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Our databases contain a wide variety of medical information resources: journal articles, statistics, images, government information, and more. Browse the alphabetical list of database titles or search for terms that appear in the database descriptions. Click here to see which ones are mobile-compatible.Major Databases
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"P" Databases
The Library has 286 databases and
22 under the letter "P"
1. PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
- Provider: ProQuest
- Contents: abstracts , bibliographies , full text , indexing , links , proceedings , websites
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Includes access to the PAIS Archive.
- Keywords: foreign policy | internet | journal | multicultural | multidisciplinary | peer review | policy | politics | public affairs | social sciences
2. PDQ (Physician Data Query) Cancer Database
- Provider: National Cancer Institute
- Contents: dictionary , free , full text , links , open access , patient education , reference , statistics , websites
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PDQ contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, supportive care, and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 4,000 open and 15,000 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, genetic counseling professionals, and organizations that provide cancer care. Also included: a dictionary of cancer terms and a drug dictionary.
- Keywords: alternative medicine | cancer | clinical trials | open access | physicians | reviews
3. PDR.net
- Provider: PDR.net
- Contents: chemical compounds , chemical structure , CME , free , index , monographs , quick reference
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Partially Open , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: This PDR resource offers full product label information; concise drug monographs; and alerts/recalls/approvals updates. CME credit is available for qualified users who register for it. Patients and physicians should not expect much from the "Patient Resources" tab, however.
- Keywords: drugs | monographs | pharmacology | pharmacy
4. PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database
- Provider: Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
- Contents: abstracts , free , indexing , links , practice guidelines , summaries , websites
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PEDro provides access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials covered in PEDro have been rated for quality.
- Keywords: evidence-based | open access | sports medicine
- Provider: ProQuest
- Contents: abstracts , archive , full text , indexing
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: Contains scanned archival access to more than 500 journals in the social sciences and humanities, affording the user historical access to some of the most respected journals published. Some earlier material is covered, but most content is from the 19th and 20th centuries. Most coverage ends with 1995.
- Keywords: culture | history | homework | humanities | journal | literature | multidisciplinary | psychoanalysis | psychology | research | reviews | social sciences | sociology
- Provider: U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Contents: abstracts , cross reference , images , index , links , open access , reference
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: "PLANTS is a collaborative effort of the USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center (NPDC), the USDA NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC), The USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC), and many other partners... The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references."
- Keywords: agriculture | alternative medicine | botany | database | environmental | federal agencies | Native American | natural sciences | taxonomy | U.S. Government
7. PLOS Hub for Clinical Trials
- Provider: Public Library of Science
- Contents: abstracts , free , full text , indexing , interactive , open access
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: The PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials collects PLoS journal articles that relate to clinical trials. The Hub is a site for researchers to share their views, comment on and rate the research articles posted there, and build a dynamic, interactive community.
- Keywords: clinical evidence | clinical studies | clinical trials | e-publishing | open access
8. PQDT Open-
- Provider: ProQuest
- Contents: abstracts , dissertation , free , full text , monographs , open access , thesis
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: "PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access and make their research available free on the open Web. Open Access Publishing is a new service offered by ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing, and we expect to have many more open access dissertations and theses over time."
- Keywords: digital | dissertations | education | multidisciplinary | open access | publishing
- Provider: Elsevier
- Contents: abstracts , articles , CME , free , full text , interactive , links to full text , mobile access , news , quick reference , summaries
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PracticeUpdate incorporates the former OncologyStat! with other modules on Primary Care, Eye Care, Cardiology, Dermatology and Urology. This resource requires free registration and creation of a brief user profile, which enables content feeds via email according to user interests. There is an editorial board for each discipline. Features for which one can opt in or out by discipline include conference coverage, editors' picks, CME alerts and breaking news.
- Keywords: cancer | cardiology | clinical trials | conference | database | decision support | dermatology | drugs | evidence-based medicine | eye | healthcare policy | mobile access | multidisciplinary | oncology | open access | ophthalmology | physicians | urology
- Provider: EBSCO -- TexShare
- Contents: citations , full text , images
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: Indexes nearly 70 popular elementary school magazines, with all full text articles (about a third of the material indexed) being assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications include: Boys’ Life, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, and Time for Kids. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an image collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
- Keywords: culture | K-12 | kids | multidisciplinary | search
11. Professional Development Collection (TexShare)
- Provider: EBSCO -- TexShare
- Contents: abstracts , career and jobs , full text , indexing
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a specialized collection of nearly 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Titles offered include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, and School Library Journal.
- Keywords: education
12. ProSearch
- Provider: Deep Web Technologies Inc.
- Contents: citations , federated search , links to full text , partial full text , research tools , search engine
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: ProSearch is The TMC Library's federated search tool, a means of querying and retrieving results in seconds from multiple electronic resources with a single search. This is much faster than conducting a search of databases one by one, and results can be investigated by narrowing quickly according to topic and a number of other criteria: subject, date, author etc. Resources will give access to full text according to user authorization. ProSearch is a useful way to begin research on a topic, indicative of which resources may provide more of the information that's most relevant.
