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Databases starting with "P":
PAIS
	PAIS covers the range of the social sciences, with emphasis on national and international economic, political and public policy issues. [more]
Paley Center for Media iCollection - Trial [please give feedback here]
	The Paley Center for Media iCollection research database provides Internet streaming access to more than 20,000 TV shows and radio programs spanning nearly 100 years of broadcasting history. Microsoft's SilverLight plug-in must be installed. All users are required to register with an individual username/password to access. Trial ends May 31, 2013.
Palmer's Index to the Times
	This index covers the London Times newspaper from 1790-1905. Part of C19 database. The MU Libraries has the London Times on microfilm in the Special Collections department. [more]
PAN Pesticides Database
	Search by active ingredient, (including CAS Registry Numbers) product name, or product category to discover uses, toxicity, and regulatory status of pesticides. From the Pesticides Action Network of North America. [more]
PapersFirst
	PapersFirst contains citations to papers presented at congresses worldwide. [more]
Parks, Recreation, & Tourism

Pathology: the big picture

Patient History: an Evidence-Based Approach to Differential Diagnosis

PDQ Clinical Trial Search Form
	Provides a search of the web site for cancer clinical trials by diagnosis, phase, trial type, sponsorship, modality, drug and facility location. [more]
PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database
	Clinical trials and systematic reviews on the effectiveness of physical therapy interventions published in peer reviewed journals. All items are scored on methodological quality, and search results are ranked by methodological score. From the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney. [more]
Periodicals Index Online
	Formerly known as Periodical Contents Index, Periodicals Index Online covers magazines and journals published worldwide from 1790 to 1919. Part of C19 database. [more]
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th ed)
	Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (7th ed) is a user's guide and databook which examines every aspect - science, technology, engineering, properties, design, processing, and applications - of the continuing development and use of polypropylene. [more]
PERSEE
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Pharmacology Databases

PharmacyChecker.com
	Compare unit and total (including shipping) costs for drugs in the United States and Canada from pharmacies that sell online, via mail order or fax.
Philobiblon
	Philobiblon is a portion of a union catalog of primary medieval materials in Romance languages of the Iberian peninsula and related secondary materials. Full database only accessible on CD-ROM within Ellis Library. [more]
Philosopher's Index
	This database is an index to articles on philosophy and related fields from 1940 to the present. [more]
Philosophy Databases

Physical Education Databases

Physical Education Index
	Physical Education Index includes physical education, sports, dance, recreation, health education, physical therapy, and related subject areas. Coverage includes peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. [more]
Physical Therapy Databases

Physics Databases

PIER - Physicians' Information and Education Resource Also Known as: physican information and education resource ; physican's information & education resource
	Synthesizes and summarizes the best evidence on over 400 diseases, procedures, and more. From the American College of Physicians. Access provided by the MAHEC Digital Library. Please logout when finished.
PILOTS - Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress
	Indexes world literature on traumatic stress disorder. Although it's created/maintained by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, it covers all types of traumatic stress, not just post-combat stress syndromes. [more]
Plant Management Network
	Plant Management Network provides access to fact sheets, newsletters, product listings, training resources and related information. [more]
Plant Sciences Databases

Plants Toxic to Animals
	Information on identifying common plants toxic to animals. Search plants by common or scientific names. Produced by University of Illinois.
PMC - PubMed Central Also Known as: pub med central ; pmc ; pubmedcentral
	The National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, providing free access to the full text of articles. Includes a growing number of final, peer-reviewed author manuscripts by scientists who receive research funding from NIH and other funding agencies, in addition to articles from journals that deposit their content in the archive. Frequently confused with PubMed, a much larger database of close to 20 million journal article citations (some of which have full text links). [more]
POISINDEX
	The POISINDEX System identifies ingredients for over 1 million household, cosmetic, commercial, harmaceutical and biological products and chemicals. Each substance is linked to one or more management documents providing informationon clinical effects, range of toxicity and treatment protocals for exposures involving the substances. Only accessible at University of Missouri Health Care facilities. [more]
Poisonous Plants Informational Database
	Botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis, and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora. Includes plant images and images of affected animals. From Cornell University. [more]
Political Science Databases

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
	Poole's Index to Periodical Literature indexes British and American periodicals from 1824-1900. Matches pseudonyms to actual authors. Part of the C19 databases. No full-text. [more]
Population Index
	Provides a searchable index to the entire Population Index database for 1986-2000 (Volumes 52-66), plus annual Geographic Indexes. This bibliography is designed to cover the world's demographic and population literature. [more]
PORTAL: The British Academy's Online Directory of Research Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences
	PORTAL covers the whole spectrum of the humanities and social sciences from the history of art to geographical information systems, and from labor history to the indigenous languages of Latin America. [more]
Portuguese Language and Literature Databases Also Known as: Language and Literature, Portuguese

