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Relevant Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
This authoritative file is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing‐focused curriculum.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine provides up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics for students, consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. Includes full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries to ensure that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale Health and Wellness provides authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
Provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. Learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, or view medical videos in this free site produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
A database of review articles within the disciplines of Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Economics. Review articles analyze and summarize the wide array of primary research published on a particular topic in a scholarly discipline. They filter relevant primary research—including articles, books, and data—in a specific area of inquiry to evaluate important ideas and trends.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a database of over 23,000 films and 240,000 film segments from producers such as BBC, TED, A&E, PBS, History Channel, NBC News, and hundreds more! Search this database for films to use in your class presentations, research projects, or to embed in online Moodle courses.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
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SAGE - Science, Technology, and Medicine Journals This link opens in a new window
Science (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Science connects researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments in wide variety of fields, including biological sciences, computing, engineering, mathematics, and technology.

Relevant Call Numbers

610's - Medicine & health
611's - Human anatomy, cytology & histology
612's - Human physiology
613's - Personal health & safety
614's - Incidence & prevention of disease
615's - Pharmacology & therapeutics
616's - Diseases
617's - Surgery & related medical specialties
618's - Gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics & geriatrics

Relevant Books and eBooks

Selection of Films on Demand Nursing Titles

Allied Health Films

Biology Films

Health & Medicine Films

Nursing Films

Spotlight on Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing‐focused curriculum.

Medical/Nursing Practice Tests

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test & Career Prep

Careers within the medical and nursing industry are some of the fastest growing and rewarding careers. While some healthcare careers require minimal education and training, others require educational requirements along with passing an exam and becoming certified.

Practice Tests Available:

CNA/HHA Exam Prep
Six full-length CNA/HHA practice tests covering the following content areas: patient care, ethics, legal issues, and roles and responsibilities....
Dental Admission Test
The Dental Admissions Test (DAT) is a multiple choice, computer-based test required for applicants entering dental schools in the United States. It measures an applicants' academic ability, scientific understanding and perceptual ability.
Dental Hygienist Exam Prep Course
Peterson's Dental Hygienist Exam Prep Course includes interactive lessons covering what’s included on the test, and two full-length practice tests with detailed answers and explanations to EVERY question....
EMT Exam
The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) cognitive exam tests your knowledge on the fundamental principles necessary to perform EMT duties. Peterson's Practice Tests for the EMT include 2 practice tests with detailed answer explanations.
Massage Therapy Exam Prep Course
Peterson's Massage Therapy Exam Prep Course includes interactive lessons covering what’s included on the test, and three full-length practice tests with detailed answers and explanations to EVERY question....
Master the EMT Certification Exam - 5th Edition - 2019
The Master the EMT-Basic Certification Exam book will help you get ready to become certified as an emergency medical technician. You'll get a subject review of anatomy, physiology, and basic EMT skills, along with test-taking tips and strategies.
Master the NCLEX-PN Exam Ebook
Master the NCLEX-PN will help you get ready for the licensing exam for practical nurses. You'll get subject reviews and practice exercises for key topic areas (such as nursing concepts, nursing procedures, and biological systems), along with test-tak...
Master the Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exam Ebook
The Master the Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exams book will help you get ready for your entrance exams, including the Pre-Admission Examination - Registered Nurse (PAX-RN), the PSB Registered Nursing School Aptitude Exam (PSB-RN), the Nu...
Medical Assisting Online Course
Raise your testing performance and improve overall scores with Medical Assisting Exam Review Online. The program features personalized study plans, exam subject reviews, practice questions, and detailed explanations of answers. Diagnostic pre-tests h...
NCLEX-PN Course (Peterson's Master the NCLEX-PN Course)
Interactive lessons and practice tests covering the four major client needs categories help you to prepare for a career as a practical/vocational nurse....
NCLEX-PN Practice Tests
The NCLEX-PN Exam covers material taught in entry-level nursing programs, focusing on both the practical aspects of health care and the health needs of clients. To do well, you need to demonstrate knowledge in four major areas. Contains three full-le...
NCLEX-RN Practice Tests
The NCLEX-RN Exam covers material taught in degree granting nursing programs, focusing on both the practical aspects of health care and the health needs of clients. Contains three full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations....
PAX Test Prep
Two full-length National League for Nursing Pre-Admission Examination (PAX or NLN-PAX) practice tests, with detailed answers and explanations to every question....
PSB Test Prep (PSB Exam Prep)
Two full-length Psychological Services Bureau (PSB) Exam practice tests, with detailed answers and explanations to every question....
PTCE (Pharmacy Technician)
Five full-length Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE) practice tests (including a diagnostic test) covering the following content areas: medications, federal requirements, patient safety and quality, and order entry and processing....
TEAS Test Prep
Two full-length Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) Exam practice tests, with detailed answers and explanations to every question. TEAS is an entrance exam for applicants to RN, LPN/LVN, and allied health programs....
Veterinary Technician Exam Prep Course
Peterson's Vet Tech Exam Prep Course includes interactive lessons covering what’s included on the test, and three full-length practice tests with detailed answers and explanations to EVERY question....

