Online Database Listings
Doing research on a specific aspect of alcohol policy or substance abuse prevention? Below is a list of popular databases and indexes featuring scholarly articles and public education resources.
While we have and continue to accumulate links and references from a broad range of sources, we also welcome any suggested additions to the list.
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Resource for researchers, educators, health professionals, community groups, policy and decision makers and others interested in the topic. Lists bibliographic details of over 700 alcohol-related research and other publications produced by New Zealand researchers between January 1990 and May 1998.
Bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Maintained by the US National Institute on Alcohol and Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
81 citations. January 2002 to present. Prepared: March 2004.
Database contains citations and brief abstracts for over 13,000 articles and news stories about the US alcohol beverage industry, alcohol policy, and prevention efforts from 1991 to the present. Updated monthly. Maintained by the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems.
Maintained by the Trauma Foundation, contains bibliographic references to journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, reports, and studies from lay and scholarly literature in a variety of disciplines. Useful in addressing the problem of alcohol-related injury and violence from a public health perspective. Does not contain references to motor vehicle crashes and alcohol. Contains almost 900 records and from the 1980s to present. Updated regularly.
Bibliographic database maintained by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Includes resource materials, government documents, conference papers, published research on various substance-related topics.
Searchable online catalogue of the collection of the CAMH Library. The library supports multidisciplinary research and programs at CAMH in the areas of substance abuse and mental health, and provides Ontario professionals and public with resources for informed decision making in substance abuse and mental health related issues. The comprehensive collections in mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs consist of books, journals, reprints, research reports, government documents, videos and electronic resources. Scope is international and historical in core areas, with an emphasis on Ontario and Canadian materials. Special collections include a historical temperance collection. The library offers interlibrary loan agreements with public and university libraries.
30 citations. January 2003 to present. Prepared: December 2004.
Abstracts of articles published in key drug prevention publications. Updated quarterly. Canadian entries somewhat dated. Maintained by Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University.
World's largest source of education information. Contains over 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Updated monthly. Research-oriented, topic-specific
Digests updated quarterly. Maintained by the US National Library of Education.
Free service of publishing company. Over 1,100 publications in a variety of fields.
Search the Health Canada Departmental Library for publications.
Prepared by the Health Promotion Information Centre at the Health Development Agency, HealthPromis is the national health promotion database for England. Contains references and links to a range of sources including publications, surveys, reports, books, and journal articles.
Prepared by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). The database is dedicated to housing and community development issues and contains more than 8,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources.
A comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific literature on prevention and sociological issues related to alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. Maintained by the U.S. National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, SAMHSA.
Bibliographic databases and archives.
Bibliographic database of alcohol and substance abuse information from over 40,000 journal articles, government and private studies, reports, conference proceedings, books, etc. Updated quarterly. Maintained by the Project Cork Resource Center of the Department of Health of the State of Vermont with assistance from the Dartmouth College Library. The Web Site also includes copies of quarterly newsletters "Library Watch", subject bibliographies on over 100 topics, and directories of organizations, and other resource materials.
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Searchable database containing over 1100 proven solutions from around the world related to common social, economic and environmental problems, including health and welfare, public safety, and crime reduction and prevention. Practical ways in which communities, governments and the private sector can work together to effect change, by analyzing current trends, networking, capacity-building, technical cooperation and policy development. Joint project of
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and
The Together Foundation.
Searchable on-line database developed by Transport Canada, the Canada Safety Council and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, through their partnership with the National Police Award for Traffic Safety. Access to community based strategies that have been successful in addressing traffic safety concerns. Intended to support community based strategy development by providing a forum where best practices strategies can be shared.
Search pageCanadian Medical Association's searchable infobase of guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
Registry of best prevention practices compiled from existing and developing efforts to reduce substance abuse in the US. Project partners include: Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Join Together Online, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and others.
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Database includes titles, abstracts and information about health education resources. Features health promotion and education materials and program descriptions not available elsewhere. Updated quarterly. Created in 1985 by a several US agencies including the Centers for Disease Control, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Includes Canadian resources.
Database of Canadian resources authored, produced or published in Canada or that have Canadian content but published outside of but currently available to practitioners in Canada. Includes documents from 1996 to present. Maintained by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.
Database containing primary alcohol and substance abuse prevention materials developed by both private and public agencies, for use by community leaders, educators, parents, and youth/teens. Bibliographic records and a brief description of each item are provided. Includes Canadian materials. Maintained by the US Substance Abuse Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Systematic reviews and database summarizes recommended interventions of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, a group convened by the US Department of Health and Human Services to "provide leadership in the evaluation of community, population, and health care system strategies to address a variety of public health and health promotion topics." The Task Force is supported by staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and private and public partners.
Database of latest medical news from conferences, the literature, newswires and the internet. Maintained by P\S\L Consulting Group Inc.
