Electronic Journals

Electronic 
Reference 
Resources

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Major Indexes

PubMed

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information which includes MEDLINE, the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries, dating back to the mid-1960s.  Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.  Full text links to articles are available to UCB students, faculty & staff  from this link.
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NLM Gateway

The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus (books & book chapters), MEDLINEplus (consumer information), AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings and more.  OLDMEDLINE provides bibliographic citations to articles published in the 1960 through 1965 Cumulated Index Medicus and in the 1958 through 1959 Current List of Medical Literature. No abstracts are available and  MeSH headings are not used. 

BIOSIS Previews  via ISI Web of Knowledge 

The online version of Biological Abstracts & Biological Abstract/RRM, BIOSIS is the most comprehensive biological sciences database. Indexing 6,000 journals, BIOSIS also indexes books and conference proceedings on a wide variety of biological and biomedical topics. 

Cochrane Library
Provides access to four databases that are of importance to the practice of evidence-based medicine:
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR)
The Cochrane Methodology Register
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organization whose aim is to make up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide.   For information on the Cochrane Collaboration's Eyes and Vision Group (CEVG), see http://www.CochraneEyes.org

Faculty of 1000
Highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1,000 selected leading researchers.
Micromedex Healthcare Series
MICROMEDEX publishes clinical decision support databases and tools. The MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series provides a wide range of databases tailored
to meet the needs of healthcare professionals, including information related to 
drugs, acute care, toxicology, and patient education. 

PsycINFO via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 
The PsycINFO database is an index of psychological literature from 1887 to the present. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it includes citations to scholarly journal articles, books, and book chapters, conference proceedings, and doctoral dissertations. 

Visionet
Produced by the Southern College of Optometry Library, Visionet is the only widely available online index to the optometric journal literature.  Coverage is 1975 - present.  There is some overlap with MEDLINE.   Login and password are required.  See Fong Optometry & Health Sciences Library staff for password and further information. 

ReferenceSight.com
The Vision Science Reference Database is a current literature database service provided by the University of Waterloo Centre for Contact Lens Research (CCLR) in conjunction with Bausch & Lomb. CCLR staff collect and post information and abstracts from the most current articles on subjects in ophthalmology and optometry from professional journals, including major publications not normally    covered by other databases, such as Contact Lens & Anterior Eye, the CLAO Journal, Contact Lens Spectrum, Optician, Review of Ophthalmology, etc.  One time free registration required.

Web of Knowledge

Web of Science
Indexes literature from all science disciplines, covering about 5300 journals. It can be used to conduct searches on a topic or by author and also to find articles which cite these works or which use related references. The Web version also includes Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
 

Journal Citation Reports
Search the JCR Science Edition and the JCR Social Science Edition to evaluate and compare journals using citation data and article counts. Use it to find the high impact journals, most frequently used journals, and the cited half-life of journals. The Science Edition contains data from roughly 5,000 journals and the Social Sciences Edition contains data from roughly 1,500 journals.  Please LOGOFF when you have completed your search.

ISI Highly Cited.com
ISIHighlyCited.com allows you to find the most highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. 

Other Useful Article Indexes / Databases

Applied Science & Technology Full Text from Silver Platter
Applied Science and Technology Full Text (AST-FT) covers research in aeronautics, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, fire & fire prevention, mathematics, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, robotics, space science and textiles. It includes citations and abstracts for articles in about 400 basic science and technology journals, covering 1983 to the present. 

Bioline International
Provides access to some 35 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and more in the areas of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development.

Business Source Premier
Provides full-text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more Also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.

CANCERLIT
CANCERLIT is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.3 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Coverage is 1963 - present. Produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years and contains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from 1963 to the present. CANCERLIT is updated with more than 8,000 records every month. 

CDC HealthComm Key
Contains comprehensive summaries of more than 200 articles, published between 1986 and 1996, about health communication research and practice, that describe U.S.-based public health interventions that have communication as a major component.

CDC Wonder
Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. 

CHID (Combined Health Information Database) Online
The Combined Health Information Database provides access to health information and health education resources. Produced by several health-related agencies of the Federal Government, CHID provides unique access to health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly. 

Guide to searching CHID Online


Combined Chemical Dictionary
CCD is a structured database holding information on chemical substances.
It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables.

Conference PapersFirst [via FirstSearch/OCLC] 
Contains records for papers presented at worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, workshops, and congresses.  The papers cover a wide variety of disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, physical and life sciences, biological and medical sciences, engineering, technology, history, general interest, and reference topics. 

