Online Reference Resources

Credo Reference (Databases@Emory)

Credo Ready-Reference services features full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject

Reference Universe (Databases@Emory)

Contains many references works with medicinal uses of plants and has some full text available.

Print Reference Collection: located on the first floor

Check out the first floor of the library in the R 570's - R 600's for excellent print resources on herbs and plants.

• CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference Call # 581.63 J69Cr Location: Reference
• Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses Call # 581.63 B787e Location: Reference

Brainstorm synonyms or variations on words yields a more productive search.

For example, if you are searching for something on the medicinal uses of Aloe, you might also want to look for:

• Medicinal Plants
• Ethnobotany
• Liliaceae

Adjust your searches by narrowing the focus, ex: Aloe Vera OR combine terms: Aloe Vera AND Burns

Recommended Databases:

Academic Search Complete

• Multidisciplinary database with scholarly and popular articles.

Agricola

• Indexes journals, government reports, books theses, patents, technical reports, and audio-visual resources in agriculture.

Alt-Health Watch

• Focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness and includes some full text.

BIOSIS Previews

• Encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research.

HerbMedPro

• Provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

• Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, pharmacy practice, legislation, regulation, and technology.

Journals@Ovid

• Provides full-text of journals in clinical medicine, behavioral and social sciences, life sciences, nursing, and physical science.

Medline Plus: Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information

• Contains information on herbs and supplements is from Natural Standard©*. For additional herb and supplement information, see the MedlinePlus Complementary and Alternative Therapies topics or the Dietary Supplements Labels Database from the National Library of Medicine.

 PubMed

• Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.

Recommended Websites:

• American Botanical Council: Herbalgram
• National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
• Ethnobotanical Resource Directory
• U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
• Summary of GRAS ("Generally Recognized As Safe") Notices (FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition)
• American Nutraceutical Association
• Growing for the Medicinal Herb Market--Selected Sources and Resources
• Food and Nutrition Information Center (USDA)
• Internet Directory for Botany
• Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture
• Botanical Society of America Website

• Medline Plus - Herbal Medicine Website

Recommended Image Galleries:

• Botanical Society of America - Image Collection
• Hort.net Gallery
• The Virtual Foliage Homepage (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
• Vascular Plant Family Access Page (University of Hawaii)
  Plant Image Gallery (Noble Foundation)
• Google.com Images
• USDA Plants Database Image Gallery

Remember to evaluate every source you use for relevance and quality! 
Evaluating Sources

Citing Your Sources: 
MLA Documentation (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing 
Call Number: 808 G437M (RESERVES)