Biomedical Sciences

• BioMed Central 

BioMed Central is the largest open access publisher in the world, publishing over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals across the fields of biology, chemistry and medicine.

• Google Scholar 

What

• A variant of Google that searches for academic literature

Why

• Provides access to articles, books, conference papers and preprints
• Links to Full-text @ Portsmouth where available when settings are applied

How

• Simple or advanced searching allowing refinement by date, author etc
• A Library Guide to this resource is available

• Medline 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

What

• Medline contain journal article abstracts with links to the full-text where available

Why

• Subjects covered include veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. Plus life sciences, including some aspects of biology, marine biology, plant and animal science as well as biophysics and chemistry.

How

• Keyword and Thesaurus searching with ability to refine results by date, article type, age, gender, author, language
• Help pages available
• This database is available to search on its own from the link above, plus you will find Medline results when searching Discovery.

• PMC 

PubMed Central is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM's legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM's extensive print journal collection

• PubMed 

PubMed comprises millions of 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 websites

• Science Direct 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, published by Elsevier. More than 2,500 journals and more than nine million full-text articles are available in ScienceDirect providing access to the physical sciences and engineering life sciences. This resource is also available through the Discovery service. A Science Direct Advanced Search guide video is available.

• Scopus 

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

• Web of Science 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

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