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About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (Integrative Medicine Service, MSK)
This database, presented by Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, provides helpful information on 274 common herbs and dietary supplements. With the assistance of a pharmacist and botanical experts, the database is continually updated.
Connecting users to millions of articles from 17,000 scholarly journals and other reputable sources, this resource is premier source for peer-reviewed literature and authoritative information.
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AccessGUDID (NIH, U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Search for and download information that device labelers have submitted to the FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database GUDID about their medical devices.
AccessMedicine (McGraw-Hill)
Access to more than 100 medical reference textbooks ranging from surgery and pharmacology to basic and clinical sciences. Includes frequently updated content with thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, case files, diagnostic tools, and more.
AccessSurgery (McGraw-Hill Global Education)
This comprehensive online surgery resource enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
AHRQ invests in research and evidence to make health care safer and improve quality. AHRQ provides materials to teach and train health care systems and professionals to help them improve care for their patients.
Covers a selection of journals in different allied health professions including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, speech and language therapy, podiatry. Also covers areas of complementary medicine and palliative care.
Founded in 1907, the AACR accelerates progress toward the prevention and cure of cancer by promoting research, education, communication, and collaboration. The archive of meeting abstracts goes back to 2004.
Leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences.
Provides access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities during the time period of 1933-1955.
The site has links to resources for research, economics, government issues, and patient information.
ASCO membership is comprised of clinical oncologists from all oncology disciplines and sub-specialties. The web site has information for practice guidelines, policy statements, career development, and news.
ASCO was founded in 1964 by a small group of physician members of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) who recognized the need for the creation of a separate society dedicated to issues unique to clinical oncology. ASCO offers both a search and a browse option to find specific abstracts on the Meeting Library, going back to 2009. Please note, our access is for abstracts only.
Antimicrobe (ESun Technologies, LLC)
An online reference database for infectious diseases and antimicrobial agents. Includes reviews and chapters from antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases publications as well as focused MEDLINE search results.
arXiv (Cornell University)
An open access preprint archive providing papers in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
ASCO Guidelines (American Society of Clinical Oncology)
Guidelines can address specific clinical situations (disease-oriented) or use of approved medical products, procedures, or tests (modality-oriented). Using the best available evidence, ASCO’s expert panels identify and develop practice recommendations for specific areas of cancer care that would benefit from the availability of practice guidelines.
BibliMed (BibliMed ©)
Offers a unique interface for searching the PubMed dataset based off of the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Gives suggested MeSH headings and shows subheadings (qualifiers) in the form of a word cloud—different font sizes for more popular subheadings in the literature associated with the MeSH term you choose.
BioMed Central (BMC) (BioMed Central)
A Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) publisher of open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. MSK is an institutional member of BMC meaning a researcher or student can publish an unlimited number of articles in BMC titles.
BIOSIS Citation Index  (Clarivate Analytics)
Database focused on life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. This resource includes content from not only journals but relevant meetings, patents, and books.
Bringing together regularly updated research evidence with the knowledge of international experts, BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool that offers a step-by-step approach to help manage patient diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
BoardCertifiedDocs (American Board of Medical Specialties/Elsevier)
An authoritative reference tool providing certification status and complete biographical and professional information about board certified physicians. It is designed to help a wide range of professionals and businesses in the medical community with credential verification, referrals, research and more. Note: access is for ten concurrent Memorial Sloan Kettering users. If you receive an "access denied" message, please try your search again at a later time.
BRCA Exchange ( Global Alliance for Genomics and Health)
This online database shares data about BRCA mutations and what they actually mean for cancer risk. Users can search the database for information on BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants and learn how experts classify the risks of different mutations in real time.
British National Formulary (British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society)
The British National Formulary (BNF) is a drug resource that provides guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. The content is updated on a monthly basis, and makes use of clinical evidence from a diverse range of sources. BNF may be accessed via MedicinesComplete.
BrowZine (Third Iron)
BrowZine allows you to browse selected eJournals from the MSK Library on your tablet, phone, and on the web. Must sign in with MSK credentials.
Provides information to company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. This resource is part of the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) provided for the public by the New York State Library. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
CAM-Cancer (National Information Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIFAB))
CAM Cancer is an authoritative web resource providing health professionals with evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer.
