Electronic Databases & Directories: Alphabetical List
See also: Subject List
A - B C D E F G H I J - L M N O P Q - R S T U - Z
Database Restrictions for databases marked [On-site Access Only]:
License agreements between the NLM and the database vendors or producers limit use of the subscription databases to staff and on-site visitors. The database vendors copyright the Web-based database search pages. The database producers copyright the databases.
NLM retired TOXNET, and the content is in other databases. For more information, go to "TOXNET Has Moved."
Database Trials
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A - B
- Abbreviations.com
- AccessGUDID: Global Unique Device Identification Database, FDA and NIH: NLM
- AGRICOLA: Agricultural Online Access, NAL Catalog: National Agricultural Library, USDA
- AMED: Allied and Complementary Medicine Database [On-site Access Only]
- American Hospital Directory. Some information available free.
- American Library Directory [On-site Access Only]
- American Men and Women of Science [On-site Access Only]
- APA PsycNet [On-site Access Only]
- BIOSIS Citation Index [On-site Access Only]
- Board Certified Physicians, American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- Bioethics Resources, NIH: NLM
- BMC: BioMed Central
- Book Citation Indices, Web of Science [On-site Access Only]
- Bookshelf (NCBI Bookshelf), NIH: NLM
- Books @ OVID [On-site Access Only]
- Books in Print with Reviews [On-site Access Only]
- British Pharmacopoeia [On-site Access Only]
C
- CAB Abstracts [On-site Access Only]
- CABI Full Text [On-site Access Only]
- CAMEO Chemicals: Database of Hazardous Materials
- CASSI: CAS Source Index Search Tool [On-site Access Only]
- CDC Stacks, HHS: CDC
- CDC Travelers' Health, HHS: CDC
- CDC Wonder, HHS: CDC
- CenterWatch
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations, US Government Printing Office
- Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM), HHS: ASPR
- Chronicling America, Historical American Newspapers, Library of Congress
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature [On-site Access Only]
- ClinicalTrials.gov, NIH: NLM
- ClinRegs, NIH: NIAID
- Cochrane Library [On-site Access Only]
- ComAbstract, Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
- Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD), NC State University and NIH: NIEHS
- Conference Proceedings Citation Indices [On-site Access Only]
- Congress.gov
- Consultant, Veterinary Medicine
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Coronavirus Research Database [On-site Access Only]
- Creative Commons Search
- CRS Reports, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
- Current Contents Connect [On-site Access Only]
- CPT Codes: Current Procedural Terminology
D
- DailyMed, FDA and NIH: NLM
- Data.gov
- Data Citation Index [On-site Access Only]
- Data Discovery at the National Library of Medicine, NIH: NLM
- Derwent Innovations Index [On-site Access Only]
- Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria (DFB) [On-site Access Only]
- Dietary Supplement Label Database, NIH: ODS & NLM
- Digital Collections, NIH: NLM
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Lookup
- Directory of Libraries and Information Centers [On-site Access Only]
- DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories
- DrugBank, Canadian Institute for Health Research. Includes U.S. drug pricing
- DRUGDEX System - Micromedex [On-site Access Only]
- DTIC Technical Reports, Department of Defense: US Defense Technical Information Center
E
- ECRI Guidelines Trust, requires free registration
- EMBASE [On-site Access Only]
- Emergency Medicine Practice [On-site Access Only – See Reference staff for login information]
- Envirofacts, Environmental Protection Agency
- ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, Department of Education
- Espacenet, European Patent Office, [On-site Access Only]
- EThOS: British Library's Electronic Theses Online System, requires free registration
- Europe PMC
F
- F1000Research [On-site Access Only]
- Facts and Comparisons eAnswers Drug Database [On-site Access Only]
- Faculty Opinions, formerly, F1000Prime [On-site Access Only]
- FASTATS A to Z, HHS: CDC
- FAERS: FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, HHS: FDA
- FDA Approved Animal Drug Products (Green Book), HHS: FDA
