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SciVerse Science Direct

2013; University Library System, University of Pittsburgh; Volume: 101; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3163/1536-5050.101.2.020

1558-9439

Mary Pat Harnegie,

Health Sciences Research and Education

from more than 2,500 peerreviewed journals and 11,000 books.Older materials (back files) are available as archives for an additional charge.Its intended audience is librarians and researchers in the health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.It also has a nice complement of materials in the social sciences and business subject areas.It is PC compatible with Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9, as well as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.Mac compatible browsers are Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.This database uses a federated search mechanism, which is a single search portal to search and retrieve results from several electronic resources at once.Meta searching or broadcast searching are other terms commonly used for this search mechanism.Scien-ceDirect uses natural language searching similar to a Google search.It does not have a controlled vocabulary like PubMed's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).The advanced search feature allows searching by author, title, volume, issue, and page, similar to PubMed's Single Citation Matcher.