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Current holdings: 5046 references (58 certified) and 319 fulltext PDF files.

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Use General Search to search across authors, titles, abstracts, reference numbers, etc.. Search terms are generally automatically extended at the end of each term and searches are case insensitive. Therefore searching for "martin" will retrieve records containing "Martin" and "Martinson".

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You can retrieve the results of a search in an XML format that can be imported into an Endnote reference database. To do so: after you have done a search, check the Fetch as Endnote XML option, then click Search again.

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