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Medicine & Health


Major Databases
PubMed
  • Provides access to over 11 million citations in medicine and biology
  • National Library of Medicine's search engine for Medline, PreMedline and related databases
  • 1966-Present
  • Updated daily
  • Publicly available to anyone using the internet
  • Great for finding scholarly articles in biomedicine and related fields of research
  • Contains links to many full-text articles in journals to which we subscribe electronically

MEDLINE
  • Provides access to citations for articles on all areas of medicine.
  • 1965-Present
  • Updated Monthly
  • Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
  • Great for finding articles in medical literature (3500 journals). Includes some regular biology not necessarily covered in Biosis.

Other Databases
AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts
  • Provides access to scholarly citations for the worldwide literature on AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics.
  • 1982-Present
  • Updated Monthly
  • Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
  • Great for finding scholarly articles on AIDS and cancer includes both basic science research and clinical applications.

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts
  • Provides access to citations for articles and new patents on biotechnology and bioengineering.
  • 1982-present
  • Updated Monthly
  • Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
  • Great for finding the latest scholarly articles, reports, regulations and patents in all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.

PsycINFO
  • Provides access to citations with abstracts for articles in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
  • 1887- present.
  • Updated quarterly.
  • Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
  • Comprehensive worldwide index to psychology articles and selected books. Excellent search features.

PsycLit SEE PsycINFO



Toxline (NLM)

  • Provides access to scholarly citations for articles and monographic materials on toxicology.
  • 1992-present
  • Updated Monthly
  • Available only to uses at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
  • Great for finding scholarly research material on all areas of toxicology.
Web of Science
  • Provides access to scholarly science and social science journal article citations, with "Get this item" links to fulltext.
  • Sciences citation index: 1955-present
  • Social sciences citation index: 1956-present
  • Great for finding the most important (heavily cited) articles in the sciences and social sciences. Can also be used to find articles citing a known important work on your topic, or related to it based on shared citations.
  • Help using this database is available.


   
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