A comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed medical images,    The Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase (SMART Imagebase) contains a growing collection of over 20,000 high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, pathology, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other medical topics. Content is peer-reviewed by graduate level medical illustrators and expert-reviewed by physicians.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/4/2014.

Statistical Abstract of the World A new product from ProQuest, and a companion to their successful Statistical Abstract of the United States. Find aggregated statistical information from approximately 40 countries through a single-search interface, browse and search tables, and download data in a spreadsheet. The information here is not always found easily elsewhere.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/29/2013.

From CQ Press, the leading publisher of reference works on American politics: The Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/30/2013.

OSU Libraries is offering a 30-day trial to Scopus. Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, indexes 50 million records, 21,000 titles, and 5,000 publishers. Additionally,  it features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.

Contact us to request the necessary login credentials for this trial.

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. Clients include, but are not limited to: corporations, manufacturers, retail pharmacies, hospitals, universities, organizations and private professional practices.

• Natural offers databases on:
  • Foods, Herbs and Supplements
    • You will have access to over 1500 professional systematic reviews on vitamins, minerals, functional food, alternative therapies and ingredients
    • Each monograph is supported by over 300 references
    • Each monograph presents every international clinical trial/study that has been published for review and support of health claims
  • Health and Wellness
    • Includes over 700 complimentary therapies including diets and modalities (like acupuncture and chiropractic)
  • Comparative Effectiveness
    • Includes comprehensive efficacy charts for alternative treatment options
  • Chart and Tables
    • Categorizes and classifies groups of herbs and supplements by effect on the patient
      • Ex. Those groups of natural medicines raise blood sugar levels
  • Brands and Manufacturers
    • Over 4500 bands and manufacturers are listed
      • Includes manufacturer location and ingredient list linked to those ingredient monographs
  • Medical Conditions
    • Over 3,000 searchable medical conditions with comprehensive overviews of each condition and both alternative and traditional treatment options
  • Sports Medicine
    • Covering sports related supplements, modalities and conditions (natural products for weight loss, athletic performance enhancement, chiropractic for sports injuries, etc.
• A number of interactive point of care “Checkers”allowing the user  to immediately identify potential interactions and/or depletions among those various items being taken by a patient
  • A powerful tool to support general health and wellness as well as patient education and treatment regimen adherence.

The Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) is the only comprehensive and fully-edited database on natural products. It provides the busy scientist with fast access to chemical, physical, bibliographic, and structural data on over 139,000 natural products organized into more than 43,000 -virtually every natural product isolated and reported in the literature. This very useful resource arose as a daughter product of the well-known Dictionary of Organic Compounds (DOC) which, since its inception in the 1930s has, through successive editions, always been a leading source of natural product information.