- FDA Drug Approvals and Databases, HHS: FDA
- FDA Approved Drugs by Medical Condition, CenterWatch
- FDA Post-Approval Database, HHS: FDA
- Federal Register
- Food Recalls and Alerts, USDA & HHS: FDA
G
- Gale Directory Library [On-site Access Only]
- Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
- Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
- Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
- Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
- Government Research Directory
- International Research Centers Directory
- National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
- National Faculty Directory
- Publishers Directory
- Research Centers Directory
- Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans
- Statistics Sources
- Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies [On-site Access Only]
- Generalist Data Repositories, NIH: NLM
- Genetic Alliance
- GTR: Genetic Test Registry, NIH: NLM
- Genetics and Rare Diseases Database, NIH: Genetics and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center, NCATS
- GHR: Genetics Home Reference , now in MedlinePlus Genetics
- GHO: Global Health Observatory
- Global Index Medicus
- Google Scholar
- govinfo, US Government Printing Office
- GPO Catalog of US Government Publications, US Government Printing Office
- GrantForward [On-site Access Only]
- Grants.gov. Federal government grants and cooperative agreement opportunities
- GreenFile, Environmental Database [On-site Access Only]
H
- HAPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments [On-site Access Only]
- Health and Environmental Studies [On-site Access Only]
- Health Business Elite [On-site Access Only]
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook [On-Site Access Only]
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2021-2022
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2019-2020
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2017-2018
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2015-2016
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2013-2014
- Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook, 2011
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts: HSTAT, NIH: NLM
- Health Topics A-Z, NIH: NCCAM
- Health Topics A to Z, HHS: CDC
I
- ICD-10 codes, HHS, CDC
- ICTRP International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
- IEEE Xplore [On-site Access Only]
- Image Quick View Collection under Health Business Elite. At the top of the page click "Images". [On-Site Access Only]
- Images from the History of Medicine, NIH: NLM
- Images, Photographs, and Audiovisuals, NIH: NLM
- INCHEM: International Chemical Safety Information from Intergovernmental Organizations
- InCites, formerly Journal Citation Reports [On-site Access Only]
- IndexCat, the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, NIH: NLM
- Index Nominum - Micromedex [On-site Access Only]
- Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities Databases, Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
- International Medical Devices Database
- Internet Archive
- Internet Archive Scholar
- ITER: International Toxicity Estimates for Risk
- ISSN Online: International Standard Serial Numbers [On-site Access Only]
- IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
- IVIS: International Veterinary Information Service, requires free registration
J - L
- JBI EBP: JBI Evidence-Based Practice Database
- JCI Accredited Organizations, Joint Commission International
- Journals @ OVID Full Text [On-site Access Only]
- Journals' Table of Contents
- JSTOR. Some content available free. See https://about.jstor.org/get-jstor/.
- LactMed, Drugs and Lactation Database, NIH: NLM
- Lexi-Comp's Drug Information Handbook [On-site Access Only]
- LISTA: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
- Library Literature & Information Science Full Text [On-site Access Only]
- LILACS: Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature
- LiverTox, NIH: NIDDK and NLM
- LocatorPlus, NIH: Catalog of the NLM Collections
M
- Marquis Who's Who on the Web [On-site Access Only]
- Martindale - Micromedex [On-site Access Only]
- Medical Services and Warfare [On-site Access Only]
- Medical Subject Headings Database (MeSH Database) and MeSH Browser, NIH: NLM
- MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en Español, NIH: NLM.
