Plant medicinal research resources at the University of Illinois:
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RefWorks
Use RefWorks to collect citations for materials that you may later want to cite in your papers. Then, using the database that you've created, you can use RefWorks to help you automatically format your MS-Word documents in a proscribed style format. If you're familar with EndNote, ProCite or Reference Manager, this is kind of like a web-based version, so you can access it from anywhere, as long as you can get to the internet.
To learn how to use RefWorks, or to find out how to export references from our various literature databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, etc.), please visit our RefWorks Support site. Or, you may go directly to RefWorks.
Databases to consult
Library catalogs, e-journals, and Interlibrary
Loan
- University of Illinois
Online Catalog -
Find out if University of Illinois has a subscription to a journal, either in print or electronic.
Also books, which may be requested online for delivery to your office (grad
students / faculty / staff).
- University of Illinois e-journals
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Find out if University of Illinois has electronic access to a journal or magazine.
- UIC
e-journals -
Occasionally UIC will have e-access to a journal that University of Illinois does not, particularly
medical titles. If you find a title that you need, you can access them while
sitting in the Health Sciences Library (Urbana). Or, if you are a UIC affiliate,
you will be able to access them remotely.
- I-Share Online Catalog (formerly known as Illinet)-
Find out if another academic library in Illinois has a book or journal that
you need. Books may be requested online for delivery to your office (grad
students / faculty / staff).
- Dissertation Abstracts -
Identifies doctoral dissertations from U.S. & Canadian institutions, 1861-present. Abstracts are available for 1980-present. Full text access is available from 1997-present. Note: some institutions, e.g., MIT, have allowed the full text of their dissertations to be brought up in this product.
- IRRC
- Interlibrary Loan Service -
Request a journal article from journals not available at University of Illinois. You'll need
to login with your netid and password.
- WorldCat
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If you need a book, and it's not in I-Share, then use this catalog to request
delivery of the book from another institute.
Scientific literature
- PubMed
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Identifies articles in basic and clinical biomedical research as well as in
psychology other allied health fields. Also know as "Medline". (1950-)
- Web
of Science -
Identifies articles in science, social science, and the arts and humanities,
and the articles that cite them or are cited by them. (1970-). Click to download a 2-page instruction sheet for using this powerful resource.
- CAB
Abstracts -
Identifies articles in all aspects of agriculture, veterinary medicine and
more. This is largest agricultural database. (1910-)
- FSTA
(Food Science & Technology Abstracts) -
Identifies articles in all areas of food science. (1969-)
- Biological
Abstracts -
Identifies articles from journals in biology and the biomedical sciences.
(1955-)
- Engineering Village (EiVillage) -
Identifies articles in engineering and physics literature. Includes the Compendex, NTIS, and INSPEC databases. (1970-)
- SCIRUS -
Search the web and thousands of journals for science information. Use boolean operators AND, OR, or ANDNOT, as well as parentheses to nest. E.g., ((Huitlacoche OR cuitlacoche OR "ustilago maydis") AND (production)) ANDNOT recipe
- Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
Use this to search scholarly information on the web -- Get behind the firewalls of thousands of online journal publishers to search their full-text content!
You'll also find journal articles, research mounted on web sites by the government or educational instituions, and more.
- Use boolean operator OR (must be capitalized). To hold phrases together, enclose the words in parentheses. Use dash (-) to exclude words. E.g., (Huitlacoche OR cuitlacoche OR "ustilago maydis") (production) -recipe
- Does not usually include journals published by Elsevier or the American Chemical Society.
- Use the "advanced search" feature in order to limit your search to a particular journal or date range.
- Click on "Scholar Preferences" to set it up so citations can be exported to RefWorks, EndNote, etc. (but beware: just the base citation will be exported; not the abstract, keywords, etc.).
- If you're on campus, you should see "Discover" links, which will take you to our online full text content; if you're working from home, you'll set this option up in the "Scholar Preferences" under "Library Links": search for Illinois and opt to see the " University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Discover University of Illinois Full Text)" links.
- Faculty
of 1000 (F1000)- New!
Set up a "My Faculty of 1000" and keep tract of the top papers as
judged by experts in the field.
- Agricola
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Identifies journal articles and book chapters on agriculture and allied disciplines.
Focus is primarily on U.S. agriculture. Produced by the USDA's National Agricultural
Library. (1970-)
Note: CAB
Abstracts is a much more comprehensive agricultural database!
- AGRIS
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Identifies journal articles in international agriculture. Produced by the
FAO. (1975-)
Note: CAB
Abstracts is a much more comprehensive agricultural database!
- Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar -
The largest bibliographic database! Covers ALL areas of chemistry including
biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, etc. (1907 to present). This is not a web-based database, so you'll need to download the program to your computer. Please contact the Chemistry Librarian, Tina
Chrzastowski, for information about where you can download the client from. OR, if you are at any University of Illinois Library, click here to access this resource.
- NIH's CRISP - use this to find out if any NIH or other biomedical grants have been awarded by US government agencies.
Here's a sample search result for grants that were looking at the effects of turmeric or curcumin.
CRISP includes:
... federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. The database, maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, includes projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH).
- NSF's Search Awards - use this to find out if NSF is or has funded research in your research area. A search for curcum* yielded one citation.
- Conference
Papers -
Identifies papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings.
If you need "standards", contact the Engineering Library.
- EBM
Reviews -
Identifies reviews of clinical medicine and provides access to controlled
trials.
- IPA
[International Pharmaceutical Abstracts] -
Identifies articles related to the field of pharmaceuticals. (1970-)
- Toxicology
Abstracts -
Identifies research articles about toxicology. (1981-)
- International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) - (A subset of PubMed?)
- Herbs, Botanicals & Teas. Table of contents. Book available for loan from I-Share.
Patent resources
- US Patent Office
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Search for patents issues since 1790. View the full text of patents issued
since 1976.You can also search this site via the Science.gov
website.
- European Patent Office
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Dates of coverage for the EPO vary by country. For the most part, coverage starts in the early 70's.
- CAMBIA -
Via Biological Innovation for Open Society. Search for patents relevant to the life sciences (agricultural biotechnology),
from the U.S., Europe, and Australia. There is a several-week lag for when
the data is entered, so sometimes you'll want to search the native source
databases, directly.
- Patent Offices, worldwide
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Lists of patent offices for many other countries, created by various agencies:
from the JPO or Patent
Law Links.com or from
Washington University or from
the USPTO
Popular literature / News
- Lexis
Nexis / Academic Universe -
Articles from newspapers around the nation as well as international.
- Academic
Search Premier -
Identifies articles in scholarly and popular interdisciplinary journals and
national news magazines. (1985-)
- Academic OneFile (from Infotrac)-
Identifies articles in scholarly and popular interdisciplinary journals and
national news magazines. (1980-)
- E-Answers -
Search for ag extension publications, nationwide
Business literature
- ABI/Inform
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Articles on business and management topics from U.S. and international publications.
(1905-)
- Business
Source Premier -
Articles about public and private companies from over 400 journals, newspapers,
and wire services. (1993-)
- EconLit
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Identifies articles, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.
(1969-)
- OneSource
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Identifies articles, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.
Other resources to consider
- Dictionary
of Natural Compounds.
This is searchable at University of Illinois as part of ChemNetBase.
- Medical
Dictionary (from MedlinePlus)
- Biochemical targets of plant
bioactive compounds: a pharmacological reference guide to sites of action
and biological effects. [Reference book in Funk Library] Review
- Napralert
(not a link)
A database of world literature describing the ethnomedical or traditional
uses, chemistry, and pharmacology of plant, microbial and animal (primarily
marine) extracts. In addition, contains data on the chemistry and pharmacology
(including human studies) of secondary metabolites of known structure, derived
from natural sources. (For further description, see http://www.napralert.org/
) This is a fee-based service, though some members of the FFH program may have free access -- ask a faculty member!
- Current Protocols - New!
Recently we acquired electronic access to ALL of the Wiley Current Protocols series. Search them individually or all, together! To search them all together, once you've accessed the CP site, click on the link labelled "Advanced Product Search", and elect to search all of the CPs together. We have access to the following titles::
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology
- MDConsult
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Core Collection gives electronic access to more than 40 reference books, 55
clinical journals, over 600 practice guidelines, and drug information. Special
content includes: 1) Customized care instructions that patients can take home
after an office visit or hospital stay and 2) News and Reports sections: Today
in Medicine, In This Week's Journals, What Patients are Reading, Topic Tours,
and Drug Updates. Note: you will need to register the first time and login
thereafter.
- Mosby's
Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements, 2nd edition (2004)
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Includes information such as common name, scientific name, origins, uses,
available forms, dosages, side effects, interactions with foods and other
herbal products, pharmacology and pharmakinetics, chemical properties, and
actions. Also includes a Botanical Atlas that illustrates various plant parts
used in herbal preparations and a Glossary of Herbal Terms that clarifies
dose and form terminology unique to herbs and natural supplements.
- Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2005) Glossary of approximately 6,600 terms and 500 illustrations, along with 24 appendices. The terms and definitions cover the five major areas of complementary and alternative medicine, as outlined by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health: • alternative health care systems; • mind-body interventions; • biologically based therapies; • manipulative and body-based healing methods; and • energy therapies.
