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Science & Engineering (25 titles)

  • Academic Search Complete [via Ebscohost] –Offers full text coverage of information in many areas including animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields.
  • AccessScience –Online encyclopedia of science & technology
  • AGRICOLA [via CSA] –[AGRICultural OnLine Access] A bibliographic database created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. It includes 3 million citations to articles, government reports, theses, patents and technical reports on food and nutrition, agricultural economics, and parasitology.
  • AGRICOLA [via National Agricultural Library] –[AGRICultural OnLine Access] A bibliographic database created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. It includes 3 million citations to articles, government reports, theses, patents and technical reports on food and nutrition, agricultural economics, and parasitology.
  • ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering [via CSA]
  • Biological Abstracts [via Ovid Database] –Bibliographic coverage of the life sciences including ecology, zoology, botany, biotechnology, microbiology, and medicine.
  • Biological Sciences [via CSA] –Covers a broad range of topics including biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
  • Biology Digest [via CSA] –Find key articles on the latest developments in biological research. Lengthy, descriptive abstracts.
  • BioOne –Provides searchable, full-text access to a group of journals from societies and small publishers focusing on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. 1985-present
  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts [via CSA] –Provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
  • CAB Direct –Combines CAB Abstracts and Global Health (CAB health) into a single database indexing literature in the fields of plant science; animal science; pathogen, pest, parasite, and weed management; human health and hygiene; natural resources and ecology; forestry, forest products, and agroforestry; soil science; rural development, tourism, and economics; food science and food products; biotechnology; and agricultural engineering. Coverage is from 1973.
  • CRCnetBase –Searchable full-text of hundreds of reference handbooks in engineering, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and the environment.
  • CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences [via CSA] –CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature and is interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of journals from all major areas such as biology, agriculture and medical sciences.
  • CSA Natural Sciences [via CSA] –One of four subject areas where users can search multiple CSA databases at the same time.
  • Ei Compendex*Plus [via Ovid Database] –Provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines as well as related fields in science and management.
  • Entrez Cross-Database Search –Simultaneously search multiple life sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  • Faculty of 1000 Biology –Reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
  • Inspec [via Ovid Database] –Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in computing, electrical engineering, physics. Updated monthly.
  • Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Science Edition and Social Science Edition) –Tool for journal evaluation, using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. Used to find impact factors.
  • NTIS (National Technical Information Service) [via Ovid Database] –Major resource for locating U.S. Government-sponsored research reports and studies in the physical sciences, engineering, biological sciences, medicine and health sciences, etc.
  • Pubget –Pubget is a PDF search engine for the life sciences.
  • SciFinder Scholar –Provides access to Chemical Abstracts, including the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database.
  • Springer Protocols –The Springer Protocols Collection contains nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed protocols.
  • Web of Science (WoS) –Containing Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, WOS offers multidisciplinary searching and seamless access to cited reference searching. The WOS databases include bibliographic and citation information for articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Updated weekly.
  • Zoological Record [via Ovid Database]