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Social Work
Evidence-Based Practice
A major source of research in evidence-based practice. Offers review of the impact of social service programs.
Research in evidence-based health care practice. Browse or search for disorders to find abstracts and texts through the Cochrane Reviews of medical, health and mental health treatments.
Information and links on the experimental demonstration of the efficacy of treatments, focusing on social work.
Searchable database of interventions for prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Health & Medical
Coverage varies by title
Covers a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
From the Scholarly Communication Center, the Center of Alcohol Studies, and the Rutgers University Libraries. Over 70,000 citations.
1980 to present. MLIN
Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and related topics.
An index to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Produced by National Center for PTSD. There are over 18,800 references (almost all including abstracts) in the database.
1978 to present
Subject Bibliographies & Database, on alcohol and substance abuse. Includes over 31,000 journal articles and 3,000 books, book chapters and reports.
From 1950s to present
Lists over 14 million biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Check out Medline Tutorial.