1. Key Databases in the Health Sciences

• CINAHL 1982-present (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
  Indexes over 1200 journals and publications related to nursing, physical therapy, health education, social service/healthcare, occupational therapy, and related disciplines. Provides online abstracts for more than 800 of these titles. Full text coverage from 1995 to the present is available for selected journals. CINAHL also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials in nursing. To use online vocabulary mapping, select "Tools" from the CINAHL main search page.) (Print counterpart: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, 1956-present, Ref9 Index Z6675.N7 C8)
• EMBASE 1980-present
  EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, produced by Elsevier Science, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.
• Health Reference Center Academic (last 4 years plus current year)
  Health Reference Center Academic integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health, and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books into an easy to use database. Approximately 195 periodicals are indexed and full text is provided for more than 125, including 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals. Selective indexing for articles in approximately 1500 additional general interest titles is included.
• MEDLINE 1966-present
  Widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources in the areas of allied health, physical therapy, health education, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 9.5 million records from more than 3900 journals are indexed. Use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary to determine appropriate search terms. Vocabulary mapping also available online. Select "tools" from the MEDLINE main search page. Read more about MeSH at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

  (Non-NYU users may access MEDLINE and related databases free via the www at: PubMed http://pubmed.gov
  OLD MEDLINE (citations from 1958-1965) is searchable via the NLM gateway at: http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
  

  (Print counterparts: Index Medicus 1960-1996, Ref9 Index Z6660.I42, and International Nursing Index, 1966-present, Ref9 Index Z6675.N7 I5)

2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

See also CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Health Reference Center Academic (Section 1) and CAB Health Section 6

• RG#83: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Alt Healthwatch
  http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=ehost&defaultdb=awh
  Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles, from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed reports, proceedings as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
• Search MEDLINE for research articles in alternative medicine via this link to MEDLINEplus: alternative medicine at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alternativemedicine.html (scroll to "Search MEDLINE for recent research articles on Alternative Medicine")

3. Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health

• AGELINE, 1978-present
  Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) AGELINE provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.
• e-psyche 1998-present
  Designed to meet the information research needs of professionals, students and the general public in the field of psychology and related behavioral disciplines. Covers over 4000 journals, newsletters, dissertations, preprints, web sites, technical reports, and conference proceedings.
• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) 1985-present, with many earlier measures
  Access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) from a variety of fields including public health, nursing, psychology, human resources, sociology, and communication. Records include publication information, abstracts, and references. Records are indexed according to the MeSH subject headings and the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (Ref6 and Ref9 Z695.1 P7 T48 1997).
• Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) 1989 to present
  Frequently referred to as "Buros," after its longtime editor the late Oscar Buros, this series compiles original reviews of and citations to articles about many commercially available educational, psychological, and vocational tests. (Print counterpart: Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY), 1941 to present. Bobst Ref6 Z5814.P8 R93; [latest edition at Bobst Ref 6 desk]
• "Population Studies" category at Project J-STOR,
  Link via Bobst Web at http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/listjournal (nyu.edu account users only) Offers a searchable archive of a collection of full-text electronic journals related to Demography and Family Planning.
• PsycINFO 1887-present
  Covers over 1300 journals worldwide in psychology and related disciplines, as well as books and book chapter in English. Covers many health-related fields, including all aspects of mental health, nursing, health administration, pharmacology, rehabilitation, and epidemiology. Articles cited cover topics such as the behavioral causes and effects of physical disorders, health promotion and disease prevention, behavioral aspects of care, behavioral treatments for physical illness, linguistics and language. Heavy emphasis on literature related to substance abuse, addiction, and rehabilitation. Also covers cognitive, vocational, and psychosocial rehabilitation, speech-language pathology, ergonomics, occupational therapy, health education, counseling and guidance. Uses the subject headings (descriptors) in the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (Ref6 and Ref9 Z695.1 P7 T48 1997 (Print counterpart: Psychological Abstracts, 1927-present, Ref6 Index Z7202.P9)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) 1956-present
  International multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral, and related sciences. In addition to the over 1700 social sciences journals, relevant social sciences items are indexed from over 3400 natural and physical sciences journals. Some of the subject categories included that are relevant to health science researchers are: special education, family studies, geriatrics & gerontology, health policy & services, language & linguistics, legal medicine, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, public health, rehabilitation, biomedical social issues, substance abuse, and women's studies. The Web of Science databases have the ability to link to relevant prior research and perform cited reference searches to track subsequent research. Link to Help at: http://webofscience.com/help/helpsrch.html#Full_Search
  (Print counterpart: Social Sciences Citation Index,1966-present. Ref6 Index Z7161.S65)

