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BoardVitals

Exam Prep for Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing, Medical, and Dentistry.

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Books@Ovid

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eBook collection with access to over 800 major medical and allied health texts and handbooks.

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California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

Data from state-wide telephone based health survey. Topics include health, housing, access to care, employment, insurance, food environment, etc. Access requires free AskCHIS account.

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California Open Data Portal

Data about California. Covers all areas, including demographics, education levels, health care, and industries. Use interactive tools on the site to create statistics.

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Campbell Collaboration Online Library

Systematic reviews, plain language summaries, and planned reviews in crime and justice, disability, education, international development, knowledge translation and implementation, nutrition, and social welfare.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

This is the CDC's main site, with links to a myriad of popular topics, publications, and research tools. Provides access to complete information about the agency and its various components, as well as funding, statistics and publications.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Journals

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This CDC publication gateway site provides free access to numerous government infectious disease publications such as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

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Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry

The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry, established in 1995, is an independent body whose aim is to promote the teaching, learning, practice and evaluation of evidence-based dentistry world-wide.

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ChemSpider

This free chemical database collates structure and property information from both experiments and predictions. Also includes curated list of literature and datasets relating to a chemical.

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CINAHL Complete

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Most comprehensive database of full-text for nursing & allied health journals from 1937 to present. Includes access to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, magazines, pamphlets, evidence-based care sheets, books, and research instruments.

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Clinical Trials Registers

International listing of clinical trials registers compiled by the York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, UK.

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ClinicalKey

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Online collection of ebooks, journals, guidelines, patient education handouts, drug monographs, images, and videos focusing on clinical health care. Includes MEDLINE full-text.

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ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry and results database; includes information about publicly & privately funded studies including; completed & ongoing trials, research design, results, and contact information.

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Cochrane Library

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Collection of databases aimed at gathering and summarizing health research.

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County Health Rankings

Constructed as a snapshot to identify health issues at the county level.

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CQ Press Electronic Library

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An integrated search environment for obtaining analysis on Congressional issues in the news and coverage of the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.

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CRL Catalog

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.

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Current Contents Connect

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Part of Web of Science, Current Contents is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

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DailyMed: Drug Package Inserts

Online access to current and past United States Food and Drug Administration-approved labels for prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

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Dartmouth Atlases of Health Care

Several atlases are available at this site that provide descriptions and statistics for the United States health care system. The reports are compiled by the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.

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DASH

Data repository run by the University of California. Find freely-available data sets for re-use, and deposit your own data set.

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DATA2010

Search data collected under the HealthyPeople2010 initiative with 427 objectives. National data with some information available at the state level.

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Datacite

Provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) and metadata for research data and a searchable database of full datasets, images, films, software, etc across all research areas. Good for finding raw datasets for analysis or obtaining a DOI for your own data.

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Dataverse

An open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data from all different disciplines. Allows individuals to set up their own data repository. Good for satisfying funder requirements for data management.

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Dental Education in Video

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A video encyclopedia of dentistry and dental technique, delivering instant online access to hundreds of high-definition videos featuring world-renowned clinicians and educators. It provides hundreds of hours of demonstrations from American Dental Association-approved content partners, together with interviews and lectures, for students and faculty in dental surgery, medicine, oral hygiene, assisting, and nursing.

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Devices@FDA

Search for approved United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical devices. Results include links to device summary information, manufacturer, approval date, user instructions, and other consumer information.

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Diagnosaurus

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Allows searching of over 1000 differential diagnoses by symptoms, diseases and organ systems. Link from Diagnosaurus directly into other books within AccessMedicine.

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Disease Management Project

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This resource was developed by The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education and Unitech Communications.

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Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)

Houses documents (legal reports, presentation files, emails, memos, etc.) from the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, universities, and funding agencies regarding drug and pharmacy-related lawsuits. Hosted by the University of California San Francisco.

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DrugBank

Combines chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical data with comprehensive drug targeting information.

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Drugs@FDA

Search for prescription and over the counter drugs approved for sale in the United States; find approved labels, original application documents as submitted by the drug company, and replies from the Food and Drug Administration.

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eBooks on EBSCOhost

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This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.

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ECRI Guidelines Trust

Find summaries of high-quality guidelines from state, federal, and international agencies. Requires free registration. Similar to National Guideline Clearinghouse.

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Elsevier ScienceDirect Books Complete

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Access to over 39,000 eBook titles including biomedical science and medicine, pharmacology, neuroscience, psychology, social sciences and more.

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Embase

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Embase provides access to over more than 29 million citations for biomedical articles and conference proceedings. This version has been customized for USC users to find the full-text of articles from library holdings.

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EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database

Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource. (Users in the U.S. users may prefer to use NCBI GenBank site for sequence retrieval). Also known as EMBL-Bank; constitutes Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource.

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Entrez: Life Sciences search engine

Searches across 39 molecular and literature database maintained by NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information). Results are listed by database so a single search can lead to discover of different types of data. Good for a broad overview.

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