- ToxNet
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Collection of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
- Chemistry Online Resource Guide (University of Illinois) -
Includes links to websites for spectra.
- Journal
Citation Reports -
Use this to find out if a journal has been "highly cited" or has
a high ISI Impact Factor rating.
- Search the
USDA's National Nutrient Database -
Find the nutritional values for common foods, including: calories, protein
content, water content, fiber, sugars, minerals, vitamins, lipids, amino acids,
caffeine, lycopene, etc.
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical
and Ethnobotanical Databases -
Search by plant, activity, chemical, or ethnobotanical reports. Or browse
by database: EcoSys (Plant ecological ranges), EthnobotDB (worldwide plant
uses), FoodplantDB (native American food plants), MPNADB (medicinal plants
of Native America), or PhytochemDB (plant chemicals).
- Cyberbotanica
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Originally developed at Indiana University but no longer updated, this resource
tells about the plants from which cancer treatments are derived.
- Complementary and
Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005).
A new report from the Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative
Medicine by the American Public, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
331 pp.
- EnvironmentalChemistry.com -- find the synoynms and CAS Registry numbers for chemicals.
- Science
Tracer Bullet: Medicinal Plants (2004)
Don't know where to start? This site from the Library of Congress lists databases,
reference books, subject headings, journals, and much more.
Miscellaneous Links
Search the Web...
- Google -
Everybody's favorite. But are you a "power user"? Some simple tricks
to enrich your searching:
- Put quotation marks around phrases, to search for phrases, e.g., "Ardisia
compressa"
- Put a plus (-) directly in front of a word to tell it to search, but
not bring back webpages with that word, e.g., "ardisia compressa"
-mejia
- Limit a search to a particular domain by adding site:domain, e.g., try:
Echinacea site:iastate.edu
- Use the Boolean operator OR. e.g., (Huitlacoche OR cuitlacoche OR "ustilago maydis")
- Google Scholar -
Get behind the firewalls of thousands of online journal publishers to search their full-text content!- Use the "advanced search" feature in order to limit your search to a particular journal or date range.
- Click on "Scholar Preferences" to set it up so citations can be exported to RefWorks, EndNote, etc. (but beware: just the base citation will be exported; not the abstract, keywords, etc.).
- If you're on campus, you should see "Discover" links, which will take you to our online full text content; if you're working from home, you'll set this option up in the "Scholar Preferences" under "Library Links": search for Illinois and opt to see the " University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Discover University of Illinois Full Text)" links.
- Vivisimo -
Many like this better than Google since it "clusters" results! Try
it, you'll like it! Use the same search tips as given above for Google.
- ClusterMed -
Use the Vivisimo search engine to search PubMed! Notice that you can "cluster"
by title/abstract, author, medical subject heading (MeSH), address, or
date of publication. You can only retrieve 100 citations or less for free.
But give it a spin! E.g., try: black cohosh (in the native PubMed, you'd
get at least 122 hits)
- Dogpile -
Search Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Teoma, Overture and FindWhat
simultaneously. Results are "clustered" somewhat.
- Scirus -
This is billed as a science-specific search engine. In addition to searching
the web (including PubMed), this Elsevier-sponsored website also searches
within the full-text of Elsevier (ScienceDirect) journals.
- Science.gov
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Search, in one place, 30 government websites, resources, reports, etc. including:
Agricola, Pubmed, ClinicalTrials, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,
EPA, DOE, MedlinePlus, ERIC, NIST, US Patent Office, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition, the Technology Transfer Automated Retrieval System,
the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, NSF, and more! (try a search
for lycopene)
Government websites on dietary supplements
- Dietary
Supplements from the FDA's / Division of Dietary Supplement Programs
/ Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements / Center
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Office of Dietary Supplements
(NIH)
- National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) (NIH) -
Includes health info, clinical trials, research underway, grant info.
- Dietary
Supplementary Act of 2003 [S.722, 108th Congress]-
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that manufacturers
of dietary supplements submit to the Food and Drug Administration reports
on adverse experiences with dietary supplements, and for other purposes.
- DSHEA
Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2003 [S.1538, 108th
Congress] -
A bill to ensure that the goals of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act of 1994 are met by authorizing appropriations to fully enforce and implement
such Act and the amendments made by such Act, and for other purposes.
- Dietary Supplements:
A Framework for Evaluating Safety -
Read the full text of this 2004 Inst of Medicine / National Research Council
report
- CARDS
-
Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements (CARDS) Database - A database
of federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements. (1999-)
- International Bibliographic
Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) - (A subset of PubMed?)
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