Database of addictions treatment agencies across Ontario. May be viewed alphabetically or by municipality, district health council boundaries or type of treatment service offered. Information is provided by participating agencies. Includes descriptions of agencies and services, admission criteria, intake procedures, and services for special populations such as youth, Natives and women. Database maintained by the Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment, a province-wide information and referral service funded by the Ministry of Health. Canada-wide directory of treatment services available on the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse web site at http://www.ccsa.ca.
Breaking news and updates on the most important and intriguing health stories, from Johns Hopkins, Reuters, the New York Times Syndicate, The Associated Press, and other news services.
Search MEDLINE through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed search interface.
Huge collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine articles. Single search entry allows visitors to search Medscape's 10 medical databases, including MEDLINE, daily news summaries, practice guidelines, etc. Targeted to physicians, health care professionals and consumers. Company governed by 16 member editorial board of internationally respected medical ethicists, researchers and practitioners.
US National Library of Medicine search service providing access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE. Contains articles/abstracts from over 3,600 international journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry and other health sciences. Links to participating on-line journals and other related databases.
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The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) provides user-searchable access to alcohol-related policies across the United States related to alcoholic beverage control, taxation and pricing, advertising, marketing, and mass media, transportation, crime, and public safety, health care services and financing education, public services, functions, and programs, employment and workplace and more. The database also includes an Archive of Alcohol-Related Bills and Regulations (US).
CANLII is a searchable database of legislation, full-text court and tribunal decisions and other primary law material from almost all Canadian provinces and territories. It was developed by the University of Montreal's LexUM team for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, an umbrella organization of the fourteen governing bodies of the legal profession in Canada. English and French.
This database contains information on alcohol legislation in the United States.
Judgement Search of the Supreme Court of Canada
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CANLII)
University Law Review Project
McCarthy Tetrault's web site
Ontario e-Laws Searchable Database
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Selected abstracts of English and French documents related to program planning, policy development, legal issues, statistics, and research. Abstracts are written in the language of the document. Sponsored by the International Labour Organization and posted on the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse web site. Also posted on the CCSA web site: a searchable
Directory of Employee Assistance Programs across Canada.
Database of abstracts and full-text documents on substance abuse in the workplace. Maintained by US Department of Labor.
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Resource for researchers, educators, health professionals, community groups, policy and decision makers and others interested in the topic. Lists bibliographic details of over 700 alcohol-related research and other publications produced by New Zealand researchers between January 1990 and May 1998.
Bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Maintained by the US National Institute on Alcohol and Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Database contains citations and brief abstracts for over 13,000 articles and news stories about the US alcohol beverage industry, alcohol policy, and prevention efforts from 1991 to the present. Updated monthly. Maintained by the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems.
Searchable database of downloadable alcohol-related public service announcements, brochures, pamphlets, educational games, teaching materials and other free or low-cost resources produced by reputable organizations. Resources either developed by Ontario groups and/or appropriate for use in Ontario. Ontario and Canadian broadcast media are given ready access to alcohol PSAs on the
Canadian Association of Broadcasters' website. Similarly, content of database is shared with other
Alcohol Education Project partners. To contribute materials (including doc, txt, ppt, PDF, mp3, gif, jpg, video files), click
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The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) provides user-searchable access to alcohol-related policies across the United States related to alcoholic beverage control, taxation and pricing, advertising, marketing, and mass media, transportation, crime, and public safety, health care services and financing education, public services, functions, and programs, employment and workplace and more. The database also includes an Archive of Alcohol-Related Bills and Regulations (US).
Maintained by the Trauma Foundation, contains bibliographic references to journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, reports, and studies from lay and scholarly literature in a variety of disciplines. Useful in addressing the problem of alcohol-related injury and violence from a public health perspective. Does not contain references to motor vehicle crashes and alcohol. Contains almost 900 records and from the 1980s to present. Updated regularly.
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Searchable database containing over 1100 proven solutions from around the world related to common social, economic and environmental problems, including health and welfare, public safety, and crime reduction and prevention. Practical ways in which communities, governments and the private sector can work together to effect change, by analyzing current trends, networking, capacity-building, technical cooperation and policy development. Joint project of
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and
The Together Foundation.
Searchable on-line database developed by Transport Canada, the Canada Safety Council and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, through their partnership with the National Police Award for Traffic Safety. Access to community based strategies that have been successful in addressing traffic safety concerns. Intended to support community based strategy development by providing a forum where best practices strategies can be shared.
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Bibliographic database maintained by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Includes resource materials, government documents, conference papers, published research on various substance-related topics.
CANLII is a searchable database of legislation, full-text court and tribunal decisions and other primary law material from almost all Canadian provinces and territories. It was developed by the University of Montreal's LexUM team for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, an umbrella organization of the fourteen governing bodies of the legal profession in Canada. English and French.
Searchable online catalogue of the collection of the CAMH Library. The library supports multidisciplinary research and programs at CAMH in the areas of substance abuse and mental health, and provides Ontario professionals and public with resources for informed decision making in substance abuse and mental health related issues. The comprehensive collections in mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs consist of books, journals, reprints, research reports, government documents, videos and electronic resources. Scope is international and historical in core areas, with an emphasis on Ontario and Canadian materials. Special collections include a historical temperance collection. The library offers interlibrary loan agreements with public and university libraries.
