michigan informatics

Freely Available Databases

Health Promotion

AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System)
Includes a searchable database, an HIV/AIDS Encyclopedia, an online Bulletin Board System, and current news items.

CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
Includes both health information and health education resources, especially hard to find health promotion materials and program descriptions.

ERIC
A bibliographic database of over one million abstracts of journal articles and reports in education from the U.S. Department of Education.

OncoLink
This is a comprehensive cancer resource published by the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

SafetyLit
Abstracts of English language reports from researchers in several disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm.

Special Populations  

AgeLine
AgeLine, published by AARP, abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.

HLAS, Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars, provided by the Library of Congress.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

Native Health Research Database
The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

Maternal Child Health

Developmental & Reproductive Toxicology (DART/ETIC)
DART/ETIC is a bibliographic database covering teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology.

Maternal and Child Health Library
The MCH Library maintains several databases to collect, manage, and disseminate knowledge about maternal and child health (MCH), with special emphasis on knowledge gained from initiatives and programs supported by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

POPLINE
POPLINE ®(POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Addiction and Mental Health

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism provides this portal to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research.

Alcohol Studies Database
This database contains over 70,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.

PILOTS Database
The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Environmental Health

AGRICOLA
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) supports this agricultural citation database, including journal articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints.

DOE Information Bridge
The full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

ECOTOX
The ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) database provides chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life.

TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
TOXNET is a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas published by the National Library of Medicine Specialized Information Services.

Water Resources Abstracts
The access point for the Publications Warehouse where the user can search bibliographic citations and obtain U.S. Geological Survey reports and thematic maps.