- MEDLINE/PubMed, NIH: NLM
- MEDLINE/PubMed Topic-Specific Queries Home Page: Filters and Search Strategies, NIH: NLM
- MedPix, NIH: NLM
- The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- The Merck Manual for Pet Health
- The Merck Veterinary Manual
- MetaLib, search multiple government sites simultaneously, US Government Printing Office
- Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions [On-site Access Only]
- Micromedex [On-site Access Only]
- MIMIC Chest X-ray (MIMIC-CXR) Database
N
- NASA Scientific & Technical Information
- National Academies Press, National Academy of Sciences
- National Archives
- NCBI Datasets, NIH: NLM
- NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
- NCRP: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Reports: Safety & Industrial Hygiene [On-site Access Only]
- Natural Medicines: Comprehensive Database [Onsite Access Only]
- NDLTD: Networked Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations
- NIF: Neuroscience Information Framework, search multiple databases for neuroscience data. Sponsored by NIH
- New Medicines in Development
- NIH Common Data Elements (CDE), NIH: NLM
- NIDB: NIH Intramural Database Resources[On-site Access Only]
- NIH Image Gallery, NIH
- NIH Open Domain-Specific Data Sharing Repositories, NIH: NLM
- NIOSH Publications and Products, HHS: CDC, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
- NLM flickr Account, NIH: NLM
- NIOSH Publications and Products, HHS: National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
- NLM Catalog, NIH: NLM. Another interface for the NLM Locator online catalog
- NLM Classification, NIH: NLM
- NLM Databases & Resources, and APIs, NIH: NLM
- NLM Toxicology & Environmental Health Databases, NIH: NLM
- Nobel Prizes and Laureates
- NTRL: National Technical Reports Library, Department of Commerce: National Technical Information Service
O
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
- OhioLINK
- OMIA: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, University of Sydney and NIH: NLM
- OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NIH: NLM
- Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects, NIH: NLM
- Open-i, Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine, NIH: NLM
- OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
- Open Think Tank Directory
- ORPHANET
- Other NIH Data Resources, NIH: NLM
- OTseeker
P
- Patent Full-Text Databases, Department of Commerce: US Patent and Trademark Office
- PDR: Physician's Desk Reference
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice [Onsite Access Only – See Reference staff for login information]
- PeriStats
- PharmaProjects, formerly called Pipeline. Requires free registration.
- PharmGKB
- PHIL: Public Health Image Library CDC
- Pill Identification, NIH: NLM
- Plumb's Veterinary Drug Resource [On-site Access Only]
- PMC: PubMed Central, NIH: NLM
- POISINDEX Managements - Micromedex [On-site Access Only]
- PQDT Open, open access dissertations and theses
- Preprint Citation Index [On-site Access Only]
- Profiles in Science®, NIH: NLM
- ProQolid: Patient-Reported Outcome and Quality of Life Instruments Database [On-site Access Only]
- PsycARTICLES [On-site Access Only]
- Psychological Abstracts: See PsycINFO [On-site Access Only] or APA PsycNet [On-site Access Only]
- PubAg, US Department of Agriculture: National Agricultural Library
- PubChem, NIH: NLM. PubChem is NLM's single source for chemical information.
Q - R
- Quality Check, The Joint Commission
- Rare Diseases Database, National Organization for Rare Disorders: NORD [On-site Access Only for full contents]
- Reaxys chemical database [On-Site Access Only]
- Red Book Online [On-site Access Only - See Reference staff for login information]
- Registry of Open Data at AWS, Amazon Web Services
- REHABDATA Literature Database
- REMM: Radiation Emergency Medical Management, HHS
- RePORT Expenditures & Results: RePORTER, NIH
- Russian Science Citation Index [On-site Access Only]
S
- SCIELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
- SciELO Citation Index [On-site Access Only]
- Science.gov
- ScienceDirect Journals and Books [On-site Access Only]
- SCImago Journal & Country Rank [On-Site Access Only]
- SCOPUS [On-site Access Only]
- SEER Cancer Statistics Review, NIH: NCI
- Side Effects of Drugs Annual [On-site Access Only]
- State Health Facts
- State Hospital Associations, American Hospital Association
- STATPEARLS, NIH: NLM
T
- Teacher Reference Center [On-site Access Only]
- ThomasNet.com, supplier discovery & product sourcing
- Toxicological Profiles, Toxic Substances Portal, HHS: CDC
- TOXNET, NIH: NLM
- TRI: Toxic Research Inventory, Environmental Protection Agency
- TESS: Trademark Electronic Search System, Department of Commerce: US Patent and Trademark Office
- TRIP Database: Turning Research into Practice
U - Z
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [On-site Access Only]
- UMLS: Unified Medical Language System , NIH: NLM
- UpToDate [On-site Access Only]
- USA.gov
- US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
- VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, HHS: CDC & FDA
- Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), NIH: NLM
- Visible Human Project, NIH: NLM
- Web of Knowledge/Web of Science [On-site Access Only]
- WHO Global Health Observatory
- Wikimedia Commmons
- World Biographical Information System [On-site Access Only]
- WorldCat, OCLC
- WorldWideScience.org
- Zoological Record [On-site Access Only]
Last Reviewed: November 28, 2022