Cancer Facts and Figures (American Cancer Society)
The American Cancer Society regularly updates the Facts & Figures publications which present the most current trends in cancer occurrence and survival, as well as information on symptoms, prevention, early detection, and treatment.
Cancer Genome Atlas (National Cancer Institute)
A program funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute that analyzes the genome of different cancer types to identify changes in the disease to improve cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment.
Cancer in Children - MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
MedlinePlus provides an excellent start to locating information about childhood and adolescent cancer including links to diagnosis, treatment, news, clinical trials, research, dictionaries, directories, and videos.
Cancer.Net (American Society of Clinical Oncology)
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) offers peer-reviewed information for patients, families and caregivers.  Coverage includes over 120 types of cancer, basic cancer information, support, coping, advocacy, and information about special populations.  Special and notable features on this website include a Medical Illustrations Gallery of common cancer sites organized by cancer type; ASCO Patient Guides that comprise a growing list of well-written and up-to-date documents on a variety of subjects.
CANCERMondial (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
CANCERMondial provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide compiled by the Descriptive Epidemiology Group (DEP) of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
canSAR (The Institute of Cancer Research)
This portal supports cancer translational research and drug discovery by bringing together multidisciplinary data across biology, chemistry, pharmacology, structural biology, cellular networks, and clinical annotations. Note: For optimal use view in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
cBio Portal (Computational Biology Center at MSK)
Provides visualization, analysis and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. Contains The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data as well.
ChEMBL (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Covers bioactive drug-like small molecules in 2-D structure, calculated properties (e.g. logP, Molecular Weight, Lipinski Parameters, etc.), and abstracted bioactivities (e.g. binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET data).
ChemIDplus  (National Institutes of Health)
A dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, and structures) that includes links to NLM and other databases and resources, including links to federal, state and international agencies. ChemIDplus records are updated daily.
Childhood Cancers (National Cancer Institute)
The National Cancer Institute’s Factsheet provides information and statistics about childhood cancers.
ClinicalTrials.gov (National Institutes of Health)
Contains information on federally and privately supported clinical trials from the United States and around the world. Specifics about the trial can be found including locations, contact information, and criteria for participation.
Cochrane Library (Wiley)
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, evidence-based information to inform healthcare decision making. These include the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
COSMIC - Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Designed to store and display somatic mutation information and details related to human cancers. Contains information on publications, samples and mutations. The mutation data and associated information is extracted from the primary literature, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) portals.
Covidence (covidence.org)
A web-based systematic review tool designed to facilitate the process of screening, data extraction, and analysis of published literature.  MSK users need to have an account and should register at: https://www.covidence.org/organizations/5L_47/signup
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and the allied health fields. It offers access to health care articles, books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, and audiovisual materials.
CureSearch (CureSearch)
This site contains comprehensive coverage for all aspects of childhood cancer for health professionals, patients, and families.
DailyMed (MedicosConsultants)
DailyMed is the official provider of FDA label information (package inserts), allowing users to look up and download medication content and labeling. The information provided is the most recent submitted to the FDA.
Derwent Innovations Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Database that combines unique value-added patent information indexed from over 50 patent issuing authorities in the Derwent World Patent Index with patent citations indexed from the Derwent Patents Citation Index. Users can search across clearly written patent titles and abstracts that highlight the novelty, use, advantage, claims, and influence of each invention.
Dietary Supplement Label Database (National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements/National Library of Medicine)
Contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S.
Dimensions (Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc. )
The Dimensions platform is an openly accessible application that contains the details of (and links to) all relevant publications, data sets and clinical trials to COVID-19. Dimensions is updated once every 24 hours, so the latest research can be viewed alongside existing information. With its range of research outputs including datasets and clinical trials, both of which are just as important as journal articles in the face of a potential pandemic, Dimensions is a one-stop shop for all COVID-19 related information Dimensions provides early knowledge and access to research being carried out and published. 

The Dimensions file is also available on Google Sheets. 
Drug Information Portal (National Library of Medicine)
Provides a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and other key U.S. Government agencies. Many international drugs and medications are also covered in the resource.
