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Compiled by Dr. Edward J Mullen,
Willma & Albert Musher Chair Professor for Life Betterment through
Science & Technology, Columbia University in the City of New York
CINAHL
http://www.cinahl.com/
Citations and abstracts for
articles in nursing and allied health periodicals.
Access: Restricted, annual membership, pay per article
Columbia University LibraryWeb
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/
Gateway to Columbia University's
extensive online resources. In addition the social science electronic
database section provides access to several services providing full-text
articles (e.g., Ingenta Library Gateway).
Access: Restricted, Columbia University affiliation
required
ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a
digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
Access: Free search, some free full text
InfoTrac College Edition Online library
http://www.infotrac-college.com
Provides access to
full-text research and non-research articles online, updated daily,
spanning several recent years.
Access: Free four month access with
purchase of new copy of some texts which contains a pass code
Intute: Social
Sciences
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Intute, for those
bemused by the new name, is an amalgam of 'internet' and 'tutorial' that
has been chosen to replace the rather more straightforward Resource
Discovery Network. SOSIG - the Social Science Information Gateway - was
part of the Resource Discovery Network, and has recently been re-born as
Intute: Social Sciences, which also incorporates another of the former
RDN 'hubs' called Altis. SOSIG users should find the design of the new
service quite familiar, and it continues to provide access to a vast
amount of information across all social science disciplines. Details of
Intute services in other disciplinary fields can be found at
http://www.intute.ac.uk/development/.
Access: free
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal
cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress.
Access: Free online catalog search, some free digital
collections
National Library of Medicine
PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov/
PubMed, a service of the National
Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE
citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and
other related resources. For those not familiar with PubMed, Medline,
and using MeSH you may wish to take the online tutorial at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
(accessible as well from the sidebar
on the PubMed home page.
PubMed Central
A free archive of life sciences journals.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Access: Free access
NIH Library and Literature
Resources
http://www.nih.gov/science/library.html
Access: Limited, some free access
depending on database
OVID Technologies
http://www.ovid.com/
Over 90 commercial databases are available through Ovid. They include
the definitive bibliographic resources in many research areas. For
research in medicine and allied health, Ovid offers MEDLINE® and EMBASE;
in nursing, CINAHL; in bioscience, the BIOSIS databases; for general
reference, Current Contents®, Newspaper Abstracts and Wilson Reader's
Guide Abstracts; and so on in business, humanities, engineering,
agriculture, science & technology, and social sciences.
Access: Restricted, free trials for select
databases each month
ProQuest Direct
http://www.proquest.com/
An interdisciplinary database
representing titles found in ABI INFORM (Global Edition), Periodicals
Abstracts (Research II Edition), and Newspaper Abstracts. Generally
periodicals indexed back to 1971 with full-text back to 1988; newspapers
indexed back to 1989 with full-text back to 1995. More than 2,000
professional, scholarly, trade and general interest periodicals,
including full-text for over 1,000 titles and citations and abstracts
for the others. The database also covers 27 primary and secondary U.S.
newspapers, 11
of which are in full-text.
Access: Restricted
PsycARTICLES
http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
Citations and abstracts for
publications about psychology and related disciplines.
Access: Free search, pay per article
PsycINFO
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/
Citations and abstracts for
publications about psychology and related disciplines.
Access: Restricted to members of the
American Psychological Association, free demo, for more information on
access for individuals:
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/products/individuals.html
Public Libraries
http://www.publiclibraries.com/
List of public libraries in the United
States.
The New York Public Library Online
Collection
Subscribes to over 300 commercially-produced research
databases, including several in the social science and medical fields.
http://www.nypl.org/databases/
Access: Free with membership access card,
membership to The New York Public Library is free for residents of New
York State.
Science Citation Index Expanded: Copyright Institute for Scientific
Information® 2001
http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
Provides access to the Science citation
index expanded from 1900 to the present , Social sciences citation index
from 1956 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975
to the present.
