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ARTICLE DATABASES
 Sciences
   
Journal Citation Reports (SCI JCR)
   
Web of Science: ISI Citation Indexes
Includes Science and Social Science Citation Index; User Guide (PDF)
 Social Sciences
   
Business and Industry
   
ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS)
Search by Eric Document # for full-text
   
ERIC (through FirstSearch)
   
Sociological Abstracts
 General
   
Expanded Academic ASAP
   
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
   
PapersFirst
   
Proceedings First Database
   
ProQuest Direct
Citations/abstracts many with full text and full images.
BOOKS
    
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
   
Book Review Digest
   
Books in Print
   
Books@Ovid
Access to 54 major texts and handbooks in primary care, nursing, and internal medicine.
    
HELIX
Search the Health Sciences Libraries' online catalog for book, journal, and multimedia holdings.
   
Stat!Ref
31 online texts, including USPDI and Merck Manual
 Textbooks
    
Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
Intellectual property rules and practices in the digital age.
   
Harrison's Online
    
Research Methods Knowledge Base, 2nd Edition
   
Scientific American Medicine Online
    
Virtual Hospital Multimedia Textbooks
Collection of online textbooks from University of Iowa Virtual Hospital
 Handbooks
    
CIA World Factbook
   
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:DSM IV (through Stat!Ref)
   
Mosby's Drug Consult (through Stat!Ref)
    
Occupational Outlook Handbook
   
USP DI Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (through Stat!Ref)
   
USP DI Updates Online
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 Dictionaries
    
Acronym Finder
    
Biographical Dictionary
    
BioTech Life Science Dictionary
    
Merriam-Webster Language Info Zone
    
Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
    
OneLook Dictionaries
Search over 840 online dictionaries
   
Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)
    
Roget's Thesaurus
    
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations
   
Stedman's Medical Dictionary (through Stat!Ref)
   
Webster's Unabridged
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
    
WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
 Encyclopedias
   
AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
   
Britannica Online
    
Infonation
A United Nations publication
    
Information Please Almanacs
   
World Almanac and Book of Facts
   
World Book Encyclopedia
 Medical Atlases
    
Human Anatomy Online
 Style Manuals
    
APA Publication Manual Format Guidelines
    
Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
    
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
    
Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
DIRECTORIES
    
PubList.com
   
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
 Business
    
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
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Telephone Directories on the Web
    
Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information
    
Zip Code Lookup
 Maps
    
MapQuest
GOVERNMENT SITES
 Federal
    
ClinicalTrials.gov
    
MEDLINEplus
Consumer health resources
OTHER SITES
   
Biographical Information through LEXIS-NEXIS
   
Biography Index
   
Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who
    
Chemicool Periodic Table of Elements
   
FACTS.com
Events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.
    
FindLaw
Law, lawyers, and legal resources
    
Free Translations
Translate text from several European languages into English.
    
MegaConverter
   
Micromedex
Pharmacology information. Restricted to Norris Medical and Wilson Dental Libraries computers.
    
NCBI/NLM Journal Browser (Abbreviations)
    
Public Agenda Online
Source for public opinion and policy analysis
USC RESOURCES
    
ISD Electronic Information Resources
ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
    
GuideStar- The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
Database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations