Librarian Subject Specialist

Ruth Gustafson

ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑1883 — Biological/Agricultural Sciences Reference Department (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/)

Librarian Subject Specialist for: General Biology; Animal Science; Avian Science; Entomology (including Bee Biology and Pollination); Environmental Science & Policy; Environmental Toxicology; Evolution and Ecology; Forensic Science; Nematology; and Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Need assistance? Email bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu April 8-25, 2013. Ruth Gustafson will have office hours Mon/Fri 11am-noon starting Friday, April 26 through Monday, June 3, 2013 (exceptions Friday, May 10th; Monday, May 27).

SUNDAY Reference -- Available at 1st floor Shields, May 5th, 1-5pm

Topic Ideas & Search Terms

Research Help

Library Resources for Undergraduate Students (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/help/student.php)

Library Research Aids: How Do I...? Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/guides/)

These guides include Choose a Research Topic, 5 Steps to Better Library Research, Find a Book, and more.

Life And Health Sciences Collections

Biological & Agricultural Sciences, Shields Library (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/)

The BioAg Sciences collections are located on the 3rd floor of Shields Library.

Health Sciences Libraries Collections (http://lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/about/collections/)

The Carlson Health Sciences Library is near the SouthWest corner of the UC Davis campus and the Blaisdell Medical Library is in Sacramento at the UCD Medical Center.

Government Information Collection [UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/)

The UC Davis Library is a federal and state depository library with extensive historical and current collections in print, microform and electronic formats. We collect extensively from major international, intergovernmental organizations, selectively from local jurisdictions, and on a very limited basis from foreign governments. Agriculture, forestry, the environment and ecology are areas of strength. We collect comprehensively from the U.S. Congress and California Legislature, along with federal and state laws and regulations. The Library's collection of technical report literature is extensive. We emphasize statistical data in all collecting areas. Most government documents and maps are listed in the Harvest UC Davis Library Catalog and the UC-wide MELVYL Catalog. Some materials, such as technical reports and historical documents, may require specialized indexes or assistance from government information librarians. Government documents circulate on the same basis as other library materials. Some are housed in a separate stacks area in the Lower Level of Shields and are retrieved via the service desk on that level.

Connect From Off-Campus

Connect from Off Campus (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/services/connect/)

Instructions for UC Davis students, faculty, and employees to access our licensed resources from off campus. VPN is the preferred method for remote access in most cases.

Library Catalogs

Harvest UC Davis Catalog (http://harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu)

Harvest is the UCD library online catalog of the collections of all five UC Davis General Libraries. It does not include the holdings of the Law Library. If you log in (My Account) using your library card number and PIN, you can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.

E-book Collections

Electronic books in the Biological and Health Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/etext/)

Subject listing of electronic books (handbooks, textbooks, guides) in basic biological and related health sciences disciplines/specialties and subdisciplines/subspecialties. Includes online books in general biology, biochemistry, endrocrinology & metabolism, genetics, microbiology & virology, molecular biology, neurology, nutrition, physiology, toxicology and veterinary medicine. All books are searchable at chapter-level. [Compiled by the UCD Carlson Health Sciences Library]

Springer eBooks Package (http://springerlink.com/books/) VPN

This UC-wide pilot is now (2013) a three-year package for Springer eBooks and includes more than 55,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. NEW INTERFACE as of November 26, 2012.

Coverage: 2005-2013

Related:

• CDL webpage describing the UC Libraries Springer eBooks Pilot (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/)
  

CAB eBooks [via CAB Direct] (http://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/) VPN

CABI ebooks now provides access to over 532 agricultural titles (more than 9,000 individual chapters). The archives from 2000-2007 includes 400+ titles (with over 6,000 individual chapters).

This collection is divided into six core subject collections: Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Human, Food and Nutrition Sciences; Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences; and Leisure and Tourism.

PLEASE NOTE: This collection does *not* include ALL books published by CABI but selected titles. In particular, the publisher has chosen *not* to include textbooks in this package.

