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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

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Contains Full-Text: Yes (for many, but not all articles)
Peer Reviewed: Yes (some, not all journals)
Subject Areas: This database covers the following areas: clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences.
Description:

Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this medical database provides over 100 full text journals, including full text for many peer-reviewed publications. Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition offers journals which cover virtually every area of medical study. Topics include: clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. Examples of publications offered in Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition include: American Surgeon, American Journal of Public Health, British Journal of Surgery, CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, Annals of Human Biology, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, etc. All full text journals contained in this database are also indexed in MEDLINE. Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within MEDLINE. When the MEDLINE database is accessed via EBSCOhost, users may have the ability to link to full text for articles contained within the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition database. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
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Last Updated 8/20/07