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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 24 databases | 60 e-journals )

• Access science

  
  
  Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.

• Applied science & technology abstracts

  
  

  Coverage:

  1983- (Indexing); 1993- (Abstracting)
  Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in more than 500 international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-related disciplines. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users

• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics

  
  

  Coverage:

  80th ed.(1999/2000)
  Contains frequently used data in chemistry and physics (basic constants, units, and conversion factors; symbols, terminology, and nomenclature; physical constants of organic compounds; properties of the elements and inorganic compounds; information on molecular structure; etc.) Usage info: Licensed for one concurrent user.

• General science abstracts

  
  

  Coverage:

  1984- (Indexing); 1993- (Abstracting)
  Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in approximately 200 "... popular and professional science journals published in the United States and Great Britain, and the Science section of The New York Times. Subject headings have been designed for the non-specialist and student ... Subject coverage includes atmospheric science, earth science, conservation, food and nutrition, genetics, nursing and health, physiology, and zoology."--Wilson description. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

• PubMed

  
  

  Coverage:

  Site as viewed May 29, 1997 (rev. Apr. 29, 1998);
  "Provides access to over 12 million Medline citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals."

• Web of science

  
  

  Coverage:

  1900-
  "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.More about Web of Science

Other Science and Technology (General) Resources

Organizations: Archives

Formats: Data, statistics and survey results · Dissertations and theses · Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Preprints · Proceedings

Research tools: Bibliographies · Biographies · Constants, formulae and tables · Encyclopedias · Indexes and abstracts · Patents · Properties

E-Journal Collections: BioOne · Blackwell Synergy · Brill Academic Publishers · Cambridge University Press · Haworth Press · HighWire Press · Indiana University Press · IngentaConnect · IOP (Institute of Physics) · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Euclid · Project Muse · Routledge · Royal Society (London) · Sage Publications · ScienceDirect · Springer LINK · University of Chicago Press · University of Hawaii Press · Wiley InterScience