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Selected databases

BioMed Central (BMC)
Coverage: Varies

Note: Personal registration is required if a user wants to save searches, submit manuscripts or receive email updates.

BIOSIS Previews via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1969 -

Note: You do not need to log in to search BIOSIS Preview. Setting up a user name and password within this resource will allow you to save your search strategies for future use.

The Cochrane Library
Coverage: Current with a focused on evidence-based literature

Note: You do not need to log in to search the Cochrane Library. Setting up a user name and password within this resource will allow you to save your search strategies for future use.

Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities
Coverage: Current

Current Contents Connect via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1997 -

EMBASE.com
Coverage: 1966 (unique Medline records) to present; 1974 (EMBASE records) to present

Note: You do not need to log in to search EMBASE.com. Setting up a user name and password within this resource will allow you to save your search strategies for future use.

ISIHighlyCited.com via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: Current

JSTOR
Coverage: Some journals date back to the 1600s

Medical Evidence Matters formerly Evidence Matters
Coverage: Current with a focus on evidence-based literature

Note: You do not need to log in to search Evidence Matters. Setting up a user name and password within this resource will allow you to save your search strategies for future use.

MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1966 -

Micromedex
Coverage: Current

The New York Times Historical Newspapers via ProQuest
Coverage: 1851-2002

The New York Times via ProQuest (text only)
Coverage: 1995 -
Print issues of current week available at Nathan & CyberLibrary.

The New York Times Web site
Coverage: Current

Ovid Databases
Coverage: Varies

Note: To obtain a personal Ovid password that allows you to set up saved searches, contact 212.639.7443 (MSK staff only).

Physician Data Query (PDQ)
Coverage: Current

PubMed
Coverage: Varies; earliest available dates start in the 1950s, but most start in the 1970s and 1980s.

PubMed Central
Coverage: Varies

ScienceDirect
Coverage: Varies, most start in 1996

Scirus
Coverage: Current

Tri-Cat
Coverage: Current

Note: Employees need to register with their home institution’s library in order to check out printed materials at any of the libraries.

Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1945 -

Wiley InterScience
Coverage: Varies

Note: MSK staff can access individual journal titles as well as any Current Protocol or The Cochrane Library by typing the specific title in the Library Resources Quick Search Box from the Library Web site.

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Selected journals & eJournals

Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1843 until 1854.

Abstracts of the papers printed in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1800 until 1843.

ACS chemical biology
Coverage: Available from 2006 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Acta oncologica
Coverage:
Available from 1997 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Informaworld Journals

Advances in cancer research
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 80.

Advances in genetics
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 42.

Advances in microbial physiology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 44.

Advances in Organ Biology
Coverage: Available from 2005 until 2005.

AIDS research and human retroviruses
Coverage: Available from 1999 until 2003.

American journal of human genetics
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 60 issue: 6.

American journal of physiology. Cell physiology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 273 issue: 4.

American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 273 issue: 4.

American journal of physiology. regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 273 issue: 4.

The American journal of science
Coverage: Available from 1990 volume: 290 issue: 1 until 2004 volume: 304.

The American journal of the medical sciences
Coverage: Available from 1827 until 1999.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed.)
Coverage: Available from 1962 until 1997.

Annals of Oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current
Available from 1990 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Coverage: Available from 1997.

Annual review of biophysics and biomolecular structure
Coverage: Available from 1972 volume: 1 until 2003 volume: 32.

Annual Review of Genetics
Coverage: Available from 1967 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Annual review of genomics and human genetics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Annual Review of Microbiology
Coverage: Available from 1947 until 2003.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Coverage: Available from 1972.

Applied and environmental microbiology
Coverage: Available from 1953.

Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology
Coverage:
Available from 1995 volume: 15 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1981 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Beilstein journal of organic chemistry
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1.

The Biochemical journal
Coverage:
Available from 1906 volume: 1 issue: 1 Most recent 1 year(s) not available from E- Journals
Available from 1906 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service

Biochemical medicine and metabolic biology
Coverage: Available from 1986 until 1994.

Biochimica et biophysica acta
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 1260 issue: 1.

Biochimica et biophysica acta
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1598.

Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 1228 issue: 1.

Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 1233 issue: 1.

Biochimica et biophysica acta. Lipids and lipid metabolism
Coverage: Available from 1965 volume: 98 issue: 1 until 1998 volume: 1394 issue: 2.

Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 1265 issue: 1.

The Biological bulletin
Coverage: Available from 1897 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Biologicals
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 21 issue: 1.

Biology of Reproduction
Coverage: Available from 1969 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 12 month(s) not available.

