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Began in 1990s.
Provides indexed citations to books, serials, audiovisuals, etc. held by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators (1970-present) and to journal articles, book chapters, etc. (1979-present), covering agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
1926-
Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
1984- (Indexing); 1993- (Abstracting)
Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in approximately 200 "... popular and professional science journals published in the United States and Great Britain, and the Science section of The New York Times. Subject headings have been designed for the non-specialist and student ... Subject coverage includes atmospheric science, earth science, conservation, food and nutrition, genetics, nursing and health, physiology, and zoology."--Wilson description. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
An enhanced, online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) (full text: 1998- ) integrated with other sources of cancer information. "Search All" screen returns results from JNCI, more than 25 additional journals with cancer-related content, cancer statistics from various health agencies, recent news coverage, Physician data query, selected relevant entries in Physicians' desk reference, and abstracts from Cochrane reviews and from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Web interface to an extensible, object-oriented WWW cross-reference search and retrieval system developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The goal of MIA is to allow users to easily search the internet to find all current information for a molecule of interest.
1900-
"... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.More about Web of Science
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