Contains citations and abstracts of journal articles in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. From 1946 onwards.
PubMed, from the US National Library of Medicine in Washington DC, provides access to over 19 million citations back to the 1950's from MEDLINE and additional life sciences journals. It also includes links to full-text articles and related resources. No login required. If you require an NCBI account (e.g. to create alerts) you can create it and login using one of the third party options, e.g. Google, Login.gov, Microsoft Live.
Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.
Web of Science is a platform consisting of multiple databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. Content spans multiple disciplines, document types and formats.
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It covers materials from 2000 onwards. No login required. If you require an NCBI account (e.g. to create alerts) you can create it and login using one of the third party options, e.g. Google, Login.gov, Microsoft Live.
Life sciences, biomedical and health repository. Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) is a repository, providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines.
Library books are arranged by the Dewey Decimal classification scheme whereby each subject is represented by a number.
You wil find books on the same subject will have the same number. The shelfmark is preceded by the letter D and will be followed by 3 letters, which are usually the first 3 letters of the author's name.
Here are some useful biological and biomedical science shelfmarks.
D 574.1 Physiology
D 574.19 Biochemistry
D 574.2 Pathology
D 574.8 Tissue & molecular biology
D 576 Microbiology
D 612 Human physiology
D 612.01 Human biochemistry
D 615 Pharmacology and therapeutics
D 615.7 Pharmacodynamics
D 664 Food technology