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All Science & Medicine Subjects

AccessScience -- full text access to the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, as well as biographical information, news articles, and recommended websites

Annual Reviews -- full text review articles from 12 biomedical and physical sciences Annual Review titles back to 1996, plus indexing of the content to the other 17 Annual Reviews back to the first volume; the articles in Annual Reviews offer a synthesis of the literature on a particular topic and aids in identifying key articles

Science Citation Index -- indexes and analyzes citations from over 5,700 journals back to 1972

ScienceDirect  -- full text articles from over 900 scholarly journals back to 1995; includes indexing of all 1800 Elsevier journals and the database MEDLINE

Agriculture

AGRICOLA-- indexes articles and books on agriculture; around 850 journals and magazines are currently being indexed back to 1970

Biological & Agricultural Index -- indexes around 350 core biology and agriculture journals and magazines back to 1983

 

Biology

Biological Abstracts -- comprehensive database for the life sciences: biochemistry, biology, botany, evolutionary ecology, pharmacology, etc. Covers over 4,000 journals, back to 2001

Biological & Agricultural Index -- indexes around 350 core biology and agriculture journals and magazines back to 1983

Biological Bulletin -- full text access to this core biology journal, back to 1990

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on the life sciences back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 92 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

Laboratory Manuals

Current Protocols in Life Sciences -- full text access to 9 Current Protocols (bioinformatics, cell biology, cytometry, human genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, and protein science); published by Wiley.

Encyclopedias

EBSCO Animals -- encyclopedia of animals aimed at children and young adults

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia - e-book version of this 16 volume set, broken up by type of animal: Lower Metazoans and Lesser Deuterostomes, Protostomes, Insects, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals

 

Chemistry

American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals - browse or keyword search full text articles from 37 American Chemical Society journals, back to the first issue.

SciFinder Scholar - premier chemistry suite of databases offering access to patent and journal references, substance information, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions, and chemical supplier information. Available via software loaded on library and computer lab public computers.

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on chemistry back to around 1997; includes indexing of around 100 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

Laboratory Manuals

Current Protocols in Chemistry -- full text access to 3 Current Protocols (food analytical chemistry, nucleic acid chemistry, and toxicology); published by Wiley.

 

Computer Science - See Also Information Systems

ACM Digital Library -- full text articles from 42 magazines and journals in computer science and MIS, plus hundreds of newsletters, conference proceedings, and transactions; from the Association for Computing Machinery

CiteSeer -- developed by the NEC Research Institute, is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. It is an open access publishing project.

IEEEXplore -- Includes all journals, proceedings and standards from IEEE.

ScienceDirect  -- full text articles from over 100 scholarly journals for computer science back to 1995; includes indexing of all 1800+ Elsevier journals

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on computer science back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 20 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

 

Environmental Studies

Environment & Energy Publishing -- Environment & Energy Publishing is the leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy.

LexisNexis Environmental -- gateway to environmental information; choose Environmental Abstracts on the right hand side for thousands of journal articles, conference papers, and proceedings back to 1975 (no full text though); choose News, Journals & Commentary on the right hand side for full text of current news and environmental law review articles; also offers case law, and codes and regulations

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on environmental issues back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 37 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Environmental Encyclopedia -- e-book version of this 2003, two-volume work, with signed entries on all aspects, aimed at the nonspecialist

Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention & Control -- e-book version of this 2002 handbook on prevention and control of indoor and outdoor air pollution, published by Elsevier

Pollution A to Z -- e-book version of this 2004, two-volume work, with around 250 signed entries, published by Macmillan

 

Geology/Geography

GEOBASE -- index to articles from over 2,000 magazines and journals on geography, geology, and ecology back to 1980

Encyclopedia

Geo-Data: The World Geographic Encyclopedia -- e-book version of this 2003 encyclopedia offering detailed physical descriptions of countries

 

Gerontology

AARP Ageline -- indexes articles of relevance to aging studies, though emphasis is on health issues; covers around 300 periodicals back to 1978

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Aging -- e-book version of this 2002, four-volume set, with around 400 entries on all aspects of aging

 

Health & Medicine

EBM Reviews -- full text version of the latest Evidence Based Medicine Reviews: ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (formerly Cochrane Controlled Trials Register-CCTR)(CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE).

Health Source - Consumer Edition -- indexes and offers some full text articles on medical subjects for the layperson from around 400 periodicals

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition -- indexes and offers some full text articles for the practitioner from around 1200 periodicals 

JAMA -- Journal of the American Medical Association; full text access to this premier medical journal, back to 1998, with abstracts and selected full text 1975-1997 and just citations to articles 1966-1974

Journals@Ovid Full Text -- full text articles from over 460 biomedical journals

Liebert E-Journals Online on-campus only! -- over 50 full text e-journals, mainly on medical subjects

Medical Ovid -- gateway to over 15 different medical databases

MEDLINE -- comprehensive index to biomedical subjects, covering over 4,600 journals, back to 1950; free version available called PubMed

New England Journal of Medicine -- full text access to this premier medical journal, back to July 1993, and also includes abstracts from 1975-1993

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on medical and health issues back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 86 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

E-books & Encyclopedias

Books@Ovid -- the full text of over 160 medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts

Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases - e-book version of this 1998 one-volume encyclopedia, aimed at the non-specialist

Laboratory Manuals

Current Protocols in Medicine & Healthcare -- full text access to 3 Current Protocols (immunology, magnetic resonance imaging, and pharmacology); published by Wiley.

 

Mathematics

ScienceDirect  -- full text articles from over around 90 mathematical scholarly journals back to 1995; includes indexing of all 1800 Elsevier journals and the database MEDLINE [help with database]

Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on mathematics and statistics back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 26 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

 

Pharmacology

Clinical Pharmacology -- full text information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs and herbal/nutritional supplements; text comes from 2 sources: Drug Monographs (aimed at practitioner) and Patient Education (aimed at consumer)

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts -- comprehensive index to pharmaceutical science, covering around 750 journals back to 1970

Handbooks

Clinician's Handbook of Prescription Drugs -- e-book version of this 2001 handbook to essential information on commonly perscribed drugs

Current Protocols in Pharmacology -- full text laboratory manual, published by Wiley

 

Toxicology

TOXNET-- portal to 9 toxicology and hazardous chemicals databases from the federal government, including TOXLINE, a comprehensive database for toxicology back to 1966

Wiley Interscience - offers full text articles from scholarly journals on toxicology back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 5 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

Laboratory Manual

Current Protocols in Toxicology -- full text manual, published by Wiley

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