CASA Library and Information Center


BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES
AND DATA ARCHIVES

Those databases in green do not require a login and password and can be searched for free. Those in blue and with a crown next to them are hosted by Columbia University and require a Columbia Login and Password to access.

To view the entire A - Z list of databases at Columbia click here.

 
 
ABI - Inform - citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in business and management periodicals.

 

ADAM- Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program  
  Addiction Resource Guide

 

AIDS Info
  Alcohol History Database - Rutgers' Center of Alcohol Studies
  Alcohol Studies Database - Rutgers' Center of Alcohol Studies
  Alcohol Policy Information System - NIAAA The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is an electronic resource that provides authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels. 
Annual Reviews - full-text reviews of topics in biomedical, physical and social sciences published as annual journals.
Article First - citations and abstracts for articles in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture periodicals.
Arts and Humanities Citation - bibliographic information and cited references in articles in arts, humanities, and history periodicals.
Biological Abstracts - citations and abstracts from life sciences literature.

 

BRFSS- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Cambridge Journals Online - full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press.

 

Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT)
  CDC WONDER - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  County and City Data Book -- statistical tables on numerous subjects by small geographic areas.
  Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports - crime statistics for the U.S.
Congressional Quarterly (CQ.com)
  DASIS - Drug and Alcohol Services Information System
DATAGate - Search interface for the local holdings of Columbia University's Electronic Data Service (EDS), and the entire catalog of Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) holding.
  DAWN- Drug Abuse Warning Network
  DIR- Directory of HHS Services Data
  DIRLINE
Dissertation Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.
  Drugscope DrugData Database
EBSCO Online -- full-text articles from hundreds of journals.
EconLit  -- citations and abstracts for articles in economics periodicals and other publications.
Encyclopedia of Associations - descriptions of over 144,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local associations in all fields.
ERIC -- citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in education periodicals and other publications.
  ETOH from NIAAA
Factiva -- full-text business information; general news and current event coverage.
  Federal Drug Data Sources Data sets (and links) on U.S. Prevalence, Consequences, Treatment, Traficking, and Law Enforcement.
  FEDSTATS -- statistics in all subjects from U.S. Government agencies.
  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Database
  GPO Access -- full-text of many U.S. government publications, from the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) -- Citations to identify and evaluate measurement tests used in health and psychosocial studies.
  Healthfinder -- An award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies ... a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.
  ICPSR- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
INGENTA - Periodical article delivery and current awareness services for journal contents indexed in the Ingenta database
  Legacy Tobacco Documents Library - this database (LTDL) contains almost 7 million documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.
Lexis-Nexis - full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics.
Lexis Nexis Congressional Universe -- index and abstracts for U.S. Congressional materials, with links to full-text.
Medline -- citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals. (see also PubMed)
  MTF- Monitoring the Future
  The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research -- working papers in economics
  NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics
  NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service -- Contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Also full text for some government publications.
  NEDS - National Evaluation Data Services: Data Locator
  NHSDA- National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (see NSDUH below)
National Journal Group's Policy Central -- A collection of resources on U.S. politics and policy, including the National Journal, The Hotline, Congress Daily, Technology Daily, Poll Track, and The Almanac of American Politics.
  NSDUH - National Survey on Drug Use and Health
PAIS International -- citations and abstracts for publications related to public affairs.

Papers First -- citations for published papers given at conferences and symposia.
  Pharma-Lexicon  The Pharma Lexicon search box gives free access to the world's largest online database of medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, and biotech abbreviations - over 70,000.
  Policy Information Exchange (PIE)  PIE maintains a comprehensive database of mental health policy related reports.
  Project Cork Database The CORK database includes over 51,000 items on substance abuse, indexed by over 400 terms. These are primarily from the professional literature and include journal articles, books, book chapters, and reports.
ProQuest Direct -- full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers.
PsycArticles -- full-text articles from 42 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
PsycInfo --  citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.
  PubMed -- citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals.
  RAND abstracts -- citations and abstracts for Rand publications (public policy research and analysis).
  SAMHDA- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
Science Citation Index -- bibliographic information and cited references in articles in scientific and technical journals, including sociology, psychology, economics, etc.
Science Direct -- full-text articles from more than 1000 journals published by Elsevier.
  Science.gov -- Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major science agencies have collaborated to create this web site.
  Senators of the 107th Congress  -- a directory of the current U.S. Senate, arranged by name and state, with committees and additional information.
  Smoking and Health Database
Social Sciences Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in social sciences periodicals.
Social Services Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for research in social work, human services, and related areas, incl. social welfare, social policy & community development.
Social Work Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in social work and social welfare periodicals.
Sociological Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in social work and social welfare periodicals.
  Substance Abuse Information Database (SAID) This interactive database provides a one-stop source of information with summaries and full text of materials relating to workplace substance abuse issues.
  Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
  Substance Abuse Screening and Assessment Instruments
SYNERGY -- full-text electronic journals in science, technology and medicine.
  TEDS- Treatment Episode Data Set
  Toxline
  UFDS- Uniform Facility Data Set
  United States Government Manual -- the handbook of the Federal Government, with extensive information on each agency: officials, programs, and organization.
  U.S. Census Bureau- U.S. Census Bureau
  U.S. Code -- Office of the Law Revision Counsel
WILEY Interscience -- full-text Wiley Interscience journal articles.
World Almanac  -- -- brief factual, statistical, chronological, and descriptive summaries from the World Almanacs.
WorldCat -- interface to the OCLC bibliographic database (36 million records).
  YRBSS - Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
 

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