Databases & E-Reference Materials

Formally known as Birds of North America, this database has expanded to include Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, and Bird Families of the World. Provides 10,721 species accounts from all 249 bird families.The platform merges comprehensive life histories of bird species with range maps, illustrations, photographs, and video and audio recordings from Cornell's Macaulay Library.

This comprehensive reference work on medicinal chemistry and drug discovery and development covers topics such as the drug development cycle, opioid addiction treatments, cancer antibody and gene therapy, blood-brain barrier, HIV treatments, industrial-academic collaboration structures, and more.

Provides definitions and explanations of terms that cover medical, survey, theoretical, and applied statistics. This resource also includes short biographies of over 100 important statisticians.

Cumulative Index to nursing and allied health, including topics on nursing, allied health, biomedicine, consumer health, and health sciences librarianship. Materials indexed include professional journals, books, dissertations, standards of professional practice, and educational software. Some full text is provided.

An online quarterly review journal covering the evolving science of physiology. Comprehensive Physiology also comprises an archive of more than 30,000 pages of content from the American Physiological Society's renowned Handbook of Physiology.

Handbook covering chemistry, physics, and related subjects organized in easy-to-find, well-organized tables. Topics include chemical and physical data critical for fields such as environmental science, bio-medical chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, materials innovation, geo- and astrophysics, and solid-state science.

Provides written definitions of clinical trial terms likely to be found in trial protocols, reports, regulatory guidelines, and published manuscripts. Scope includes medical, statistical, epidemiological, ethical, regulatory, and data management terminology.

Contains nearly 13,200 entries with information on more than 50,000 compounds. In general, the following compounds are included: currently marketed drugs, biologically active natural products, compounds undergoing clinical trials, drugs which are no longer marketed, compounds whose toxicity or adverse side-effects preclude clinical use, but which possess novel pharmacological properties.

Provides comprehensive information on 30,000 compounds found in food, including lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, flavonoids, alkaloids, food additives, colorants, preservatives, antioxidants, flavors, food contaminants, dietary supplements, and vitamins.

A comprehensive resource for more than 25,000 natural products isolated from marine organisms. Each entry includes the biological source, chemical structure, physical properties, biological activity, and literature references for each compound.