Research Tools


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

NCBI Bookshelf


PCOM Databases: complete list includes descriptions

DoD Biomedical Research Database 

Google Scholar*

Genamics Journal Seek 

HAPI Health & Psychological Instruments

MEDLINE (OVID)

Mental Measurements 

NCBI Entrez Life Sciences Engine

NIH RePORTER database of research expenditures and results

PsycINFO 

PubMED 

Science Direct 

Science Signaling Weekly

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 “PCOMâ€? in the search box in the “Library Linksâ€? 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.

FedStats.gov 

Google Patents 

IndexCat - History of Medicine

Linscott's Directory Immunological Biological Reagents

National Academies Press Discovery Engine

NIH Manuscript Submission

NIH Protecting Human Research Participants

NIH Training in Responsible Conduct of Research

NIH Videocasting

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