Research Tools
RefWorks Citation Manager: Write-N-Cite, RefGrab It, RefShare
E-Books & Databases
Books: search the PCOM Catalog for additional research titles
Bruce: Quantitative Methods For Health Research - R2 Library
Hulley: Designing Clinical Research - R2 Library
Kane: Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research - R2 Library
Portney: Foundations of Clinical Research - R2 Library
Reif-Lehrer: Grant Application Writer's Handbook - R2 Library
PCOM Databases: complete list includes descriptions
DoD Biomedical Research Database
HAPI Health & Psychological Instruments
MEDLINE (OVID)
NCBI Entrez Life Sciences Engine
NIH RePORTER database of research expenditures and results
Social Science Research Network
World Biodiversity Database Taxonomic database supports searching and browsing a number of online species banks covering a wide variety of organisms
*Google Scholar - customize Google Scholar to link to PCOM full text
- Click “Scholar Preferences"
- Enter “PCOM� in the search box in the “Library Links� section
- Click "Save Preferences"
- Look for either "Linkto@PCOM" or "Findit@PCOM" in your search results
Research Web Sites
Animal Welfare Guide resources for alternatives searching
AAAS EurekAlert Science news from universities, medical centers, governments, corporations, etc.
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality - data on medical expenditures, healthcare costs & utilization, hospital services & costs, technology assessments, clinical practice guidelines, quality & patient safety, funding opportunities and more.
IndexCat - History of Medicine
Linscott's Directory Immunological Biological Reagents
National Academies Press Discovery Engine
NIH Protecting Human Research Participants
NIH Training in Responsible Conduct of Research
ResearchGATE Find research partners, collaborate with scientists, and use Journal Finder to discover journals relevant to your research; FREE registration is required
Science Accelerator Department of Energy research & development projects
Science.gov Research and development, science information from selected U.S. government agencies. Includes NASA, Food and Drug sites, a huge selection of physical science sites and allows searching by a large variety of subjects
Scirus Scientific Search Engine With over 350 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information
Scitopia.org A gateway to the research most cited in scholarly work and patents including journal content and technical conference papers created through the collaboration of 21 leading science and technology societies
World Biodiversity Database a taxonomic database and information system that allows you to search and browse 21 online species banks covering a wide variety of organisms
World Wide Science Government-sponsored science content from over 50 member countries and 40 international portals, as well as everything in Science.gov, developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information
