Environmental and Biomolecular Databases Guide
Patrons accessing subscription based resources remotely (that is, from a computer not on the OHSU networks) will be prompted for their last name and library barcode for authentication.
- Subjects include agricultural engineering, animal science, chemistry, energy, entomology, forestry, geography, life sciences, and natural resources.
- Indexes over 2200 journals, as well as AV materials, books, book chapters, computer databases, and maps.
- Site provides access to the Journal Article Citation Index, as well as to the online catalog of the National Agricultural Library.
- Basic and advanced searches allow for keyword and browse searching of author, title, and subject indexes, and ability to limit results by date and language.
- 1861 to present; updated monthly; maintained by the US National Agricultural Library.
- Size: 3 million records.
- This database is freely available on the web, and open to all
- Also available via EBSCOhost (1970 to present).
Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
- Subjects include genetic engineering, biochemical engineering, fermentation, plant genome studies, fermentation, soil microorganisms, bioremediation, transgenic plants and animals, breeding techniques, biopesticides, food production and safety tests, treatment and disposal of wastes, biochemical applications in water treatment, and industrial hygiene.
- Indexes journal articles, patents.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1993 to present; updated bimonthly.
- Size: over 39,000 records.
ASFA- 3 Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
- Subjects include the application of marine biotechnology, molecular biology and genetics to marine and aquatic organisms.
- Indexes journals, US patents.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1990 to present; updated monthly; NOAA/CSA.
- Size: Nearly 112,000 records.
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
- Covers all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
- Access is through CSA Illumina.. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1982 to present; updated monthly.
- Size: Over 263,630 records.
- Subjects include the life sciences from aerospace biology to zoology. BIOSIS is the major English-language database providing comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.
- Indexes over 7,000 journals, as well as books, conference abstracts, original research, reviews, selected government reports, and patents.
- Access is through the OVID interface, and there are links to full text both within OVID and to other full-text sites. Full MeSH thesaurus is supported for search terms.
- Coverage: 1990 to present; Updated weekly; data provided by BIOSIS (Philadelphia, PA)
- Size: over 13 million records in entire BIOSIS database
- Accessed via Scifinder Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Plus File covers international journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences.
- Coverage: 1907 to the present; updated daily; Over 23 million records
- Requires one-time software download.
- Indexes all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
- Searches available for keyword, title, author, and subject, with date limiting. Subject heading list of controlled vocabulary is browsable. Includes links to full text of article, when available.
- Subject areas include aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, bridges, cold regions, computer practices, construction, earthquake engineering, education, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, forensic engineering, geotechnical engineering, highways, hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation and drainage, management, materials engineering, structural engineering, transportation, urban planning, water resources, and waterway, port, coastal and ocean engineering.
- 1970 to present; updated regularly; ASCE
- Size: 100,000 records.
- Freely available on the web, and open to all.
- Electronic version of the print publication Engineering Index. Subjects include civil, energy, environmental, geological, and biological engineering; electrical, automotive, nuclear, and aerospace engineering; and computers, robotics, and industrial robots.
- Indexes 5000 journals, as well as books, selected government reports, conference proceedings, and web pages.
- Access is through the Engineering Village 2 interface, which supports Boolean searching across multiple fields, limits, and result sorting.
- Can create a personal login to save searches and results, or set up searches to run automatically every 2 weeks.
- 1969 to present; updated weekly; data provided by Engineering Information, Inc. (EI)
- Size: 7 million records total; 250,000 records added annually.
- Indexes to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world.
- Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Select database(s) to search before entering search terms. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Browsable author index helps match names. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1982 to the present; updated bimonthly.
- Size: over 1,425,000 records.
- Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1982 to the present; updated monthly.
- Size: over 237,000 records.
EIS - Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
- EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Browsable author index helps match names. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1985 to the present; updated bimonthly.
- Size: over 8,300 records.
Energy Citations Database (ECD)
- Indexes journals, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, and some dissertations.
- Subject areas include biomedicine, environmental science, geology, climatology, oceanography, chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and related disciplines.
- Sophisticated search capabilitites allow searches across multiple indexes, as well as extensive options for sorting results.
- Some links to full text are provided.
- Coverage: 1948 to present; maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the Dept. of Energy.
- Size: over 2 million records
- This database is freely available on the web, and open to all.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
- Indexes journals (700 titles), conference proceedings, and monographs.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1990 to the present.
- Size: over 133,900 records.
Environmental Fate Data Bases (EFDB)
- Provides access to all available fate data on a given chemical.