Open Access Resources

Archives, eBooks, & eJournals

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Directory of Open or Free Ecology/Nature E-Journals A-Z List of over 800 eco/nature journals.
Google Scholar Google has amassed patents, scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and article abstracts in an easy-to-use platform. If the article is not available online freely, check the Journal Finder on the library website. If our library does not have a subscription to the journal, please fill out an inter-library loan form to request it from another library. Google Scholar has articles from many different disciplines.
HaitiTrust Digital Library HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Hindawi Open Access Journals Hindawi publishes peer-reviewed, Open Access journals across many areas of science, technology, and medicine, as well as several areas of social science. Hindawi’s journals are indexed in the leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, INSPEC, Mathematical Reviews, and Chemical Abstracts.
Internet Archive Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 294 billion archived web pages.
ManyBooks Thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your computer, smartphone, iPod, or e-reading device - ePUB, Kindle, eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, RTF, Mobipocket, Newton Paperback, and zTXT ebooks ready to go!
Open Library The world's largest online repository of ebooks (over 1 million) including many classic works of literature and poetry.
OSF Preprints OSF Preprints uses SHARE to aggregate search results from a variety of other preprint providers such as arXiv, biorXiv, PeerJ, CogPrints and others. Over a million preprints are indexed and can be searched by author or keywords, or filtered by subject, preprint server, and most recent contributions.
PeerJ PeerJ publishes the world's scientific knowledge through open access licensing.
Selected Internet Resources Eprints: Quick Guide to Open-Access Archives in Science, Technology & Medicine Open access eprint archives are where authors of published research papers and papers destined for peer reviewed publication can self-archive the full texts of their work for all to see.

Biomedical Sciences

Genetics Home Reference Genetics Home Reference provides consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variation on human health.
PDR+ for Patients Search or browse the over 2,300 drug guides by drug name to view trusted, reliable drug guides written for the patient and available on demand.
PubMed Central 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).

