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Other Databases

• AGRICOLA.
  National Agricultural Library
  Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant sciences, food and human nutrition, and earth.
• Native American Ethnobotany Database
  University of Michigan-Dearborn
  Database for information on foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants, representing usage by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families.
• CAM on PubMed
  National Library of Medicine
  Access to citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals. Includes links to many full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. If you run your search from this link it will automatically be limited to the CAM subset of PubMed. NB to access the full-text of Tufts subscribed journals you must access PubMed through the HSL home page.
• Cochrane Collaboration Complementary Medicine Field
  Overview of the mission and activities of the Cochrane Collaboration Complementary Medicine Field. Includes links to the Complementary Medicine Field Newsletter, Complementary Medicine Reviews & Protocols, and the Registry, a database of randomized control trials (RCT) and controlled clinical trials (CCT) on Complementary Medicine topics.
• HerbMed
  American Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  Evidence-based hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.
• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
  Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institute of Health.
  Scientific literature on dietary supplements.
• Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
  Agricultural Research Service
  Search plants by chemical, activity or ethnobotanical use. Includes list of browsable databases.
• TOXNET
  National Library of Medicine
  Databases of toxicology information.
• USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR)
  Nutrient Data Laboratory
  The major source of food composition data in the United States. It provides the foundation for most food composition databases in the public and private sectors. Contains data on 6,220 food items and up to 117 food components. The database is downloadable via the USDA web site; files required to search the databases are also available for download.