Plant Medicinal Research Resources at the University of Illinois
Created by Katie Newman, Biotechnology Librarian, 5-5386, florador "at"
UIUC.edu
Class / Group Presentations:
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.
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Databases to consult
Library catalogs, e-journals, and Interlibrary Loan
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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).
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University of Illinois e-journals
Find out if University of Illinois has electronic access to a journal or magazine.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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WorldCat
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.
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Scientific literature
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PubMed
Identifies articles in basic and clinical biomedical research as well as in psychology other
allied health fields. Also know as "Medline". (1950-)
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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.
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CAB Abstracts
Identifies articles in all aspects of agriculture, veterinary medicine and more. This is
largest agricultural database. (1910-)
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FSTA (Food Science &
Technology Abstracts) -
Identifies articles in all areas of food science. (1969-)
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Biological Abstracts
Identifies articles from journals in biology and the biomedical sciences. (1955-)
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Engineering Village (EiVillage)
Identifies articles in engineering and physics literature. Includes the Compendex, NTIS, and
INSPEC databases. (1970-)
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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
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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.
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Faculty of 1000 (F1000)-
Set up a "My Faculty of 1000" and keep tract of the top papers as judged by experts in the
field.
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Agricola
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!
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AGRIS
Identifies journal articles in international agriculture. Produced by the FAO. (1975-)
Note:
CAB Abstracts is a much more
comprehensive agricultural database!
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Conference Papers
Identifies papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings. If you need
"standards", contact the Engineering Library.
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EBM Reviews
Identifies reviews of clinical medicine and provides access to controlled trials.
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IPA [International Pharmaceutical
Abstracts]
Identifies articles related to the field of pharmaceuticals. (1970-)
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Toxicology Abstracts
Identifies research articles about toxicology. (1981-)
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International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) - (A subset of PubMed?)
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Herbs, Botanicals & Teas.
Table of contents. Book available for
loan from
I-Share.
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Patent resources
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US Patent Office
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.
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European Patent Office
Dates of coverage for the EPO vary by country
. For the most part, coverage starts in the early 70's.
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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.
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Patent Offices, worldwide
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
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Popular literature / News
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Lexis Nexis / Academic Universe
Articles from newspapers around the nation as well as international.
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Academic Search Premier
Identifies articles in scholarly and popular interdisciplinary journals and national news
magazines. (1985-)
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Academic OneFile (from
Infotrac)
Identifies articles in scholarly and popular interdisciplinary journals and national news
magazines. (1980-)
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E-Answers
Search for ag extension publications, nationwide
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Business literature
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ABI/Inform
Articles on business and management topics from U.S. and international publications.
(1905-)
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Business Source Premier
Articles about public and private companies from over 400 journals, newspapers, and wire
services. (1993-)
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EconLit
Identifies articles, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics. (1969-)
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OneSource
Identifies articles, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.
Other resources to consider
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Dictionary of Natural Compounds
This is searchable at University of Illinois as part of
ChemNetBase.
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Medical Dictionary (from
MedlinePlus)
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Biochemical targets of plant bioactive compounds: a
pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects
. [Reference book in Funk Library]
Review
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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!
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Current Protocols
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
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MDConsult
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.
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Mosby's Handbook of Herbs &
Natural Supplements, 2nd edition (2004)
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.
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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.
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ToxNet
Collection of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
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Chemistry Online Resource Guide
(University of Illinois)
Includes links to websites for spectra.
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Journal Citation Reports
Use this to find out if a journal has been "highly cited" or has a high ISI Impact Factor
rating.
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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.
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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).
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Cyberbotanica
Originally developed at Indiana University but no longer updated, this resource tells about
the plants from which cancer treatments are derived.
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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.
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EnvironmentalChemistry.com
Find the synoynms and CAS Registry numbers for chemicals.
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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...
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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")
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Dogpile
Search Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Teoma, Overture and FindWhat
simultaneously. Results are "clustered" somewhat.
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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.
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Science.gov
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
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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
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Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH)
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM) (NIH) -
Includes health info, clinical trials, research underway, grant info.
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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.
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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.
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Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating
Safety
Read the full text of this 2004 Inst of Medicine / National Research Council report
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CARDS
Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements (CARDS) Database - A database of
federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements. (1999-)
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International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) - (A subset of PubMed?)
Botanical Centers
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