Misc.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Free Online Scientific Resources
Listing of Open Access Databases (LOADB)
Microsoft Academic
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) A comprehensive guide to writing various types of academic papers/reports and citing sources in established citation styles
Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music...
National Center for Health Statistics The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.
National Library of Medicine The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.
PubMed.gov PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,091,822 theses and dissertations.
PubMed Central 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).
PQDT Open PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
EBSCO Open Dissertations
NAL Online Catalog - AGRICOLA AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
GovInfo - US Government Publishing Office govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Nursing Open - Wiley Online Library Nursing Open is a peer reviewed open access journal that welcomes articles on all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice, research, education and policy. We aim to publish articles that contribute to the art and science of nursing and which have a positive impact on health either locally, nationally, regionally or globally.
SAGE Open Nursing (SON) SAGE Open Nursing (SON) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which covers all aspects of nursing and patient care across the various nursing specialties and related disciplines.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
Tennessee Department of Health
National Institute of Mental Health The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Centers for Disease control and Prevention CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.
Nurse.org Nurse.org impacts the lives of nurses and nursing students by publishing thought-provoking content and launching culture-changing initiatives.
RN Central RN Central provides working and prospective nurses with the information they need to research different nursing roles and disciplines, launch a new career in the field, or advance in a current one. Use our site to guide you through the online learning opportunities available for nurses who need more flexibility in their educational experience. Explore the options you have as a new nursing student or as a career nurse simply looking to fulfill continuing education requirements.
Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.
National Institutes of Health
Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) The Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. NCCIH was formerly known as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
MyHealthfinder See which screening tests and vaccines you or a loved one need to stay healthy.
KidsHealth Nemours is a nonprofit children's health system. Neil Izenberg, MD, a physician at Nemours, founded KidsHealth.org in 1995. Our goal is to help parents, kids, and teens take charge of their health.
Lab Tests Online Lab Tests Online is an award-winning health information web resource designed to help patients and caregivers understand the many lab tests that are a vital part of medical care. Laboratory and medical professionals, who are experts in the field, develop and review all content, including articles on lab tests, conditions/diseases, screening, patient resources, and lab test news. The site is produced by AACC, a global scientific and medical professional organization dedicated to clinical laboratory science and its application to healthcare.
Mayo Clinic
HealthyPeople.gov Healthy People is a national effort that sets goals and objectives to improve the health and well-being of people in the United States.
American Nurses Association
Tennessee Nurses Association
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses AACN, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association, is more than the world’s largest specialty nursing organization – we are an exceptional community of acute and critical care nurses offering unwavering professional and personal support in pursuit of the best possible patient care.
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an independent, not-for-profit organization through which nursing regulatory bodies act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting public health, safety and welfare, including the development of nursing licensure examinations.
Tennessee Board of Nursing The board’s mission is to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of Tennesseans by requiring that all who practice nursing within this state are qualified and licensed to practice.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for academic nursing. AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice.
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Officially recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a national accreditation agency, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) is an autonomous accrediting agency, contributing to the improvement of the public's health. CCNE ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate, graduate, and residency programs in nursing.
ANCC Magnet Recognition Program The Magnet Recognition Program designates organizations worldwide where nursing leaders successfully align their nursing strategic goals to improve the organization’s patient outcomes. The Magnet Recognition Program provides a roadmap to nursing excellence, which benefits the whole of an organization.
AHRQ Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Guidelines and Measures
ANA Standards for Excellence The Standards for Excellence Institute is a national initiative established to promote the highest standards of ethics, effectiveness, and accountability in nonprofit governance, management, and operations, and to help all nonprofit organizations meet these high benchmarks.
CDC A-Z Index The CDC A-Z Index lists topics with relevance to a broad cross-section of CDC.gov’s audiences. The items are representative of popular topics, frequent inquiries, or have critical importance to CDC’s public health mission. The index will continue to evolve as additional topics are added.
Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
AACN Standards AACN Standards describe the level of practice or performance expected by the profession of nursing in order to provide excellent and compassionate care.
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) was founded in 1949 to establish a national community for operating room nurses who sought to share best practices for patients undergoing surgery. Today, we unite and empower perioperative nurses, healthcare organizations, and industry partners to support safe surgery for every patient, every time.
Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.
Science.gov Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 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.
Psychotherapy.net Psychotherapy.net believes that great therapists never stop learning. And one of the most effective ways to learn is to watch master therapists actually conducting psychotherapy. We make it possible for you to do just that.
WorldCat Advanced Search WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open
ClinicalTrials.gov ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.
Epocrates Online Get clinical decision support. Epocrates delivers the most current safety, diagnostic, and treatment information, right when you need it.
National Center for Health Statistics: Stats of the State of Tennessee
