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Databases: Health Sciences: History of Health Sciences

America: History and Life VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org) Mobile-enabled
Coverage: 1963 - present
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. (Limited coverage 1954 - 1962).
CHEMnetBASE VCU
A collection of chemical and chemical related dictionaries. It includes Handbook of Physics and Chemistry. The dictionaries are renowned for quick search for chemical and physical properties of compounds.
CRCnetBASE VCU
CRCnetBASE is a collection of over 6,000 electronic books that span over 40 disciplines in 34 separate collections. VCU Libraries does not subscribe to all the collections, but abstracts are available for all entries.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest) VCU
Coverage: 1637 - present
Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences VCU
Full text reference guide for those working in quality control, economics, probability and statistics as well as for those applying statistical methods in any discipline. Updated annually, with revisions and new articles added quarterly.
Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition VCU
Coverage: 18th Century - present
The Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States enhances coverage of Native Americans, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Innovative search strategies allow users to focus research across historical periods.
IndexCat: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army
Coverage: 15th Century - 1950
Comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports and some journal articles published from the 1400s through 1950 and held by the National Library of Medicine.
MEDLINE/PubMed VCU Mobile-enabled
The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
Oral History Online VCU
Index to English language oral histories publicly available on the Web and/or held by repositories and archives around the world. Includes interview level records if possible, and links to multi-media if available.
Profiles in Science
Archival collections of twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.
PubMed/MEDLINE VCU Mobile-enabled
The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
SpringerLink VCU
Coverage: 1990-present
Collection of world's leading interactive databases of high quality Science, Technology and Medicine journals, book series, books and reference works.

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