Supported Online Reference Services

List of online referencce services that you can search from directly within Synthesis - PubMed, PubMed Central, IEEE, arXiv.org, US Patents.

Service Name Description
PubMed

PubMed - is the National Library of Medicine journal citation database. PubMed provides over 23 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles back to 1946. PubMed includes over 5,600 scholarly journals published around the world. [source: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html]

PubMed Center (PMC)

PubMed Central (PMC) - is a free archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles. [source: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html]

IEEE

IEEE Xplore - is the digital library for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and provides nearly 4 million references to technical articles. [source: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/#/overview-of-ieee-xplore/about-ieee-xplore]

arXiv.org

arXiv.org - is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is funded by Cornell University Library, the Simons Foundation and by the member institutions. [source: https://arxiv.org/help/general]

US Patents

US Patents - is the United States Patent Office (USPTO) full text and image database. Synthesis only searches in the abstracts. [source: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/help/helpfaq.htm]