Subject and Course Guides: Medical Biotechnology: Research Databases

Subject Guide

Felicia Barrett

Subjects: Biomedical Sciences, Medicine

PubMed

Research Databases

Access Pharmacy
BioMed Central
Open access publisher of science-technology-medicine journals; databases of controlled trials.
Clinical Pharmacology

Wiley Current Protocols
Laboratory manuals in chemistry, life sciences, and medicine and healthcare. Updated quarterly.

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Wiley InterScience Current Protocols provides online editions of laboratory manuals in chemistry, life sciences, and medicine and healthcare. To ensure easy duplication in any lab, the protocols are thoroughly field tested and scrutinized by our editorial boards. Titles are updated quarterly to reflect the latest innovations in laboratory procedures as they occur.
EMBASE : Excerpta Medica Database
Database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. From 1974 to present.

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EMBASE is an abstract and indexing database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. It currently contains more than 15 million records from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to present) and selected Medline records (1966-present). Currently the Library does not own the archives of Embase from 1947 to 1973.
Multiple Resources Search
Search engine for articles in databases.

Multiple Resources Search is a web-based search engine that allows you to select from dozens of databases, and execute a single search across all the files you choose.

Many of the databases offer access to fulltext articles so that Multiple Resources Searching provides a one-stop approach to writing a research paper.

PubMed

Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Web of Science
Access to the Web of Science Core Collection which is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented.

The Web of Science, provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) a division of Thomson Reuters, is an index of current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from 1975 on. The bibliographic records from approximately 8,700 high impact research journals are mostly linked to full-text articles.
CAS Scifinder
Login here. CAS SciFinder Scholar is the premier chemistry database produced by the American Chemical Society.

CAS SciFinder Scholar is the premier chemistry database produced by the American Chemical Society. It contains structure diagrams, names, molecular formulas, properties, single- and multiple-step chemical reactions. UIC users also have access to the Substructure Module.

Google Scholar

Citation Management

RefWorks
RefWorks is an online bibliography management service that allows you to capture citations, store them, and use them while writing papers. Questions? Email ask-citehelp@uic.edu.

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Medical Biotechnology: Research Databases

Subject Guide

PubMed

Research Databases

Google Scholar

Citation Management

More Databases

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana