Databases A to Z
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PAIS Index [Public Affairs Information Service]
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Social science indexing database that covers journals, government documents, books, reports, and conference papers back to 1972. On the ProQuest platform.
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Paley Center Seminars
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Media full-text database of interviews and panel discussions recorded at the Paley Center for Media. On the ProQuest platform.
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Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905
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Newspaper indexing database that covers articles from 1790 to 1905. Part of the Historical Newspaper Collection on the Chadwyck-Healey platform.
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Paper Trail (subscription access available in Emmett Chisum Reading Room)
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History reference database of pioneer names and documents from the Oregon-California Trails Association. On its own platform and only searchable in the Emmett Chisum Reading Room.
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Past Masters Commons
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Collection of texts including the complete works of Chekhov, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Francisco Suárez, Vico, and Chauncey Wright, as well as works of Chinese and Presocratic philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus, and Lombardus' Sententiarum Libri IV. On the Intelex platform.
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Pathway Commons
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Mathematical biology reference database that provides biological pathway information collected from public pathway databases. On its own platform.
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Patrologia Latina Database
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Religion full-text database that provides a digitized version of this history of the Roman Catholic church from 200 to 1216. On the Chadwyck-Healey platform.
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Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
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Historic full-text archive that reproduces works by British women authors whose work exists only in manuscript format in the 16th to 19th centuries. On the Adam Matthew platform.
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Performance Design Archive
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Performance Design Archive Online is an international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database
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Performing arts indexing/full-text database that covers journal articles from 1864. On the ProQuest platform.
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Periodicals Archive Online (Collections 1-10)
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Multidisciplinary indexing database that includes articles from 1802 to 2000. On the Chadwyck-Healey platform.
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Periodicals Index Online
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Multidisciplinary indexing database that indexes journal articles from 1665 to 1995. On the Chadwyck-Healey platform.
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Petroleum Abstracts
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A comprehensive source of information on the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
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Pharmacist's Letter
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Pharmacy full-text newsletter that provides information on new developments in drug therapy since 1997. On the Therapeutic Research Center platform.
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Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice
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A text that uses an evidence-based approach to teach healthcare professionals to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy
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Philadelphia Tribune, 1912-2001
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Historic full-text newspaper that covers 1912 to 2001. Part of the ProQuest Historical Newspaper - Black Newspapers series.
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Philosopher's Index
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Major philosophy indexing database that covers journal articles and books back to 1940. On the ProQuest platform.
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Philosophy Documentation Center Collection
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Philosophy indexing/full-text database that provide library-licensed journals. On the PDC platform. Simultaneous user limit of 9.
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Philpapers
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PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Research content includes journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics. The index currently contains over 2.2 million entries classified in over 5,000 categories.
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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile)
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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection includes hundreds of thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Users will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting) and more.
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Pickering & Chatto Women's Studies Collection I (Intelex Past Masters)
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Collection of texts by English women writers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Joanna Baillie, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, Caroline Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft. On the Intelex Past Masters platform.
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Picture Post, 1938-1957
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The Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete archive, spanning from 1938 to 1957, all digitized from originals in full color. Picture Post’s innovative use of photo-journalism captured the imagination of the British people, with readership at its peak estimated at 80% of the population. In the era before television, it became the window on the world for ordinary people, bringing the major social and political issues of the day into popular consciousness.
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Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002
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Historic full-text newspaper that covers 1911 to 2002. Part of the ProQuest Historical Newspaper - Black Newspapers series.
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Pivot
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Database of global academic funding opportunities and calls for papers, previously accessible through the COS Funding and COS Papers Invited products. On a ProQuest platform.
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Plant Management Network International
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Plant science indexing/full-text database that covers journals, research reports, conference papers and images. On its own platform.
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Plant Science (part of Environmental Science Index)
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Database contains citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology.
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PLANTS database (USDA)
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Database providing standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
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Plumb's Veterinary Drugs
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Database of veterinary drug information.
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Pneumotox: The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website
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Pharmacy reference website that lists drugs that induce respiratory diseases. Also available as an app.
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Policy File Index
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Policy File Index is a unique resource for U.S. public policy research in that it grants users access to timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities. Over 75 public policy topics are covered, from foreign policy to domestic policy. The majority of Policy File Index records link directly to the full-text report, paper, document, or other sources.
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Political Extremism & Radicalism
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Database concerning political extremism consisting of periodicals, government records, oral histories and campaign ephemera from 1900 – 2010s. On the Gale platform.
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Political Reference Suite
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A collection of reference titles on American government, politics, history, public policy and current affairs. On the CQ Press platform.
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Political Science Database
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Political science indexing/full-text database that covers journal articles back to 1985. On the ProQuest platform.
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Pollution Abstracts (part of Environmental Science Index)
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Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. Subject coverage: air pollution, marine pollution, freshwater pollution, sewage and wastewater treatment, waste management, land pollution, toxicology and health, noise, radiation, and environmental action.
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Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile)
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Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences, history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Popular Culture Collection provides useful information from over two million articles found in over 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.
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Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
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Historic full-text archive that reproduces manuscripts, rare printed materials and photos from the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975. On the Adam Matthew platform.
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Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile)
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The Popular Magazines provides a strong focus on current events, sports, science, and health. Includes the full collection of National Public Radio programs, including transcripts and podcasts.
