Microbiology, Immunology, and Virology Research Guide: Databases
A guide to support biomedical research of the Tulane Microbiology and Immunology Department and of the Tulane National Primate Research Center. Resources to improve human and animal health through basic and applied biomedical research.
Biomedical and pharmaceutical research including Medline + 5 million records not covered in Medline. Indexes 7500+ current, mostly peer-reviewed journals. Includes proceedings and conference abstracts.
Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.
Scopus is a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. The resource quickly finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts, and provides access to reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools.
Bibliographic, sequence, and structural databases. Searching the individual databases may improve results. Human Genome, GenBank, BLAST, and other NCBI databases.
Specialty Databases for Research in Health Sciences
The Digital Library is the full-text repository of papers published by the Association for Computing Machinery and by other publishers that have co-publishing or co-marketing agreements with ACM.
Records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Use for animal model selection and food, nutrition and agriculture related literature.
An aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals. Features topics such as global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.
Includes citations and abstracts from scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, info. tech., material science, oceanography, engineering math, environmental science, geophysics, nanotech., biomed. tech., biophysics and more. Also known as Engineering Village.
The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service has focused the Nation's attention on important public health issues. Reports of the Surgeon General on the adverse health consequences of smoking triggered nationwide efforts to prevent tobacco use. Reports on nutrition, violence, and HIV/AIDS—to name but a few—have heightened America's awareness of important public health issues and generated major public health initiatives.
Interactive infectious disease tool. Includes diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy and microbiology. Especially useful for tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
Ovid. Covers health topics in developing and developed countries world-wide. communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology - medical entomology, human nutrition, community and public health, medicinal and poisonous plants. 1910 - present.
Ovid. Citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research (the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery). 1966- present
IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Tulane University subscribes to the IEEE All Society Periodicals Package; the Now Foundations & Trends eBooks Library; and Proceedings of the IEEE and Bell Labs Technical Journal.
For a current list of IEEE Explore material that is part of the Tulane University subscription package, check out: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/accessinfo.
POPLINE was a valuable resource to the population, family planning, and reproductive health community for over 40 years (1973-2019). Site now home to links for alternative access to journal articles that collectively meet the majority of POPLINE user requests.
Archive of literature in primatology, 1940-2010. Includes books, articles, reports, dissertations, and conference proceedings. (PrimateLit database ceased updates as of November 30, 2010.)
Model Open Access portal to full-text journals and books published in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Portugal and Spain.
Social Explorer “contains over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data”. It can be used to locate census tract boundary information from 1940 to the present.
Proquest. Human population dynamics, control, and effect on natural resource management.
The economy is an important aspect of Sustainability and should be seen as "a means to an end" not an end in itself. Major areas of coverage include: Issues in Sustainable Development, Measuring Sustainable Development, Environmental Law, Conventions, & Policy, Sustainable Resource Base: Atmosphere; Land; Water and Biodiversity, Economic Paradigm, Economic Drivers, Sustainable Production, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Transportation/Mobility
National and specialized health databases for Latin-American and Caribbean countries. From BIREME - OPAS - OMS. Latin-American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.
Access to SciFinder requires a username and password. The link will take you to an information page with instructions for creating an individual account and who to contact for assistance.
CAS SciFinder-n is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
Academic Search CompleteThis link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary full-text general literature Multi-disciplinary database covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Annual ReviewsThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Tulane subscribes to current and backfiles of select Annual Reviews titles.
CINAHL CompleteThis link opens in a new windowNursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many journals indexed in CINAHL.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalThis link opens in a new windowCovers: Full-text of many dissertations after 1997, citations and/or abstracts prior to 1997
ERIC (EBSCO)This link opens in a new windowThe Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text of more than 2,200 digests, and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. Good for school health, patient health, pediatric topics. Coverage from 1966-present.
Journal Citation ReportsThis link opens in a new windowAllows evaluation and comparison of journals using citation data from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals. Search impact factor by category, journal or ISSN. NOTE: Use your Web of Science or Endnote username and password or create a new username and password for this database
Nexis UniThis link opens in a new windowFull-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Web of Science CoreThis link opens in a new windowIncludes citation searching (see how many times a paper has been cited).Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports. 1976 - present.
ScopusThis link opens in a new windowScopus is a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. The resource quickly finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts, and provides access to reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools.