Coverage: 2000-present

Related:

• CABI's ebook coverage showing two book title lists (Current file & archive) (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=2211)
  

CRCnetBASE [via CRC Press] (full text books) (http://www.crcnetbase.com/) VPN

Full-text searchable database collection of more than 1500 handbooks, textbooks and manuals in agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, economics, engineering, ergonomics, law enforcement, materials science, math, nutrition, pharmaceuticals, physics, plant science, polymers, project management, public administration, statistics, telecommunications, textiles, toxicology and tribology. The full database can be searched, or any of its many subsets. The following TEN packages are subscribed by the University of California and are also listed separately under their respective Subject Guides: CHEMnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE, InfoSECURITYnetBASE, ITknowledgeBASE, MATHnetBASE, NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE, and STATSnetBASE.

Related:

• Access Issues (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2009/05/08/accessing-online-crc-books-through-the-vpn/)
  

Subject Guides

Subject Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/)

Use the Subject Guides to identify additional databases to search for information on your topic.

Databases

PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708) VPN

Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Coverage: 1946-present

Related:

• PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
  
• Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53592/)
  
• NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf)PDF
  
• NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf)PDF
  
• PubMed Training Manual [NLM] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook.pdf)PDF
  Extensive 148-page training manual from day-long PubMed training class. Updated April 2011.
  
• Tutorials, Guides & Instructional Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/guides/instguides.php#pubmed)
  Lots of information from UCDavis' Health Science Libraries
  
• For help from a Shields BioAg librarian send email to: bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu
  
• Human medicine, veterinary medicine, and health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
  Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu / Blaisdell Medical Library (916)734-3529, mclref@lib.ucdavis.edu
  

BIOSIS Previews [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS) VPN

NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.

More than 22 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.

Coverage: 1926-present

Related:

• FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
  
• OLD Version BIOSIS Access (http://webofknowledgev4.com/biosis) VPN
  Backup until end of 2011. Most complete load as of week of July 18th.
  
• Quick Reference Card: BIOSIS Previews, ISI Web of Knowledge (http://wokinfo.com/wok/media/pdf/qrc/bpqrc.pdf)PDF
  
• Online BIOSIS information (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/BIOSIS/h_database.html)
  
• Video training: Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (https://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=27087902)
  
• Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class35)
  

PsycINFO [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/psycinfo/advanced) VPN

PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA). It provides citations to articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations and even important internet sites in psychology and related disciplines, most with abstracts and some citations. (Psychinfo is the incorrect spelling.)

Coverage: 1840-present

Related:

• PsycINFO Lib Guide [ProQuest] (http://proquest.libguides.com/psycinfo)
  
• PsycINFO [via CSA Illumina] This interface will be retired August 1, 2012 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=psycinfo&adv=1)
  

CAB Abstracts [via OvidSP] (http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=cabz) VPN

NOTE: default UCD Search Type set to Advanced Ovid Search. Citations and abstracts to the international agricultural literature, including veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition, forestry, rural development, as well as other related topics such as tourism and human ecology. Covers over 11,000 journals & conference proceedings and selected books in agriculture. Produced by CAB (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) International (CABI) with more than 9.0 million records as of 10/27/10.

HISTORICAL SCOPE: Archive abstracts added in August 2005 go back to 1910 with 1,860,000 additional records.

CAB DATABASE PDFs: As of January 2009, hard-to-find literature may be available as CAB Database PDFs (so noted *below* the UC-eLinks button). Currently, ONLY Internet Explorer (PC platform) or Safari (Mac platform) loads these PDFs. These CABI Full Text items give users automatic access to over 187,000 (as of March 2013) journal articles, conference papers and reports - 80% of which are not available electronically anywhere else.

Coverage: 1910-present [Archives added for 1910-1971]

Related:

• Fact Sheet [CABI] (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=125)
  Describes content of CAB Abstracts database and provides tabs to coverage and serials cited.
  
• Database Guide (http://www.ovid.com/site/products/ovidguide/cabadb.htm)
  Database guide to all features of the CAB Abstracts database
  
• Saved Searches/Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/ospa/en/my_alerts.htm)
  
• BioAg Librarians (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/about/meet-staff.php)
  For assistance with searching CAB Abstracts, e-mail bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu or contact your BioAg librarian subject specialist
  
• Veterinary medicine / health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
  Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu
  

CINAHL Plus: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [via EBSCO] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rzh) VPN

References and abstracts on nursing, biomedical, allied health and consumer health literature. Also includes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based care sheets. Full text is provided for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Includes PreCINAHL as a companion database.

