PDQ: Comprehensive Cancer Database
Produced by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Source: NCI, Cancer.gov
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Current information
Updated: Monthly
Vocabulary: PDQ vocabulary
Description: PDQ, NCI's comprehensive cancer database, contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care; a registry of approximately 1,800 open and 12,000 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who offer genetics services, and organizations that offer cancer care.

PDR.net and Thomson Clinical Xpert
Produced by Thomson.

Source: Thomson
Access: Free to healthcare practitioners and students.
Coverage: Current information only
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: Access to PDR.net and Thomson Clinical Xpert is free to U.S.-based MDs, DOs, Dentists, NPs and PAs in full-time patient practice, and to U.S. medical students, residents and other selected prescribing allied health professionals. PDR.net access includes:

• Daily news updates
• Journal articles
• ICD-9 CM codes
• Full FDA-approved product labeling
• Clinical slide sets
• Multi-drug interaction checker
• Clinical guidelines
• Patient education
• A mobile application to download to your PDA

PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Produced by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP).

Source: CEBP
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: 1952 - present
Updated: Monthly
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, includes bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Access points include keyword, body part, therapy, method, score, and subdiscipline. Intended audience: health care professionals. For consumer-related materials, choose PEDro's link to 'Physiotherapy Choices'.

PHDIL: Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library
Produced by Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Source: Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Mid-19th century to the 1990s
Updated: Irregular
Vocabulary: PHDIL vocabulary
Description: The PHDIL database contains over 3,000 images from the TJU Archives, located in the Scott Memorial Library, and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PHDIL documents healthcare, architecture, medical education, and life in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

POPLINE
Produced by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Programs
Access: Free to all users
Coverage: Not stated
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: POPLINE®, the world's largest bibliographic database of family planning and > related health and development issues. 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. POPLINE has numerous special features including links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.

PRIDE: PRoteomics IDEntification database
Produced by the European Bioinformatics Institute & Ghent University.

Source: European Bioinformatics Institute
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Not stated
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword and MeSH
Description: PRIDE offers descriptions of experiments, protein identifications and supporting peptide identifications, together with the evidence supporting these identifications.

PrimateLit
Produced by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center; the Primate Information Center at the Washington Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Library Technology Group.

Source: Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center; the Primate Information Center at the Washington Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Library Technology Group
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: 1940 - present
Updated: Monthly
Vocabulary: Keyword, Taxonomy, Geography
Description: PrimateLit is a bibliographic database of non-human primate research and educational literature. The literature indexed includes journals, technical reports, dissertations, books, and book chapters. Searchable six month updates are also included for journal articles and books.

Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Produced by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics.

Source: Protein Data Bank
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: 1971 - present
Updated: Daily
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: The PDB is the single worldwide repository for the three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids. With over 50,000 structures on file, this freely available online library allows biological researchers and students to study, store and share molecular information on a global scale. Officially founded in 1971 with seven structures at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the archive is currently managed by a consortium called the worldwide Protein Data Bank.

Psychiatry Online
Produced by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc..

Source: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Access: Direct access via campus computers. Off-campus access requires Jefferson Campus Key.
Coverage: Varies by resource, 1965 -
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword, plus browsable topical index
Description: The comprehensive psychiatric resource features the full text of the DSM-IV-TR®, 5 journals, APA practice guidelines, psychiatric books and self-assessment tools. Sign up for the free personalized account for PDA downloads and sophisticated services like saved searches. Read current news in the field and look for certification/recertification and CME support.

PsycINFO
Produced by the American Psychological Association.

Source: OvidSP
Access: Direct access via campus computers. Off-campus access requires Jefferson Campus Key.
Coverage: Journals: 1887 - present; Books: 1987 - present
Updated: Weekly
Vocabulary: Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms
Description: The American Psychological Association produces PsycINFO for coverage of the international literature of psychology and related disciplines. PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles (1887 to present), books and book chapters (1987 - present), dissertations, and technical reports.

PubChem
Produced by the National Library of Medicine & NCBI.

Source: National Library of Medicine & NCBI
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Not stated.
Updated: Continuous
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. It covers over 5 million unique structures, over 200 bioassays, and over 10 million substance records. PubChem is integrated with Entrez, NCBI's primary search engine, and also provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.

PubGet
Produced by PubGet, Inc..

Source: PubGet.com
Access: Free to all users. Off-campus access to full text requires Jefferson Campus Key.
Coverage: 1800 to present
Updated: Daily
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: Indexes PubMed and other biomedical journal literature, with a simplified search interface and immediate PDF delivery system. Choose to set your subscriptions to Thomas Jefferson University to see Jefferson's subscribed content.

PubList
Produced by Bowker.

Source: Infotrieve
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Current information only
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: This electronic version of the popular Ulrich's Periodicals Guide is free, but requires registration. Provides publisher, ISSN, links to tables of contents, and other information about active serial publications. International in scope.

PubMed - free public access via National Library of Medicine
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Source: NLM
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Comprehensive coverage mid-1950s - present, selected items mid-1860s - present
Updated: Weekly
Vocabulary: MeSH: Medical Subject Headings
Description: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE. PubMed also includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet) and OLDMEDLINE (reaching back to the 1950s). This link includes a special filter that allows PubMed's tabbed results to show which articles are free on the Internet and which are available to qualified users in Scott Memorial Library's collections.

PubMed - via TJU proxy server
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Source: NLM
Access: Direct access via campus computers. Off-campus access requires Jefferson Campus Key.
Coverage: Comprehensive coverage mid-1950s - present, selected items mid-a860s - present
Updated: Weekly
Vocabulary: MeSH: Medical Subject Headings
Description: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE. PubMed also includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet).

PROXY SERVER ACCESS: Off-campus access via proxy server offers links to the full text of over 450 electronic journals wherever you see the JEFFLINE icon on an abstract.

PubMed Central Digital Archive
Produced by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Source: NCBI
Access: Free to all users.
Coverage: Coverage varies by journals
Updated: Not stated
Vocabulary: Keyword
Description: PubMed Central is a free digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Commercial publishers contribute the content of individual journals, which can be viewed issue by issue, or searched by keyword.