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Core ResourcesEntrez Cross Databases WWW Entrez's Global Query System allows a user to run a search against all National Center for Biotechnology Information databases simultaneously. LexisNexis Academic BU-px LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC is a full-text database that includes newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, medical and health journals, trade journals, accounting literature, company financial reports, law reviews, statutory and case law, and public opinion polls. The database is international in scope, and includes newspapers in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and German. Dates of coverage vary depending upon the publication. Medline (PubMed) 1966+ (now includes "Find @ BU" links) BU-px A product of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed is the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. PsycINFO BU-px A bibliographic database that indexes journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and other documents in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage is from 1887 to the present. Science Citation Index Expanded 1973+ BU-px WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1978-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_. Social Sciences Citation Index 1973+ BU-px WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1978-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_. TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) WWW A network of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It includes a variety of resources including access to journal literature, and information on hazardous substances, genetic toxicology, chemical carcinogens, and developmental and reproductive toxicology. Web of Science 1973+ BU-px The citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1988 to the present. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. World Health Organization Regional Databases WWW Regional bibliographic databases covering health material published in Africa, The Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America & Caribbean and South-East Asia. Additional ResourcesABI/INFORM BU-px [About] AgeLine BU-px is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). AgeLine includes summaries of journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos from many publishers and organizations, including the AARP. ERIC (Education) 1966+ BU-px ERIC is a bibliographic database sponsored by the US Dept. of Education, corresponding to the print Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Mugar Library owns a microfiche set of the ERIC documents in RIE. Those citations are distinguished in the database by an accession number beginning with ED. The database covers 1982 to date. Ethnic NewsWatch 1990+ BU-px ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. The database contains more than 1.1 million articles from more than 260 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, it includes more than 237,000 articles in Spanish. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. LexisNexis Statistical BU-px LEXISNEXIS STATISTICAL is an online version of three indexes: American Statistics Index, covering 1973 to the present; Index to International Statistics, covering 1983 to the present; and Statistical Reference Index, covering 1980 to the present. The database indexes and abstracts social, demographic, and economic statistics published by the U.S. government, the U.N. and other international governmental organizations, as well as US state governments, and US private nonprofit and commercial associations and organizations. Most of these publications are available in the ASI, IIS, and SRI microfiche collections in Mugar Library. The PowerTables section of the database contains complete statistical tables, and may be searched separately. PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972+ BU-px PAIS (PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE) is a bibliographic database of citations to public policy literature in books, journal articles and government documents. It includes materials published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish . Coverage is from 1972 to date. POPLINE WWW A database that provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Database (PILOTS) WWW An electronic index to international literature on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and other disorders resulting from exposure to traumatic events. ScienceDirect BU-px SCIENCE DIRECT is a Web-based information source for scientific, technical, and medical research offering access to more than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences. Sociological Abstracts 1952+ BU-px A bibliographic database providing access to the world's literature in theoretical and applied sociology and related fields. It contains abstracts of journal articles from Sociological Abstracts since 1974, Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) since 1979, and relevant dissertations since 1986. Women's Studies International 1972+ BU-px WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL is a database (citations or citations/abstracts) of over 548,000 records combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1972-), Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database (1972-), MEDLINE Subset on Women (1964-) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995) and four files from Women's Studies Librarian. WorldCat BU-px WORLDCAT is the OCLC Online Union Catalog in a user friendly version. It contains more than 32 million records of items owned by libraries around the world, as well as the Boston University Libraries. Every item in the catalog has a listing of libraries which own it. It contains records for books, journals, musical scores, computer programs and much more. (It does not include records for individual articles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers or book chapters.) New records are added daily. E-BooksHandbook of Psychiatric Measures (CD-ROM) Mugar Workstation HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRIC MEASURES The complete, unabridged text of the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, in fully searchable form (also available in print at the Mugar reference desk). In addition, the CD-ROM includes complete copies of 108 measures discussed in the handbook. McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine WWW Provides access to basic and clinical sciences e-textbooks in a variety of subject areas including pharmacology, biochemistry, epidemiology, histology, microbiology, neuroanatomy, pathology, and more. Mental Measurements Yearbook (9th edition to current edition) BU-px Produced by the Buros Institute. Contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. STAT!-Ref BU-px STAT!-ref provides access to the full text of 30 current leading clinical, biomedical textbooks on the World Wide Web, including the DSM-IV, USP DI, Mosby's GenRx, Review of General Psychiatry, and more. The program allows users to search one textbook individually, or to select up to 30 titles to be searched simultaneously. All search results, full text and tables-of-contents can be browsed and printed. Additional features include chapter bibliographies, links to relevant journal article citations from the MEDLINE database, and selected tables, figures, illustrations and video images. 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