MEDLINE®
Ovid MEDLINE
1950 - present
Major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, including: internal medicine, general medicine, primary care, family medicine, and general practice, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences. [
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PubMed
Includes open access version of MEDLINE®
1966 - present
Index and abstract database covering the fields of "medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. It includes access to MEDLINE® and to citations for selected articles in life science journals not included in MEDLINE. ..[It] also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources." [
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EMBASE: Excerpta Medica & EMBASE Classic
1947 - present
A "major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in 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." [
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Web of Science® with Conference Proceedings
WOS
SCI: 1899 - present; SSCI: 1956-present; A&HCI: 1975-present ; CPSI-S: 1990-present; CPSI-SSH: 1990-present
Collection of three citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to approximately 10,000 high impact scholarly research journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings, and covering topics in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Access Note: By default all five sub-databases are searched. To select one or more databases, change the default by clicking on [Change Limits and Settings] . [
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Google Scholar
Google's web search tool focusing on scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Includes both open access and commercial content with links to available Library full text and FindIt! linking service.
Journal Citation Reports®
JCR Science Edition; JCR Social Sciences Edition
From 2004 to the last complete year. Updated in June of each year
"Allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries." There are two editions:
JCR Science Edition and
JCR Social Sciences Edition [
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GenBank
coverage varies
Genetic sequence database
Natural Standard
The Authority on Integrative Medicine
Current
A collection of nine databases, providing high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies; compiled by an international research collaborative, with contributions from clinicians and researchers from eminent academic institutions. [
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Scopus
A&I: 1823 - present; complete metadata including references: 1996 - present
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technology, and medicine (STM), and social sciences.
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SciFinder Scholar (Client/Server Edition)
SciFinder Scholar & Substructure Module
Chemical Abstracts & CAS REGISTRY: 1907 - present; CASREACT: 1840 - present
Client-server application/software provinding access to the CAS databases: CAplus (Chemical Abstracts™ and patents), CAS Registry, CHEMCATS, and to the Substructure Module, a chemical structure drawing tool. Scholar requires client software loaded on the individual workstations (PC or Mac) of authorized users or it can be accessed from designated University of Saskatchewan Library public workstations. An online version is now available: see the SciFinder (Web Edition) details page for important access information.
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