- Keywords: biomedical | database | gateway | multidisciplinary | research | science
- Provider: Weizmann Institute of Science
- Contents: abstracts , animation , encyclopedia , free , full text , images , interactive , links , reference , research tools
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: Proteopedia is a free, collaborative (wiki) 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules. The images can be reduced and restored by component with a toggle. Contains an introduction to structural biology and features sections on biomolecules, enzymes, metabolism, gene expression/replication, diseases, immune system, and methods of determining and analyzing structure and sequence.
- Keywords: biology | biomedical research | collaborative | database | DNA | genetics | laboratory | life sciences | mutation | ontology | proteins | research | scientist | structural biology | student | systems biology | wiki
14. PSI|Nature Structural Biology Knowledgebase
- Provider: Nature.com
- Contents: articles , free , full text , illustrations , images , links to full text , news , open access , protocols , research tools , sequencing data
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: The Structural Biology Knowledgebase (SBKB) is a free, comprehensive resource produced in a collaboration between the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG.) The site offers an easy way of keeping up to date on developments by the PSI, and more generally, in the fields of structural genomics and structural biology.
- Keywords: biology | biomedical research | data | data analysis | genome | genomics | laboratory | open access | proteins | research | scientist | structural biology | trend
15. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (TexShare)
- Provider: EBSCO -- TexShare
- Contents: abstracts , full text , indexing
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: Provides full text, abstracts and indexing to approximately 575 publications, about 550 of which are peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered: emotional and behavioral characteristics; psychiatry & psychology; mental processes; anthropology; and observational and experimental methods.
- Keywords: anthropology | behavioral sciences | neurology | psychiatry | psychology
16. PsycINFO (OVID)
- Provider: OVID
- Contents: abstracts , full text , indexing
- Access Levels: Licensed , On-Site Visitor , TMC Academic User
- Descriptions: PsycInfo provides citations with abstracts covering the peer-reviewed literature of psychology and psychiatry, as well as related material in the social, behavioral and health sciences. Provides selective coverage of approximately 2,500 periodicals and 3 million records from books, journals and other publications. Some of the literature cited and abstracted here date back to the early 1800's.
- Keywords: behavioral sciences | healthcare policy | healthcare system | mobile access | neurology | neuroscience | nursing | psychiatry | psychoanalysis | psychology | social sciences | social work
17. PubChem
- Provider: National Library of Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Contents: brief records , chemical compounds , chemical structure , cross reference , free , indexing , links , links to full text , research tools , summaries
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules and is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative; includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases: PCSubstance, PCCompound and PCBioAssay. PCSubstance contains more than 12 million records; PCCompound contains more than 7 million unique structures; and PCBioAssay contains more than 200 bioassays, each containing a number of data points.
- Keywords: bioassay | chemicals | chemistry | inorganic chemistry | NLM | open access | organic chemistry | pharmacology | taxonomy | toxins
18. Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Provider: Public Library of Science
- Contents: articles , free , full text , journals , open access
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , Open Access Journals , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: In 2003, PLoS launched a nonprofit scientific and medical publishing venture that provides scientists and physicians with high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their most important work; under the open access model, PLoS journals are immediately available online, with no charge for access and no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use, as long as the author(s) and source are cited in the manner specified by its Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Keywords: biology | creative commons | genetics | infectious disease | journal | life sciences | medicine | multidisciplinary | open access | research | science | scientist
19. PubMed
- Provider: National Library of Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Contents: abstracts , citations , free , index , links , links to full text , mobile access , reference
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PubMed is the primary database interface for citations from the biomedical literature. It incorporates bibliographic information from MedLine and covers the journal literature of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the preclinical biological sciences. PubMed contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 19 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Articles in many languages are indexed, but all abstracts are in English. Tutorials and quick guides to using PubMed's many search features can be found here. For mobile access to PubMed, see this NLM Web page.
- Keywords: biomedical research | journal | life sciences | medicine | mobile access | multidisciplinary | open access | research | scientist
20. PubMed Central
- Provider: National Library of Medicine
- Contents: archive , articles , free , full text , journals , open access
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , Open Access Journals , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: Digital archive of life sciences journal literature from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). With PubMed Central, NLM took the lead in preserving and maintaining unrestricted access to electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with print biomedical literature. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of being a world-class library of the digital age, a repository of knowledge. The National Library of Medicine believes that providing free, unrestricted access to the material in PubMed Central is the best way to ensure the durability and utility of the archive as technology evolves.
- Keywords: allied health | digital | journal | medicine | open access
- Provider: National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine
- Contents: abstracts , bibliographic records , citations , free , index , research tools , search engine
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: At this PubMed page aimed at the clinician, special search filtering helps the user find citations to clinical studies, systematic reviews or medical genetics studies.
- Keywords: clinical studies | clinical trials | evidence-based medicine | genetics | physicians | systematic reviews
22. PubMed Health
- Provider: National Library of Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Contents: dictionary , free , full text , links , open access , reference , summaries
- Access Levels: Fee-Based Member , Free , Non-Registered TMC User , On-Site Visitor , Online Visitor , Open Access , TMC Academic User , TMC Non-Academic User
- Descriptions: PubMed Health helps consumers (and other users) to find evidence-based information on the effectiveness of treatment from a large, searchable and browse-able collection of systematic reviews from such authoritative sources as the Cochrane Collaboration and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- Keywords: consumer health | decision support | evidence-based | evidence-based medicine | federal agencies | healthcare | medicine | NLM | open access | reviews | systematic reviews
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