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Blue Poppy On-Line Journal
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Electronic access to Blue Poppy's On-Line Journal of Chinese Medicine is available to you
though your library account. We post a new Journal every 3 months which will contain approximately
30 different articles and translations. These articles and translations are intended for professional
practitioners of Chinese Medicine. Each article has a citation in the OMLit©.
You may want to search the OMLit© for journal articles on the library
website. Established in 1982, Blue Poppy Enterprises is the world's largest English-language
publisher of books and educational products about Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.
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Journal of Chinese Medicine, Full text
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The Journal of Chinese Medicine has been in existence since 1979. Edited by Peter Deadman in
the UK it has been the foremost English language journal dedicated to professional and student
level information on the entire field of Chinese Medicine for over 20 years. Subject coverage
includes Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Qigong, Dietary Medicine, and world-wide Chinese
Medicine news. The 8th edition of the journal is now available and is powered by Adobe Acrobat.
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OMLit©
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OMLit© provides access to literature on Oriental Medicine. Produced by the
New England School of Acupuncture, OMLit© is a citation database indexing
some 159 publications: journals and newsletters. Contents of this database include references to
literature about Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, East Asian Massage, and Qi Gong. Literature
cited in OMLit© are published in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
There are over 32663 articles currently cited in OMLit© beginning with
articles published in 1973 to the present. Over 350 new citations are added each month with new
entries appearing weekly. OMLit© is not supported by any advertising.
Copies of articles cited in OMLit© can be obtained from the Kelly Library.
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Oriental Medicine Images
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Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). This system provides access to nearly 60,000 images
in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National
Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures,
genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical
aspects of medicine. The images were last updated on July, 13 2004 and were rescanned directly
from archival slides at a high resolution level.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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Alt Healthwatch via EBSCOhost
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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 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports and proceedings. In addition,
Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research
and book excerpts Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject
areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. The majority of the full text titles
included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned in color. |
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IBIDS
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The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides
access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific literature
on dietary supplements. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health
produces this database to help consumers, health care providers, educators, and researchers find
credible, scientific information on a variety of dietary supplements including vitamins, minerals
and botanicals. IBIDS was developed and is maintained through an interagency partnership with the
Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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Natural Medicine Comprehensive Database
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Web-based database of evidence-based clinical information on natural medicines, primarily herbs
and supplements. Products and substances can be searched by pharmaceutical, botanical, common and
product name. This database is the most complete and up-to-date reference tool available of its kind.
The database is updated every business day. |
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Natural Standard
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Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality,
evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Validated rating
scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated
into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All
monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion in Natural
Standard databases.
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The Research Council for Complementary Medicine
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The RCCM was founded in 1983 by a group of enthusiastic practitioners and researchers from
both orthodox and complementary medicine. Today, our aim is to develop and extend the evidence
base for complementary medicine in order to provide practitioners and their patients with information
about the effectiveness of individual therapies and the treatment of specific conditions. The
recently launched CAMEOL database that has been developed in conjunction with the School of
Integrated Health at the University of Westminster is one such example of the work that has been
undertaken by the RCCM to make this information more widely available.
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The TCM Information Database (TCM-ID)
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TCM-ID offers information about Tractional Chinese Medicine prescriptions, constituent herbs, and herbal ingredients, as well as their respective therapeutic effect, clinical indications and applications. The structure and functional properties of active ingredients are also provided. Data were obtained from Chinese-language TCM books and relevant western and Chinese journals including the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Planta Medica, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Phytochemistry, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Chinese Traditional Herbs and Drugs, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Journal of Chinese Medicine Mat, and Chinese Journal of Medicine and Chemistry. TCM-ID currently contains 1197 TCM prescriptions covering 4111 disease conditions, 1104 herbs, and 9862 ingredients (4500 of these with 3-dimensional structure provided). Each prescription/herb/ingredient can be retrieved through multiple methods including prescription name, herb name in 3 languages (Latin, English, and Chinese), substance name, therapeutic effect, and symptom.
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BioMedicine |
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Cochrane Controlled Trial Registers via EBSCOhost
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A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration
and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create
an unbiased source of data for systemic reviews.
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Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews via EBSCOhost
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Contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.
Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to
increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable
results individually.
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The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness via EBSCOhost
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Includes abstracts published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world,
which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database
provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
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History of Medicine Online
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The History of Medicine subset of PubMed includes citations to journal articles in the history of
the health and biomedical sciences dating back to 1966. New records are added to PubMed daily.
It includes literature about the history of health-related professions, sciences, specialties,
individuals, institutions, drugs and diseases in all parts of the world and all historic periods.
It indexes U.S. and foreign publications, including journal articles and individual chapters in
the published proceedings of symposia, congresses and the like. |
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MedWebPlus
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A free service to help you find health sciences information quickly and easily.