Biophysical Journal
Coverage: Available from 1960 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Biotechniques
Coverage: Available from 1996.

Blood cells, molecules & diseases
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 21 issue: 1.

BMC biology
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1.

BMC biotechnology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC cancer
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC evolutionary biology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC genetics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1.

BMC genomics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1.

BMC medical genetics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1.

Bulletin du cancer
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 84 issue: 1.

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CA
Coverage: Available from 1950 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Cancer
Coverage:
Available from 1997 volume: 79 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1948 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience Oncology and Hematology Backfile

Cancer and metastasis reviews
Coverage: Available from 1997.

Cancer biology & therapy
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Cancer biomarkers
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Cancer causes & control
Coverage:
Available from 1990 until 2004 from JSTOR Health & General Sciences
Available from 1997 from Springer Standard Collection

Cancer cell
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Cancer cell international
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Cancer forum
Coverage: Check library catalog for print subscription.

Cancer genetics and cytogenetics
Coverage:
Available from 1979 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Oncology
Available from 1979 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier

Cancer investigation
Coverage:
Available from 1997 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Informaworld Journals

The cancer journal
Coverage: Available from 2002.

Cancer Letters
Coverage:
Available from 1975 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Oncology
Available from 1975 volume: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier

Cancer research
Coverage: Available from 1941.

Cancer Science
Coverage:
Available from 1997 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Wiley Interscience

Carcinogenesis
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current
Available from 1980 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

Cell
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 80 issue: 1.

Cell communication and signaling
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Clinical & experimental metastasis
Coverage: Available from 1997.

Clinical lymphoma & myeloma
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1.

Clinical microbiology reviews
Coverage: Available from 1988.

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 57 issue: 1.

Combinatorial chemistry
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Concepts in magnetic resonance
Coverage: Available from 1989 until 1995.

Current Oncology Reports
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Current opinion in chemical biology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Current opinion in oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1999 volume: 11 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1989 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Current science
Coverage: Available from 1932.

Current Therapeutic Research
Coverage:
Available from 1992 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile General Medicine
Available from 1992 volume: 52 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Excerpta Medica

Current topics in membranes
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 51.

Cytokines, cellular & molecular therapy
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 6 issue: 1 until 2002 volume: 7 issue: 4.

DNA repair
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

The EMBO journal
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 16 issue: 1.

EMBO reports
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Environmental and molecular mutagenesis
Coverage:
Available from 1997 until 2006 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1979 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 volume: 26 issue: 4 from Wiley Interscience Oncology and Hematology Backfile

Eukaryotic cell
Coverage: Available from 2002.

European journal of cancer
Coverage: Available from 1992 volume: 28.

European journal of cancer
Coverage: Available from 1965 until 1981.

European journal of cancer & clinical oncology
Coverage: Available from 1982 until 1991.

European journal of cancer prevention
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 9 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1991 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 8 issue: 6 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Experimental biology and medicine
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 222 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Experimental cell research
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 204 issue: 1.

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Expert Opinion on Emerging Drugs
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 2 issue: 1.

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 2 issue: 1.

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
Coverage:
Available from 2006 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 2006 from Expert Reviews

Familial cancer
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1 issue: 1.

The FASEB journal
Coverage: Available from 1987.

The FEBS journal
Coverage:
Available from 1997 volume: 246 issue: 1 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Wiley Interscience

Federal register
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 63 issue: 1.

FEMS microbiology letters
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 2005.

Gene
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 152 issue: 1.

Gene function & disease
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 2002 volume: 3 issue: 4.

Gene therapy
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 4 issue: 1.

Genes & development
Coverage: Available from 1987.

Genes to cells
Coverage: Available from 1996 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 6 month(s) not available.

Genetics
Coverage: Available from 1916.

Genome research
Coverage: Available from 1991.

GenomeBiology.com
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Genomics
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 15 issue: 1.

Glycobiology
Coverage: Available from 1996 volume: 6 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Human genome news
Coverage: Available from 1989 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 2002 volume: 12 issue: 2.

Human Molecular Genetics
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 5 issue: 1 Most recent 1 year(s) not available from Highwire Press Free
Available from 1992 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

Human mutation
Coverage: Available from 1996 volume: 7 issue: 1.

The International journal of biological markers
Coverage:
Available from 2002 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 2002 from MSKCC eJournals

International journal of biological sciences
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1.

International journal of cancer
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 65 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1966 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 volume: 64 issue: 6 from Wiley Interscience Oncology and Hematology Backfile

International journal of molecular sciences
Coverage: Available from 2000.

International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 50 issue: 1. Most recent 2 year(s) not available.

International review of cytology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 201.

International review of neurobiology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 45.

