This guide is designed to help students in any of the Pre-health majors. This includes: Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Pre-Pharmacy, and Pre-Physical Therapy.
Provides table of contents and indexing to general academic articles from over 12,500 journals in English and other languages. Covers business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology, and popular culture.
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1990 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and # or ?, Search Tips: May browse 'Index'. Omit punctuation (apostrophes, commas, etc.), but may use ampersands (&) and hyphens. Enter a space instead of a slash. Search names as Lastname Firstname Middlename without commas. May link to 'Browse Journal Titles'. '?Help' link is on each screen.
Provides full text for over 1.7 million dissertations and masters theses from U.S. and international academic institutions and abstracting and indexing for 3.8 million.
Format: Frequently full-text, Coverage: Citations since 1637. Some full-text from 1743. Truncation and Wildcard: ? and *, Search Tips: May combine searches in a single research session.
Lists worldwide conferences and symposiums, with their papers and proceedings. Covers wide variety of disciplines.
Format: Citations, Coverage: 1993-present. Updates biweekly., Truncation and Wildcard: * or + for plurals only and # for single character, ? 0-9 characters, Search Tips: Can search by keyword, conference details, journal, material type, date or source editor. Titles of papers within a conference are NOT included in the keyword indexing.
Has over 246 million bibliographic records of books, websites and Internet resources, computer programs, films and slides, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, and videotapes.
Format: Citations, Coverage: Before 1000 B.C.E. to present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and # or ?, Search Tips: After searching, use 'Related Subjects' for additional subject search terms. Omit punctuation (apostrophes, commas, etc.), but may use ampersands and hyphens. Enter a space instead of a slash. Search names as Lastname Firstname Middlename without commas. '?Help' link is on each screen.
Indexes more than 5 million dissertations cataloged in libraries around the world. Does contain items that are not in Digital Dissertations. Check Digital Dissertations for full-text BEFORE placing an Interlibrary Loan request.
Format: Citations, Coverage: Mid 1800s to present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and # or ?, Search Tips: After searching, use 'Descriptor' for additional subject search terms. Omit punctuation (apostrophes, commas, etc.), but may use ampersands and hyphens. Enter a space instead of a slash. Search names as Lastname Firstname Middlename without commas. '?Help' link is on each screen.
Simultaneously search the most important journals in the social sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, the humanities, and visual and performing arts. Includes 'high impact' scholarly sources. Search by author, topic, affiliation, etc., or follow links to cited sources. Create an individualized sign-in to save results, set up search alerts, and gain access to citation management with the My EndNote Web service. Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Science Citation Index (SCI).
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1970-present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and * for (any), ? for (1), $ for (0 or 1), Search Tips: Default search is for terms in the order they are entered, use quotation marks for a phrase. Search options include author, title, keyword, and subject. Author first name is initials only. Supports logical connectors AND, OR, NOT, and SAME. Can limit to one or two of the included indexes.