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NLM Gateway
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The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library
of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus,
MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM and HSDB. |
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PubMed
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PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations
from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed
includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
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Toxicology Data network
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TOXNET is a key cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Almost
anything regarding the toxicity of materials and chemicals can be traced through TOXNET. TOXNET is
sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. |
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TRIP Database, National Health Service, UK
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The TRIP Database allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from
a wide range of sources. |
Botanical Medicine |
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Agricola
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The National Agricultural Library is one of four national libraries of the United States, with
locations in Beltsville, Maryland and Washington, D.C. It houses one of the world's largest and
most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network
of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries. They develop a bibliographic
database called Agricola which includes Information relating to herbal plants and their farming. |
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CalFlora
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A comprehensive database of plant distribution information for California for synthesis of data from
disparate sources. This database contains summary geographic and ecological distribution information
for 7660 California vascular plant taxa (8363 records including species level taxa where there is more
than one var. or ssp.), as well as additional habitat information for rare taxa and species of the
Sierra Nevada. |
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Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database
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Includes plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the Botany,
Chemistry, Toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural
flora (fungi, etc.). |
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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Searchable databases on the phytochemicals in plants and ethnobotanical uses of plants.
Information was compiled by mostly Jim Duke and Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg from published,
or rarely, personally communicated sources by human beings. Last updated 1996.
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Taxonomic Information on Cultivated Plants in the USDA-ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
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The National Plant Germplasm System of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture maintains a database for the management of and as a source of authoritative information
on its 460,000 germplasm accessions. The taxonomic portion of GRIN provides the classification and
nomenclature for these genetic resources and many other economic plants on a worldwide basis. Included
in GRIN TAXONOMY are scientific names with common names, geographical distributions, literature
references, and economic impacts. The scientific names are verified in accordance with the
international rules of botanical nomenclature. Last modified 12/07/05. |
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HerbMed
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HerbMed® - an interactive, electronic herbal database - provides hyperlinked
access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an impartial,
evidence-based information resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation,
Inc. This public site provides free access to 45 herbs (top 40 + controversial herbs). The herb
records on the public version of HerbMed® have been updated. However, the number of herbs accessible
from the public site has been reduced to 75. To access all herb records, it is necessary to subscribe
to or license the professional version, HerbMedProTM. |
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Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
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Databases of dietary supplement ingredients, developed in collaboration with other Federal agencies,
to support surveys of dietary supplement intake and exposure. Federal database with over 400,000
citations. |
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USDA Plants Database
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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, plant links, references, crop
information, and automated tools. |
General Academics |
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Academic Search Elite via EBSCOhost
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Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500
peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via
EBSCOhost. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer
sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, ethnic studies and more.
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OAISter Collection
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OAIster is a collection of academically-oriented digital resources which before OAIster were
previously difficult-to-access. Electronic materials cited in OAIster are available without charge.
Over 600 government, non-profit, and academic institutions from around the world have added links to
their documents. Each week new information is added. As of February 2006 there were over 6 million
records cited in this collection. |
Government Sites |
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ClinicalTrails.gov
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ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains approximately 25,000 clinical studies sponsored by the National
Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry. Studies listed in the database
are conducted in all 50 States and in over 120 countries. You can find specific clinical trials for
a wide range of diseases and conditions. Clinical trials are research studies in which new treatments,
drugs, diagnostics procedures, vaccines and other therapies are tested in people to see if they are
safe and effective. |
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Directory of Health Organizations
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Features DIRLINE (over 10,000 organizations) and Health Hotlines.
DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's
online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of informatio
n resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health
and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services
provided. DIRLINE contains over 8,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine,
although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests. These information
resources fall into many categories including federal, state, and local government agencies;
information and referral centers; professional societies; self-help groups and voluntary associations;
academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems and research facilities.
Topics include HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, most diseases and conditions including genetic
and other rare diseases, health services research and technology assessment.
Health Hotlines is a compilation of organizations with toll-free telephone numbers.
It is derived from DIRLINE, the National Library of Medicine's Directory of Information Resources
Online. This database contains descriptions of over 14,000 biomedical information resources,
including organizations, databases, research resources, etc. Some of the subject areas included
in Health Hotlines are AIDS, cancer, maternal and child health, aging, substance abuse, disabilities,
and mental health.
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Health Service Projects in Progress
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HSRProj contains descriptions of research in progress funded by federal and private grants and
contracts for use by policy makers, managers, clinicians and other decision makers. It provides access
to information about health services research in progress before results are available in a published
form. Records cover both grants and contracts awarded by major public and private funding agencies and
foundations. |
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NLM IndexCat: the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office
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IndexCatTM is the online version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the
Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. The catalog was published from 1880-1961 in 5 series
in a total of 61 volumes. Content reflects the bibliographic citations in the original publication
of approximately 3.7 million references to materials dated from the 5th century to the first half
of the 20th century. Publication types include: Journal articles (plus news articles, letters, &
obituaries) 2,500,000 references Dissertations and thesis 470,000 references Monographs (books,
pamphlets, and reports) 616,000 references Journal titles 32,000 references Portraits 4,000
references (Series 1-2) Journal articles date from the late 17th century. Reports and statistics
include items from local, national, and international hospitals; health departments; and government
organizations. Books include handwritten and printed items. |
