ETOH (the chemical symbol for ethanol)-- NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database. This data base was created by the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse. Is the most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced by the National Institute on alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH contains approximately 100,000 records. It abstracts information from thousands of books, research papers such as doctoral dissertations, letters to the editor, conference proceedings and papers, and journal articles in the area of alcohol and drug abuse. ETOH contains research finding from the late 1960's to the present as well as historical research literature. The abstracts of documents in this database are not always the same as the abstract found in Medline. In many cases, the abstract is written by the author of the journal article as part of the publication process.

ETOH's scope reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the alcohol research field. The range of subject areas contained in ETOH include: medicine, biochemistry, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, treatment, prevention, education, accidents and safety, legislation, criminal justice, public safety, and health services research.

This website was produced by NIAAA from 1972 through 2003.
Address: http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/

Databases covering Alcohol Related Research http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/Databases.htm

For more up-to-date information use PubMed or Project Cork from Dartmouth University contains over
61,000 items from the 1970s to the present.
Address: http://www.projectcork.org/database_search/

PubMed, the online version of MEDLINE (MEDlars onLINE), is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the US National Institute for Health. The bibliographic database covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations (e.g., author, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The process of selecting journals for inclusion is described in the Fact Sheet, Journal Selection for Index Medicus/MEDLINE contains over 9 million records dating back to 1966. Medline has worldwide coverage, but 88% of the citations in current MEDLINE are for English language sources and 76% have English abstracts. Citations for MEDLINE are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations. The database is updated monthly.
Address: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

Note: when searching in the databases you may truncate or shorten a word or phrases using a * (star or asterisk). For example, instead of using the word absorption you may instead use absor* and the database will pick up the words absorption, absorbing, absorbed, and other variation of the word. Another tip in ETOH is to use the term ethanol instead of alcohol, you may obtain better results.

updated 07/31/10