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• CANCERLIT
  Indexes cancer literature from sources such as biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. 1960s-current.
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  Contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different. Updated with approximately 10,000 records every month.
• PDQ - Physician Data Query
  Full text cancer information summaries, clinical trial information, and directories of people and organizations that provide cancer care. current.
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• PubMed
  Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO. 1950s-current.

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  • Medline via PubMed

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  PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly. PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:

  • The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
  • Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
  • Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
• Scopus
  Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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  Because UConn holds a license to Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.

  Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".

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• SEER
  Cancer incidence and survival data from 11 population-based cancer registries and three supplemental registries. Total coverage is approximately 26 percent of the U.S. population. 1973-present (varies by state).
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• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
  Scientific articles, factual information, and data on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. 1966-current.
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  Also covers Toxic Release Information (data on the estimated quantities of chemicals released to the environment or transferred off-site for waste treatment, and information related to source reduction and recycling), and Chemical Information (identified by name, structural diagram, or CAS Registry Number).
• Web of Science
  Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
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  Science Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Patents, when a patent is part of the record
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Veterinary Science & Zoology

  Social Sciences Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Information Science & Library Science
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science & Industrial Relations
  • Psychiatry & Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Social Work & Sociology
  • Substance Abuse
  • Urban Studies
  • Women's Studies

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Art & Architecture
  • Archaeology
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language & Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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