Pratt Library

Sources by Topic

Choose from the following list of available topics:

ChemSources (search for free but pay for results)
Linscott's Directory
USPharmacopeia-National Formulary* (CCHMC users contact Pratt Library for username and password)
Internet Drug Index — A listing of over 4,000 U.S. drug products and related information.
Household Products Database -- Guide to potential health effects of ingredients in common household products

About EBC
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford)
- Canadian Cochrane Centre
- McMaster Evidence-Based Practice Center
- EBMedicine User Guides Interactive* from JAMA
- EBNursing User Guides
- How to read a paper -- articles from BMJ
Tutorials
EBC Portal Sites
Search for Evidence
- Cochrane Library* (Ovid's EBM Reviews)
- PubMed Clinical Queries
- ACP Journal Club* (Ovid's EBM Reviews)
- BMJ Clinical Evidence*
- Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing* (Requires off-campus logon for CCHMC users)
- Pedro (physiotherapy)
- OTSeeker (occupational therapy)
- Searching Help
  - Searching the Literature for Evidence-Based Medicine (UCSF tutorial)
  - Searching the Literature (UNC tutorial)
  - Search PubMed using PICO question
Clinical Trials/Guidelines
- Cochrane Library*
- OncoLink
- National Cancer Institute
- National Library of Medicine
- Canadian Medical Association
- AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research and Clinical Trials
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (also known as guidelines.gov)
- University of California at San Francisco Clinical Practice Guidelines
EBC in Pediatrics
- Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health
- Evidence-Based Pediatrics University of Michigan
- PedsCCM
Statistics Calculators

Virtual Reference Desk
Bartleby -- Aggregates many reference works in various subject areas
Bartlett's Quotations
Maps
Oxford English Dictionary* (OhioLINK electronic text resource -- requires off-campus login for CCHMC users)
Zip codes
Medical dictionary
Encyclopedia Britannica* (OhioLINK electronic text resource -- requires off-campus login for CCHMC users)

Organizations

Indexes

Online Sites and Services

GrantsWeb -- Produced by the Society of Research Administrators. Contains links to government resources, general resources, policy information and circulars, as well as private funding resources.
Foundation Center -- Offers center services, online library, training and seminars, grantmaker information.
GrantsNet -- Produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in cooperation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Targets students and young faculty
Grantmakers in Health -- searchable database on health grantmakers that categorizes the work of more than 300 philanthropies

Government Sites

GrantsNet -- Department of Health and Human Services compilation of links to government grants information.
FedGrants -- provides detail on available grants, and for users who register, announcements from FedGrants on new grants and modifications of existing grant announcements, tailored to the user's interests
Grants.gov -- find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all U.S. federal grant-making agencies
National Institutes of Health Grants -- Everything you want and need to know about National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
National Science Foundation Grants & Awards -- Website with regulations, notices and other information for NSF grant-seekers.

Publications

Chronicle of Higher Education -- CCHMC site license for full text requires username and password, which can be provided by the Pratt Library to CCHMC users.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guide to Grants and Contracts -- weekly compilation of NIH funding information and opportunities
Federal Register -- official daily publication for rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies and organizations
American Academy of Pediatrics A Pediatrician's Guide to Proposal Writing

Databases

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) -- searchable database of federally-supported research conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions
ScanGrants
SPIN* (Sponsored Programs Information Network) -- database of funding sources

Foundation Directory -- descriptions of more than 41,000 grantmakers, including private foundations, community foundations, operating foundations, and corporate grant makers
Foundation Grants Index -- descriptions of grants awarded to nonprofit organizations by the larger independent, corporate, and community foundations in the U.S.
Grants -- 8,500 available grants offered by federal, state, and local governments, commercial organizations, associations, and private foundations

Organizations
Indexes
- Medline (Ovid*, PubMed)
- MDConsult*
- Rare Diseases Database*
- Healthfinder (government health information by topic)
- HealthWeb (library-consortium-reviewed medical sites by topic)
- MedWeb (topic guide to electronic publications)
Services
- BioMedNet
- Doctor's Guide to the Internet (includes medical conferences and meetings)
- Healthgate
- Medical conferences and meetings
- Medscape
- Physicians' Online
- Digital Anatomist Program 2-D and 3-D views of human anatomy from MRI scans, and computer reconstructions
- ICD-9 Code Generator – A utility to quickly find International Classification of Disease codes

PsycInfo*, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection*, and PsycArticles* are all available and can be searched simultaneously through Ebsco -- many full-text journals included

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols*
Entrez (GenBank, EMBL, PIR, Swiss-Prot, etc.)
NIH-required training in the protection of human research participants for all investigators and key personnel

Publishers -- Search PubList by journal title for phone and fax numbers for permissions, web addresses, etc.
Tables of Contents
Journal title abbreviations from the National Library of Medicine
Instructions to authors -- find the link to instructions for many journals by searching for the title
Impact factors* -- ISI's Journal Citation Reports is available through the University of Cincinnati for UC and CCHMC faculty, staff and students.
Citing Medicine : The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers, 2007
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication, 2007
APA Style Guide to Electronic References*
Refworks* -- web-based bibliographic management system stores citation information and works with word processing to create bibliographies for manuscripts (first-time users need to sign up for an individual account following the screen prompts)
EndNote* -- bibliographic management software similar to Refworks but available for installation on individual workstations at CCHMC