Drugs@FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
Contains the list of FDA-approved drugs and regulatory information, with approval history information going back to 1988.
e-Anatomy (IMAIOS)
An interactive program containing medical images and pictures of the entire human body. Allows the user to scroll through radiological images from various planes while adding or limiting the types of structures labeled.
ECRI Guidelines Trust (ECRI Institute)
ECRI Guidelines Trust, an interactive guideline portal, puts current, evidence-based clinical practice guideline summaries directly into the hands of clinicians, researchers, medical librarians, and patients. It includes concise, summarized briefs for guidelines developed from systematic reviews of the evidence and evidence-based guidance on a variety of clinical topics from nationally and internationally recognized medical societies and healthcare organizations. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) (Institute of Education Sciences)
An online digital library of information and research pertaining to the field of education. Provides ready access to education literature to support and improve practice in learning, teaching, educator decision-making, and educational research.
Embase (Elsevier)
A comprehensive bibliographic resource covering international literature in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. Simultaneously searches MEDLINE records as well as other bibliographic databases. Note: Setting up a user name and password within this resource will allow you to save your search strategies for future use.
EndNote (Clarivate Analytics)
Helps to manage references by creating a database of aggregated citations from different resources. It functions as a reference and image database, an online search tool, and a bibliography and manuscript maker. See the Training & Orientation page for scheduled workshops. Note: MSK employees may request installation of this application by contacting the Information Systems Help Desk at 646-227-3337.
Epistemonikos (Epistemonikos)
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of evidence-based health care and information technologies, supporting decisions concerning clinical or health-policy questions.
Essential Science Indicators (Clarivate Analytics)
Allows users to conduct on-going, quantitative analyses of research performance and trends in science. Users can also rank top scientists, institutions, countries, and journals in 22 specific fields of research based on journal article publication counts and citation data.
Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC Funders' Group)
Offers similar full text, government-funded, bibliographic data as the United States version of PubMed Central (PMC), but with different search features, functions, and some additional content.
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer)
The aims of EORTC are to develop, conduct, coordinate, and stimulate translational and clinical research in Europe to improve the management of cancer and related problems by increasing survival but also patient quality of life. Through translational and clinical research, EORTC offers an integrated approach to drug development, drug evaluation programs and medical practices.
F1000 (Faculty of 1000)
F1000 offers a suite of resources to help researchers discover research, collaborate, and publish. In F1000Prime, 8,000 experts select and recommend new research; F1000Workspace is a citation management tool; and F1000 Research offers an Open Research publishing platform for life scientists.
General OneFile (Gale via NOVELNY)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics including business, computer technology, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, humanities, law, politics, science, social science, and many general interest topics. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
GeneReviews (National Library of Medicine)
From the University of Washington, GeneReviews are expert-authored, peer-reviewed disease descriptions that apply genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of patients and families with specific inherited conditions.
Genetics Home Reference (National Library of Medicine)
Provides consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variations on human health.
GLAD4U (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
Allows you to query the scientific literature to retrieve and prioritize a list of Entrez-Gene ID's. An alternative search interface for locating specific gene information found within the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) resources.
Google Scholar (Google)
This search engine provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature in a variety of disciplines to include peer-reviewed titles from the US and Europe. Search results include article-level links (Fulltext@MSK) from journal subscriptions maintained by the MSK Library.
GoPubMed (Transinsight)
An alternate PubMed interface that allows you to conduct a search of PubMed articles and see the results sorted and mapped to the Gene Ontology vocabulary as well as to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Facilitates navigation of large result sets from a PubMed query.
Discover 5+ million grants available from the IRS 990-PF dataset. This US-centric database includes the name of foundations, recipients' profiles, what type of support they provide, and the grant amounts awarded.
Grants.gov (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Search all forecasted, posted, closed, and archived grants of various federal agencies. Makes it faster, easier and more cost effective for grant applicants to electronically interact with federal grant-making agencies.
Grey Literature Report (The New York Academy of Medicine)
Updated from 1999–2016, the report contains publications in health and science policy, public health, health of vulnerable and special populations, and general medicine and disease.
Provides information about articles on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes and manuals, rating scales, and other measurement instruments in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
Health Evidence (McMaster University)
This resource helps public health practitioners use the best evidence. It provides access to over 5,000+ quality-rated systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions.
