BIOSIS Previews®
[Available 1926 - CURRENT]

The BIOSIS Previews® database combines Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM®.
Biological Abstracts is the most comprehensive reference source of life science journal literature containing citations focusing on biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. It includes coverage of more than 5,000 international journals (view journal list) representing all life science disciplines including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environmental science, genetics, medicine, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, and zoology.

The primary focus of Biological Abstracts is preclinical research information in biology and biomedicine whereas the primary focus of MEDLINE is biomedicine, including clinical and experimental medicine, with an approximately 33% serial overlap, and thus, the coverage of these two databases is complementary. The approximately 3,400 unique serial titles indexed in Biological Abstracts concentrate on basic biomedical research and animal studies and include other life science areas such as agriculture, botany, ecology, and zoology.

Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings) complements this by supplying unique coverage of increasingly essential sources of research information - references from approximately 1,500 annual international meetings and symposia, literature reviews, books, research reports, and patents.0

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ISI Current Contents Connect®

Current Contents® is the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) multidisciplinary current awareness database that displays the Tables of Contents from the world's leading scholarly journals in the sciences (online version of print product of the same name) and provides complete bibliographic information for journal articles, reviews, editorials, corrections, and conference proceedings.

The five discipline-specific editions available are:

1. Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences -- indexes approximately 1,010 journals (view journal list) from a broad range of subject categories including Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Environment/Ecology, and Plant Sciences.
   
2. Clinical Medicine -- indexes approximately 1,083 of the world's leading clinical medical journals (view journal list) covering a broad range of subject categories in Clinical Medicine and Laboratory Medicine including Clinical Immunology & Infectious Disease, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Metabolism & Nutrition, Neurology, Oncology, and Reproductive Medicine.
   
3. Life Sciences -- indexes approximately 1,379 journals (view journal list) from a broad range of subject categories including Biochemistry & Biophysics, Cell & Developmental Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience & Behavior, and Physiology.
   
4. Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences -- indexes approximately 1,004 journals (view journal list) from a broad range of subject categories including Applied Physics/Condensed Matter/Materials Science, Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry, Mathematics, Organic Chemistry/Polymer Science, Physical Cemistry/Chemical Physics, Physics, and Spectroscopy/Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences.
   
5. Social & Behavioral Sciences -- indexes approximately 1,596 journals (view journal list) from a broad range of subject categories including Environmental Studies, Geography & Development, Psychiatry, Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Sociology & Anthropology.

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ISI Web of Science®
[Available 1900 - CURRENT]

The Web of Science is the powerful Web interface providing access to the Science Citation Index ExpandedTM database. Designed exclusively by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for its proprietary citation databases, the Web of Science provides researchers the navigational and retrieval functions only possible through the powerful combination of citation indexing and enabling Web technology.

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Beilstein/The CrossFire System

Beilstein Database is the world's largest collection of information on organic compounds with more than 8M substance records that incorporate over 9M reactions and over 35M associated chemical property and bioactivity records (up to 350 chemical and physical data fields of critically evaluated data for each compound), including information in the ecological and pharmacological area. It covers the literature from 1771 to the present (compounds that have been isolated in a sufficient state of purity for which there is a completely defined structure and at least one piece of physical/chemical data). You can perform structure/property searching and reaction searching (based on structures for reactants and products).

CrossFire is the client-server system that enables access to the Beilstein databases. MDL Crossfire Commander is the graphical client interface for using the CrossFire System. The server for the academic Crossfire Minerva consortium is located at the University of Wisconsin. You must download and install the MDL Crossfire Commander software on your computer in order to access and use the CrossFire System. Please contact Beverly Gordon, Reference Librarian, ext. 8907 for the university specific information required for the installation.
Download site: UW-Madison Libraries Crossfire Client Distribution Page

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Faculty of 1000

Faculty of 1000 is an online literature evaluation and awareness tool:

Faculty of 1000 BIOLOGY will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 1000 selected leading researchers. It will provide a continuously updated guide to the most important papers, highlighting papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than their source of publication and offering a rating of papers by the authors' peers, within any given field of research in the biological sciences and a rapidly updated consensus view of the important papers and trends across biology as seen by the recommendations of its membership.

Faculty of 1000 BIOLOGY members from Rockefeller University (as of 6/1/07):

Ali H. Brivanlou: NEUROSCIENCE > Neurodevelopment
Tarun Kapoor: CHEMICAL BIOLOGY > Chemical biology of the cell
Bruce S. McEwen: PHYSIOLOGY > Neural homeostasis
John D. McKinney: MICROBIOLOGY > Cellular microbiology & pathogenesis
Angus Nairn: NEUROSCIENCE > Neuronal signalling mechanisms
Michel C. Nussenzweig: IMMUNOLOGY > Leukocyte development
Jurg Ott: GENOMICS & GENETICS > Bioinformatics
Jeffrey Ravetch: IMMUNOLOGY > Immunomodulation
Charles M. Rice: MICROBIOLOGY > Virology
Shai Shaham DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY > Morphogenesis & cell biology
Sanford M. Simon: CELL BIOLOGY > Membranes & sorting

Faculty of 1000 MEDICINE offers this literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine, based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians. It provides authoritative, timely and comprehensive evaluations by a distinguished international evaluation board; continuously updated guide to the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine, highlighting papers on the basis of their scientific merit and clinical relevance, regardless of the reputation of the journal in which it was published; rating of individual papers by the authors' peers; and systematic organization of the mass of medical literature according to subject keywords rather than journal titles.