Access: Free searchable database for
journals, but restricted access to articles
Social Care Online (SCO) Extended Abstracts
www.socialcareonline.org
SCO- the database of
the Social Care Institute for Excellence now contains over 100 extended
abstracts of systematic reviews, meta-analyses and scoping reviews
across a wide subject range including social care, health care and
criminal justice. For those wishing to use systematic reviews in their
research or practice these very detailed and structured abstracts
provide thorough coverage of the contents of the reviews and can be
examined by searching the database
using the keyword 'systematic review' and keyword(s) for the subject in
question.
Access: Free
Social Policy &
Practice (SPP)
SPP is the Ovid Technologies database of the month in September - all
people
need to do is go to our website (www.evidencenetwork.org),
click on
Resources, go the Social Policy and Practice page and click on
www.ovid.com.
The link will take you
to the database where a free trial can be booked.
The database is a merger of four UK produced specialist services,
AgeInfo,
Urbadoc, Social Care Online and Planex covering a wide range of social,
health and public policy issues. With over 200,000 references to
predominantly UK research and practice the database is a major addition
to
the resources available to those seeking existing evidence in the social
sciences.
Access: Free trial
Social Sciences Citation Index
Expanded: Copyright Institute for Scientific Information® 2001
http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
Bibliographic information and cited
references in articles in social sciences journals.
Access: Free searchable database for
journals, but restricted access to articles
Social Services Abstracts
http://www-md1.csa.com/factsheets/ssa-set-c.php
Citations and abstracts for research
in social work, human services, and related areas, incl. social welfare,
social policy & community development.
Access: Restricted, demonstration and
trials available
Social Services InfoNet
http://www.socservices.com/
Reviews of current social work books,
links to social work websites, e-journals, e-newsletters, and topical
bibliographies.
Access: Restricted, demonstration and
trials available
Social Work Abstracts
http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/150.jsp?top=2&mid=3&bottom=7&subsection=10
Citations and abstracts for articles
in social work and social welfare periodicals.
Access: Restricted
Social Work Access Network - Social Work Publications
http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/media.html
List of social work related publications
Access: Designated as abstracts only, full text, and
information only
Sociological Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/socioabs-set-c.php
Citations and abstracts for articles
in sociology periodicals.
Access: Restricted, demonstration and
trials available
*SUMSearch
Developed and operated by Bob Badgett, MD. Associate Professor of
Medicine. Director of Clinical Informatics,
Department of
Medicine.
UTHSCSA
(University of Texas Health Science Center) and Linda Levy, MLS, AHIP.
Briscoe Medical
Library
http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
SUMSearch is a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using
the Internet. SUMSearch combines meta-searching and contingency
searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence.
Meta-searching, which is used by from general Internet search engines
such as from Go2Net, Dogpile, and SavvySearch, means simultaneously
searching multiple Internet sites and collating the results into one
page. In addition, SUMSearch adds the idea of contingency searching. If
SUMSearch finds too many ‘hits’ from an Internet site, SUMSearch will
execute more restrictive, contingency searches. For example, if a search
finds 1000 articles at PubMed, SUMSearch may do up to four additional
searches until an optimal number is received. On the other hand, if
SUMSearch finds few hits from an Internet site, it may add a search of
another site. For example, if the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of
Effectiveness (DARE) provides too few systematic reviews, SUMSearch will
add a search for systematic reviews from MEDLINE. In summary, SUMSearch
allows the clinician to enter a query one time, and then will: select
the best Internet sites to search, format the query for each site,
execute contingency searches, then return a single document to the
clinician. SUMSearch removes the burden to the clinician of remembering
details such as which Internet site truncates with the dollar sign and
how to execute a limit for the AIM journals if too many articles are
found at MEDLINE.
TRIP (Turning Research Into
Practice)
www.tripdatabase.com
The TRIP Database searches over 75
sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you
direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based'
material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals
such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc.
Access: Restricted, 3 free searches
allowed for access to articles, guidelines
Access restricted
All other databases have limited access or
free access to the public.
*Descriptions of web sites are either
direct quotes or adaptations of descriptions provided on the respective
sites. It is recommended that access to these sites for Columbia
University officers and students be through the Columbia University
Library web to maximize free access to those sources that are fee based
since Columbia may have a subscription.
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