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PubMed
Comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Best bet: neuroscience
Public access to MEDLINE, plus 40+ specialized databases for biochemistry, proteins, genomics, nucleotides, the NLM catalog, and more.
CAS SciFinder-n
Comprehensive first choice for chemical literature searching from Chemical Abstracts Service. Draw and search by chemical structure, formula, name, registry number, other compound attributes.
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Databases Covered
CAS References -- Scholarly literature from 1907 to the present plus selected pre-1907 references. Sources include journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, books, and more. Was published in print as Chemical Abstracts.
CAS Data
Including chemical substances, reactions, patents, commercial sources, and formulations. Details here.
MEDLINE
Biomedical literature from more than 4,780 journals and 70 countries, covering literature from 1950 to the present. Other MEDLINE options: EbscoHost, PubMed.
Merges Chemical Abstracts, CAS Registry chemical compound data, CAS reactions, patents, and commercial sources, and Medline. Access requires individual registration, first time users click the help icon for registration information.
Web of Science
Major interdisciplinary resource. Scholarly literature in the sciences, health and medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Includes cited reference searching across many databases. Best bet: biology.
Combines these databases: Science Citation Index, Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index. Also: BIOSIS, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Russian Science Citation Database.
Major index of scholarly literature in the sciences, health and medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.