Research/IT Desk
Research/IT Desk
Contact:
Contact the Reference Librarians online
reference@carleton.edu
reference@carleton.edu
507-222-4264
Subjects: General Reference
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This guide includes information and resources designed to aid you in locating research for your grant proposal project. For further assistance with your research, contact the research desk or schedule an appointment with your librarian.
Medical Databases
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The US National Institutes of Health provide this free index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. If full text is not linked to or provided for a particular citation, search our Journals List to see if we have alternate access to the journal publishing that article.
- Search MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)"MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed." Search this thesaurus to identify terminology you should use when searching PubMed and MEDLINE.
- ClinicalTrials.gov"ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world." Provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- NCBI Virus"NCBI Virus is an integrative, value-added resource designed to support retrieval, display and analysis of a curated collection of virus sequences and large sequence datasets. We are a community portal for viral sequence data, and our goal is to increase the usability of data archived in GenBank and other NCBI repositories."
Other Science Databases
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A vast index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current. - ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text) Includes all the databases in the Natural Science and Technology collections. It also provides full-text articles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Covers 1946-current.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and the full text)
The new, updated version of SciFinder Scholar. Find chemical and related scientific information. FIRST TIME USERS must register to search this database here.
