The Veterinary Medical Library is one of 12 libraries in the Purdue University Libraries with specialized resources linked to its website. To find information and resources, try:
Key databases include:
CAB Abstracts
provides comprehensive coverage of research in agriculture, biology, veterinary medicine and related fields. As the premier index to the world's veterinary literature covering 2,380+ veterinary journals, it is an excellent resource for those working with animals [Coverage: 1910 to date].
PubMed [also known as MEDLINE]
developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the first database of choice for searching the human medical research literature. Covers 90+ veterinary journals. Using the Purdue Libraries link to PubMed provides direct links into the Libraries' online journals. [Coverage: 1946 to current].
-- also has a Single Citation Matcher to help figure out partial references.
Web of Science
provides good cross coverage of the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities as well as the options of doing author and cited reference searching [Coverage: 1900 to date for Science Citation Index portion of database].
-- also have access to Journal Citation Reports which provides journal "impact factors."
For resources that are not available at Purdue, you can fill out the Interlibrary Loan online request form.
For additional Libraries workshops for graduate students, see the Get A G.R.I.P (Graduate Research Information Portal)
