It is November (where has the time gone) and Ovid's free databases of the month are CAB Abstracts and Archives and Drugline.

CAB Abstracts and CAB Abstracts Archive provide access international agricultural and applied life sciences information. The CAB Abstracts (1973 to present) contains over 4 million records from over 11,000 journals. books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally. The CAB Abstracts Archive combines 17 printed abstract journals produced between 1910 and 1972 (the equivalent of 600 volumes) into a single electronic database. The Archive, previously only available in print, provides access to that had been 'lost', 'forgotten' or 'ignored'. CAB Abstracts Archive is fully searchable and has been re-indexed with modern terms to allow today's researcher full and immediate access to the research of the past. CAB Abstracts and the Archive contains English abstracts prepared from papers originally published in over 75 different languages.
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Drugline contains evaluated drug information representing responses from clinical pharmacologists to specific patient cases. It is produced by the Karolic, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska University Hospital in cooperation with the regional drug information centers in Sweden, Odense in Denmark and Turku in Finland. The database is indexed using the MESH thesaurus. Currently the database contains 12691 records in English & Swedish. The database originates from the answers to complex clinical questions posed by physicians. An extensive literature search is carried out and answers to the questions are produced after discussion by a team of specialists. Questions cover side effects, teratogenicity, feasibility of nursing by drug-treated mothers, kinetics, drug interactions, pharmacy, therapy and choice of drugs.
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