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Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Databases
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PsycArticlesFull-text articles in psychology and related fields.
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PsycINFOComprehensive citation database of psychology.
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PubMedDefinitive citation database for research in medicine and biosciences.
Other Useful Databases
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Web of ScienceIndexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, and art & humanities research journals.
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SciFinderhttp://libraries.mit.edu/get/scifinder (use/bookm ark this URL)
Comprehensive chemistry resource
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F1000 PrimeHighlights and evaluates most interesting papers published in biosciences and medicine based on recommendations of top researchers.
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ScopusArticles, books, reports, and patents in many subjects, mainly published after 1995. Includes citation features and tools to analyze authors and journals.
Handbooks, e-books & encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of Life SciencesBrief commissioned articles covering all areas of life sciences written by leading scientists.
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Learning and Memory: a Comprehensive ReferenceComprehensive encyclopedia covering learning theory and behavior, cognitive psychology of memory, memory systems, and molecular mechanisms of memory.
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MIT CogNetElectronic community for cognitive and brain sciences. Includes full-text of books and other resources; interactive forum for researchers.
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MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)A multidisciplinary encyclopedia divided into several subcategories, including computational intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology.
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NCBI BookshelfFree access to books and documents in life science and healthcare
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Oxford Scholarship Online - Neurosciencecontains e-books on molecular and cellular, behavioral, developmental, and cognitive neuroscience, disorders of the nervous, sensory, motor systems.
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Progress in Brain ResearchPopular series covering a broad range of topics in neuroscience. (1995) - present
Images and atlases
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Whole Brain AtlasClinical data accompanied with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images.
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Biological Data & AtlasesResource guide contains links to other biological data and atlases resources available from MIT Libraries.
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