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Selected databases

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)
Coverage: 1985 -

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.

BoardCertifiedDocs
Coverage: Current

Note: Access is for two concurrent Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center users. If you receive an “access denied” message, please try your search again at a later time.

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.

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.

Faculty of 1000 Biology
Coverage: Current

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Coverage: 1985 -

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources (HSRR)
Coverage: Current

Household Products Database
Coverage: Current

ISIHighlyCited.com via ISI Web of Knowledge
Coverage: Current

JSTOR
Coverage: Some journals date back to the 1600s

Lexi-Comp (Hospital Formulary and Lexicomp Online)
Coverage: Current

MD Consult
Coverage: Varies

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

STAT!Ref via Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

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.

UpToDate
Coverage: Current

Note: This resource may only be used on campus in clinical locations and in the Library facility

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

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Selected journals & eJournals

Academic medicine
Coverage:
Available from 2001 from Ovid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection
Available from 1926 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 74 issue: 12 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Advances in applied probability
Coverage: Available from 1969 until 2004.

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

Advances in surgery
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 39.

Ambulatory Surgery
Coverage: Available from 1993 until 1994.

American journal of clinical oncology: cancer clinical trials
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 19 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1978 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

American journal of epidemiology
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current
Available from 1921 until 1995 volume: 143 issue: 1 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

American Journal of Mathematics
Coverage: Available from 1878 volume: 1.

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 75 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1922 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

American journal of preventive medicine
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 14 issue: 1.

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

The American journal of surgery
Coverage:
Available from 1926 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Surgery
Available from 1926 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Excerpta Medica
Available from 2001 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

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

American Mathematical Monthly, The
Coverage: Available from 1894 until 2004.

American Statistician, The
Coverage: Available from 1947 until 2002.

The analyst
Coverage: Available from 1874 until 1883.

The annals of applied probability
Coverage: Available from 1991 until 2004.

The Annals of mathematical statistics
Coverage: Available from 1930 until 1972.

Annals of mathematics
Coverage: Available from 1884 until 2002.

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

The annals of probability
Coverage: Available from 1973 until 2004.

The annals of statistics
Coverage: Available from 1973 until 2004.

Annals of surgery
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1885 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 230 issue: 6 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Annals of surgical oncology
Coverage: Available from 1997.

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

Annual review of medicine
Coverage: Available from 1950 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Coverage: Available from 1972.

Antiviral research
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 26 issue: 1.

ANZ journal of surgery
Coverage:
Available from 1998 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Wiley Interscience

Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology
Coverage: Available from 1993 until 1999.

Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 11 issue: 1.

APS bulletin
Coverage: Available from 2004.

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Coverage: Available from 1982 until 1994.

Archives of surgery
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 133 issue: 1.

ASAIO journal
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 46 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1955 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

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

Biometrics
Coverage: Available from 1947 until 2002.

Biometrics bulletin
Coverage: Available from 1945 until 1946.

Biometrika
Coverage: Available from 1901 until 2002.

Biostatistics
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 until 2004 volume: 5.

BMC cancer
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC clinical pharmacology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC health services research
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC medical education
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

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

BMC medical informatics and decision making
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMC medical research methodology
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

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

BMC surgery
Coverage: Available from 2001 volume: 1.

BMJ
Coverage:
Available from 1994 volume: 308 issue: 6920 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1994 volume: 308 issue: 6920 from Highwire Press British Medical Journal Publishing Group

The British journal of cancer
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 79 issue: 1.

The British journal of surgery
Coverage:
Available from 1998 volume: 85 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1913 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1997 volume: 84 issue: 12 from Wiley Interscience General Medicine Backfiles

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

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The bulletin of symbolic logic
Coverage: Available from 1995 until 2007.

Burns
Coverage: Available from 1974 until 1994.

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

Canadian journal of surgery
Coverage: Available from 2000.

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 chemotherapy and pharmacology
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 39 issue: 4.

Cancer detection and prevention
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 26 issue: 1.

Cancer gene therapy
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 6 issue: 1.

Cancer practice
Coverage: Available from 2001 until 2002.

Cancer research
Coverage: Available from 1941.

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Coverage:
Available from 1983 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Oncology
Available from 1974 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD W.B. Saunders

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

Clinical and molecular allergy
Coverage: Available from 2003 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Clinical cancer research
Coverage: Available from 1995.

Clinical Oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1989 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Oncology
Available from 1989 volume: 1 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD W.B. Saunders

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

Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Clinical therapeutics
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 17 issue: 1.

Clinics in Dermatology
Coverage: Available from 1983 until 1994.

Clinics in geriatric medicine
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 16 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier
Available from 2000 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

College Mathematics Journal, The
Coverage: Available from 1984 until 2004.

Contemporary clinical trials
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 26 issue: 1.

Contemporary critical care
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 2 issue: 8.

Contemporary spine surgery
Coverage: Available from 2005 volume: 6 issue: 1.

Critical care
Coverage: Available from 1997 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Critical care medicine
Coverage:
Available from 2001 volume: 29 issue: 2 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1995 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals
Available from 1973 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 27 issue: 12 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Current opinion in HIV and AIDS
Coverage: Available from 2006 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 Problems in Cancer
Coverage:
Available from 1976 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Oncology
Available from 1976 volume: 1 issue: 3 from Elsevier SD Mosby

Current Problems in Surgery
Coverage: Available from 1982 until 1994.

Current science
Coverage: Available from 1932.

Current Treatment Options in Oncology
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Dermatologic surgery
Coverage:
Available from 1999 volume: 25 issue: 1 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1999 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1999 from Wiley Interscience

Disease Markers
Coverage: Available from 1998 volume: 14 issue: 1.

