Research Guide: Science
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Science Databases
- Agricola
- Describes materials in the National Agriculture Library . (more info)
- Agriculture Collection
- More than 400 titles, focused on agriculture and its related fields: from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. (more info)
- American Chemical Society Publications
- Provides articles published by the American Chemical Society. Years of journals available vary by the title. (more info)
- Annual Reviews
- Identifies and synthesizes primary research literature in 33 scholarly fields. (more info)
- GeoRef
- The most comprehensive database of bibliographic information in the geosciences. (more info)
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Full text of scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. (more info)
- MathSciNet
- Comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940 (more info)
- MEDLINE via EBSCOHost
- Covers all areas of medicine including dentistry and nursing. (more info)
- Science Citation Index
- A part of the Web of Science, the SCI searches the references (citations) found in journal articles in the sciences. Coverage is 1980-present. (more info)
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Multi-disciplinary Databases
- Academic OneFile
- Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. (more info)
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive, scholarly, and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. (more info)
- MasterFILE Premier
- Full text of general interest periodicals and other materials. (more info)
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Biographies of scientists from classical antiquity to modern times. (more info)
- Dictionary of Astronomy
- Online version of the Oxford University Press dictionary. (more info)
- Dictionary of Biology
- Online edition of Oxford University Press dictionary. (more info)
- Dictionary of Chemistry
- Online version of the Oxford University Press dictionary. (more info)
- Dictionary of Physics
- Online version of the Oxford University Press dictionary. (more info)
- Encyclopedia of Life
- The Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere. (more info)
- Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
- Considers the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology; professional ethics. (more info)
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Science Websites
- BUBL Link
- BUBL (originally BUlletin Board for Libraries) is an Internet-based information service for the U.K. higher-education community and offers information retrieval of academically valuable internet resources.
- Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
- Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
- Virtual library: science
- "...run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web."