Contains descriptions of research resources available for health care researchers and health sciences librarians. Includes links to PubMed and other web addresses to scales, instruments, datasets, discharge summaries, claims records, epidemiological surveys, disease registries, and clinical records information pertaining to a topic.
HelioBLAST  (HelioText)
This text similarity engine is a free web tool designed to identify articles similar to yours in Pubmed. You can enter entire portions of text (as opposed to just keywords), such an abstract or even a portion of a paper. The tool will then look for matches based on relevance. Submissions are limited to 1,000 words, so the query should be limited to an abstract or paragraph.
Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics)
A searchable web-based product that collects the work of the world's most cited and influential researchers from a broad array of subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences based on citation metrics.
Household Products Database (National Library of Medicine)
Allows scientists and consumers to research products and their health effects based on chemical ingredients information from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by brand manufacturers.
Information Rx (National Library of Medicine)
This resource was created by the National Library of Medicine to help consumers better understand health information, provide them with content to enhance conversations with their healthcare providers, and to encourage the use of evidence-based health infomation on the Internet.
InfoTrac Newsstand (Gale via NOVELNY)
Search full text newspaper articles by title, headline, date, section or other assigned fields. Also contains a searchable archive for historical news stories and customized search options, screen appearance, and results format features. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
International Agency for Research on Cancer (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
The IARC is an agency of the World Health Organization. IARC is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and disseminates scientific information through publications, meetings, courses, and fellowships.
Ixquick  (Ixquick.com)
A metasearch engine which ensures privacy by not recording IP addresses and which uses a “Star System” to rank results.
JAMAevidence (McGraw-Hill Medical)
A compilation of tools for evidence based practice including calculators, podcasts, and the full text of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, the Rational Clinical Examination, and Care at the Close of Life.
A free web tool for finding the most appropriate journals for submitting a manuscript (primarily for papers covering biomedical and clinical research). Allows users to enter the title, abstract, or keywords of an unpublished paper into a text box and find journals that best match their query.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database (Joanna Briggs Institute)
Allows you to simultaneously search a wide range of summarized and appraised health care evidence across seven publication types including Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information Sheets, Systematic Review Protocols, and Technical Reports.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Clarivate Analytics)
Offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR measures research influence and impact factors at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing papers and citing journals.
JSTOR (ITHAKA)
A unique interdisciplinary resource of complete back files of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Access includes General Science (Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and publications of the Royal Society of London), Mathematics, and Statistics.
KidsHealth.Org Cancer Center (Nemours Foundation)
Sponsored by Nemours, KidsHealth is a Web site for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. The KidsHealth Cancer Center contains information tailored to Parents, Kids and Teens.
Lens (Cambia)
Worldwide, open-access, full text patent informatics resource containing over 10 million patent documents from the United States, Europe, Australia, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. DNA and protein sequences disclosed in patents are also searchable.
LexiComp Online (Wolters Kluwer)
Provides access to the approved drugs and dosage forms used at Memorial Sloan Kettering (Hospital Formulary). The Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee selects drugs for addition to the Hospital Formulary based on therapeutic efficacy, toxicity, and cost.
Medications and Mothers' Milk Online (Hale Publishing, LP)
A resource that provides health care professionals with information regarding drug use during lactation.
Medline via Ovid (Wolters Kluwer)
This interface allows you to run the same search across multiple databases. It covers 1946 to present and includes fully-indexed records as well as in-process and other non-indexed citations.  Use advanced search to map directly to MeSH terms.  You must create a personal login in order to save your searches.
MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
For patients and families containing trusted health information on a range of topics. Healthcare professionals canhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/ use the resource to learn about the latest treatments, look up drug information, or view medical images and illustrations. A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This resource is also available in Spanish.
MEDSUM (IBMI)
A free web tool that allows users to research and generate statistics on scientists, journals, and the biomedical literature itself. A live literature-summary interface, feeding directly off of the current PubMed database.
Mendeley (Elsevier)
This citation management tool allows users to easily create, organize and search personal libraries of references, as well as annotate documents and cite while you write. Users have the ability to join the Mendeley community and connect with researchers globally and have the option of searching for research funding opportunities by simply creating their own account. This tool can be accessed from the desktop, a web browser, or via the mobile app.