Practice Guidelines: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Also Known as: aasld guidelines ; liver guidelines
	Recommended for PBL Block 7.
Practice Guidelines: American College of Gastroenterology Also Known as: ACG guidelines
	Recommended for PBL Block 7
Practice Guidelines: American Gastroenterological Association Also Known as: AGA guidelines
	Recommended for PBL Block 7
PreMEDLINE Also Known as: MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
	PreMEDLINE provides basic citation information of articles currently being indexed for MEDLINE. [more]
PressDisplay
	PressDisplay provides the original format, layout and pagination for over 200 newspapers from over 50 countries. [more]
Primary Search
	Primary Search provides searchable full-text of nearly 70 of the most popular K-12 magazines. Access provided by MOREnet. [more]
PrimateLit
	Search for information on nonhuman primates in journal articles, books, meeting abstracts, technical reports, dissertations and book chapters. Covers a variety of subject areas, including behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography. Part of the University of Wisconsin's Primate Info Net (PIN). [more]
Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine

ProceedingsFirst
	ProceedingsFirst is an index of worldwide conference proceedings, as well as a list of papers presented at various meetings. [more]
Professional Development Collection
	Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Access provided by MOREnet.
Project Muse
	Project Muse provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics. [more]
ProQuest Congressional Also Known as: Lexis Nexis Congressional
	ProQuest Congressional indexes congressional publications from 1789 to date and provides full text for much of it. This database also includes biographical, financial and voting information on current members of Congress. [more]
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
	Searchable full-image of the New York Times (1851-2008) and the Chicago Defender (1910-1975). [more]
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
	The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. [more]
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times Also Known as: New York Times;historical New York Times; NYT
	ProQuest Historical Newspapers digitally reproduces every issue of the New York Times (1851-2008) from cover-to-cover. It provides full page-image and full-text searching of the newspaper. [more]
ProQuest Legislative Insight
	A legislative history reveals the intent behind a specific law. Legislative histories are helpful to students preparing for careers in public health, education, business, or any other discipline subject to Federal regulation. This database provides searchable full text PDFs for Public Laws and for all versions of bills leading up to those laws. In addition, it presents just the relevant portions of the Congressional Record along with committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, Congressional Research Service reports, and other congressional publications related to the law.
ProQuest Newsstand
	ProQuest Newsstand contains over 850 newspapers with access to 575 full-text titles. With titles like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and major regionals like the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and the Boston Globe, users can also find access to international, national, and regional news. Coverage: 1980's to present. [more]
ProQuest Statistical Data Sets Also Known as: ProQuest Statistical Datasets; Pro quest
	Provides data visualization for more than 500 datasets from government and private industry, both domestic and international. Emphasis is in 20th century U.S. economic data and includes diverse subjects such as health, politics, demographics, social services and environmental data. Time spans vary by topic. Charting, plotting and mapping options available. Export data into MS Excel, XML, PDF, or into shape files for GIS.
ProQuest Technology Collection Also Known as: CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the CSA Engineering Research Database, TRD, Technology Research Database, ProQuest Technology Collection
	ProQuest Technology Collection indexes over 16 million abstracts, over 7.7 million tables and figures, and includes over 2,700 full text journals. It is comprised of ProQuest Advanced Technologies with Aerospace Collection; ProQuest Materials Science Collection; ProQuest Engineering Collection; ProQuest Computer Science Collection; and ProQuest Illustrata: Technology. Coverage starts from 1962. [more]
ProteinDBS
	Search more than 50,000 chains of 3-D protein structures by ID or query by example to identify similar structures. [more]
PsycCRITIQUES - Trial [please give feedback here]
	A database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. Includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956. Trial ends June 30, 2013. [more]
PsycEXTRA - Trial [please give feedback here]
	This database complements PsycINFO with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences; it contains around 200,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. Trial ends June 30, 2013. [more]
Psychology Databases

PsycINFO Also Known as: Psychological Abstracts
	Locate articles in articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences. From the American Psychological Association. Includes a feature to suggest productive search terms to guide users to relevant results. [more]
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES Also Known as: psychological abstracts
	PsycINFO contains references to articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences. With the inclusion of PsycARTICLES, over 149,000 full-text articles from more than 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association and participating publishers are provided. [more]
PubChem
	Locate information on structure and biological activity of over 800,000 small organic molecules. Search by substance, bioassay or compound. Information is imported from 14 public sources, including ChemID plus. Structure and similarity searching are also supported. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information, it includes links to other Pubmed Entrez databases. [more]
PubGet Also Known as: pub get
	A search engine for pdfs in the sciences from PubMed, IEEE and arXiv. Search by topic or set up journal title alerts. Supported by advertising. [more]
Public Policy Databases

PubMed
	The National Library of Medicine free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus some publisher-supplied and out of scope citations from certain general science and chemistry journals. To run a cited reference search on an article found in PubMed, copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

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