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FirstSearch
Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.
JSTOR
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.
MEDLINE from Ovid Online
The database of biomedical literature from the U.S. Department of Health, with additional coverage of the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Provides access to indexes of all areas of medicine (over 3,500 journals published internationally from 1965 to the present, including dentistry, nursing, and health services. Includes records with astracts. Also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index.
Oxford scholarship online. Neuroscience
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Neuroscience.
Oxford scholarship online. Psychology
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford University Press books in the area of Psychology.
PsycARTICLES
Provides full text access to articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology in areas including animal behavior, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology.
Scopus
A large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus has journal coverage in many subjects across the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science
ISI Web of Science is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Allen brain atlas
The Allen Brain Atlas is a web-based application that is designed to aid the expansion of brain science. It enables users to access an extensive database of ISH images, ABA reference atlas, and gene expression masks. The Allen Brain Atlas project, named for its founder Paul G. Allen, will combine the disciplines of neuroanatomy and genomics to create the most comprehensive map of the brain at the cellular level, illustrating the functional anatomy of the brain through a collection of gene expression maps, brain circuits and cell locations.
The Cochrane library
Consists of 6 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Cochrane reviews), Database of abstracts of reviews of effect (DARE), Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane database of methodology reviews (Methodology reviews), Health technology assessment database (HTA), and NHS economic evaluation database (NHS EED).
HLISD
HLISD - a directory of Health Library and Information Services - aims to be the most comprehensive database of its kind. The information is updated by a network of editors who are responsible for checking the currency of their entries. CILIP Health Libraries Group (HLG), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the National Library for Health (NLH) agreed to collaborate on building a single, online directory of library services, capable of being updated by individual libraries or library networks on an ongoing basis. The directory covers the whole of the UK and the Republic of Ireland and includes all health library and information sectors whether they are NHS, Further or Higher Education, Government, Professional Bodies, Patient Information or Voluntary Organisations.
PsycINFO
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.

American Psycological Association

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization respresenting psychology in the United States. With more than 159,000 members, APA is also the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

British Psychological Society

The Psychological Society was founded in October 1901 at University College London with the aim 'to advance scientific psychological research, and to further the co-operation of investigators in the various branches of Psychology.'

International Association of Applied Psychology

The oldest international association of psychologists. Its official languages are English and French. Founded in 1920, it now has more than 2.000 members from more than 94 countries.

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