Electronic Resources

Subject Resources: General Science

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Databases
	Alt-HealthWatch Full-text database focusing on alternative approaches to healthcare and wellness.
			1990 to the present
	ArticleFirst Table of contents pages for more than 13,000 journals
			1990 to the present
	ArticleFirst Database Articles from more than 12,000 journals covering many subject areas
		First Search (OCLC)	1990 to the present
	BioOne Online aggregation of over 80 high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals
	BIOSIS Previews Biological and biomedical research literature
			1955--present
	Britannica Online Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
	Community of Science (COS) Find funding, identify potential collaborators, publicize research, and conduct research online
		Community of Science: COS
	COMPLUDOC: Base de Datos de Articulos de Revistas Article and contents of over a thousand scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
	COS Expertise Community of Science Expertise - researcher profiles
		Community of Science: COS
	COS Funding Opportunities Community of Science database of research funding opportunities
		Community of Science: COS
		Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: CSA
	COS Scholar Universe Community of Science database of information about researchers worldwide
		Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: CSA
	COS Workbench Community of Science free personal workspace
		Community of Science: COS See More Info for access information.
	Credo Reference (Xrefer)
	Current Contents Connect Up-to-date coverage of research-level journals in all fields.
			current
	Dissertation Abstracts Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last150 years
		First Search (OCLC) See More Info for access information.	1861- (indexing); 1980- (abstracting dissertations); 1988- (abstracting theses)
	Early English Books Online (EEBO) A digital library of early English books from 1400 to 1700.
	Emerald Fulltext A Full Text Management Research Database with over 35,000 management articles.
			1994-
	ENGnetBASE One of the most comprehensive databases of engineering research
	Essential Science Indicators (ESI) (Web of Knowledge) Citation analysis tools, especially via institutions and departments.
			Present and back ten (10) years
	Expanded Academic ASAP Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, many in full-text.
			1980 -- present
	FACTS.com Events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.
			1980 to present
	HOMER Catalog of the Information Services Division's library materials (all libraries except Health Sciences Libraries and Law Library catalogs)
	LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Full text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
			varies
	Linus Pauling Research Notebooks Linus Pauling's notebooks cover topics from Vitamin C to superconductivity.
	NetLibrary Collection of full-text electronic books.
	NewsBank InfoWeb Collection of primary source databases and access to world maps.
	NewsBank NewsFile Collection Full-text news resource covering over 500 national and international news sources.
			1991 to the present
	NewsBank Retrospective Full-text newspaper resource for contemporary American history (1971-1991).
			1971-1991
	ProceedingsFirst Database Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library
			1993 to the present
	ProQuest Access databases of resources for arts, business, humanities, social sciences, science and newspaper resources.
			varies
	Rarebooks.info Rarebooks.info offers the largest bibliography on rare books in the world on the web
	Science Citation Index Expanded Citation database for the sciences
			1900 to present
	ScienceDirect Access over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals.
	Scirus (Elsevier) Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine.
	Scitation Scitation vends e-journals in physics and engineering
	SIRS Researcher General reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
		First Search (OCLC)	1988 -- present (indexing); 1994 -- present (summaries)
	SPIN/GENIUS Database of research & funding opportunities
			current
	Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) Web of Science is part of ISI's Web of Knowledge which also includes Arts & Humanties and Social Sciences citation databases.
			1900-present
	Wilson Applied Science and Technology (AST) Full Text literature covering chemistry, computer technology, data processing, energy-related disciplines, engineering, mathematics and physics
		H.W. Wilson	Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+
	Wilson General Science Full Text Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain.
		H.W. Wilson	Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+
	Wilson Readers' Guide Full Text Articles from popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
		H.W. Wilson	Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+
	WorldCat Union catalog of books and other materials in many languages located in libraries worldwide
	Xplore (IEEE Electronic Library) Electrical Engineering's most comprehensive full-text online resource.
		IEEE
eJournals
	AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter News & articles on history of physics, astronomy, geophysics
			1994 -- current; 2 issues per yr
	Antarctic Journal of the United States Full-text journal articles on the Antarctic region and Antarctica
			v. 28 (1993) -- v. 33 (2005)
	Aviation Week & Space Technology One of the world's most authoritative aerospace magazines
			1996--present
	Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of organic chemistry.
		Directory of Open Access Journals	2005 -- Current
	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Encourages the application of philosophical techniques to issues in the natural and human sciences
		Oxford University Press	v. 47 (1996) -- present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 49 (1950 - 1998)
	Bulletin of the History of Medicine Issues report on the aspects of the history of medicine
		Project Muse	Vol. 70, no. 1 (Spring 1996)-present
	Endeavour A journal of the history of science, technology and medicine
			v. 19, no. 1 (1995) -- present
	Fisheries News & articles on fishery resources & aquatic ecosystems
			Vol. 30 (2005)-present
	Foundations of Science
		MetaPress (Springer)	v. 2, no. 1 (1997) -- present
	Geotimes News & articles on earth, energy and environment
			1996 -- current
	Internet Journal of Microbiology
		Directory of Open Access Journals	2004 -- Present
	Isis
		JSTOR	Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 1913)v. 92, no. 4 (Dec. 2001)
		University of Chicago	Vol. 93, no. 1 (Mar. 2002)-- present
	Journal of Research in Science Teaching Journal of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching.
