core & Baltimore Sun

The newspapers in this collection are the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Los Angeles Times. Refer to database for coverage dates.

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NatMed

The research and editorial team at Therapeutic Research Center put their drug information and literature evaluation skills to work to produce a highly objective, evidence-based resource designed for healthcare professionals. It  is made up of multiple databases. The core database contains the detailed, evidence-based monographs on individual natural ingredients (e.g., glucosamine, echinacea, etc). There are currently almost 1200 monographs on these individual natural ingredients.

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Nursing and Allied Health Reference Source

Nursing & Allied Health Reference Source is a new resource for researchers studying nursing, allied health, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation and other related fields.

Nursing & Allied Health Reference Source provides evidence-based care sheets, clinical reviews, exercise sheets, skills with in-context images and videos, quick lessons and research instruments. 

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OMIM : Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources.

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OneSearch

OneSearch provides a fast, streamlined search of 50 databases and the Library catalog through a single search box. It searches for multiple types of library resources including scholarly articles, books, reviews, images and more. It does not search every database that the HSHSL has access to.

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Pivot-RP

Pivot-RP (research professional) is a comprehensive, user-friendly database that helps researchers find funding for all disciplines and project types. It includes opportunities from federal, private, and international sources, including grants, fellowships, and awards. Users can:

  • Search and filter funding opportunities by keyword, discipline, applicant type, and more

  • Save searches and receive customized weekly email alerts

  • Track individual opportunities and share them with colleagues

  • Explore awarded grants and calls for papers

  • Identify potential collaborators via researcher profiles connected to ORCID, ISNI, or Web of Science

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Policy Commons

Policy Commons contains the world’s largest directory of IGOs,
NGOs, think tanks, and research centers, with over 3.4 million publications.

Find research and reports addressing urban affairs, climate change, agricultural and environmental sciences, economics, social justice, gender equality, international development, sustainability, public health, law policy, public policy, and more.

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Professional Development Collection

This database provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Contents include: nearly 500 full-text journals, more than 300 peer-reviewed, full-text journals, more than 750 abstracted and indexed journals, more than 500 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals, and more than 200 educational reports.
 

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Project Muse

MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content.