Biomedical Researcher Resources: Articles & Books

PubMed® is comprised of more than 37 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.
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Provides bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references for peer-reviewed journals.
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Source for chemical substance information. Inform your critical research activities with authoritative details on chemical substances and their related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers®.Please note: Access is available to Duke users but registration for an individual user account is required.

Biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering drug effects, therapies, and evidence based information to help in delivering systematic reviews of the literature. Includes titles not covered by Medline.
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Abstract and citation database which includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality Web sources.
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Engineering literature from Compendex, Inspec, and Referex.

Full-text articles from journals and bulletins published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and other related organizations.

Patent Public Search, from the US Patent & Trademark Office, offers the ability to search for patents by keyword, inventor, publication number, date, and more. By default, your search queries three Databases: US-PGPUB (U.S. pre-grant applications to 3/2001), USPAT (full-text U.S. patents to 1970, classification and patent number searching to 1790) and USOCR (OCR scanned pre-1970 U.S. patents). Select ‘Advanced Search’ to use full query options as well as to further filter a patent search by database or organize documents through tagging. NOTE: This replaces internal legacy search tools PubEast and PubWest and external legacy search tools PatFT and AppFT.

Life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, patents, and books.

Covers psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, education, pharmacology, and other areas.
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