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Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
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This unique collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera.
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Popular Music Library
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Streaming audio collection featuring a wide variety of popular music recordings. Genres represented include alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and more. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Prescriber's Letter
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Pharmacy full-text database providing recommendations for those that prescribe drugs. On the Therapeutic Research Center platform.
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PreservationDirectory.com
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Historic preservation directory database that list North American historic societies, historic museums, state historic preservation offices, downtown and main street societies, historic buildings for sale, information on grants, job listings, restoration professionals and historic buildings. On its own platform.
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Primary Search
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Multidisciplinary indexing/full-text database that covers magazines (back to 1985) and reference tools for elementary school research. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
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Social science and humanities indexing/full-text database that covers journal articles from Latin America back to 1991. On the Chadwyck-Healey platform.
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Proceedings (Abstracts) of ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Annual Meetings
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Abstracts of conference sessions from American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meetings. Abstracts from 2010 on are searchable; to browse abstracts from 2005-2009, visit https://www.acsmeetings.org/meetings, and scroll down to the links in the "Past Meetings" section.
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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Legal indexing/full-text databases that provides information on London's Central Criminal Court trials from 1674 to 1913. On the HRI Online platform.
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ProCitizen
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This course will help you prepare for the Civics, Reading, and Writing portions of the Naturalization Test. Through a series of 100 informative videos, plus practice exercises and quizzes, you will learn everything you need to know to successfully pass the test.
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Project Muse
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Multidisciplinary ejournal and ebook platform that provides full-text of library-licensed journals and ebooks. On its own platform.
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Pronunciator
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One of the world’s most comprehensive online language-learning services. 164 languages to learn, 144 languages to learn them in. Years of learning activities within each language. It includes personalized courses, movies, music, and more. Includes English as a second language (ESL) modules. Patrons can learn on computers and mobile devices. Besides Pronunciator, another language application developed by the same company is Bluebird Languages (https://uwyo.libguides.com/language-learning).
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ProQuest Central
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Database platform that includes 100-some other indexing, full-text and reference databases (listed separately). On the ProQuest platform.
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ProQuest Congressional
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Political science full-text database collection that includes congressional publications back to 1789. On the ProQuest platform.
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ProQuest Learning: Literature
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ProQuest Learning: Literature provides more than 180,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world. This unique resource also offers secondary sources such as author biographies and multimedia, as well as literary criticisms, essays, reviews, and interviews drawn from more than 100 full-text literary magazines and journals.
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ProQuest One Academic
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ProQuest One Academic combines all four of ProQuest’s multidisciplinary products on the ProQuest platform (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete, and Academic Video Online).
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ProQuest One Business
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Comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
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ProQuest One Literature
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For literature scholars who need an exhaustive set of scholarly resources around a literary topic for research and course planning. 500,000 primary works and millions of records from journals, monographs, and dissertations.
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ProQuest Research Companion
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Supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction occurring in libraries, classrooms, and online learning environments.
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ProQuest Statistical Insight
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A collection of U.S. statistical information, including indexing to publications and some full-text publications. This comes in various series; presently the Libraries have only the Federal Series. On the ProQuest platform.
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Protein
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Genetic reference databases that presents protein sequences from a variety of other sources. On the NCBI platform.
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PsycArticles (APA)
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Psychology indexing/full-text database that includes the American Psychology Association eJournals. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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PsychiatryOnline
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PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, including journals, handbooks, textbooks, and the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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Psychological Experiments Online
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Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.
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Psychology (Gale OneFile)
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Aimed at students, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers, the Psychology Collection is a database containing over 3.1 million articles. It brings together information found in nearly 300 journals, with a strong emphasis on full-text titles cited in PsycINFO.
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Psychology Database
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Psychology Database provides abstracts and indexing of key psychology journals, in addition to full-text dissertations representing a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more.
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Psycinfo (APA)
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Major psychology indexing database that covers journals, books, and dissertations back to the 1800s. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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PsycTests (APA)
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Psychology indexing/full-text database that includes the American Psychology Association tests and measures. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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PubAg
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National Agricultural Library's search engine covering research published by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Contains full-text articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal articles with links to publisher sites and elsewhere for full-text access. Covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and Extension education.
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PubChem
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Chemical database which provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases. Search by BioAssay, Compound, Substance, or use the basic search box, which searches all three simultaneously. On the NLM platform.
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Public Health Database
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With journals, news, trade publications, reports, dissertations and more, ProQuest Public Health covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences and biological sciences to business. ProQuest Public Health specializes on delivering focused and relevant results for the public health field, covering key subjects including: nutrition and dietetics; physical fitness and hygiene; population studies; social services and welfare; statistics; biology - genetics; drug abuse and alcoholism; special education and rehabilitation; environmental studies; industrial health and safety; communicable diseases; allergology and immunology; nurses and nursing; and pediatrics.
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Public Health Image Library (CDC)
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Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Image Library offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public may use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.
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PubMed
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Medical indexing/full-text database that provides public access to MEDLINE (see separately) and full-text on PubMed Central and other publisher websites. On the NCBI platform.
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PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset
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Subset of the PubMed database containing citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models.
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Punch Historical Archive
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Online archive of the humour and satire magazine, Punch.