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General Research Tools

BIOSIS Previews
Large database for biology and botany citations and abstracts. 1926-. International in coverage. > 30 million citations.
CAB Direct
Database of applied biology citations and abstracts. International coverage. 1915-. Over 11 million records.
Cochrane Library
Collection of databases with signed articles on medicine and health care.
GeoRef
Citations to the international literature of geology.
Global Health
Public health citations 1910-.
Google Scholar
Multidisciplinary. For biology, search results complement BIOSIS Previews.
PubMed
Large government database for biomedical citations to journal articles.
SciFinder-n
Large, international database for chemistry journal article citations and abstracts. 1907-.
Scopus
Database for biomedical or interdisciplinary topics (1823-). International in coverage.
UptoDate
Topic reviews in medicine, written by faculty experts.
Web of Science
Database covering core journals in all science fields. Good for interdisciplinary topics. International. 1900-. Cited reference searching possible.
Zoological Record
Database for zoology and natural history journal citations. International in coverage. 1864-.

Free accounts for EndNote Web and RefWorks can be created at the Citation Management Guide. EndNote desktop can be downloaded for Yale affiliates at http://www.yale.edu/software .