Coverage: 1982-

Related:

• Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://bll.epnet.com/help/ehost/Saving_Search_as_Alert.htm)
  

SPORTDiscus [via EBSCO] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sph) VPN

SPORTDiscus is the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine. SportDiscus has over 1.7 million qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites that focus on different areas involving sport, including: sport sciences, engineering, psychology, administration, sociology, history, coaching, training, physical education, physical fitness, health and recreation.

As of July 2012+: Unlimited users access.

Coverage: 1800-Present

MEDLINEplus (http://medlineplus.gov/)

Full-text reputable consumer health information compiled by the National Library of Medicine from authenticated sources including the various U.S. Government agencies involved with health care. Many free and reliable full-text sources are incorporated including drug information, dictionaries and directories.

Embase (http://www.embase.com) VPN

Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research and conference abstracts.

Embase contains over 22 million records spanning 1974-present, with over 1 million records added annually. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and codes; and 80% of all citations in Embase include author-written abstracts. The Embase journal collection is international with over 7,500 active peer-reviewed journals more than 90 countries.

All MEDLINE records produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are included, as well as over 5 million records not covered in MEDLINE. To *exclude* these duplicate MEDLINE/PubMed records, go to Advanced Search and uncheck MEDLINE under the "Records from" category.

Scope which is more extensive or has more European coverage than MEDLINE/PubMed includes the following areas:

• Drug therapy and research, including pharmaceutics, pharmacology and toxicology
• Biotechnology and biomedical engineering, including medical devices
• Health policy and management, including pharmacoeconomics
• Public, occupational and environmental health, including pollution control
• Alternative and complementary medicine

Coverage: 1974-current (for EMBASE records); 1966-current (for MEDLINE records)

Related:

• Embase Getting Started videos (http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/videos/embase-getting-started)
  
• Embase FAQ (http://www.embase.com/info/customer-support/faq)
  
• Saved Searches/Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.embase.com/info/helpfiles/email-alerts/setting-email-alert)
  
• Embase Indexing Explained (http://www.embase.com/info/UserFiles/Files/EMBASE%20indexing%20guide%202.3.pdf)PDF
  Comprehensive 18-page guide to Embase indexing policies and practices
  

Global Health [via OvidSP] (http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=n&DBC=y&D=cagz) VPN

"Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.

Dating back to 1910, together they provide a unique resource which offers a substantially deeper subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases than many other sources currently available.

Global Health provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material."

Coverage: 1910 - present

CQ Electronic Library (http://www.library.cqpress.com/) VPN

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Electronic Library includes many resources for the study of current and historical congressional and American government issues. The CQ Researcher is an invaluable source of background information on topical issues since 1991. The Global Researcher is similar to CQ Researcher but with an international orientation. CQ Weekly Report, available starting in 1983, reports in depth on congressional activities and political developments.

Search from the CQ Electronic Library home page, where you may register a user profile in order to save documents and search strategies, or search in each online edition separately. See similar entry "CQ Press Electronic Library" for individual titles as related listings.

Related:

• CQ Global Researcher, 2007 to present (http://library.cqpress.com/globalresearcher/) VPN
  
• CQ Researcher Online, 1991 to present (http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/) VPN
  The CQ Researcher produces in-depth, analytical reporting on congressional issues and is an excellent resource for term paper topics. Issues are released weekly and each issue explores a single topic with references included. Online access begins in 1991.
  
• CQ Weekly, 1983 to current (http://library.cqpress.com/cqweekly/) VPN
  

PAIS International Database [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/pais?accountid=14505) VPN

Indexes all types of materials in the area of public affairs and public policy - journal articles, books and book chapters, reports, government documents. Topics include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, health, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics. Note that PAIS was formerly a CSA database and transitioned to a new interface via Proquest in August, 2012.

Coverage: 1972-present

Related:

• New Proquest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
  Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  
• PAIS International [via CSA] (http://search.proquest.com/pais/advanced) VPN
  PAIS transitioned to the new Proquest interface during the first week in August, 2012.
  
• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/pais-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) VPN

The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This database indexes popular magazines and newspapers and is an excellent source for popular press information on medicine and healthcare. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Coverage: 1887-present

Related:

• See also MasterFILE Premier database for popular magazines (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=f5h)
  

Health Statistics Resources

ProQuest Statistical Insight (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv) VPN

ProQuest Statistical Insight combines Index and abstract records previously available from print indexes: American Statistics Index (ASI) from 1973, and Index to International Statistics (IIS)from 1980. ProQuest Statistical Insight enables searching indexes and tables for statistics produced by the U.S. government and major international organizations. The database includes some statistical tables as well as abstracts, or summaries, of statistical publications. The Library has many of the publications indexed in print or electronic format.

Related:

• LexisNexis Insight User Guide (http://library.lexisnexis.com/ksc_assets/subscriber_resources/lnsi_guidebook.pdf)PDF
  
• Youtube tutorial on how to use LexisNexis Statistical Insight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ocGiw20rDc)
  
• Guide to government statistical resources online (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/govinfo/guides/statistics.php)
  
• American statistics index (ASI) indexes and abstracts the contents of federal government statistical publiscations. The print index is located in Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services.
  
• Index to international statistics (IIS)indexes and abstracts statistical publications of international organizations such as the U.N., UNESCO and IMF. The print index is located in Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services.
  

Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)

Author: U.S. Census Bureau

Annual comprehensive statistical compilation of U.S. government statistics. Use the Abstract as a statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.

FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)

FedStats is a gateway to statistics from over 100 United States Federal government agencies. Link directly to statistical data from agencies, for example, the Census Bureau, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Access statistics by topics or subjects like crime, education, etc. Search across Federal government agencies using words or phrases to find agencies with statistics. Data sets vary by agency and format.

UC-eLinks

UC-eLinks (http://www.cdlib.org/services/info_services/instruct/ucelinks_guide.html)

Brought to you by UC libraries! UC-eLinks helps to link you to *choices* to find the item(s) you are interested in. UC-eLinks appears in most library literature databases and provides a consistent way of getting to online articles (if licensed) or to information about which print issues of a journal we own. If we do not own a journal or book, you can use the UC-eLinks service to Request that the item be sent to you for free from another UC library -- often using Web delivery if the item is an article or book chapter.

CDL Online Database Guides

CDL Instructional Resources (http://www.cdlib.org/services/info_services/instruct/#resources)

Links to tutorials, movies and other online instructional materials on shared UC databases such as BIOSIS Previews, Web of Science, PubMed and more

EndNote

EndNote Instructional Webpage (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)

Author: UC Davis Libraries

EndNote, licensed for all UCD full-time students, faculty, researchers and staff, is a bibliographic reference manager which enables citations to be stored, searched, and quickly inserted into research papers in the format of many scholarly journals.

EndNote Intro for BioAg Researchers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/topics/index.php?id=130)

Author: Ruth Gustafson

This webpage is the step-by-step guide for the monthly in-person EndNote Intro course taught in Shields Library.

Related:

• Sign up for EndNote Intro Class for BioAg Researchers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class57)
  

Images

Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC) [via the VRA] (http://www.vraweb.org/resources/ipr/dirc/index.html)

Author: Visual Resources Association

The DIRC is an interactive decision tree program to help you determine what you need to do to legally use a specific image for a specific purpose. At each stage it has a brief description of the issue at hand as well as links for more detailed discussions of those issues.

Animal Science Image Gallery (http://anscigallery.nal.usda.gov)

Author: USDA National Agricultural Library & American Society of Animal Science

The Animal Science Image Gallery began as a partnership between the Animal Science Education Consortium (fifteen colleges and universities in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states) and the National Agriculture Library (NAL), funded (2003-2007) by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant.

AP Images (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx) VPN

Formerly known as the AccuNet/Associated Press Photo Archive, this site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the AP news service, historic images. Most of the images are contemporary and date from 1995 forwards and all include descriptive captions and source information.

Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present

BIODIDAC: A bank of digital resources for teaching biology (http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/)

More than 6780 items are arranged in categories of: Eubacteria, Protista , Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Human Biology, and Histology. In addition to images, video and animations are also included.

USE INFORMATION from the website: "Copying the material, modifying and adapting it to meet the professor's needs, and subsequent distribution to students is permitted with the condition that this is noncommercial, that the supplier (BIODIDAC) of the material is acknowledged, and that its use is registered."