MeSH Analyzer (Yale)
A web tool for your browser that simplifies the creation of a MeSH analysis grid. A MeSH analysis grid can help identify the problems in a search strategy by presenting the ways articles are indexed in the MEDLINE database in an easy-to-scan tabular format. Creating a MeSH analysis grid manually is a tedious, time-consuming task. Metadata for each article must be manually retrieved, extracted, and pasted into a grid, and then the MeSH terms must be manually sorted and grouped alphabetically.
MeSH on Demand (National Library of Medicine)
Find MeSH terms (medical subject headings) based on your keywords for use in PubMed. Simply copy and paste text into the text box available (max of 10,000 characters). Useful for preliminary research on a topic, systematic reviews, and standard or comprehensive literature searching.
Micromedex (IBM Corporation)
Evidence-based source for drug dosage, drug interactions, and side effects information. Contains some patient education material as well. Note that Micromedex is has ended support for Microsoft® Windows® XP and Internet Explorer® 7. Please use an updated browser or system to access this resource.
My Cancer Genome (Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center)
A personalized cancer medicine knowledge resource for physicians, patients, caregivers and researchers with up-to-date information on what mutations make cancers grow and related therapeutic implications, including available clinical trials.
National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) (American College of Surgeons)
The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a joint program of the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), is a nationwide oncology outcomes database. Some 70 percent of all newly diagnosed cases of cancer in the United States are captured at the institutional level and reported to the NCDB. The data is used to explore trends in cancer care, to create regional and state benchmarks for participating hospitals, and to serve as the basis for quality improvement.
National Cancer Institute (National Cancer Institute)
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCI coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, and health information dissemination. NCI offers PDQ (Physician Desk Query; Health Professional and Patient versions) with the most authoritative and up to date overviews (diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research) on different types of cancer.
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is the NIH's lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. Offers Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) information on select topics related to cancer prevention and treatment for consumers and health professionals.
Gale Infotrac Newsstand - comprehensive collection of current and archival news content. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
National Program of Cancer Registries (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site contains data collected by local cancer registries that enable public health professionals to understand and address the cancer burden more effectively.
NCI Drug Dictionary (National Cancer Institute)
The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for drugs/agents used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to cancer. Each drug entry includes links to check for clinical trials listed in NCI's List of Cancer Clinical Trials.
NCI: Clinical Trials (National Cancer Institute)
A comprehensive resource from the NCI that provides links to educational materials describing what clinical trials are and why they are important, a searchable database for current cancer clinical trials that are recruiting patients, and a link to summaries of noteworthy results from completed clinical trials.
New York Times (The New York Times)
Access current news from The New York Times.  MSK has an institutional site license to the New York Times. To gain full-text access to the NY Times Digital, you must register for or sign into a free, individual account.
Includes ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎  (1851 - 2014)

Delivers PDF's of every page of every issue from cover to cover of the New York Times dating back to 1851.
This table lists NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse. Most accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others), but some restrict data submission to only those researchers involved in a specific research network. Also included are resources that serve as a portal for information about biomedical data and information sharing systems.  
NIH RePORTER (NIH)
Contains grants and funding details on active, available, and completed projects funded by the NIH. Search by ID number, project title, keywords, location/organization, or Principal Investigator (PI).
Grey literature database providing access to a large body of life sciences conference abstracts and posters from medical and life science conferences from around the globe.
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) (Johns Hopkins University)
OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh. Its official home is omim.org.
Oncolink (University of Pennsylvania)
OncoLink was founded in 1994 by University of Pennsylvania cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge. OncoLink contains comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.
Since 1975, ONS has provided a professional community for oncology nurses, developed evidence-based education programs and treatment information, and advocated for patient care, all in an effort to improve quality of life and outcomes for patients with cancer and their families.  Please note: ONS abstracts are available via CINAHL and the Oncology Nursing Forum (ONF) publication.
Good resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 4,886,755 theses and dissertations.
Open-i Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine  (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Provides access to the images (charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) and related abstracts from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. Includes images from PubMed Central® articles; chest x-rays; images from NLM History of Medicine collection; and orthopedic illustrations.
