Health Sciences Library Electronic Databases
Databases and Indexes on this page represent a segment of all Columbia University subscribed to databases. Included in the list are selected resources either subscribed to by HSL or just most relevant to Medicine/Nursing/Dentistry, etc.
Browse or search CU Databases search/browse engine or search CLIO (CU Libraries Online Catalog) for other relevant databases.
 = Most of these resources are accessible to current Columbia students, staff and faculty only.
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ACP Journal Club
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A decision-support resource that provides enhanced abstracts of methodologically sound and clinically relevant journal articles. |
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AgeLine
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Citations for publications related to aging. Covers social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. |
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Annual Reviews
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Reviews of topics in biomedical, physical and social sciences published as annual journals. |
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Applied Science Full Text
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More than 350 key international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology. |
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Books In Print
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Book and serials directory including but not limited to publisher, ISBN, ISSN, and location data. |
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Chemical Abstracts (via SciFinder Scholar)
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Provides references from journals and patents, substance data and chemical reactions information. Covers 1907 to the present and is updated daily. Not networked. Requires download of SciFinder Scholar software to the desktop. |
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CINAHL
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Citations and abstracts for articles in nursing and allied health periodicals. |
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Clinical Evidence
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Clinical Evidence is a decision-support resource. Systematic reviews summarize the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions, based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. |
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Clinical Pharmacology
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Provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. |
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ConsumerLab
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ConsumerLab.com provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. Includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, test results for ConsumerLab.com selected products and Approved Products from ConsumerLab.coms Voluntary Certification Program, product recalls, and safety warnings. A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database. |
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ERIC
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Citations and abstracts for articles in education-related periodicals. |
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Evidence-Based Medicine (via Ovid)
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Include searchable evidence-based medicine resources: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Central Register of Controlled Trials, ACP Journal Club. |
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Global health on CAB direct
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Specialist public health database with an emphasis on international health. It consists of Global health, current file (from 1973 to present) and Global health archive (1910 to 1973), which also includes records from the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases up to 1983. |
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Google Scholar
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Retrieves references to books, abstracts, and e-journal articles from selected university and scholarly repositories. |
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Lexi-Comp
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Concise drug information reference resource, suitable more for the bedside practice than for in-depth research. Provides up-to-date information about drugs and interactions, laboratory and diagnostic tests, natural products, infectious diseases, and poisoning and toxicology. |
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Lexis-Nexis academic
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An interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works. |
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Medline - Ovid
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Search the Medline database using our Ovid search interface. Please note, HealthSTAR is now included in Medline. HealthSTAR is not a separate database anymore. |
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Merck Index
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Online version of the 13th edition of the Merck Index, an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals. |
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Micromedex
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Searchable database that contains detailed information on drugs, interactions, toxicological managements, reproductive risks, and acute/emergency care. Also offers software package for handheld computing devices. |
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Physical Education Index
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Citations and abstracts from a database of scholarly resources ranging from
physical education curricula, sports medicine and law, dance, kinesiology,
motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment,
business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport
sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered. |
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Popline
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Citations and abstracts for publications about populations, family planning, censuses and other health issues. |
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Population Index
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Citations for publications on demography and related research fields.
This searchable and browsable database provides 46,035 abstracts of literature published 1986-2000. |
Proteome BioKnowledge library
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The BioKnowledge® Library is a collection of six databases, each containing biological information about proteins in different organisms. Information in the databases is from the scientific literature and edited by experts in relevant biological disciplines. |
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PsycINFO
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Citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines. |
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PubMED
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MEDLINE -- citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals available through the National Library of Medicine's search interface. |
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Trip Database
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A resource for evidence-based medicine, allowing users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources. |
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UpToDate
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Subscription-based clinical information resource. Only available from the Health Sciences Campus. |
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