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Databases:

SciFinder

  • Follow the directions at the link above to register using a Drew networked computer.
  •  Indexes all of Chemical Abstracts and Medline. (Use remove duplicates to get rid of Medline sources.)
  • Search using natural language, molecular formula, or substance. Searches can be refined.
  • Links to:
    • citing and cited articles (Both are useful for finding related articles.)
    • reactions
    • substances

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  • Indexes anything to do with medicine, so chemicals are often included.
  • Export search results to EndNote Web (see below). (Use the MEDLINE display format.)
  • Many ways to limit searches (age group, gender, language, type of study), but there is no structure, patent, or CAS number searching.
  • Related documents are determined by number of repetitions of search words.
  • Offers some free content, but does NOT work with the Drew article linker.   To watch a short video on how to find Drew Library's access to the full text of articles click HEREfind out if Drew has access to a journal, enter the PMID in the appropriate box on the Electronic Journals page.
  • Search help: (these are meant to be two sided trifolds, so you will have to figure out the order how to read them.)

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  • If an item of interest appears in both ISI Science Citation Index and Biological Abstracts, you can toggle back and forth between the two databases, giving you the advantage of both citation indexing and subject indexing.
  • Web of KnowledgeTipsheet
  • Biological Abstracts Tipsheet

Google Scholar

 scholar.google.com

 
The advanced Search screen
 

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