Orphanet  (Orphanet)
Assists in the diagnosis and overview of rare diseases. Provides users with expert summaries, links to reputable resources, and drug information for certain diseases. Orphanet was established in France in 1997 at the advent of the internet in order to gather scarce knowledge on rare diseases so as to improve the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases. This initiative became a European endeavour from 2000, supported by grants from the European Commission: Orphanet has gradually grown to a network of 37 countries, within Europe and across the globe.
OSF Preprints (Open Science Framework)
An open access preprint repository network providing papers in the fields of Architecture, Business, Engineering, Life Science, Physical Science & Mathematics, Arts & Humanities, Education, Law, Medicine & Health Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Ovid Databases (Wolters Kluwer)
Vendor interface that provides access to several resources and databases including Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED), Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI), MEDLINE, JBI, and PsycINFO.
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 43,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
Physician Data Query (PDQ) (National Cancer Institute)
Physician Data Query is an online source of cancer information that is developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It makes current, credible, and accurate cancer information available to health professionals and the public. Physician Data Query contains information about cancer treatment, supportive and palliative care, screening, prevention, genetics, and integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine. This information is updated with the most recent evidence from scientific research.
Pillbox (National Library of Medicine)
Developed as an aid in the identification of unknown pills (oral solid dosage form medications), this website combines images of pills with appearance and other information to enable users to visually search for and identify oral solid dosage form medications.
PDR delivers innovative health knowledge products and services that support prescribing decisions and patient adherence to improve health.  Every label in PDR includes information on dosages, side effects, and safety information, such as contraindications, pregnancy ratings, and interactions with other drugs, food, and alcohol. Data on clinical trials are also included.
E-book provider containing full-text ebooks from authoritative, scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers fom a multitude of disciplines.  Features include: browsing, searching, printing, and downloading.
PsycINFO (Ovid)
PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.  The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, PsycINFO® provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
PTSDpubs (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs)
A custom PTSD and trauma focused cross-disciplinary thesaurus of all publications relevant to PTSD. PTSDpubs' unique thesaurus includes specific PTSD symptoms, like hypervigilance, as well as terms such as PTSD DSM-5 and PTSD (ICD-11) to help you search by diagnostic criteria. Each PTSDpubs record lists all instruments used within the publication, and you can limit your search to a specific test or measure.
PubChem (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others. PubChem records are contributed by hundreds of data sources. Examples include: government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and more.
A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. MSK has an institutional membership which provides a 10% discount on publication charges for all PLOS journals to MSK authors and researchers.
PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Links are available from PubMed to full text articles (Fulltext@MSK) provided by the MSK Library. Register for a PubMed workshop for additional training on searching the database and leveraging search results.
PubMed Central (PMC) (National Library of Medicine)
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) digital archive of life sciences journal literature containing links to full text, open access articles covering the areas of biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, health sciences, life sciences, medicine, microbiology, physiology, and public health.
PubPeer (PubPeer, LLC)
A tool for commenting, or reading the comments, on scholarly published articles. An online journal club for post-publication peer review and discussion.
PubsHub (PubsHub)
Contains details on biomedical journal impact factors, circulation numbers, acceptance rates, publication turnaround times, and links to author instructions for publishing. Authors can compare their manuscript with specific journal and congress/conference requirements.
Q-Sensei Docs (Q-Sensei Corp.)
A free web-based search engine for easily finding information and drill-down details in over 40 million books and scholarly articles from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine, among other resources.
Qinsight™ (Quertle, LLC)
The Qinsight™ search engine uses Quertle's proprietary technology to identify the most relevant information in the literature. Content sources include MEDLINE/PubMed (licensed from the US National Library of Medicine), NIH RePORTER, TOXLINE, US Patent Applications, AHRQ Treatment Guidelines and more. Qinsight™ uses BioAI’s neural networks and other AI methods, along with predictive visual analytics, to enable high-efficiency discovery and insight from biomedical literature. The full text of the ClinicalTrials.gov database is discoverable within Qinsight™. MSK has a paid subscription, but you must register individually in order to access our account.
