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Research Databases for
Science and Mathematics
Choose from core research databases, online science portals, related databases and selected web pages. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.
Denotes Resources with Full-Text
Core Research Databases
Academic Search Premier by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Access Science
Provides the full-text of the famous Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with additional content including science news and biographies.
Type: Full-text
Agricola
Contains bibliographic records back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Type: Index with Citations
Bio Digest
Provides detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students and interested nonscientists of the biological sciences.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Environmental Universe by Lexis-Nexis
Provides indexing and full-text to environmental publications and government reports and codes.
Type: Full-text
Geo Base
Supplies bibliographic information and abstracts for resources in ecology, geology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography.
Type: Index with Citations
GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations
Online Science Portals
arXiv.org
The Cornell University sponsored repository is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
Type: Web Page
Highwire Press Science
The Stanford University sponsored site provides access to the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world.
Type: Web Page
Science.gov
Provides a search gateway to documents hosted and produced by U.S. government agencies.
Type: Web Page
Scirus.com
The search engine offers a science-specific search on the open web.
Type: Web Page
Related Databases
Article First
A large, multi-disciplinary index covering over 15,000 scholarly and popular journals.
Type: Index with Citations
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collection
Provides a retrospective, full-text collection that includes many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Type: Full-text
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES
Provides extensive coverage in the field of psychology. Includes the full-text of over 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association and the content of PsycCRITIQUES, a source of book reviews in the social sciences.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Selected Web Pages
The Mathematical Atlas
Features an index of themes in mathematics.
Type: Web Page
National Library for the Environment
The government sponsored web site offers access to over 1500 reports on environmental issues.
Type: Web Page
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The search engine retrieves information from a network of digital libraries offering in-depth studies in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Type: Web Page
Tree of Life
The collaborative project has the goal of documenting all living and extinct organisms and using the features of the web to interlink related content.
Type: Web Page
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