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Description
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PubMed
(biomedical literature database)
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- Most popular biomedical literature database.
- Use a combination of MeSH terms and title/abstract terms for thorough, yet targeted, searches.
- Save searches/create alerts in your MyNCBI account.
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Web of Science
(multidisciplinary scientific literature database)
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- Good for topics that cross over into other sciences and technology.
- Good for finding articles that cite an article.
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Google Scholar
(search engine)
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- Recommended for capturing publications beyond scholarly articles (such as dissertations or reports) that cite an article.
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PubMed Central
(full-text component of PubMed)
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- Recommended for full-text searches, especially looking for terms (cell lines, instruments, software) in the Methods section.
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NIH RePORTER
(database of awarded NIH grants)
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- Use the “save query” button to track newly-funded NIH grants in your field or publications associated with an NIH grant number.
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Altmetric It!
(tool for seeing an articles citations and other "attention")
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- Bookmarklet you save to your web browser.
- Click on the Altmetric It! Bookmarklet when viewing a PubMed reference or an article on a publisher’s website.
- Request notifications of new mentions in social media, news sources, and policy documents.
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Journal Publisher Websites
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- Look for an option such as “Alerts and Feeds” to receive the table of contents of each new issue by email or RSS feed.
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