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Articles

  • PubMed
    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.
  • EMBASE
    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
    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
    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
    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.
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Patents

  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
    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.
  • European Patent Office
    Includes millions of searchable patent documents from various countries & regions. Full-text and images are available.
  • Japanese Patent Office
    This site provides full-text and images of patents issued since 1976. Documents are searchable in English.
  • LexisNexis-Patents
    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.
  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
    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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Statistics and Data

  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
    A fully searchable online version of the current edition of the CRC Handbook, this resource provides physical and chemical data on thousands of organic and inorganic compounds as well as scientific abbreviations and symbols, acid-base indicators and chemical structure diagrams. Special features of the electronic version include cross-table searching and synonym browsing.
  • Geigy Scientific Tables
    TAY reference Q199.W5713
  • Biology Data Book
    TAY reference QH310.A39
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Web Sites

  • Physiology Online
    Electronic information services of the Physiological Society [UK]
  • Physiology Virtual Library
    A component of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this site provides a comprehensive list of sites in Physiology and Biophysics. Maintained by The Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Cornell University Medical College.
  • Scirus
    Scirus (the scientific search engine) enables scientists and students to comprehensively search the web for science-specific information. The Scirus search engine charts and pinpoints data, locates university sites and finds reports and articles quickly and easily. A unique feature of this search engine is the suggested list of terms that appear most frequently in your search results which can be use in search refinement.
  • Canadian Physiological Society
    A forum for the dissemination and discussion of scientific information of interest to researchers in Physiology and related Biological Sciences - provides a link to Physiology Canada, the society's journal
  • American Physiological Society
    Provides current information to the physiological community - publishes the two most heavily cited North American physiolgy journals: American Journal of Physiology and Journal of Applied Physiology
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