Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : May/June 2003

CANCERLIT® (File 159/CANC), a Closed File

CANCERLIT (File 159/CANC) has been discontinued by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI). All vendors of CANCERLIT are affected in the same way, and the database is no longer offered through the NCI's own Web site. CANCERLIT remains as a closed file on Dialog and Dialog DataStar. Customers who currently have Alerts on File159/CANC should move them to an alternative file(s) listed below.

CANCERLIT is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s to the present.

Alternatives to CANCERLIT

• MEDLINE® (Files154/155/MEDL) and EMBASE® (F72/73/EMED) provide similar journal material to CANCERLIT. In fact, in recent years the journal coverage of CANCERLIT has been almost identical to the oncology coverage of MEDLINE.
  
  
• Global Health (File162/HUMN) is another good source that claims between 35-40% of unique coverage compared to MEDLINE. Global Health specializes in the following cancer-related areas: international health perspectives including epidemiology; nutrition with associations between cancer and diet; and medicinal plants with special emphasis on those with anti-cancer properties. This file also covers books, chapters, reports, theses, patents, conference proceedings and some electronic-only sources in the areas of oncology. Global Health is international with excellent coverage of developing countries.
  
  
• BIOSIS Previews® (Files 5/55/BIOL/BIYY) has a very good collection of records from oncology meetings and non-oncology-specific meetings that cover cancer-related subjects. In 2002, BIOSIS indexed 31,000 meeting abstracts relating to cancer.
  
  
• PASCAL (File 144/PASC) is another international source with good oncology coverage that also indexes theses, books, conference proceedings and other non-journal material.

For further information or if you need help moving your Alerts from CANCERLIT to an alternative file, please contact the Knowledge Center nearest you or your Dialog account manager.

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