Online Database Resources: Science

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Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.

Access Science is the electronic version of the 10th edition of McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Each article contains links to other resources and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources include research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and the latest news in science and technology.

Advanced Placement Source
Advanced Placement Source is designed to meet the extensive needs of high school students enrolled in various AP courses. This contains more than 5,500 full-text academic journals and magazines and over 500,000 photos and maps.

  
Aluka is a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.  Partnered with JSTOR, there are three collection areas that are currently under development: African Plants, African Cultural Heritage Sites & Landscapes and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.  New materials are added to this digital library on an ongoing basis.

American National Biography Online is a collection of 18,700 biographies. ANB is the electronic version of the 24-volume print collection of American National Biography. Each entry provides a bibliography, a citation, and cross-references within the database.

  
Credo Reference offers more than 575 titles from over 80 of the best reference publishers. This database contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, a crossword solver, and measurement conversions. Categories for searching range from Art to History, to Literature and Science.

Health Source
Health Source provides access to over 80 full-text consumer health magazines and nearly 130 health reference books.

JSTOR is a collection of over 1,300 academic journals ranging from the sciences, humanities, and the social sciences, and offers peer-reviewed scholarly research. This database also includes current issues for more than 150 journals. JSTOR maintains a moving window of archived material that averages 3 to 5 years.

Nature Online is a weekly international journal publishing peer-review research in all fields of science. This online version of the print journal has coverage from 1950 to the current issue. The online site also features podcasts, research highlights, and videos.

The Oxford DNB is a collection of over 57,000 illustrated biographies of those who impacted Britain's history. Each article contains bibliographic references and archives for further research.

This database lets the user search over 320 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. There is a wide range of titles that focus on art, history, law, religion, science, and the social sciences.

Salem Science is a reference database that contains the Encyclopedia of Global Warming. The database is fully searchable by keyword or browsed by subject.

ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database offering journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are more than 9.5 million articles and chapters available to search by title, author, or subject. Subjects range from Social Sciences and Humanities to Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences to Health Sciences.

  
This database offers content from more than 150 reference sets, including Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, and Macmillian Science Library. There are more than 1.5 million periodical articles, 22,000 topic overviews, and over 16,000 images and videos available to search. Subjects range from Earth Science and Life Science, to Mathematics and Science History & Biographies.

  
Science Magazine provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, including additional information, links, and multimedia, as well as a database of scientific-product information.

  
Scientific American is the world's premier magazine of scientific discovery and technological innovation for the general public. In every issue, leading scientists, inventors and engineers from diverse fields describe their ideas and achievements in clear and accessible style. This database is searchable author, title, and date.

  
WorldCat is a global network of more than 10,000 libraries that unite their collections into one master catalog. WorldCat is searchable by format, author, title, and subject.