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(Biology, Family - Nutrition - Exercise Sciences, Medicine)

NOTE: Databases work anywhere on campus. See instructions for OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS.


Database Name Type Dates Description
General databases for all subjects (Academic Search Premier, NY Times, etc.) Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1990s- Index to articles in all subjects; selected full-text.
Annual Reviews Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1950s- Annual Reviews in Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
BasicBIOSIS Index, Periodical or Bibliographic 1998- Life sciences: agriculture, biochemistry, biology, botany, genetics, microbiology, etc.
CINAHL: Nursing and Allied Health (EBSCO) Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1982- Nursing, allied health, and health sciences librarianship.
Elsevier Science Direct Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1990s- Over 900 journals in sciences, social sciences, technology, and medicine.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations Current More than 4000 peer-reviewed encyclopedia articles spanning the spectrum of the life sciences.
General Science Abstracts Abstracts in a Periodical or Bibliographic Index 1984- Abstracts articles from science journals, popular science mags, and NY Times Science Section.
Health Reference Center Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1998- Fitness, pregnancy, occupational safety and health, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1990- Nursing and allied health; scholarly full text journals on many medical disciplines.
Informe Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1994- Consists of full-text periodical articles, mostly in Spanish, with some English. It includes topics such as health, technology, business, current events, and other areas..
Infoshare Reference Resource with full-text / image 2002 Population data from 1980, 1990, 2000 census; health, immigration, socio-economic data.
Ingenta Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1988- Journals in the sciences, many full-text.
JSTOR Collections in Arts, Sciences, Business, Music, Language & Literature Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1870s-1990s Over 300 full-text journals, many starting with the first issue.
Medline (EBSCO) Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1966- Medicine, nursing, dentistry, health care, etc.
Medline (PubMed) Abstracts in a Periodical or Bibliographic Index 1966- Medicine, nursing, dentistry, health care, etc.
Nature Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1997- Includes Nature Weekly, Nature Research Journals & Nature Reviews.
New England Journal of Medicine Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1975- The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, owned and published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It publishes current research articles, clinical findings, review articles, perspective/editorials, etc., on a variety of topics from all areas of medicine. Broad subject : Clinical medicine. Specific subjects: Internal medicine; General Medicine; Primary care/Family medicine/General practice.
PLoS Journals (Public Library of Science) Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 2003- Peer-reviewed open-access journals in Biology, Medicine, Genetics, etc.
PsycArticles Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1988- Several dozen journals from APA and other sources.
Science Citation Index Expanded Index, Periodical or Bibliographic 1999- Access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines.
Science Direct Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1990s- Over 900 journals in sciences, social sciences, technology, and medicine.
SPORTDiscus Index, Periodical or Bibliographic 1800- Covers sport, fitness, and sports medicine information, which has over 700,000 references from thousands of international periodicals.
Web of Science Index, Periodical or Bibliographic 1999- Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index (1998-).
Wiley Interscience Full-text of articles, for selected or all citations 1990s- More than 100 journals in the sciences and social sciences.


Last Updated February 2008