Investigational new drugs
Coverage: Available from 1997.

JAMA
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 279 issue: 1.

Journal of applied physiology
Coverage: Available from 1996 volume: 81 issue: 4. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Journal of bacteriology
Coverage: Available from 1916 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 4 month(s) not available.

Journal of biology
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Journal of biomedicine and biotechnology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

Journal of biosciences
Coverage: Available from 1998.

Journal of cancer education
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 18 issue: 1.

Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
Coverage: Available from 1997.

Journal of carcinogenesis
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1.

Journal of cell science
Coverage: Available from 1853.

The journal of clinical investigation
Coverage:
Available from 1924 from Highwire Press American Society for Clinical Investigation
Available from 1924 volume: 1 from PubMed Central

Journal of clinical oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1983 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1983 from Highwire Press American Society of Clinical Oncology

The journal of experimental biology
Coverage: Available from 1923 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 6 month(s) not available.

The Journal of experimental medicine
Coverage: Available from 1896 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Journal of genetics
Coverage: Available from 1910.

Journal of medical genetics
Coverage: Available from 1999.

Journal of molecular biology
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 229 issue: 1.

Journal of nanobiotechnology
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Journal of neurophysiology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 77 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics
Coverage: Available from 1909.

Journal of Safety Research
Coverage: Available from 1983 until 1994.

The Journal of supportive oncology
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1988 volume: 80 issue: 1 from Highwire Press National Cancer Institute

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 23.

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Coverage:
Available from 2003 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1 from IngentaConnect Journals

Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 14 issue: 1.

The Kobe journal of the medical sciences
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 47 issue: 1.

The lancet oncology
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier
Available from 2001 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

Lancet, The
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 345 issue: 8941.

Mammalian genome
Coverage: Available from 1997.

Medical hypotheses
Coverage:
Available from 1975 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile General Medicine
Available from 1975 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Churchill Livingstone

Medical physics
Coverage: Available from 1974 volume: 1.

Methods in enzymology
Coverage: Available from 1955 volume: 1.

Methods in microbiology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 30.

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews
Coverage: Available from 1937.

Molecular & cellular proteomics
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Molecular cancer
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Molecular cancer research
Coverage: Available from 2002.

Molecular cancer therapeutics
Coverage: Available from 2001.

Molecular carcinogenesis
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 15 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1988 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 volume: 14 issue: 4 from Wiley Interscience Oncology and Hematology Backfile

Molecular medicine
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 6 issue: 1.

Mutation research
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 326 issue: 1.

Mutation research - Reviews in genetic toxicology
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 1996.

Mutation research. DNA repair
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 2001.

Mutation research. Environmental mutagenesis and related subjects
Coverage: Available from 1`995 until 1996.

Mutation research. Genetic toxicology testing and biomonitoring of environmental or occupational exposure
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 1996.

Mutation research. Mutation research letters
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 1995.

Nature
Coverage: Available from 1987.

Nature chemical biology
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nature clinical practice. Oncology
Coverage: Available from 2004 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nature genetics
Coverage: Available from 1992 volume: 1.

Nature medicine
Coverage: Available from 1995.

Nature methods
Coverage: Available from 2004.

Nature neuroscience
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nature reviews. Cancer
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nature reviews. Drug discovery
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nature reviews. Genetics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Neoplasia
Coverage: Available from 1999.

Neuro-oncology
Coverage: Available from 1999.

New England Journal of Medicine, The
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 328 issue: 1.

The New York times
Coverage:
Available from 1851 until 2003 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Available from 1980 from ProQuest Newsstand National Newspapers

Nuclear receptor
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Nucleic acids research
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 24 issue: 1 from Highwire Press Free
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current

Nucleic acids symposium series
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 42 issue: 1 until 2004 volume: 48 issue: 3.

Oncogene
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 14 issue: 1.

Oncology
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 55 issue: 1.

Oncology research
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 12 until 2006 volume: 16 issue: 5.

Onkologie
Coverage: Available from 2000.

Pharmacogenetics
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 10 issue: 1 until 2004 volume: 14 issue: 12 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1991 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Philosophical transactions
Coverage: Available from 1683 until 1775.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1934 until 1990.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1776 until 1886.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1665 until 1678.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1990 until 2004.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. A
Coverage: Available from 1887 until 1895.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. B
Coverage: Available from 1887 until 1895.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing papers of a mathematical or physical character
Coverage: Available from 1896 until 1934.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing papers of a biological character
Coverage: Available from 1896 until 1934.

Physiological genomics
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 1 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.

Physiology
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 13 issue: 1. Most recent 1 year(s) not available.