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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.

Statistics and Data

  • 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.
  • TAY reference Q199.W5713
  • TAY reference QH310.A39

Web Sites

  • Electronic information services of the Physiological Society [UK]
  • 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 (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.
  • 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
  • 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