4. Bioethics

• BIOETHICSLINE 1973-2000 (closed file; subsequent citations will go into MEDLINE)
  Formerly a separate database produced jointly by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the database indexed English-language materials related to professional ethics and the ethical aspects of public health, professional-patient relationships, reproduction, genetic research, organ donation, death and dying, and other biomedical topics. (Print counterpart: Bibliography of Bioethics, 1975-2000, Ref9 Index Z6675.E8.B34n).

  BIOETHICSLINE© records for journal and newspaper articles, court decisions, and laws have been transferred to the MEDLINE component of PubMed, and the Bioethics Information Retrieval Project adds records on an ongoing basis. Using the "Bioethics Subset" strategy retrieves records that contain bioethics-related free text works or MeSH Headings, records from journals that regularly publish articles on ethical issues, and all records created or modified by Kennedy Institute of Ethics indexers. Combine the term bioethics with the delimiter [sb].

  Example: euthanasia AND bioethics [sb].

  To review the structure of the bioethics subset, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets/bioethics_strategy.html

5. Consumer Health/Patient Information

See Health Reference Center Academic and CINAHL, Section 1, Periodical Abstracts Section 11 and Nutrition Section 13.

• CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
  Via the www at: http://www.chid.nih.gov/
  A bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.

6. Diseases

See also: CINAHL, Health Reference Center Academic, and MEDLINE (Section 1), Link to RG/44 Library Research Guide for HIV/AIDS Information at: http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg44.html
Specialized databases for AIDS and cancer are shown below.

• AIDSLINE (AIDS Information Online) 1980-2000 (closed file; subsequent citations will go into MEDLINE)
  Contains bibliographic citations (with some abstracts) to articles from more than 3000 journals published worldwide, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books, and audiovisual materials. Focuses on the biomedical, epidemiologic, healthcare administration, oncologic, and social and behavioral sciences issues related to HIV infections and AIDS.
• AIDSearch 1980-present
  Access to three databases on health policy issues, covering AIDS-related research including information about clinical trials and the substances being tested: 1. AIDSDRUGS: a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in companion AIDSTRIALS database. 2. AIDSLINE (see above) and 3. AIDSTRIALS (AIDS and clinical TRIALS) includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases.
• CancerLit 1975-present
  Produced by the National Cancer Institute (http://www.nci.nih.gov/),Contains bibliographic citations (most with abstracts) relating to all aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy; chemical, viral and other causative agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth factor studies. Some of the information in CancerLit is derived from the MEDLINE database. Approximately 200 core journals contribute a large percentage of the records. Other information is drawn from proceedings of meetings, government reports, symposia reports, theses, and selected monographs.
• CAB Health 1973-present
  Brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases -- the human health and diseases-related information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS and the complete file from the Public Health and Tropical Medicine Database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases. Dating back to 1973, CAB HEALTH provides a substantially deeper subject coverage of information relating to human health and communicable diseases than many other sources currently available. CAB HEALTH provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of non-English-language journals, developing country information, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, and other difficult to obtain material. CAB Health covers the following subjects: AIDS and HIV opportunistic infections, communicable diseases, community and public health, human nutrition, medicinal and poisonous plants, parasitology and parasitic diseases, tropical medicine and diseases.
• NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH) Late 1960s-present
  Link via the www at: http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/Commonly referred to as ETOH,the most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH contains over 110,000 records and is accessed by both researchers and clinicians worldwide. Includes abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Updated monthly.

