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1926-
Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Provides full text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals and includes publications covering the business of health care administration.
Began in 200-?
This database provides full text for nearly 300 consumer health periodicals, nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets, 145 health reference books, and more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports, as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 300 periodicals. Also includes Stedman's medical dictionary. Full text coverage dates back as far as 1985.
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. Includes Stedman's medical dictionary.
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.
Site as viewed May 29, 1997 (rev. Apr. 29, 1998);
"Provides access to over 12 million Medline citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals."
1800-
Comprehensive sports database of bibliographic citations and indexing to articles, books, dissertations, etc. on "... sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation ..." with coverage from the year 1800 forward.