Disease-a-month
Coverage:
Available from 1954 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile General Medicine
Available from 1962 volume: 8 issue: 3 from Elsevier SD Mosby
Available from 2001 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

Econometrica
Coverage: Available from 1933 until 2005.

Emergency medicine clinics of North America
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 14 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier
Available from 1996 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

Emerging themes in epidemiology
Coverage: Available from 2004 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Epidemiologic perspectives & innovations
Coverage: Available from 2004 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Epidemiologic Reviews
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current
Available from 1979 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

Epidemiological bulletin
Coverage: Available from 1980 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Epidemiology
Coverage:
Available from 1990 until 2002 from JSTOR Health & General Sciences
Available from 2000 volume: 11 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1990 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 10 issue: 6 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

European journal of cancer care
Coverage:
Available from 1997 volume: 6 issue: 2 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 1997 from Wiley Interscience

European journal of emergency medicine
Coverage:
Available from 2001 volume: 8 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1994 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

European journal of surgical oncology
Coverage: Available from 1995 volume: 21 issue: 1.

Evidence-based healthcare
Coverage: Available from 1999 until 2004.

Experimental Parasitology
Coverage: Available from 1993 volume: 76 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.

Family & community health
Coverage:
Available from 1999 volume: 21 issue: 4 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1978 volume: 1 issue: 2 until 1999 volume: 22 issue: 3 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Family Practice
Coverage:
Available from 1997 volume: 14 issue: 1 Most recent 2 year(s) not available from Highwire Press Free
Available from 1984 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

FDA Consumer
Coverage: Available from 1989 volume: 23 issue: 3 until 2007 volume: 41 issue: 2.

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

The incorporated statistician
Coverage: Available from 1950 until 1961.

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

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 health geographics
Coverage: Available from 2002 volume: 1 issue: 1.

International seminars in surgical oncology
Coverage: Available from 2004 volume: 1 issue: 1.

International statistical review
Coverage: Available from 1972 until 2002.

Investigational new drugs
Coverage: Available from 1997.

JACEP
Coverage: Available from 1972 until 1979.

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

Japanese journal of clinical oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1996 from Highwire Press Oxford University Press Current
Available from 1971 until 1995 volume: 26 issue: 1 from Oxford University Press Medicine Archive

JCAHO Perspectives
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 20 issue: 1.

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Coverage:
Available from 2000 volume: 39 issue: 1 from EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Available from 2000 from Wiley Interscience

Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics
Coverage: Available from 1996 until 2002.

The Journal of ambulatory care management
Coverage:
Available from 1999 volume: 22 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1978 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 22 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Journal of applied probability
Coverage: Available from 1964 until 2004.

Journal of biosciences
Coverage: Available from 1998.

Journal of business & economic statistics
Coverage: Available from 1983 until 2002.

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

Journal of clinical engineering
Coverage:
Available from 2002 volume: 27 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1976 until 1999 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Journal of clinical epidemiology
Coverage:
Available from 1988 until 1994 from Elsevier SD Backfile Public Health and Health Policy
Available from 1988 volume: 41 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Pergamon

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

Journal of computational and graphical statistics
Coverage: Available from 1992 until 2002.

Journal of critical care
Coverage: Available from 1986 until 1994.

Journal of educational and behavioral statistics
Coverage: Available from 1994 until 2004.

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

Journal of interferon & cytokine research
Coverage: Available from 1999 volume: 19 issue: 1.

Journal of medical genetics
Coverage: Available from 1999.

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

Journal of prosthetics and orthotics
Coverage:
Available from 2001 volume: 13 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1988 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 11 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Journal of reconstructive microsurgery
Coverage: Available from 2000.

Journal of surgical oncology
Coverage:
Available from 1996 volume: 61 issue: 1 from Wiley Interscience
Available from 1969 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1995 volume: 60 issue: 4 from Wiley Interscience Oncology and Hematology Backfile

The Journal of surgical research
Coverage:
Available from 1962 volume: 2 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Academic Press
Available from 1962 volume: 2 issue: 1 until 1994 volume: 57 issue: 6 from Elsevier SD Backfile Surgery

The Journal of symbolic logic
Coverage: Available from 1936 until 2003.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Coverage:
Available from 1997 volume: 185 issue: 1 from Elsevier SD Elsevier
Available from 2001 from MDConsult Core Collection Ejournals

Journal of the American Mathematical Society
Coverage: Available from 1988 until 2002.

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
Coverage: Available from 2000.

Journal of the American Statistical Association
Coverage: Available from 1922 until 2002.

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

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Coverage: Available from 1887 until 1947.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A. General
Coverage: Available from 1948 until 1987.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A. Statistics in society
Coverage: Available from 1988 until 2003.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological)
Coverage: Available from 1948 until 1997.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology
Coverage: Available from 1998 until 2003.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics
Coverage: Available from 1952 until 2003.

Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Coverage: Available from 1953 until 1965.

Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Coverage: Available from 1964 until 1965.

Journal of the Statistical Society of London
Coverage: Available from 1838 until 1886.

The Journal of trauma
Coverage:
Available from 1995 volume: 38 issue: 1 from Journals@Ovid
Available from 1961 volume: 1 issue: 1 until 1999 volume: 47 issue: 6 from Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Journal Legacy Archive

Kidney international
Coverage: Available from 1972 volume: 1 issue: 1.

Kinetoplastid biology and disease
Coverage: Available from 2002 until 2007.

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

Laboratory investigation
Coverage: Available from 2000 volume: 80 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.

Mathematical tables and other aids to computation
Coverage: Available from 1943 until 1959.

Mathematics magazine
Coverage: Available from 1947 until 2004.

Mathematics news letter
Coverage: Available from 1926 until 1934.