7. Drug Information

Drug information in the journal literature is indexed in MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Health Reference Center Academic and other databases in Section 1. Clinical reference sources are listed below.

• STAT!REF
  Full-text medical and drug information for healthcare professionals. Includes more than 25 medical reources such as Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment, DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision 2000), USP DI Vols 1 and 2, AHFS Drug Information and more.
• Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
  Searchable electronic text version of this reference book. Search free text to locate your topic.

8. Evidence Based Healthcare
See Research Guide 72, Bobst Research Guide for Evidence-Based Health Care at: http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg72.html

9. Health Education
The best indexing coverage for Health Education is found in MEDLINE, EMBASE (Section 1) and PsycINFO (Section 3). See also: CINAHL, Health Reference Center Academic (Section 1) and ERIC below.

• CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
  Via the www at: http://www.chid.nih.gov/
  A bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
• ERIC (1966 to present)
  Provides citations to educational materials indexed by the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center, including articles appearing in more than 700 journals and hundreds of significant research reports (federal, state and local) covering all aspects of the field of education. Includes abstracts. Print counterparts: Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), 1969 to present (for journal articles); Resources in Education (RIE), 1966 to present (for research reports). Bobst Ref6. Note: Copies of ERIC research reports are available on microfiche in the Microform Center, Level A.

10. History of Medicine

• Bibliography of the History of Medicine via MEDLINE 1966-present
  MEDLINE now includes the previous Histline files [Citations to literature about the history of health-related professions, sciences, specialties, individuals, institutions, drugs, and diseases in all part of the world and all historic periods.]. Perform a MEDLINE search by topic [e.g., tuberculosis] and then use the "limit" icon to limit by publication type to "historical article."

  (Non-NYU users may access MEDLINE and related databases free via the www at: http://pubmed.gov In the Pubmed version of MEDLINE, search by topic [e.g., tuberculosis] limited to publication type historical article by typing the following command: tuberculosis AND historical article [pt]
  (Print counterpart: Bibliography of the History of Medicine 1970-1993 Ref9 Index Z6660.B582)
  

• History of Science, Technology & Medicine 1975-present
  From the menu on the left part of the screen, select "Change Files," and scroll to select History of Science, Technology, & Medicine ( nyu.edu account users only)
  The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine file describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated annually.
• Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1996-present
  This is not an index, but an online searchable version of one journal: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Full text, online edition at Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/ (nyu.edu account users only)

11. News and Current Events

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  A version of the LEXIS-NEXIS database specially tailored for universities and colleges. Nearly 5,000 publications on the service span news, financial, medical, and legal information, including newspapers, medical and health journals, FDC Newsletters, JCAH Perspectives , JCAHO Quality Review Bulletin, and the New England Journal of Medicine. The vast majority of the titles on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe are available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form. Also includes biographical information from the American Medical Information's Physician & Surgeons Database (Select "Reference," then "Biographical Information")
• Periodical Abstracts/Proquest 1986-present
  A multidisciplinary resource for research on contemporary topics or for the beginning stages of a research project. Offers citations from a wide range of English language academic journals, news magazines, and full text for the latest six months of New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

12. Nursing
See also: Key Indexes in the Health Sciences (Section 1) Social Sciences Citation Index, PsycINFO (Section 3). [A list of Reference Books in nursing and allied health are listed in Research Guide 33/Nursing & Allied Health at: http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg33.html ]

• Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library--Registry of Nursing Research
  (Note: NYU has a site license; select "search it") The Registry of Nursing Research from the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (a division of Sigma Theta Tau International). An index of over 11,000 English-language studies contributed by nurse researchers internationally. Research findings are indexed by variables or phenomenon of study as well as by author, title, or keywords provided by the researchers. Studies are not peer reviewed for quality. It is up to the individual registrant to provide enough information about her or his work to allow the users to make their own determinations of relevance and quality.

