Federal Legislative History

Compiling a Federal Legislative History (A Research Guide published by the Hastings Law Library.)

Congressional Universe (Index to and selected full-text of Congressional documents. Restricted to users on campus.)

THOMAS (Searchable legislative information provided by the Library of Congress.)

United States Government Websites

Online Indexes and Abstracts

MELVYL (Book catalog for University of California system, periodical catalog for California Libraries, plus a wide variety of online databases. These databases may be accessed at UCSF Library or the UC Berkeley Libraries. At Hastings, these databases are accessible with a password which can be obtained at the Reference Desk.)

The databases found here include:
- Full text magazine and journal articles
- Newspaper articles
- PsycInfo (Includes citations to articles in over 1,300 professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines, from 1887 to the present).
- Current Contents (multi-discipline article index) Citations for articles published in approximately 6,500 scholarly journals in the physical, social and biological sciences, the arts, humanities, and other fields. July 1989-present.

San Francisco Public Library Reference Databases (SFPL card required.)

The databases found here include:

- MEDLINE (abstracted articles from medical journals)
References and abstracts from over 4000 biomedical journals. Strong in the areas of clinical and basic sciences, nursing, dentistry, and health care planning and administration from 1966 to the present.

- PsycFIRST (psychology abstracts)
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations, and reports on psychology and related fields.
Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages.
Includes current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Adds over 55,000 references annually through monthly updates

- Social Science Abstracts
Abstracts to Social Science articles selected from 550 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.

University of California San Francisco Library Database and Literature Searching
(Available at UCSF only or with a password.)

The databases found here include:

- BIOSIS Previews
Provides comprehensive worldwide coverage of all life science research fields with an emphasis on new research in biology and medicine. The database contains records from 1988 to the present. It includes journal articles as well as technical reports, books, book chapters, US Patents, software, and hard-to-find meeting abstracts.

- MEDLINE
Search PREMEDLINE for the latest references to the biomedical and health sciences literature.

- psycINFO (Includes citations to articles in over 1,300 professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines, from 1887 to the present).

Tobacco Control Archives
Sponsored by UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management, Department of Archives & Special Collections, the Tobacco Control Archives (TCA) is a central, organized source of information. TCA's purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.

DIALOG (databases available through WESTLAW gateway, many are full-text)

Other databases available remotely without a password include

PubMed
Access to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface to MEDLINE. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the National Library of Medicine has established this MEDLINE service. Includes access to PREMEDLINE -- the newest citations to enter the MEDLINE system -- and HealthSTAR. Also provides access to NLM databases such as AIDSLINE, HISTLINE, POPLINE, OLDMEDLINE, SPACELINE, TOXLINE, etc.


NLM Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.

Other

Accident Reconstruction Network (An example of an professional industry site.)
Public Citizen (An example of a consumer advocate site.)

Local Libraries

University of California San Francisco Library (Borrowing privileges with Hastings ID and proof of enrollment.)

San Francisco Public Library (Borrowing privileges with proof of California residence. SFPL card number allows remote access to online databases.)

University of California Berkeley Libraries (Borrowing privileges at some campus libraries obtained at Access Services in the Doe Library.)

Environmental Protection Agency Library (Region 9, San Francisco)