- Database comprised of five interrelated files, DATALOG (bibliographic file indexed by CAS number), CHEMFATE (experimental values for commercially important chemical compounds), BIOLOG (sources of microbial toxicity and biodegradation data), BIODEG (experimental values relating to biodegradation subjects), and BIODEG Summary.
- Updated regularly; created by Syracuse Research Corp. (SRC)
- Size: information on over 20,000 chemicals; over 36,000 bibliographic citations
- This database is freely available on the web, and open to all.
- Indexes over 2,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports on geology, geography, and ecology.
- Access is through the OCLC First Search interface, which provides extensive searching capabilities, with limiting and sorting options.
- Contact the library for a login/password for off campus access.
- Coverage: 1980 to present; updated semimonthly;; data provided by Elsevier.
- Size: 1, 063,000 records .
Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Microbiology A)
- Indexes significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
- Subjects include: microbial degradation, food microbiology, microbial toxins, plant diseases, forestry, soil microorganisms, mineral microbiology, protection of materials, hydrocarbons, microbial resistance, and antimicrobial agents, among others.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1982 to the present; updated monthly.
- Size: Over 166,960 records.
- Subjects include: every area of medicine including biomedicine, the allied health fields, biological and physical sciences as they relate to medicine and health care.
- Indexes over 4600 journals.
- Access is through the OVID interface, and there are links to full text both within OVID and to other full-text sites. Full MeSH thesaurus is supported for search terms.
- Coverage: 1966 to the present; PubMed - 1951 to present (including OLDMEDLINE).
- Size: Over 14 million records; 360,000 records added yearly.
- Free searching of all NTIS reports from 1990 to present; some full text available.
- 350 subject areas including agriculture and food, atmospheric sciences, energy, and environmental pollution and control.
- Extensive search tips are available on the web, at http://www.ntis.gov/pdf/dbguid.pdf.
- Coverage: 1990 to present; updated weekly; National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- Size: 2.5 million records; 750,000 records are searchable.
- Indexes information on scientific research and government policies on various topics, from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues.
- Subjects include all aspects of pollution, including noise pollution, and environmental action.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1981 to the present; updated monthly.
- Size: over 195,800 records.
- Includes information on risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1990 to the present, updated quarterly.
- Size: 16,320 records.
- Accessed via Scifinder Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Plus File covers international journals, patents, patent families, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences.
- Coverage: 1907 to the present; updated daily; Over 23 million records
- Requires one-time software download.
STKE: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment
- Covers research in the field of signal transduction.
- Includes original Perspectives, Reviews, and Protocols, most of which have been solicited by the editors; a "Virtual Journal" with full-text articles from nineteen publishers; and a Connections Map database which contains information on signaling components and their relations.
- Part of the Science site sponsored by AAAS. Citation searching is supported; date limits and result sorting options are also available.
- Coverage: Jan. 1997 to present; updated weekly.
Substance Registry System (EPA)
- Provides information on substances and how they are represented in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and information systems.
- Searchable by keyword, Taxonomic Serial Number, EPA Identifier, CAS Registry Number, ICTV Database Identifier or alternate identifier.
- This database is freely available on the web, and open to all.
- Indexes information on manmade and natural toxins, covering all areas including research methodologies, legislation, standards, and environmental issues.
- Subjects include substance abuse, pharmaceuticals, food additives, cosmetics, radiation, industrial chemicals, and more.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1981 to the present; updated monthly.
- Size: over 168,800 records.
- Citations and abstracts for journals articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports.
- Subjects covered include pollution, drug interactions and adverse effects, hazardous materials, genotoxicity, and antidotes.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Browsable author index helps match names. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1999-present; updated bimonthly; data provided by the National Library of Medicine.
- Size: over 332,000 records.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of water resources issues.
- Major areas of coverage include: groundwater, lakes, estuaries, water supply, desalination, water yield, water quantity, groundwater management, watersheds, water quality, wastewater, and water law.
- Access is through CSA Illumina. Basic and advanced searching allow limits and sorting. Thesaurus search allows precision searching through controlled vocabulary.
- Some links to full text of journals open to OHSU patrons, as well as ILL forms and the library catalog.
- Coverage: 1967 to the present; updated monthly.
- Size: Over 390,460 records.
- One of the few databases offering citation searching - the ability to see who has cited an article.
- Includes access to Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
- Over 8700 multidisciplinary journals are indexed.
- Coverage: 1990 to present.
- A citation alerts feature will notify users when specified articles have been cited.