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Radiologic Science & DMI

Research guide for the Radiologic Sciences and Diagnostic Medical Imaging programs at City College of San Francisco

Finding Articles

CCSF Library provides free access to subscription article databases, which contain specialized and up-to-date information, especially academic (scholarly) sources that are often not available on the Web.

See the Finding Images in the Consumer Health Database box on the left to find articles with radiographic images, and the A-Z Databases page for a full list of databases available to you from the CCSF Libraries.

Subscription Article Databases

Free databases on the Web

PubMed
National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health launching point for health sciences information, from peer-reviewed literature to clinical trials. Limit your results to see only the Free Full Text articles available to you by clicking on the link under Text Availability on the left. You'll see it after doing your search. Be sure to look at the PubMed Online Training which includes tutorials and trainings on different ways to search this extensive database and how to find the full text of articles, with many other useful trainings on topics like using MESH. Many are also in Spanish. You may also want to check out the Single Citation Matcher - useful for finding an article when you have incomplete information about it.

PubChem

An open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - Online
Online version, with features not available in the print version, and "continuously updated to ensure that the information is as up-to-date as possible."


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