Search for information on research projects funded by the institute by researcher's name, country, institution and keyword. Prepared by the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
Canadian Medical Association's searchable infobase of guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.
Database includes titles, abstracts and information about health education resources. Features health promotion and education materials and program descriptions not available elsewhere. Updated quarterly. Created in 1985 by a several US agencies including the Centers for Disease Control, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health. Includes Canadian resources.
Systematic reviews and database summarizes recommended interventions of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, a group convened by the US Department of Health and Human Services to "provide leadership in the evaluation of community, population, and health care system strategies to address a variety of public health and health promotion topics." The Task Force is supported by staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and private and public partners.
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Database of latest medical news from conferences, the literature, newswires and the internet. Maintained by P\S\L Consulting Group Inc.
Database of addictions treatment agencies across Ontario. May be viewed alphabetically or by municipality, district health council boundaries or type of treatment service offered. Information is provided by participating agencies. Includes descriptions of agencies and services, admission criteria, intake procedures, and services for special populations such as youth, Natives and women. Database maintained by the Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment, a province-wide information and referral service funded by the Ministry of Health. Canada-wide directory of treatment services available on the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse web site at http://www.ccsa.ca.
Abstracts of articles published in key drug prevention publications. Updated quarterly. Canadian entries somewhat dated. Maintained by Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University.
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World's largest source of education information. Contains over 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Updated monthly. Research-oriented, topic-specific Digests updated quarterly. Maintained by the US National Library of Education.
Free service of publishing company. Over 1,100 publications in a variety of fields.
This database contains information on alcohol legislation in the United States.
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This database contains a listing of organizations that are willing to fund community orgaizations in Canada.
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Search the Health Canada Departmental Library for publications.
Prepared by the Health Promotion Information Centre at the Health Development Agency, HealthPromis is the national health promotion database for England. Contains references and links to a range of sources including publications, surveys, reports, books, and journal articles.
Prepared by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). The database is dedicated to housing and community development issues and contains more than 8,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources.
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A comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific literature on prevention and sociological issues related to alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. Maintained by the U.S. National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, SAMHSA.
Breaking news and updates on the most important and intriguing health stories, from Johns Hopkins, Reuters, the New York Times Syndicate, The Associated Press, and other news services.
Selected abstracts of English and French documents related to program planning, policy development, legal issues, statistics, and research. Abstracts are written in the language of the document. Sponsored by the International Labour Organization and posted on the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse web site. Also posted on the CCSA web site: a searchable Directory of Employee Assistance Programs across Canada.
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This searchable database housed on the APOLNET website provides access to speakers, media contacts, funders, product or service providers, colleagues, researchers or consultants knowledgeable about a particular issue, group or project in Ontario. To register, click
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Alcohol Education Project, funded by the Government of Ontario, Ministry of Citizenship Volunteer@ction.online Program.
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Search MEDLINE through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed search interface.
Huge collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine articles. Single search entry allows visitors to search Medscape's 10 medical databases, including MEDLINE, daily news summaries, practice guidelines, etc. Targeted to physicians, health care professionals and consumers. Company governed by 16 member editorial board of internationally respected medical ethicists, researchers and practitioners.
US Dept. of Health and Human Service's database of abstracts of the Models That Work program. Sponsored by Dept.'s Bureau of Primary Health Care and more than 25 other organizations, the program identifies and promotes the replication of innovative community-based models for the delivery of primary health care to underserved and vulnerable populations.
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Bibliographic databases and archives.
Database of Canadian resources authored, produced or published in Canada or that have Canadian content but published outside of but currently available to practitioners in Canada. Includes documents from 1996 to present. Maintained by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.
Registry of best prevention practices compiled from existing and developing efforts to reduce substance abuse in the US. Project partners include: Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Join Together Online, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and others.
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Searchable index of key US substance abuse prevention and treatment sites. Includes info on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. A joint project of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Database containing primary alcohol and substance abuse prevention materials developed by both private and public agencies, for use by community leaders, educators, parents, and youth/teens. Bibliographic records and a brief description of each item are provided. Includes Canadian materials. Maintained by the US Substance Abuse Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Bibliographic database of alcohol and substance abuse information from over 40,000 journal articles, government and private studies, reports, conference proceedings, books, etc. Updated quarterly. Maintained by the Project Cork Resource Center of the Department of Health of the State of Vermont with assistance from the Dartmouth College Library. The Web Site also includes copies of quarterly newsletters "Library Watch", subject bibliographies on over 100 topics, and directories of organizations, and other resource materials.
US National Library of Medicine search service providing access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE. Contains articles/abstracts from over 3,600 international journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry and other health sciences. Links to participating on-line journals and other related databases.
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Database of abstracts and full-text documents on substance abuse in the workplace. Maintained by US Department of Labor.
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