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ProQuest Science Journals  -  ProQuest CSA                    1986-                         Updated Daily
Covers both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, this database features over 490 titles—with more than 380 available in full text. Articles include all of  the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements that are vital to scientific and technical literature.Search Guide

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System - Computation Facility at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  Updated Daily
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. There are currently links to over 6.0 million records maintained by collaborating scientists and organizations.  Online Search Help.

General Science Abstracts - Now searchable as part of Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Covers some 150 titles, including areas of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Wiley InterScience    Current File     Updated Monthly
Provides more than 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles that integrate current theory, practice, and understanding of all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences. Includes Introductory Level articles, Secondary Level articles, and Special Essays.

HighWire Press Journals - Stanford University        Current File
HighWire Press currently provides more than 1.8 million free full-text articles from the Web versions of 311 important journals in biomedicine and other science disciplines.  You can search all of the journals simultaneously and get result lists that include for-fee articles, or you can search the free journals independently.
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PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  -  PNAS   1915-                 Updated Weekly
Provides searchable access to the entire full text backfiles of PNAS - one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, PNAS continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

CLASE and PERIODICA - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico   1975-    Updated Quarterly
These databases, searched simultaneously, are an index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. CLASE indexes documents published in more than 1,200 Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.  Coverage is from 1975-. PERIODICA covers more than 1,400 journals specializing in science and technology. Coverage is from 1978-. Together they provide access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages Coverage includes articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Mathematics Abstracts - Zentralblatt für Mathematik          1931-         Updated Monthly
Demo mode only - there is a limit of 3 allowed answers for unregistered users. The database covers the international mathematical research published from 1931-1998. Contains articles from about 2,000 journals and serials, books, conference proceedings, and other  research papers appearing in any language. This database contains records for the documents covered by Zentralblatt für Mathematik / Mathematics Abstracts. More than 5,000 scientists from all over the world provide Zentralblatt with reviews. The reviews are written mainly in  English, with some reviews in French or German. Searchable by author, title, source, etc. Serials List.   WWW Search Guide     Serials List

GEOBASE - Elsevier Science Publishers             1980 -             Updated Monthly
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in 2,200 on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more. FirstSearch / Search Guide

GeoscienceWorld  - GeoscienceWorld.org                           Current File            Updated Monthly
Provides a searchable database and access to the abstracts for 30 peer-reviewed, high impact geoscience journals from 22 leading societies and institutes from six countries. Extensive backfiles go back as far as 1918 for some journals.

Scirus.com - Elsevier                                         Current File    Updated Weekly
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, it searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages plus more than 30 million citations, abstracts, full text peer-reviewed articles, and patents.  Links to some free full text articles.

ScienceResearch.com -   Deep Web Technologies, LLC            Current File   Updated Monthly
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal that searches thousands of high-quality journals and databases and ranks results by relevance on a single results page. Some full text is available but most citations include only a brief abstract. Subject areas covered include Astronomy, Biology & Nature, Chemistry, Computers & Technology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, General Science,  Health & Medicine,  Materials Science,  Mathematics,  Physics, and Social Sciences.

AGRICOLA - National Agriculture Library            1970-        Updated Monthly.
Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and  marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods  and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics. More than 1,000  journal titles are covered. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Current Research Information System (CRIS) - U.S. Department of Agriculture    Current File
CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, the state land-grant university system, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in USDA's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program. CRIS is a part of Science and Education Resources Development (SERD), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).

AGRIS - United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)            1975 -               Updated Monthly
International database with a focus on agriculture. Supports keyword, Boolean, index, and theseaurus searching.

CARIS - United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)            1975 -               Updated Monthly
CARIS is the Current Agricultural Research Information System created by FAO in 1975 to identify and to facilitate the exchange of information about current agricultural research projects being carried out in - or on behalf of - developing countries. An international system, working on a cooperative basis, CARIS identifies projects dealing with all aspects of agriculture: plant and animal production and protection; post harvest processing of primary agricultural products; forestry; fisheries; agricultural engineering; natural resources and the environment as related to agriculture; food and human nutrition; agricultural economics; rural development, and agricultural administration; legislation, information, education and extension. 137 national and 19 international and intergovernmental centres participate in CARIS. Centres have submitted exhaustive information on roughly 30,000 currently active projects. In addition, two regional centers submit input on behalf of 6 countries in their respective regions.

Organic Syntheses Website - Wiley                                 Current File
This database details experimental methods, independently checked selected procedures and new reactions, in a standard format for the synthesis of organic compounds. The database is made up of 83 annual volumes and 10 collective volumes. Organic Syntheses procedures may be accessed either via the tables of contents of individual volumes ("journal mode") or by conducting structure and keyword searches ("database mode"). Specific individual procedures can be accessed via the table of contents for either the original annual volume or collective volume in which the procedure appeared. "Database mode" allows users to simultaneously search all volumes of Organic Syntheses by keywords or by inputting structures and substructures. Structure searching requires the ChemDraw plugin; a free version  can be downloaded according to the instructions found in the left margin.

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Premier - Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  WWW  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP– IAC                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,526 journals and magazines including 2,172 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

JSTOR-  Jstor Inc.                Coverage Varies                         Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,  Ecology and Botany,  Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,  Population  / Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.  Dates of coverage: Varies depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search Guide

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) -           1987-              Updated Daily
Searchable database containing references to 370,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection in the last 10 years.    WWW

Energy Citations Database - U.S. Government   1948-     Updated Regularly
Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics and engineering. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers and journal articles.
 

EurekaAlert!  - American Association for the Advancement of Science      Current File     Updated Daily

EurekAlert!, a comprehensive Web site about the latest research advances in science, medicine, health, and  technology. The site includes news releases, an archive, and links to web sites. EurekAlert! is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with technical support  provided by Stanford University. WWW

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