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BIOSIS Citation Index indexes the worldwide literature of research in the biological and biomedical sciences. The database covers the entire field of life sciences including original research reports and reviews in field, laboratory, clinical, experimental, and theoretical work. BIOSIS indexes journals, technical reports, meeting proceedings, United States patents, and books in biology, biomedicine, and related areas.
Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Pubmed is a free version of MEDLINE that offers links to GenBank records, other molecular sequence data, and other resources. MEDLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine, is an index to journal articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, including both basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice. It indexes over 4,000 journals.
The Web of Science service, available via ISI Web of Knowledge, includes three core component databases: the expanded version of Science Citation Index (SciSearch), Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The Science Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering over 100 disciplines from 1900 to the present.
xSearch, developed through the Stanford University Libraries' partnership with Deep Web Technologies, provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources. Searches may be limited to specific databases, or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged into one relevance ranked list, and are clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date.
Web resources
The official website of the ASAA includes information about sleep apnea, publications, volunteer opportunities and an extensive collection of links.
Sleep homepages is an organized listing of resources, including bibliographies, publications, resources, discussions and organizations on the subject of sleep.
SleepQuest includes information about the infinite world of sleep medicine. Its primary concern is totreat and diagnose sleep disorders. The website includes news, information about sleep disorders, testimonials and information about treatment.
Included on the sleep medicine home page is a complete list of resources dealing with all aspects of sleep. The most important sources include listings of sleep disorders, clinical practice parameters, professional associations, professional journals and books, and sleep research websites.
Encyclopedias
Supports the development and use of statistical methods for addressing the problems and critical issues that confront scientists, practitioners and policy makers engaged in the life and medical sciences.
Features over 4,900 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles spanning the entire spectrum of the life sciences.
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