International Pediatric Simulation Society Cureus Journal of Medical Science Cureus is the Open Access medical journal for a new generation of doctors and patients.
The Medical Letter The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases in its newsletter, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics.
MedOne Education
Medscape Medscape is the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide, offering the latest medical news and expert perspectives; essential point-of-care drug and disease information; and relevant professional education and CME.
OSTMED.DR Osteopathic Medicine Digital Library OSTMED.DR® is an osteopathic medicine digital library created by a partnership between Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and VTLS, Inc. in 2006. OSTMED.DR® builds upon OSTMED®, a bibliographic index to the literature of osteopathic medicine. The goal of the project is to promote and facilitate research and scholarly activity in the osteopathic profession by providing ready access to the current osteopathic literature and heretofore hard to find resources, including historical documents.
Trip (Turning Research into Practice) 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.
Physician Assistant History Society The Physician Assistant History Society, Inc., is dedicated to the history and legacy of the physician assistant profession through the identification and collection of appropriate papers, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, dissertations, oral histories, and visual artifacts, such as films, slides, videos, photographs, and digital images.
HighWire Press Free Journals
Occupational Therapy OTseeker OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability. In one database, OTseeker provides fast and easy access to information from a wide range of sources to inform occupational therapy.
PLOS One Journal articles in natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences and humanities
ScienceDirect Open Access Journals
ChemSpider ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 67 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
Alcohol Studies Database This web page enables you to search for citations to alcohol studies sources. Over 80,000 citations are available
Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) Data and Statistics
Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) Stacks CDC Stacks is a free, digital archive of scientific research and literature produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This online archive is composed of curated collections tailored for public health research needs. This repository is retained indefinitely and is available for public health professionals, researchers, as well as the general public. CDC Stacks provides access to current CDC research and literature such as the Open Access Collection. In addition, CDC Stacks offers a historical perspective that was previously not available, such as the first 30 volumes of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. As a fully-featured repository, CDC stacks provides the ability to search the full text of all documents, browse journal articles by public health subjects, and explore the curated collections of documents on relevant topics. Additional collections and ongoing additions to existing collections are planned for the future.
CDC Wonder CDC Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) is a public resource. This application makes many health-related data sets available to CDC staff, public health departments, researchers, and others. The data help with public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.
United States Census Bureau The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
DPDx - Laboratory Identification of Parasites of Public Health Concern A website developed and maintained by CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM). DPDx uses the Internet to strengthen diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both in the United States and abroad. This interactive and rapid exchange of information, allied with already available diagnostic reference resources, will enhance our capacity to address the global problem of parasitic diseases.
NIH Drug Information Portal
Data and Statistics about the U.S. Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
National Center for Health Statistics: National Vital Statistics Reports National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR) are regular issues from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) that cover provisional birth, death, marriage, and divorce statistics.
Khan Academy Test Prep: NCLEX-RN
OAIster Database: Catalog of Open Access Resources
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Bureau of Labor Statistics
Open-i: Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine Open-i service of the National Library of Medicine enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. Searching may be done using text queries as well as query images. Open-i provides access to over 3.7 million images from about 1.2 million PubMed Central® articles; 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports; 67,517 images from NLM History of Medicine collection; and 2,064 orthopedic illustrations.
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library provides access to an extensive array of information resources and tools, offers research assistance and expertise, and delivers meaningful services to our users, to support innovation and excellence in biomedical research, patient care, and the development of scholars and future leaders in healthcare.
Knowledge Success Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) is a five-year global project led by a consortium of partners and funded by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health to support learning, and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange, within the family planning and reproductive health community.
PubChem PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.
ChemIDplus: A TOXNET Database Chemical database is a dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, and structures). ChemIDplus includes links to NLM and other databases and resources, including links to federal, state and international agencies
DART in PubMed
LiverTox: Clinical and Research Information on Drug-Induced Liver Injury LiverTox® provides up-to-date, unbiased and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, clinical patterns and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications and selected herbal and dietary supplements. The LiverTox site is meant as a resource for both physicians and patients as well as for clinical academicians and researchers who specialize in idiosyncratic drug induced hepatotoxicity.
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) CTD is a robust, publicly available database that aims to advance understanding about how environmental exposures affect human health.
Consumer Product Information Database
Haz-Map: Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Integrated Risk Information System
Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment Database
ALTBIB - Alternatives to Animal Testing
Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS)
ToxInfo.io
Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database
Genetic Toxicology Data Bank (GENE-TOX)
USA.gov
MedCrave
Open Educational Resources: Nursing
International Archive of Nursing and Health Care
Journal of Nursing (Open Access)
The Open Nursing Journal

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