13. Nutrition

See also: Health Reference Center Academic (Section 1), Alternative Medicine (Section 2), Periodical Abstracts (Section 11) and Library Research Guide for Food Studies and Nutrition at http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg43.html

• AGRICOLA 1984-present
  Citations and abstracts of literature relating to agriculture, food and nutrition, food service management, natural resources and pollution, consumer protection and home economics.
• Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) 1969-present
  Indexes approximately 1800 journals and many other types of literature (books, conference proceedings, theses, patents, standards, legislation, etc.), published in over 40 languages, with the items relevant to the food sector.

14. Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Rehabilitation

The literature of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy is primarily indexed in MEDLINE and CINAHL (Section 1). See also Indexes for Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health (Section 3) and consider:

• NARIC's REHABDATA Literature Database (1956-present)
  Link via the www at http://www.naric.com/search/rhab/index.html
  Produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, the leading literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The main file, 1993-present, describes over 12,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The types of documents described in REHABDATA include research reports, books, journal articles, and audiovisual materials. For historical records, search the REHABDATA Backfile: 1956 - 1992.
• Krakauer, L.J., ed. The Year Book of Sports Medicine. 1981-present
  Ref9 Index RC1200.Y4
  Provides abstracts of scholarly articles with substantive editorial comments. Subjects include exercise physiology and medicine, biomechanics, sports injuries, pediatric sports medicine, women in sports, and athletic training.
• Pandolf, K.B.,ed. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. 1973-present
  Ref 9 Index RC1200.E94
  Reviews current research concerning behavioral, biochemical, biomechanical, clinical, physiological and rehabilitational topics involving exercise science.

15. Science--Interdisciplinary

See also: RG14/Indexes in Science and Technology at: http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg14.html

• Biological Abstracts 1985-present
  World's largest index for the life sciences includes citations and abstracts from the bioscientific literature in 6000 journals, proceedings, reports, books and book chapters in biology, clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry, instrumentation, and methods.
  (Print counterpart: Biological Abstracts, 1926-present, Ref 9 Index QH301.B45)
• Dissertation Abstracts 1861-present
  Indexes doctoral dissertations in all disciplines which were completed at accredited North American colleges and universities, and some foreign universities. This database includes abstracts only for dissertations completed since 1980. Can be searched by author, discipline, subject keywords, and institution. Also available in Microform.
• Current Contents
  Link via: http://isiknowledge.com (nyu.edu account users only)
  An index of journal issues on or before their publication date. Provides tables of contents with complete bibliographic information and author abstracts. Search profiles can be created and saved and run against weekly issues of Current Contents, which enable researchers to quickly retrieve and evaluate new articles which may relate to their areas of research. Also features multiple access fields for tailoring search profiles for increased retrieval. Covers journals in the following areas: Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (ABES), Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Clinical Medicine (CM), Life Sciences (LS), Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (PCES), Engineering, Computing & Technology (ECT), Arts & Humanities (AH).
• Science Citation Index 1945-present
  Multidisciplinary index that includes acoustics, general and internal medicine, medical informatics, nutrition/dietetics, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, rehabilitation, and public, environmental & occupational health. The Web of Science databases have the ability to link to relevant prior research and perform cited reference searches to track subsequent research.

  (Print counterpart: Science Citation Index, 1964-present, Ref9 Index Z7401.S365)

16. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

The literature of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is primarily indexed in MEDLINE, (Section 1), PsycINFO (Section 3), and Science Citation Index above. Also consider:

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) 1973 - present
  Coverage of over 1300 journals focusing on the nature and use of language in three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology. The database consists of over 285,000 bibliographic records with abstracts citing journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media. English abstracts of publications in over 30 languages.

17. Statistics

[link to a more comprehensive library guide to finding statistics at: http://library.nyu.edu/research/govdocs/statdat.html ]

• FedStats Link via the web at: http://www.fedstats.gov/
  FedStats is the new window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 Federal government agencies.
• Statistical Universe (early 1960's-present)
  Abstracts and index to U.S. & state governments and privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources (Print counterparts in REF6: American Statistics Index [ASI], Statistical Reference Index [SRI], and Index to International Statistics [ IIS]).