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Web
of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded
Produced by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) this multidisciplinary database covers 5,900 major journals
across more than 150 scientific disciplines. MORE
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1983+ |
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Elsevier
Science Direct
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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Chemical
Abstracts via
SciFinder Scholar 2004
Via the Scfinder Scholar interface search CAS
databases: Chemical Abstracts; The Registry File; CASReact;
CHEMLIST; CHEMCAT and Medline.
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SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library from the International Society for Optical Engineering currently includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings . MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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General
Science Collection via Ebsco
Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world
and offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular
science publications, including Astronomy, Discover, National
Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific
American, and many others. MORE
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Full text: 1992+ |
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General
Science Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science,
environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.
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Abstracts: 1993+
Full text: 1995+ |
choose Omnifile with Gen. Sci as subject |
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Academic
Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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ArticleFirst
via FirstSearch
Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately
12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business,
the humanities, etc. MORE
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1990+ |
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Biological
& Agricultural Index [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Provides full-text articles from groundwater pollution to
genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences
related to biology and agriculture. MORE
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1994+ |
choose Omnifile with BioAg as subject |
Biotech
Channel via Dialog1
Covers biotech news and industry, patents, regulatory information,
R&D and more.
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Chemical
Channel via Dialog1
Covers chemical related news and industry, patents, R&D , etc..
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CompendexWeb
Ei Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering
database in the world. MORE
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1970+ |
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Dialog1
Covering the categories of World
News, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Biotech, Chemistry,
Energy, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals.
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong
in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics,
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life &
Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE
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eBooks |
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Energy
Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of energy including: alternative, coal, industry
intelligence, nuclear, petrochemical, petroleum, utilities.
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Engineering
Channel via Dialog1
Covering engineering news and industry, patents, R&D. MORE
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European
Patents (Espacenet)
Free patent access from the European Patent Office. |
patents
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GEOBASE
via FirstSearch
Covers climatology, energy, environment, hydrology, photogrammetry,
sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, volcanology,
etc. MORE
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1980+ |
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IEEE/IEE
Electronic Library (Xplore)
Provides full-text access to over 12,000 IEEE and IEE publications,
including journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE Standards.
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1988+ |
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INSPEC
The largest database of world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. It also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. MORE DETAILS... |
1969+ |
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Intellectual
Property Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of intellectual property: copyrights, patents,
trademarks. MORE
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ISI Proceedings
Updated weekly, ISI Proceedings provides Web access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. MORE DETAILS... |
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ISO / IEC Standards
Search for national and international standards from such organizations as ISO, IEC and ASTM. The full text of standards is available for individual purchase and download or may be freely available to faculty for use in the classroom via the ANSI Unversity Outreach Program. |
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MasterFile
Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals.
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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NASA
Technical Reports Server
A service that allows users to search the many different
abstracts and technical report servers maintained by various
NASA centers and programs. |
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National
Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
The Gateway allows searches from one Web interface, providing
"one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information
resources or databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed, etc. |
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| NSSN: Contains over 250,000 references to standards from more than 600 developers worldwide. |
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Optics InfoBase
InfoBase is the Optical Society of America's online database of both current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. MORE DETAILS... |
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PapersFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides access to individual papers presented at worldwide
meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses,
and symposia. MORE
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1993+ |
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Pharmaceuticals
Channel via Dialog1
Covering pharmaceuticals related info: drug pipeline summaries,
intelligence, newsletters, pharma patent information, literature
and news. MORE
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ProceedingsFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences
worldwide. MORE
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Tables
of Contents
1993+ |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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Science
Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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SIRS
Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social,
scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
MORE
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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TOXNET
via the National Library for Medicine
A
cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and
related areas. |
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US
Patent Database
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) access to the full-text
patent databases. |
Patents - 1996+ |
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