Databases A-Z

Nursing and Allied Health Reference Source is committed to educating nurses about evidence-based medicine and nursing best practices. The database covers topics in clinical procedures, core measurements, nursing skills, nursing leadership, risk management, regulatory topics, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, social work, and nutrition. Included are care sheets, clinical reviews, exercise sheets, skills with in-context images and content, quick lessons, research instruments, and textbooks and manuals.  A PICOT guided search is available to help students with evidence-based searches.

The Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection (OBRC) contains annotations and links for over 2000 bioinformatics databases and software tools.

OECD Data includes data and metadata under many themes for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum whose member countries describe themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members. The OECD publishes books, reports, statistics, working papers, and reference materials found under the Publications tab. It is also known as a statistical agency, as it publishes comparable statistics on numerous subjects found under the Data tab. All materials are open-access.

Presents a documentary record of the origins, expansion and growth of the Olympic Games, and the global history of sport. Through a broad range of sources including correspondence, official reports, newsletters and film footage, researchers can chart the history of sport and its relationships with culture, society, business, media and politics between the 1890s and 1990s.

OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 15,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh.

This is the online version of Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, which covers the “genes and genetic mechanisms underlying human disease states.” Information about the underlying basis of genetic diseases includes chapters about amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, porphyrins, metals, disorders of mitochondrial function, vitamins, hormones, membrane transport disorders, various organs and systems, neurogenetics, inborn errors of development, and the genetics of complex disease.

One of the largest independent Open Access publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. All the books are available to read online and download for free, with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for authors.

An open access database of electronic theses and dissertations which offers access to more than 800,000 ETDs, including those previously available in American Doctoral Dissertations™. It provides electronic access to a comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities and increasingly dissertations from select colleges and universities around the world. Citations include a link to access the full text, when available, via the Institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.

Open Grey is a free database of bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature produced in Europe. Topics include pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities.

A charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.

The Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Foundations, was established in 2003 to provide expert legal support for Open Society's broader mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work.

Open-i is an experimental multimedia search engine that retrieves and displays structured MEDLINE citations augmented by image-related text and concepts and linked to images based on image features.