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Appendix C: Methods of Identifying and Collecting the Literature
Pages 339-341

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... ONLINE DATABASES AND OTHER SOURCES The committee focused on a comprehensive search of relevant online databases to begin its literature review. Twenty-two online databases containing citations to literature covering biomedical, toxicological, chemical, and historical information were searched in March 1999 utilizing Dialog, a commercial database vendor.
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... An additional search retrieved citations on studies of uranium miners and other occupations. The results from the two searches were combined and dupliTABLE C.1 Bibliographic Databases Searched MEDLINE Toxline Cancerlit HealthSTAR CAB HEALTH EMBASE NTIS PsycINFO Enviroline Environmental Bibliography BIOSIS PREVIEWS International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Occupational Safety and Health World Translations Index Pascal Life Sciences Collection Conference Papers Index Inside Conferences Gale Group Health and Wellness Database Dissertation Abstracts Online SciSearch OCLC's Epic database NOTE: NTIS = National Technical Information Service; 0CLC = Online Computer Library Center.
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... Additionally, staff and committee members examined reference lists of major review articles and books for relevant citations; extensive reference lists were provided by several sources including the ATSDR Toxicological Profile on Uranium and recent reports by RAND. The study also accessed the TOXNET factual databases available through the National Library of Medicine and the Cochrane Collaboration database.
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