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Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Databases

PsycArticles
Full-text articles in psychology and related fields.
PsycINFO
Comprehensive citation database of psychology.
PubMed
Definitive citation database for research in medicine and biosciences.

Other Useful Databases

Web of Science
Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, and art & humanities research journals.
SciFinder
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/scifinder (use/bookm ark this URL)
Comprehensive chemistry resource
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F1000 Prime
Highlights and evaluates most interesting papers published in biosciences and medicine based on recommendations of top researchers.
Scopus
Articles, 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

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Brief commissioned articles covering all areas of life sciences written by leading scientists.
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Learning and Memory: a Comprehensive Reference
Comprehensive encyclopedia covering learning theory and behavior, cognitive psychology of memory, memory systems, and molecular mechanisms of memory.
MIT CogNet
Electronic community for cognitive and brain sciences. Includes full-text of books and other resources; interactive forum for researchers.
MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia divided into several subcategories, including computational intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology.
NCBI Bookshelf
Free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare
Oxford Scholarship Online - Neuroscience
contains e-books on molecular and cellular, behavioral, developmental, and cognitive neuroscience, disorders of the nervous, sensory, motor systems.
Progress in Brain Research
Popular series covering a broad range of topics in neuroscience. (1995) - present

Images and atlases

Whole Brain Atlas
Clinical data accompanied with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images.
Biological Data & Atlases
Resource guide contains links to other biological data and atlases resources available from MIT Libraries.

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2. If you need a corpus that is only available by hard drive or requires a separate license before download, please email ldc-lib@mit.edu.
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For all MIT users, available corpora are listed by year on the LDC site (MIT Libraries’ access to LDC corpora is limited to corpora published from 2016 on). Note that the corpora available as CDs or DVDs from 2016-present can be accessed by individual title through the Library’s Barton Catalog.