Reaxys (Elsevier)
Searches organic, inorganic and organometallic chemical information by reaction, structure, property data and text. Contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that are useful to chemists such as structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties, excerpted from key journals and patent literature.
RefWorks (ProQuest)
A bibliographic management service that allows users to create personal databases of references. Users can import references from a search performed in an online database automatically, or enter references manually. Note: MSK staff must sign up for an individual account before use.
Science.gov (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
A gateway to reliable science and technology information from scientific databases and websites.  The scope is not limited to government information.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
A platform containing full text eJournal and eBook content from Elsevier including science, technology, and medicine articles as well as other bibliographic information. Users can gain access to multimedia features not available in print journals such as videos, audio, and spreadsheet files.
SciFinder (CAS)
A research discovery tool that allows MSK researchers to access a wide diversity of information from many scientific disciplines, including the biomedical sciences and chemistry. Password Lookup for MSK Employees and Students
Scopus (Elsevier)
One of the largest abstract and citation databases containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Scope of subjects include: medicine, chemistry, physics, psychology, health sciences and more.
Society of Surgical Oncology: Practice and Policy (The Society of Surgical Oncology)
The site maintains links to Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Expert Consensus Statements.
SportDiscus (EBSCO)
The SportDiscus bibliographic database includes more than 2.3 million records with coverage dating back to 1892.  The database covers many related sports medicine subjects, including nutrition, physical therapy, occupational health and therapy, exercise physiology, kinesiology and more. Please note that this is not a full-text database.
Springer Nature Protocols (Springer Nature)
Via Springer Nature Experiments. Includes peer-reviewed life science and biomedical research protocols compiled from Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Neuromethods, the Biomethods Handbook, the Proteomics Handbook, and Springer Laboratory Manuals.
STAT!Ref (Teton Data Systems)
Allows searching from selected major medical and drug reference eBooks including the subjects of drug information, pharmacology, physiology, diagnostic examination, pediatrics, urology, surgery, obstetrics, and psychiatry. Access provided via the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO).
A program providing authoritative reports and information on cancer incidence and survival in the U.S. Collects statistics and datasets from cancer registries nationwide and publishes free statistical reports and monographs on cancer incidence and survival.
Synapse (MSK Library)
A collection of author profiles providing access to an inventory of published content from MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses and healthcare professionals. As the name implies, Synapse is the user’s point of "connection" to publications authored by MSK staff.
Timmerman Report (Timmerman Report)
The Timmerman Report is an independently-owned subscription publication that provides timely, in-depth biotech news and analysis. It's for anyone who seeks to understand new drug development, diagnostics, genomics, and other technologies that are changing medicine.
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A clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality evidence for clinical practice by aggregating systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines, and clinical trials from over 75 trusted sources.
Ulrichsweb (ExLibris)
Allows you to search more than 300,000 periodicals/serials of different types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) (Union for International Cancer Control)
The world's largest independent, non-profit, non-governmental association of cancer-fighting organizations, UICC brings together a wide range of organizations, including voluntary cancer societies, research and treatment centres, public health authorities, patient support networks and advocacy groups.
UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer)
Provides expert-based answers to commonly asked questions in clinical practice. Designed to provide practical, concise information needed at the bedside.
Virtual Health Library ( BIREME; WHO; PAHO)
A hub for searching across many international databases for scholarly articles and grey literature. Among these are MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library, Bandolier, and the Latin-American and Caribbean System on Health Sciences Information (LILACS). Database can be viewed in English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.
VisualDx (Logical Images)
A visual diagnostic decision support system that includes medical images and illustrations. Organized by symptoms, each patient's findings can be entered to build a patient-specific differential diagnosis through thousands of searchable clinical terms and diagnostic relationships. Focus is dermatology for all age groups and skin types, ophthalmology, pulmonary infections, oral pathology, and public health concerns.
Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones)

Presents the online edition of the Wall Street journal in English.

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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
A multidisciplinary resource covering open access materials, conference proceedings, and scholarly publications. Access is also available to the Science Citation Index, and social sciences, arts, and humanities fields.
A platform that delivers licensed eJournal, eBook, and other citation database content. Users can browse for specific titles, or search across all entire interdisciplinary platform which includes life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.