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Getting Started with Databases

Specific Databases

BIOSIS Previews
Provides citations to thousands of books, journal articles, conference, proceedings, and other materials in all areas of the life sciences and biology
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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Provides citations for publications related to nursing and allied health literature and information
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Expanded Academic ASAP  
Multidisciplinary database with articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines, and The New York Times, including many full-text articles; good starting point for many topics and beginning researchers
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LexisNexis Academic 
Large database that provides access to full-text articles from hundreds of local, national, and international newspapers; legal information; statistics; reference material such as public opinion polls and country profiles; and congressional information
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Marine, Oceanographic, and Freshwater Resources
Bibliographic databases on marine, oceanographic, and related freshwater resources
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New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Covers topics including musical genres, movements, and musicians; also available in print in the reference areas of the Music and College libraries
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PsycINFO
Includes citations and abstracts to scholarly literature in the fields of  psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines from 1872 to present
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PubMed at UCLA
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes more than sixteen million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
International coverage of publications related to all areas of music; includes interdisciplinary studies.
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Web of Science
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index; allows “cited reference” searching
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Zoological Record
Covers all areas of zoology, including behavior, genetics, ecology, evolution, and physiology from 1978 to the present
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