Articles in databases
The most frequently used article databases at LIFE:
WEB OF SCIENCE
Year: 1945-. Source: Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), USA.
Subjects: Biology, Sciences, Art, Humanities og Social Science.
Access to citation search and Journal Citation Reports.
ISI Master Journal List. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
CAB ABSTRACTS
Year: 1910-. Source: CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)
Subjects: Agriculture, Food Science, Environment, Human Nutrition, Natural Resources, Veterinary Medicine.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
MEDLINE
Year: 1946-. Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Subjects: All subjects within Medicine e.g. Health Care, Nutrition, Pharmacology, Anatomy, Biology and Microbiology, Odontology, Veterinary Medicine, Psychiatry, Technical Equipment.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips. Free web-version: PubMed.
Alphabetic list of essential article databases for LIFE users:
AGRICOLA
Year : 1970-. Source: National Agricultural Library, USA
Subjects : Agriculture, Food Science, Environment, Natural Resources, Veterinary Medicine.Search system : OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
Journals indexed in Agricola. Free Internet access.
AGRIS
Year: 1975-. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Subjects: Agriculture, Food Science, Environment, Natural Resources, Veterinary Medicine. Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips. Free internet access.
BIBLIOTEK.DK (~library.dk)
Articles from Danish journals.
BIOSIS PREVIEWS
Year: 1969-. Source: Thomson Scientific, Inc
Subjects: Biology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Genetics, Toxicology, Pharmacology, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Cytology, Zoology, Botany, Agriculture, veterinary science, pollution, environmental protection.
Search system: ISI Web of Knowledge. More info. Search tips
CAB ABSTRACTS
Year: 1910-. Source: CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)
Subjects: Agriculture, Food Science, Environment, Human Nutrition, Natural Resources, Veterinary Medicine.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
CAB REVIEWS
Year: 1972-. Source: CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)
Subjects: Agriculture, Food Science, Environment, Natural Resources, Tourism, Veterinary Science.
Search system: Proquest. More info
COCHRANE LIBRARY
Evidens based information on the effect of medical and health related treatments. More than 3500 reviews of useful and injurious effects of treatment and preventionog forebyggelse. Every year around 300 new reviews are submitted and the existing reviews are updated regulary to ensure that treater, patients and others have access to the newest and most reliable knowledge that exists on treatment and prevention.
The Nordic Cochrane Centres
ECOLOGY ABSTRACTS
Year: 1982-. Source: ProQuest
Subjects: focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
Search system ProQuest. More info. Search tips
ECONLIT
Year: 1969- Source: American Economic Association.
Subjects: Economy, Business.
Search system: Proquest. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
EMBASE
Year: 1980-. Source: Elsevier
Subjects: Pharmacology, Biomedicine.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS (FSTA)
Year: 1969- Source: International Food Information Service (IFIS Publishing), England
Subjects: Food Science, Food Technology. Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips. Journals indexed in FSTA.
GEOBASE
Year: 1980- Source: Elsevier
Subjects: The earth sciences including geology,human and physical geography, environmental sciences,oceanography and geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation. Peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, book series and conference proceedings from over 60 countries.
Search system: Engineering Village. More info
GEOREF
Year: 1785- (North America) 1933- (The whole world). Source: American Geosciences Institute.
Subjects: Geosciences Search system: GeoScience World
GPO (Government Printing Office)
Year: 1976-. Source: Office of the Superintendent of Documents, USA
Subjects: US Government publications within Administration, Economy, Business, Demography, Agriculture, Medicine, Environment, Politics and Health.
Search system: OvidSP. Search guidance, Search tips.
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Scientific literature. "KB links: Fuldtekst på KB" to the right of the link indicates, there is access to the article in full text. Free Internet access without KB remote access links to the fulltext
INFOMEDIA
Articles from Danish newspapers, trade journals, magazines and news items from radio and television.
INSPEC ARCHIVE SCIENCE ABSTRACTS
Year: 1898-1968 . Source: Institution of Engineering &Technology (IET), England
Subjects : Physics, Astronomy, Electronics, Datalogy.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Year: 1951-
Source: The Library at the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Subjects: Antrhopology, politics, economics, sociology,development studies, human geography and environment, and gender studies.
Search system: Proquest
INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ABSTRACTS
Year: 1970-
Source: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Subjects: Pharmaceutical science and health related literature: drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice, legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice
Search system: OvidSP. Search guidance, Search tips.
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ABSTRACTS
Year: 1989-. Source: International Political Science Association, Canada
Subjects: Political Sciences.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
MEDLINE
Year: 1946-. Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Subjects: All subjects within Medicine e.g. Health Care, Nutrition, Pharmacology, Anatomy, Biology and Microbiology, Odontology, Veterinary Medicine, Psychiatry, Technical Equipment.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips. Free web-version: PubMed.
PSYCINFO
Year: 1806-. Source: American Psychological Association
Subjects: Psychologyi, psychiatry, Psychological aspects within the discpilines Medicine, Psychiatry, Nursing, Sociology, Education, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Economy and Law Studies.
Search system: OvidSP. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
PUBMED
Year: 1966-. Source: US National Library of Medicine.
Subjects: Human- and Veterinary Medicine. Corresponds medline+a little more.
Search guidance. PubMed tutorials
Journal list . Free Internet access without KB remote access links to the fulltext.
REAXYS
Search system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, chemical reactions. Contains the organic chemical database Beilstein and the inorganic Gmelin and chemical patent databases. Download user guides here>>
SCIFINDER (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS) - requires registration:
The access to SciFinder is for Copenhagen University employees and students only. Aaccessing Scifinder webversion:
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SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS
Year: 1952. Source: CSA - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Subjects: Social Sciences. Contains mainly articles in journals - including reviews - but also books, chapters in books, dissertations, etc. within sociology and related disciplines. It includes material from all countries and all languages from 1963 onwards, but contains mainly material from the English-speaking world.
SCOPUS
Year: 1996- incl abstracts & cited references (pre-1996 back to 1823 without cited references and only partly abstracts). Source: Elsevier. Subjects: Science, Health Sciences, Social sciences and partly humanities and art. Includes Medline, Embase, Reaxys. Search system SciVerse
WEB OF SCIENCE
Ýear: 1945-. Source: Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), USA.
Subjects: Biology, Sciences, Art, Humanities og Social Science.
Access to citation search and Journal Citation Reports.
ISI Master Journal List. More info. Search guidance, Search tips.
ZOOLOGICAL RECORD
År: 1978-. Source: Thomson-Reuters. Subjects: Animal Reseach:Behavior, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Habitat Morphology, Nomenclature, Parasitology, Physiology, Reproduction, Taxonomy, Zoogeography
Search system: ISI Web of Knowledge. More info.
Web editor, - last update:22 April 2013