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Glickman Library - Portland Branch

Applied Medical Science

Indexes & Databases

  • BIOSIS Previews
    Coverage: 1990 +
    Licensed Number of Users: 5
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Worldwide in scope, BIOSIS Previews, the premier database in the biological sciences, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. Subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 5,500 serial publications as well as books, proceedings and meeting abstracts, technical reports, review papers, and patents are indexed. There are 58 separate data fields that can be searched including author, title, publication source, organism, concepts, super taxa, publication type, author affiliation, and abstract keyword. Searches can be limited to review articles. Updated weekly

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  • BioMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Original research articles from over 100 BMC journals are freely available, though other content from some BMC journals is available only by subscription.

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  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.

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  • IngentaConnect
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: Coverage from 1988.
    Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals. Covers all disciplines. Updated daily. NOTE: Full text access available ONLY with subscriptions to individual titles. Check your library for holdings.

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  • MEDLINE
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-present
    Index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, dentistry and health administration. Updated weekly.

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  • PapersFirst
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Not Available
    Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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  • Proceedings
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Not Available
    Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.

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  • PubMed
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-
    Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.

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  • PubMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1970-
    PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

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  • Science Citation Index, Expanded
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 2000
    Comprehensive multidisciplinary coverage of approximately 5,800 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching multi-disciplines to uncover information relative to their research.

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  • TOXNET
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes TOXLINE, Hazardous Substances Data Bank, ChemIDplus chemical information database, and other resources.

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Sheila Johnson
Library Liaison

Phone: 780-4690
E-mail: sheilaj@usm.maine.edu
Glickman Library, Portland

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For research assistance by phone, email, or appointment, please contact me directly or use the Ask-A-Librarian Web page.

 


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