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Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition

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Full description: Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition provides access to nearly 900 full text journals, including full text for nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications. This database covers such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences.

Full text publications available include: Journal of Family Practice, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, CMAJ, etc. Journals available in full text in this database are indexed in MEDLINE, providing PDF coverage back as far as 1960.
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Coverage: 1960-01-01 to current
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Resource type: Partial fulltext database
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Simultaneous users: Unlimited
Update frequency: Daily
Titles indexed: List of items indexed by this database
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Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology (BPK), Health Sciences, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Allows electronic reserves: yes
Ereserves notes: 5.1 Members, subject to Section 6 below, may incorporate parts of the Licensed Materials Electronic Reserve collections for the use of Authorized Users in the course of instruction at a Member, but not for Commercial Use. Each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and author of the extract, title and author of the work, and the publisher. Copies of such items shall be deleted by the Member when they are no longer used for such purpose. The Harvard Business Review specifically forbids Electronic Reserve
Allows coursepacks: no
Coursepack notes: 5.1 Course packs are not permitted unless Licensee receives permission from the publishers directly.
Allows interlibrary loan: yes
Interlibrary loan notes: 4.1 Members, subject to clause 6 below, may supply to a library of a non-Member (whether by post, fax or secure transmission, whereby the electronic file is deleted immediately after printing), for the purposes of research or private study and not for Commercial Use, a single paper copy of an electronic original of an individual document being part of the Licensed Materials.
Online terms: http://www.ehlbc.ca/sites/default/files/WebEBSCOlicense2012.pdf

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