NOTE: Some items only described in French.

Coverage: 1996-2001

Images database [NCBI] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/images)

SEE ALSO Open-i listed below. The NCBI Images database is no longer directly searchable but can be accessed via searching in PubMed Central. Included are millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources.

See "related" note below about the change.

Copyright Notice: These images are drawn from journal articles and other documents that are protected by copyright. The same copyright applies to the images. Some documents - a relatively small subset - are available with a Creative Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse of the material. In the absence of a copyright or license statement to the contrary, users should assume that standard copyright protection applies. See the PMC copyright notice for more information.

Date: July 2012

Related:

• Change to NCBI Images access (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so10/so10_pm_display_ncbi_images.html#note)
  May 26, 2011: From NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region NCBI Images Database One of our Network members wondered if the NCBI Images database had disappeared because the link no longer worked. I checked the drop down menu in PubMed—the last location I had seen the Images database. It wasn’t there! Here’s the answer I received from CustServ: “The Images database was incorporated into PubMed Central (PMC). For example if you go to PMC and search for Protease-coupled PPIase assay, you will see on the right the “PMC Image Search” box. Then you can click on the images. Here’s the original announcement about the Images database for more details: Canese K. PubMed® Display Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Database. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Sep-Oct;(376):e14.
  

MedPiX [TM] (http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/parent.php3?mode=home_page#top)

Free online medical image database, provided by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. All public content is peer-reviewed by an Editorial Panel.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2683&&sort.property=overallRating)

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

The Health Sciences section provides access to more than 3,000 multimedia items from topics ranging from cancer to nutrition to veterinary medicine in formats such as animations, presentations and tutorials and much more.

National Digital Library (US Fish & Wildlife Service) (http://www.fws.gov/digitalmedia)

Author: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Free online digital media library from US F&WS. Wide assortment of selected images, publications, video and audio clips that are in the public domain.

NIH Photo Galleries (http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm)

More than 15 institutes with a variety of their photo galleries are presenting ranging from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Each gallery indicates guidelines for permissible use.

NOAA Photo Library (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/)

Author: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

This digital photo collection includes "the work, observations, and studies that are carried on by the scientists, engineers, commissioned officers, and administrative personnel that make up" NOAA.

This "collection spans centuries of time and much of the natural world from the center of the Earth to the surface of the Sun" and "includes thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of our shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from the great whales to the most minute plankton. ... The geographic range of NOAA work encompasses polar region to polar region and much of the World's oceans."

Open-i (http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/)

Author: National Library of Medicine

This open-access biomedical image search engine in is Beta test but has good retrievals for most major biomedical topics. Open-i helps "users retrieve not only the MEDLINE citation information, but also the outcome statements in the article and the most relevant figure from it. Further, it is possible to use the figure as a query component to find other relevant images or other visually similar images."

Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Photographs, Illustrations, Multimedia Files from CDC (http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp)

"Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to 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."

Internet Guides

Hardin MD (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html)

healthfinder (http://www.healthfinder.gov/)

Maintained by federal government and professional societies

UC Davis Health Sciences Libraries: Recommended Medical Web Sites (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/med/?sort=subject#ws)

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (http://infomine.ucr.edu/)

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It links to useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Databases

Peer Review

A process through which manuscripts submitted to a journal are evaluated for quality -- by one or more subject experts in addition to the editor -- before being accepted for publication.

All CSA Illumina databases (such as PsycINFO and PAIS) separate result sets into tabbed categories including "Peer-Reviewed" journals. For journals retrieved from other databases, use the online Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to locate your journal. To the left of your title, look for a vertical black/white symbol depicting a referee jersey and thus noting the publication is "Refereed".

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/) VPN

The standard source for information on virtually every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published throughout the world (plus thousands of newspapers). Indicates whether a publication is a refereed (peer-reviewed) title.

Journal Ranking

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (http://uclibs.org/PID/36787) VPN

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the following year. The most recent edition is always published in the summer following the year analyzed. Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the newer 5-year Impact Factor.

Coverage: 2007-2011

Date: 2011

Related:

• Journal Citation Reports: Information for New Users (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_info.htm#information)
  
• Impact Factors in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor)
  Definition of terms, details on how the metrics are calculated, and information on the validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors
  
• Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_using.htm)