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Over 2 million images from providers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, and Getty. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.

Fulltext online versions of approximately 200 journals from Cambridge University Press.

Cardiosource ia an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in practice. Cardiosource provides a comprehensive digital cardiovascular resource, featuring the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a comprehensive clinical trials database, news and expert commentaries, clinical images, self-assessment educational materials, the full complement of the ACCF clinical guidelines and quality standards, and more.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. Further information is available from the publisher's website.

The titles in the Current Protocols Series provide hundreds of basic to advanced research protocols and overviews covering areas of interest in the life sciences. Each protocol contains a materials list, and the units feature commentary and guidelines written and edited by experts. All protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability, lab-tested in leading laboratories, and then thoroughly scrutinized by expert editorial boards to make sure you can easily duplicate them in your own labs. Temple University subscribes to the following Current Protocols:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in MRI
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a collection of English and foreign language books, directories, pamphlets, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Content is presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. With full-text search capabilities across 180,000 titles (33 million pages), this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

Films on Demand is a library of thousands of streaming videos across all disciplines from Films Media Group. All Temple users can search and view films or specific segments of films. If you establish a user account from within Films on Demand you can also create playlists from the various films/segments for your own use or for sharing with other Temple users. 1

Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. (Updated monthly)

The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewert Talks contains 1,000 online audio-visual seminar style talks, each especially commissioned from leading world experts.

The International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Database provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

Online journal service offering of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. NOTE: Requires OVID registration. (Updated daily)

This convenient, time sensitive, point-of-care resource includes:

-Drug Information for Dentistry
-Dental Office Medical Emergencies
-Natural Therapeutics
-Clinician's Endodontic Handbook
-Oral Soft Tissue Diseases
-Oral Hard Tissue Diseases
-Manual of Dental Implants
-Manual of Clinical Periodontics
-Oral Surgery for the General Dentist
-Illustrated Handbook of Clinical Dentistry
-Your Roadmap to Financial Integrity in the Dental Practice
-Little Dental Drug Booklet

Online access to drug information including:

-Instant DENTAL ALERTS that warn of patient medications/natural products that could influence treatment or cause harmful effects
-Up to 55 fields of information for over 1600 drugs including "Effects on Dental Treatment" and "Local Anesthetic/Vasoconstrictor Precautions"
-Dental treatment of medically-compromised patients
-Treatment of patients with specific oral conditions

MD Consult is a full-text source for clinical medical information. It features 50+ medical texts and reference books; 70+ medical journals; 30+ titles in the Year Book series; clinical practice guidelines; drug information, including recent drug updates; patient education handouts; and medical news updates. Searching can be done across the entire database, or within a single publication type, e.g., reference books.

MD Consult also features the following special sections:

This Week in Medicine reviews new developments from all the major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences.
In This Week's Journals presents weekly concise article summaries of the big five journals in an easy-to-scan format.
What Patients Are Reading canvasses the popular press each week to glean what patients are hearing about medicine, then provides full-text, peer-reviewed material on each topic.
Clinical Insights features Clinical Cornerstone and Free CME, Images in Surgery, Patient Safety and Practice Management Articles, Systematic Reviews, and the Latest Postings from the Clinics of North America.
Case of the Week presents original medical cases written by physicians for MD Consult. Each case is presented as a series of questions and answers, with links to MD Consult's reference material.
CME Center allows for the study and receipt of Continuing Medical Education credits on-line. Choose from over 200 modules to earn category 1 credit, with instant feedback.
My PDA/POCKET Consult puts current medical news, drug updates, and journal abstracts on a handheld device via hot-sync. It grants access to Mosby Drug Consult and Interactions with over 900 drug monographs including brand name indexing. Also included is PDA-integrated access to any Elsevier e-dition electronic books, along with recorded searching, which automatically retrieves full search results the next time you're online.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Includes the full text of MIT Press journals and books in the cognitive sciences along with job postings, graduate studies information, seminar announcements and calls for papers in cognitive and brain sciences.

Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.

A growing collection of biomedical titles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information

A compendium of genetic disorders that provides the latest knowledge on the molecular and metabolic underpinnings of a growing list of inherited diseases, as well as updates on pathophysiology and treatment.

Since 1970 Physical Education Index has been covering peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications relevant to the field of physical education. Physical Education Index provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines (sports, sports medicine, dance, coaching, fitness, motor learning, etc.) from 303 core scholarly journals and numerous other publications. (Updated monthly)

Provides more than 300,000 citations covering reproductive health with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. Includes links to free, fulltext documents, the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles, and many abstracts in French and Spanish. It is updated twice each month, and has content from 1827 to the present. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Online access to the full-text of the DSM-IV TR as well as five journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, including the American Journal of Psychiatry.

PsycINFO(1887-present) PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates. --American Psychological Association

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It provides coverage of biomedical journals from the United States and 80 other countries, dating back to the mid-1950's.

Hundreds of online books in medicine, nursing, and allied health.

Concurrent user limit: 1 per book

The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. SCI Expanded: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. Averages 17,750 new articles per week. Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Contains a current total of over 17 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, and medical journals and thousands of ebooks published by Elsevier.

SpringerLink provides online access to hundreds of journals and books across many disciplines, with a focus on the sciences. Note that Temple does not have access to all content.

Summon is a powerful, yet simple search tool that allows you to discover the breadth of Temple Libraries' collections. Whether you need to find books, scholarly articles, films, music, dissertations, archival material or other library sources, Summon has you covered.

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