Finding Reliable & Relevant Scholarly Articles - Scientific Databases at WSU - CHEM 666/809X: Biochemistry Special Topics

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Finding Reliable & Relevant Scholarly Articles: Scientific Databases at WSU

Biochemistry and Science Databases through WSU Libraries
Expanded list of database subscriptions strong in Biological and Chemistry Science provided by WSU Libraries
Library Homepage (use the SmartSearch Advanced Search option)
WSU Libraries' Discovery Tool "SmartSearch" searches the libraries' ONLINE CATALOG, and many of the databases subscribed to (but not all!) - and is a good way to learn subject headings, keywords, and filter easily for content. It's a great place to start your research before plunging into discipline-specific databases.
A-Z Database List (Databases by subject, etc.)
SciFinder
Provides citations to worldwide journal literature in chemical and biomedical sciences. Contains the structure and property information for over 25 million substances. Includes reaction searching. Coverage: 1907-present. Restricted to current WSU students, faculty, and staff.

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Databases in the SciTech Premium Collection include: Agricultural & Enviornmental Science Database (1946-Present), Biological Science Database (1946-Present), and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (1950-Present), Medline (1946-Present), Materials Science & Engineering Database (1965-Present), and Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (1962-Present). Terms of Use
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Terms of Use
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How to Use Google Scholar off-campus Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.

MEDLINE (Proquest)
Provides citations and abstracts for over 4,800 journals published worldwide in the life sciences with an emphasis on medicine and health. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Not searchable using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings.) Coverage: 2000-present.

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Provides indexing for more than 5,300 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and contains records dating back to 1937. It covers the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. 30 simultaneous users
Terms of Use

PubMed
Citations, abstracts, and some full-text from thousands of biomedical journals published worldwide in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1966-present.
PubMed Tutorials
The following are brief animated tutorials with audio for using PubMed. See box at left for using MeSH (authoritative Medical Subject Headings) for greater accuracy when searching PubMed.

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Provides online access to the tables of contents of over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier, with strong collections in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, and medicine. Full-text access to articles is available for over 100 journals subscribed to by WSU and over 150 open access journals.
Terms of Use
To link to ILLiad from Science Direct, click on the article title, then “360 Link to Full-Text”, and then “Submit Request”.
Instructions for eBook Downloading
As of January 1, 2016, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8.