You can customize your own "MyF1000 page" to display the most recently evaluated papers picked within the areas you are most interested in viewing regularly and also set-up email alerts. Key features enable you to browse the key papers for a particular field or subtopic, view Top 10s, Hidden Jewels, All Time Top 10s, Most Viewed, as well as an advanced search to identify precisely the papers in which you are interested.

MathSciNet

MathSciNet is the searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, produced by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by individual author rather than by name string. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature; over 60,000 reviews are added to the database each year. Extending the MR tradition, MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to 1864. The serials and journals from which bibliographic data is currently being added to the database are listed in Abbreviations of Names of Serials. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from over 300 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.

MICROMEDEX®

The MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series is available via a web-based Internet platform. All of the subscribed to MICROMEDEX databases can be searched free of charge by members of the Rockefeller University community.

The following MICROMEDEX® databases are available:

DRUGDEX® and MARTINDALE Systems
Trade/Generic Drugs
DRUGDEX® offers independently reviewed data that covers FDA-approved and investigational drugs, and over-the-counter and non-U.S./international preparations. It consists of Drug Evaluations (extensive monographs prepared by the MICROMEDEX editorial board that include topics such as dosage, pharmacokinetics, indications and contraindications, adverse effects, therapeutic uses, comparative drug efficacy, and generic names in a standardized, easy-to-use format), Drug Consults, and DRUGDEX Products (Product Index) which lists trade names, manufacturers, and dosage forms. You can search the DRUGDEX® System for Drug Evaluation monographs and Drug Consults via the Integrated Index® search feature, the search by database, or search by category options. DRUGDEX trade name products and preparations are available from the Trade/Generic Drugs link located on the main page, or from the Integrated Index and Search by database search.
The Drug Points® System which provides brief highlights of dosage, administration, indications and contraindications, drug interactions, adverse effects, pregnancy risk category and brand/tradename information with direct links to the more in-depth DRUGDEX® Drug Evaluations. You can search the DrugPoints® System via the Integrated Index® search feature or the search by database (Summary Documents) search option.
The MARTINDALE database is the electronic version of the highly respected Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, published by the Pharmaceutical Press. This reference work includes coverage of over 70,000 proprietary preparations and more than 5,300 complete drug monographs. You can search MARTINDALE by using the Integrated Index® search feature or the search by database option.

IDENTIDEX® System
Tablet & Capsule Identification
The IDENTIDEX® database identifies pharmaceutical tablets and capsules by imprint code and secondary physical characteristics. It lists the ingredients (active and inert) and notes the availability/manufacturer and regulatory status. Prescription and over-the-counter drugs (both trademarked and generic) are included as well as many international and street drugs. You can search IDENTIDEX via the Toxicology link located on the main page, or from the Integrated Index and Search by database search. .

DRUG-REAX® System
Interactive Drug Interactions
Check for interacting drug ingredients, their effects, and their clinical significance. It provides drug-drug (including additive adverse effects), food-drug, drug-disease, drug-ethanol, and drug-laboratory assay interactions. DRUG-REAX System information is drug-specific rather than class-specific, which helps to more accurately interpret interaction data. The system program contains a dictionary of more than 8,000 unique drug terms, and distinguishes between trade names and equivalent generic names, eliminating possible duplication of interaction data on the screen. Up to 128 concurrent clinical conflicts can be reviewed. You can search DRUG-REAX via the Drug Interactions link located on the main page.

AltMedDex® System
Herbal and Dietary Information
AltMedDex offers evidence-based, clinical information on herbal, vitamin, mineral and other dietary supplements that is peer reviewed by a team of experts from both alternative medicine and traditional medicine communities. It consists of Alternative Medicine Evaluations monographs (information such as dosing, cautions, therapeutic uses, and comparative efficacy) and Alternative Medicine Consults which provide crucial information on herbal medicines and other dietary supplements such as FDA warnings, pregnancy risk categories, and guidelines on dosing, safety and efficacy issues. You can search the AltMedDex® System by using the Integrated Index® search feature, the search by database (select the Alternative Medicine database checkbox), or search by category options.

Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Herbal Medicine Information
This electronic version of Herbal Medicines, published by the Pharmaceutical Press, provides factual information about herbal medicines. It presents referenced monographs with reliable information on species, uses, doses, pharmacological actions, side effects, toxicity, contraindications, warnings, safety and efficacy. You can search the Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals database by using the Integrated Index® search feature, the search by database (select the Alternative Medicine database checkbox), or search by category options.

Searching via the MICROMEDEX Integrated Index® System enables you to search the following collection of available databases simultaneously: DRUGDEX® System (Drug Evaluations, Drug Consults, and DRUGDEX Products); DrugPoints® System; Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference; AltMedDex® System (Alternative Medicine Evaluations and Alternative Medicine Consults); and Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Health-Care Professionals.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is the American Psychological Association's (APA) comprehensive abstract database of psychological literature. In addition to core psychology topics such as personality or mental health, PsycINFO contains abstracts on behavioral topics from related disciplines, including health care, education, business, organizational behavior, consumer behavior, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, and more.

PsycINFO covers literature from 1887 to present and contains more than 2.3 million references to journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations. The sources for the PsycINFO database are Psychological Abstracts from 1927 to current, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and abstracts of articles from all APA journals from their first issues of publication. There are approximately 2,275 journals currently included on the Journal Coverage List.

The PsycINFO database is accessed through APA PsycNET.

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