Science and the Law
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
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FirstGov (The official web portal to U.S. government information.)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Forensic Science Communications (A quarterly online journal published by the FBI Laboratory.)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
National Research Council (NRC)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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)
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AGRICOLA AIDSLINE BIOSIS CANCERLIT
CHEMSAFETY
DRUGINFO BIOBASE |
EMBASE - Current indexes to world literature on human medicine and related disciplines EMBASE
FOOD-SCI LNCT MEDLINE MEDLINE85
NE-JNLMED PAIS International -Public Affairs Information Service - index to social science publications (1972- current) PNI |
POLLUTION
SCISEARCH-OLD SCISEARCH SOCSCISRCH Both "scisrch" files include citation indexing, which permits searching by cited references. |
Other Databases Available Remotely Without A Password
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 Online Sources
Accident Reconstruction Network (An example of an professional industry site.)
Public Citizen (An example of a consumer advocate site.)
Local Libraries
Environmental Protection Agency Library (Region 9, San Francisco)
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.)
University of California San Francisco Library (Borrowing privileges with Hastings ID and proof of enrollment.)