Conference Proceedings  [via FirstSearch/OCLC]  

Contains records for worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses. The proceedings cover a wide variety of disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, physical and life sciences, biological and medical sciences, engineering, technology, history, general interest, and reference topics. Each proceedings provides a list of papers presented. Individual records for each paper may be found in the PapersFirst database. 
Congressional Information (LexisNexis)
Provides full-text and bibliographic access to Congressional Publications including House and Senate Reports and Documents, Hearings, Committee Prints, bills, laws, legislative histories and more. 
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Digital Dissertations and Current Research@
Digital Dissertations provides access to UMI's Dissertations Abstracts International.  Full text of dissertations is not available, except for UC dissertations, 1998 -. Current Research@ provides full text access, free of charge, to dissertations from any UC campus filed 1998 or later that have been released by their authors for sale and distribution.

e-psyche via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Covers over 4000 journals, newsletters, dissertations, preprints, web sites, technical reports, and conference proceedings.

ERIC  via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) provides access to educational literature. ERIC sources include journals, books, conferences and meetings, reports, theses/dissertations, and audiovisual media. 

Health & Medical Care Archive
Consists of data collections in the following subject areas: health care providers,
cost/access to health care, substance abuse and health, chronic health conditions, and more.

HerbMed®
An interactive, electronic herbal database – provides hyperlinked access to the
scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public.

History of Science, Technology & Medicine
Contains citations from the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Bibliografia Italiana de Storia della Scienza, and Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine. It retrieves citations from journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, the history of technology, and allied historical fields in a variety of languages. Relevant topics include biology, chemistry, and medicine. 

INSPEC  via OVID 
INSPEC is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in Great Britain (IEE), and is the electronic equivalent of three abstract journals: Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts, Computer and Control Abstracts. It provides comprehensive coverage of research literature in physics, astronomy, electrical engineering and electronics, computer science, communications and information technology, and computers. It also covers such topics as medical informatics and biomedical computing and engineering.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
Database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health. 
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) 
Indexes over 3000 journals, books, chapters, and book reviews in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology from more than 100 countries. More than 70 languages are represented, with 30% percent of records published in languages other than English.

LegalTrac
Use this database to research: case studies, government regulations, practice of law, statutes, taxation and international law. Access all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals. Coverage is 1980 - present.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.  Browse the full-text of medical journals and newsletters providing information on drug interactions, cancer, poison, disease, trauma, and medical administration.

NEIBank
An ocular genomics database.  Use this link, http://neibank.nei.nih.gov/About.shtml,
for information about contributions and collaborations or to be notified of updates to NEIBank

NTIS
Produced by the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIS is the primary source for reports of U.S. government-sponsored research. NTIS indexes literature produced by U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Energy, EPA and NASA. Subject coverage is very broad and includes communications, environmental pollution and control, energy conservation, health planning, medicine and biology, natural resources and earth sciences, technology transfer, and transportation. NTIS references reports, translations, bibliographies, patents, conference papers, and journal articles. Most NTIS records include abstracts. Coverage starts from 1964. 

Quick Reference Card



Ophthalmo Web
A database of orbital and eye lesions.
PAIS International
Includes records for all types of materials in the area of public affairs. Topics covered include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics. 

PolicyFile
Indexes and abstracts public policy literature (1990-present) from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. The database can be browsed by primary contributor or subject, and all abstracts have been linked to home pages, electronic mail addresses and full text documents, where available. Specific themes include but are not limited to Health Policy and Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Immigration, Science and Technology Policy, and Urban Policy. 

Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. The entire published database is available online and can be searched by author, subject matter, geographical region, and year of publication. Coverage includes all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, marriage and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. 

Sociological Abstracts
This index covers demography, education, law, social psychology, and sociology. The subfile Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts provides literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, environment, and women and development.
Statistical Information via LexisNexis
Includes American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and
Index to International Statistics (IIS).   Also includes Statistical Universe provides the PowerTables(TM) feature which allows you to retrieve statistical tables quickly and link to abstracts of the publications from which the tables are derived. You are able to search the tables by keyword, coverage date, and categorical breakdown. 

STATSnetBASE (CRC Press)
Includes section on Statistics for Medicine and Health Science.

UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program Thesis Index
1985 - 2006

UCB Electronic Resources Database
Complete list of licensed UCB resources.