FAU Libraries General, Physical & Earth Sciences Databases

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Academic Search Premier | 1975-present | Full Text  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals | 1879-present | Full Text | Vendor: ACS
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Contents/Info: Articles relevant to chemistry and information in the life sciences.

African-American Biographical Database | 1790-1950 | Full Text | Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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Contents/Info: Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

Agricultural Sciences | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Search multiple databases covering agricultural sciences.

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals | 1985-present | Full Text |  Vendor: AIP
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Contents/Info: Provides access to full text physics journal articles.

American Mathematical Society Journals: | Full Text | Vendor: AMS
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Contents/Info: Provides access to both pure and applied research in mathematics.

American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications  | Full Text | Vendor: American Museum of Natural History
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Contents/Info: AMNH scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.

American Physical Society (APS) Journals | Full Text | Vendor: APS
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Contents/Info: Access to full text APS journals.

Anthropology Plus | 19th Century-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource | Full Text | Vendor: AAA
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Contents/Info: Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.

Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective  | 1913-1983 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  This index provides a single resource for seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Indexes the latest findings in every area of science, engineering, and technology covering trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993.  Full Text coverage begins in 1997.

Aquatic Sciences | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Search multiple databases covering aquatic sciences.

ArticleFirst | 1990-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Incorporates OCLC's ContentsFirst as of 10/15/01.

ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources | 1978-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Citations cover all aspects of oceanography.

Blackwell Synergy see Wiley InterScience | Full Text | Vendor: Wiley
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Contents/Info: Online full text access to selected journals published by Blackwell Science and Munksgaard Presses. Your library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site. [Blackwell Synergy has merged into Wiley InterScience. All Blackwell Synergy  journals can be found in Wiley InterScience as of June 30, 2008.]

Britannica Online see Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Cambridge Journals Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Cambridge
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Contents/Info: Provides access to full text journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. [Select "Subscribed Journals" from the first dropdown menu]

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

The Center for Research Libraries Databases | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info: An international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users. Check with your interlibrary loan department for more information on availability of materials in this database.

The Center for Research Libraries' Current Science Serials Database   | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info: Consists of science journals currently received by CRL.

Copper Data Center Database  | 1965-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology. 

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  | Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
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Contents/Info: The most widely used source of data for chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by physical scientists and engineers.

Current Contents Connect  | 1998-present | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.  [This resource will no longer be available due to state budget cuts after December 31, 2007.]

Current Research@ Florida Atlantic University  | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: A digital library of dissertations and theses from Florida Atlantic University.

Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Ex Libris
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Contents/Info: Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries is a project that highlights university scholarship of various types (working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses, etc.).

Earth and Environmental Sciences  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Search multiple databases covering earth and environmental sciences.

EBSCOhost  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Provides access to CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Pre-CINAHL (nursing and allied health journals); EconLit (economic literature); RILM Abstracts of Music Literature; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Academic Search Premier; Film & Television Literature Index; Business Source Premier; and Regional Business News.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements  | 1985-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements presents the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts.

Elsevier Science Direct  | Full Text | Vendor: Elsevier 
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Contents/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines (Group-wide login is no longer necessary to access this database).

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide | Full Text | |Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Allows you to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | 1981-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management provides abstracts from over 6000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources, including conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications in the environmental sciences.

Everglades Online | Some Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
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Contents/Info: A database which indexes resource material from articles, to books, to web sites of courses useful for studying the Everglades.

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via WebLUIS Web Gateway for FAU.

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via LINCCWeb Gateway for Florida Community Colleges.

Water Resources Abstracts  | 1967-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

Wiley InterScience | Some Full Text | Vendor: Wiley 
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Contents/Info: More than 300 online publications for researchers and professionals. 

Wilson Science Complete  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Searches all three H. W. Wilson science databases: Applied Science and Technology Full Text, General Science Full Text, and Biological and Agricultural Index Plus.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Provides access to to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.