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Science Databases


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Full-text available Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier 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 additional journals. 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.

Full-text available ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals
Articles relevant to chemistry and information in the life sciences.

Full-text available American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals
Provides access to full text physics journal articles.

Full-text available Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective
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.


Full-text available Birds of North America Online
A comprehensive reference covering the biology and life histories of North American birds. This resource will provide access to image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Each online species account will contain recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Full-text available Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
This resource is an interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database is fully searchable by keyword and subject, and it has many novel features, such as discussion forums and personal folders. Its coverage includes cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.

Full-text available Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Search for articles on topics including the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

Full-text available CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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.

Full-text available Elsevier Science Direct
ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.

Full-text available Expanded Academic ASAP
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspaper articles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology disciplines. Some full-text. Searches may be restricted to refereed journals only.

Full-text available FirstSearch
Provides access to a large collection of databases including GEOBASE, ArticleFirst, and ECO.

Full-text available Florida Environments Online (FEOL)
The core of Florida Environments Online database consists of eight merged research bibliographies including 1) Florida Ecosystems 2) Florida Ornithology, 3) Fishes of Florida, 4) Florida Herpetology, 5) Florida Geology, 6) Bibliography of Literature Useful to the Study of Florida Plants - and the Herbarium Library of Books and Reprints, 7) Florida FreshWater Bibliography, and 8) Florida Agricultural History.

Full-text available JSTOR
JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. JSTOR includes 1,856,206 full-length articles across 47 disciplines. There are 1,387,437 book reviews and the oldest content in the archive was published in 1665.

Full-text available OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -- indexing, abstracts, and full text -- from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Full-text available OVID Online
Search for articles in a collection of databases covering aquatic sciences, psychology, social sciences, medical sciences, and government research reports. Includes Journals@Ovid Full Text, Evidenced Based Medicine Reviews, and CINAHL.

Full-text available Oxford Reference: Science
Provides the full-text of numerous scientific dictionaries.

Full-text available Science Online
Provides access to the full text of Science's print version and to additional online-only enhancements. This resource allows you to search within Science and across a multitude of scientific journals.

Full-text available SciFinder Scholar 2006 (On campus computers only.)
Provides comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including journal articles, patents, chemical reactions, and chemical regulatory data.

Full-text available SpringerLINK
Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. This resource also provides access to the following book series: Lecture Notes in Physics and Topics in Current Chemistry.

Full-text available Web of Science
Contains three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Full-text available Wiley InterScience
Wiley InterScience reaches a worldwide audience with must-have content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. When the initiative is completed in 2007, in conjunction with Wiley's Bicentennial, Wiley InterScience will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.

Full-text available Wilson Science Complete
Search for articles in all three Wilson science databases: Applied Science and Technology Full Text; General Science Full Text; and Biological and Agricultural Index Plus.

For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.