About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products Integrative Medicine Service database of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Provides clinical summaries of herbs for oncologists and other healthcare professionals, and evaluations of alternative cancer therapies. |
Academic Search Premier Off-campus users Full-text database that covers all academic subjects, including medicine. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
ACP Journal Club Off-campus users Online version of a bimonthly evidence based review journal that summarizes research from a broad range of internal medicine related journals. The purpose is to enable practicing physicians to bring the latest research to bear on their patient care. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. |
ACP Medicine Online Reference Comprehensive evidence-based reference tool for internal medicine. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff; requires user name and password both on and off campus. |
ACUBriefs Established and supported by a grant from the Medical Acupuncture Research Foundation (MARF). Its purpose is to make available online the most comprehensive database of references on acupuncture in the English language. |
AGRICOLA The National Agricultural Library's two databases that index the books and articles of the agricultural research literature, including botanical/herbal research. HerbalGram, for example, is indexed in AGRICOLA's Journal Article Citation Index (it's not indexed in Medline). Available via EbscoHost as well as the National Agricultural Library. |
Alt-Health Watch Off-campus users A full text database covering a wide range of periodicals in the field of alternative health, including peer-reviewed journals, professional publications, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and research reports. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
AMED: Allied and Alternative Medicine Database Off-campus users British Library's index to the literature of complementary and alternative medicine, including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, chiropractic, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, occupational therapy, osteopathy, physiotherapy, podiatry and rehabilitation. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
British Homeopathic Library Information service and datababase of 25,000+ journal and book citations; affiliated with Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. |
CHANT: Chinese Ancient Texts Off-campus users A searchable series of full text databases that include a growing number of ancient Chinese texts. Published by the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Texts are in Chinese. CHANT is best used with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. |
China Online Journals Medical Collection Off-campus users Full-text access to 78 Traditional Chinese medicine journals published in Chinese. After selecting a journal title, use the "Search This Journal" link to search by keyword, author, or other parameters. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff; works best with Internet Explorer. |
Classical Chinese Medicine Associates Forum Classical Chinese Medicine reflects the voices of an international movement seeking to honor and restore the classical origins of Chinese medicine. This site features articles, lectures, and practical demonstrations by Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac., and a group of like-minded scholars in China and the West who are committed to transmit the time honoured science of Eastern medicine as a highly sophisticated and deeply spiritual art form. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff; user ID and password required. |
Clinical Pharmacology Off-campus users Concise and clinically relevant information about drugs as well as some herbs and supplements. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research facilities. |
Dietary Supplements Labels Database A free database produced by the National Library of Medicine. Offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to determine what ingredients are in specific brands and to compare ingredients in different brands. Information is also provided on the health benefits claimed by manufacturers. |
DIMDI Produced by the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information. Search across 70 databases covering the entire field of medicine (including alternative medicine) and its adjacent fields, including drugs, toxicology, medical devices, biology and psychology. Enter your search term in the “Database Query” box. |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Off-campus users Full-text database focused on a variety of medical disciplines. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
HerbMed Pro Off-campus users Database providing links to scientific, evidence-based data underlying the use of herbs for health. Published by the Alternative Medicine Foundation. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. |
IBIDS Free database produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, IBIDS contains citations and abstracts to scientific research literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. |
iCaduceus This is a diagnostic and treatment support system for holistic clinicians, offering non-pharmacological treatment information in four modalities for 400 conditions. Create your own account from a campus computer, then login from anywhere (similar to MDConsult). |
imagesMD A collection of medical images available for faculty use in presentations and class handouts. Permission to use the images for educational purposes is already granted in the license that is paid for by the library. Access is by IP recognition for campus users. If you want to use the database from home, please contact the library for an access code.  |
Index to Chiropractic Literature Index to major journals of the chiropractic literature, includes abstracts when available and links to free full text articles when available. |
Lab Tests Online Free website maintained by professional societies representing the lab community, providing up-to-date information about lab tests and what they are used for. Intended for patients and providers. |
MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary Free online dictionary features sound files, radicals, stroke order, and links to online flash cards. Accepts English, pinyin, and Chinese characters. Selected for the Best Free Reference Web Sites 2007 list by the American Library Association. |
Mdconsult and FirstConsult Off-campus users MDConsult is a full text clinical library that includes 52 journals, more than 30 textbooks, clinical practice guidelines, customizable education handouts, and drug information. FirstConsult, on the other hand, is a point of care expert system that helps primary care physicians diagnose and treat patients that present specific conditions or symptoms. Both are available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. FirstConsult is accessed by clicking on a link within MDConsult. |
MedicLatina Off-campus users Full-text to more than 140 peer reviewed Spanish language medical journals. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
Medline via PubMed Off-campus users The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database currently containing over 10 million citations from more than 4,000 biomedical journals, including some alternative medicine journals. Also available via EbscoHost. |
Native American Ethnobotany Free database of the University of Michigan--Dearborn that indexes books, articles, and other materials pertaining to food, drugs, dyes, and fibers derived from plants by native peoples. |
Natural Medical Protocols Natural medicine protocols for treatment of medical conditions. Includes references. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff using the above link; no login process necessary off campus. |
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Off-campus users Provides information on herbal or nonherbal supplements, presented in 15 categories, such as Safety, Effectiveness, Possible Mechanism of Action and Active Ingredients, Adverse Reactions, Typical Dosage & Routes of Administration. Available via the World Wide Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. The print version is available in our reference collection (call number QV 766 N285). |
Natural Standard Off-campus users A collection of databases that provide evidence based information about complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. |
Oregonian Off-campus users Full-text to the Portland, OR newspaper. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty, and staff. |
OSTMED: The Osteopathic Literature Database Index to the literature of osteopathic medicine, containing more than 30,000 citations to primarily journal articles. |
PDQ Comprehensive Cancer Database The National Cancer Institute's summaries of the most recent cancer research, treatments, supportive care, clinical trials, etc. All summaries are peer reviewed. Includes a major category for complementary and alternative medicine treatments. |
PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database Database developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not. |
Plants Database United States Department of Agriculture database that provides detailed profiles of herbs and other plants, including photographs, distribution maps, & other information. Searchable by either common name, scientific name, or symbol. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Off-campus users Full-text database of 575 journals in psychology, psychiatry, and related topics. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
PubMed Central The National Library of Medicine's full-text collection of 90+ life sciences journals. Access is free. Don't confuse this database with Medline. |
ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Collection Off-campus users A full text collection of 700+ peer-reviewed research journals. Available via the Web for NCNM students, faculty and staff. |
Scirus A free, science-specific search engine covering both Web content and select subscription databases. Search results may come from PubMed, ScienceDirect, and MDConsult, as well as education and government sources, professional society sites, and digital repositories. While on campus, you can link directly to our full-text ScienceDirect and MDConsult holdings. |
Trip Database Dedicated to answering clinical, Evidence Based Medicine questions; includes filters for systematic reviews and other categories for refining results. |
VitaSearch: Current Research in Nutrition and Integrative Medicine Published by Tishcon Corporation, it includes the "Clinical Pearls" database that summarizes research in the field of nutritional science; also includes an IBIDS database, and consumer advice healthnotes. |
WorldCat.org Combined catalog of over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Search for books, sound recordings, audiovisual materials, and other library materials. Enter your zip code to see if a local library has the item you're looking for. |