URL: http://biolit.ucsd.edu/doc/ BioLit offers a searchable web database of the full text of all PubMed Central research articles with automated mark-up from multiple biomedical ontologies and identifiers from multiple biological databases.
Coverage: Search over 129,071 open access articles with added semantic data.
Format: XML-based article files
Description: The establishment of open access literature makes it possible for knowledge to be extracted from scholarly articles and included in other resources. BioLit aims to extract database identifiers and rich meta-data from open access articles in the life sciences and integrate that information with existing biological databases. Article types: review-article; case-report; research-article; brief-report; retraction; and, article-commentary.

URL: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ Abstract database
Coverage: Two databases, DARE & NHS EED, that contain provisional abstracts that are in the process of being written. Updated weekly.
Description: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) contains 15,000 abstracts of systematic reviews including over 6,000 quality assessed reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols. This database is focused on the effects of interventions used in health and social care. NHS EED contains 24,000 abastacts of health economics papers including over 7,000 quality assesssed economic evaluations.

URL: http:/dida.library.ucsf.edu/
Coverage: DIDA contains over 2500 documents about pharmaceutical industry clinical trials, publication of study results, pricing, marketing, relations with physicians and involvement in continuing medical education.
Format: html
Description: DIDA was created by the Center for Knowledge Management at the University of California San Francisco Library, to house material pertaining to United States of America ex rel. David Franklin vs. Parke-Davis. Documents were obtained from public-access files of the United States District Court for Massachusetts and other sources including the plaintiff’s law firm. Additional sources, including court cases and U.S. government committee investigations, have been added to DIDA over the last few years.

URL: http://www.humgen.org/int/ HumGen is a searchable collection of laws, policy statements and selective literature relevant to the ethical, legal and social issues in human genetics research.
Coverage: This database is intended for researchers, policymakers, professionals and the general public. It covers a range of issues such as: reproductive genetics, gene therapy, pediatric research, population biobanks, stem cells, genetic research , testing and screening and pharmacogenetics.
Description: Search metholology: search websites of more than 800 international, regional, national, governmental departments and non-governmental organizations in the field of ethical, legal and social issues on human genetics; search articles & policies from academic journals, and; search literature and policy relevant documents also in these fields. Sponsored by McGill University and Canada’s Center of Genomics and Policy.

URL: http://healthreform.kff.org/ Health Care Reform and Health Insurance Reform Analysis, Data and Information
Coverage: Health Care reform and health insurance
Description: Health care reform portal

URL: http://www.genome.gov/PolicyEthics/LegDatabase/pubsearch.cfm National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Coverage: This database contains Federal and State laws/statutes; Federal legislative materials; and Federal administrative and executive materials, including regulations, institutional policies, and executive orders.
Description: The database currently focuses on the followiing subject areas: privacy of genetic information/confidentiality; informed consent; insurance and employment discrimination; genetic testing and counseling; and commericialization and patenting.

URL: http://popline.org/ Searchable free bibliographic database on population and family planning. Many of the articles on the database are peer-reviewed and free full text.
Coverage: Citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. It contains nearly 370,000 records and is mainained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The database adds 10,000 records annually and is updated weekly.
Format: RSS feed, multiple
Description: Popline’s special features include links to free, full text documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reveiwed journal articles; RSS feeds for topical searches; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.