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Articles

  • PubMed includes MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE and unique citations from the following now defunct IGM databases : AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HISTLINE, and HealthSTAR. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is an international bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences.
  • The Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) produced by Elsevier Science, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.
  • BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive index of life sciences and biomedical research worldwide including: journals, meetings, patents, and books. Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews & meetings) comprise BIOSIS Previews.
  • Web of Science provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work.
  • Scopus is an abstracts database covering articles from peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and General Sciences.

Patents

  • This database lets you access patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study patent documents. Drawings may be viewed using Adobe Acrobat software.
  • Includes millions of searchable patent documents from various countries & regions. Full-text and images are available.
  • This site provides full-text and images of patents issued since 1976. Documents are searchable in English.
  • This database contains the full-text of newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters and broadcast transcripts as well as hundreds of other business, legal, political and governmental publications. LexisNexis provides up-to-date coverage of current events, book and music reviews. LexisNexis also provides access to Patent databases.
  • Now includes full-text of U.S. patents back to 1976. Full images of all U.S. Patents issues since 1790 are now included. Documents from 1790 to 1975 can only be searched by patent number or Patent Classificaiton number. Images can be viewed on machines which have an application that allows viewing of TIFF image files. A plug-in to enable viewing of TIFF files can be downloaded from the site.

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