		Wiley Interscience	Vol. 33, no. 1 (1996)--present
	Nature Multidisciplinary scientific journal
		Nature Journals Online	Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 4, 1869)-present
	Naturwissenschaften Aims to inform researchers and teachers about what may interest them outside their own field os study
		MetaPress (Springer)	Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1913)--present
	Osiris Emerging research in history of science and its cultural influences
		JSTOR	v. 11 - 14 (1996 - 1999)
	Philosophy of Science
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 68 (1934 - 2001)
		University of Chicago	v. 69, no. 1 (2002) -- present
	Physics: preprints A fully automated general physics archive and distribution server for research papers.
			October 1996--present
	Pollution Engineering Trade journal on pollution management with regulatory slant
			2002 -- present (two years free online)
	Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 143 (1838 - 1999)
	Public Understanding of Science All aspects of the interrelationships between science and the public
			Vol. 1, no. 1 (1992)--present
	Research & Development (Barrington, Ill.) News & articles on science, technology, research / development
		Freely Accessible Science Journals	(Sept 2002)-v. 44, no. 6 (June 2002)
	Russian Chemical Reviews Provides access to reviews of important new chemistry work from Russia
			1998 - ca. one year ago
	Science (Washington, D.C.)
		JSTOR	Vol. 1 (1883)-v. 23 (1894); New Series: Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 4, 1895)-v.286, no. 5449 (Dec. 1999)
		Journals@Ovid Ovid Full Text	Vol. 259, no 5091 (Jan. 1, 1993)-v. 306, no. 5698 (Nov. 5, 2004)
		Highwire Press	Vol. 274, no. 5285 (Oct. 11, 1996)-present
	Science & Technology Libraries
		Haworth Press
	Science Communication Forum for critical and analytical articles addressing communication issues in Science
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 20, no. 3 (1999)-- 2004
		Sage	v. 20, no. 3 (1999)-- present
	Science Education Articles on the latest issues and trends in science curriculum
		Wiley Interscience	Vol. 80, no. 1 (1996)--present (older issues may be abstract only)
	Scientific American
			Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1845)-v. 99, no. 26 (Dec. 1908) & v. 268, no. 1 (Jan. 1993)-present
	SIAM News News & articles on industrial & applied mathematics
			1998 - current; 5/yr
	Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies Oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to covering all aspects of the Middle Ages.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 74 (1926 - 1999)
	Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A Journal on the history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences
			v. 26, no. 1 (1995) -- present
	Technology and Culture Scholarly articles on the history of technology.
		Project Muse	v. 39, no. 3 (1998)--present
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 39 (1959 - 1998)
	Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
		JSTOR	v. 81 - 89 (1991 - 1999)
	World Conservation IUCN bulletin: News & articles on conservation, ecology, biology
		See More Info for access information.	Vol. 33, no. 1 (2002)-present
	World Wide Web Journal of Biology
		Directory of Open Access Journals	1995 -- Present
	Zygon Articles deal with the interrelationship betweeen religion and science.
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 33, no. 1 (1997) -- 2005
eBooks
	Britannica Online Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
	Credo Reference (Xrefer)
	Ebrary Internet-based library of over 30,000 electronic volumes
	Linus Pauling Research Notebooks Linus Pauling's notebooks cover topics from Vitamin C to superconductivity.
	NetLibrary Collection Collection of full-text electronic books.
Web Sites
	Atlas of Antarctic Research Promotes geographic awareness of Antarctica using geospatial data
	Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE Digital library collections, catalogs and indexes
	Essential Science Indicators (ESI) (Web of Knowledge) Citation analysis tools, especially via institutions and departments.
			Present and back ten (10) years
	Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (JAKE)
	Linus Pauling Research Notebooks Linus Pauling's notebooks cover topics from Vitamin C to superconductivity.
	Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center Independent inventor's portal site to scientific calculators and other reference tools.
	NSF Web Website for the National Science Foundation.
			varies
	The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Cases covering public safety and welfare, conflicts of interest, international engineering ethics, fair trade, and research ethics
	Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE) Assists with the accurate identification of fish species
	Samuel F.B. Morse Papers (Library of Congress) Print, audio and video documents of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, etc.
	SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online Full text access to Latin American journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
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	Scirus (Elsevier) Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine.
	Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet Information and access to Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet
Others
	Scirus (Elsevier) Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine.