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  •  Databases are available outside the library building only to UMB faculty/staff who are in the UMB payroll system, currently enrolled students (except those in the School of Law*), and UMMC employees who have a faculty appointment within one of the UMB schools. A UMID and password are required to access the databases from off campus.
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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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NCBI Bookshelf

Provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
 

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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide. Our website includes resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.
 

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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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OAISTER: Union Catalog of Digital Resources

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.
 

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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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PEDro : Physiotherapy Evidence Database

PEDro is a free database of over 34,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice
 

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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.

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PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES® database has full text peer-reviewed articles published by APA and affiliated journals. With current journal coverage and historical content dating back more than a century, this esteemed collection provides access to the full spectrum of research in the field and is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and educators.
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Psychiatry Online

PsychiatryOnline.org (POL) offers the most comprehensive online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals, and professional development tools. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development.
 

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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals, including Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Mental Health, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology and many more. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection also provides particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
 

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PsycINFO

The database contains citations and abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, technical reports and other documents. Covers literature in psychology and the behavioral sciences as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines. Updated monthly. 1887 to the present.

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PsycTESTS

Updated monthly, this repository for ready-to-use tests and measures from the APA features instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more.

International in scope, this resource provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. PsycTESTS is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of interest to a variety of fields, and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.

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PubChem

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
 

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PubMed (1809 to the present)

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's Medline database that provides abstracts and indexing for about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries and includes additional older citations and out of scope citations from Medline journals.

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PubMed Central - Journal Archives

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
 

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Race Relations Abstracts

Offering a fully digitalized archive, Race Relation Abstracts contains over 77,000 records going back to 1903. Carefully selected from the most important publications relating to this discipline, sources includeRace & Class, Ethnic & Racial Studies and Journal of Social Issues.
 

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RAND State Statistics
 
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Regional Business News

This robust database provides ultimate coverage for full-text business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canada. Whether searching for information about presidential candidates, franchise restaurants, the retail industry, business planning, or political participation, Regional Business News will cover the story. Content for Regional Business News is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US and more. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires with full-text content coverage spanning more than 22 years.
 

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SafetyLit

SafetyLit is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, bibliographic database of scholarly journal articles, technical reports, and theses concerning all issues of safety arising from many professional disciplines and nations.

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ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is a database of full text journals. The full text of over 300 Elsevier titles is available. ScienceDirect also allows you to search by topic within its journal collection. However, full text is only available for those journals to which the Library subscribes.

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SciFinder-n

SciFinder is a research tool providing chemical and related scientific information. It retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) as well as the MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine. In addition to patent and journal references, CAS's REGISTRY database provides information about organic and inorganic compounds and sequences. CASREACT provides chemical reaction information. Chemical source and registry information is provided through the CHEMCATS and CHEMLIST databases.

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Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in   the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts   and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and   visualize research.
 

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Social Work Abstracts

Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Social Work Abstracts  provides indexing and abstracts for over 500 journals, dating back to 1965, dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

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SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. In addition to providing access to 665 full-text journals, it also contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. 

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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

An online resource based on Dr. Stephen M. Stahl's (University of California San Diego, School of Medicine) books. Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Online presents the fundamentals of psychopharmacology and includes the ability to search within Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Essential Neuropharmacology, the Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide plus a Prescriber's Guide, illustrations and tables to download, drug interaction information, and more.

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STS Cardiothoracic Surgery Consult
 
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Symptom Media

Symptom Media’s behavioral health clinical training titles are guided by the DSM, incorporating the symptoms into a concise vignette that promotes critical thinking, allows for discussion and analysis of symptoms that creates the optimal learning experience.

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Teacher Reference Center

This is an index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

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TRIP Database

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content.  As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

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Ulrichsweb - Periodicals Directory

Ulrichsweb.com is a source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types - academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

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UMB Digital Archive

The UM Digital Archive is a service of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) that collects, preserves, and distributes the academic works of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. It is a place that digitally captures the historical record of the campus.

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UpToDate

UpToDate® is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. UpToDate covers more than 11,800 topic reviews in 25 medical specialties More than 7,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based recommendations that are proven to improve patient care and quality.
 

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UpToDate Lexidrug

This database is updated daily and provides full text access to point-of-care information from 13 clinical databases and 4 clinical applications. Databases include Lexi-Drugs, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs, and Geriatric Lexi-Drugs as well as Clinician's Guides to Diagnosis, Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine. Clinical Applications include drug interactions, tablet & capsule identification, medical calculations and patient advisory leaflets. The Databases and Clinical Applications correspond to the series of handbooks published by Lexi-Comp.

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UpToDate Lexidrug for Dentistry

Lexidrug Dentistry includes information on drugs and natural therapeutics, oral diseases, implants, endodontics, clinical periodontics, oral surgery for the general dentist, treatment of medically compromised patients, and in-office medical emergencies. Also included are drug monographs for more than 1600 drugs, as well as drug identification and drug interactions and instant dental alerts for selected medications.

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Urban Studies Abstracts

Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

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USP–NF Online

The USP-NF contains the pharmacopeial standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, biologics, compounded preparations, medical devices, dietary supplements, and other therapeutics.
 

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Violence and Abuse Abstracts

Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

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VisualDX

VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety.

Clinicians can quickly build a custom differential diagnosis across general medicine or use the powerful search function to access patient-specific clinical information and medical images.

VisualDx is a tool for front line healthcare workers, it provides a curated, peer-reviewed approach for quality patient care.

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Worldcat

A catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.