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JSTOR Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Back issues of nearly 800 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from the first issue to 3-5 years prior to the current year.
ProQuest Direct Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Search several dozen ProQuest indexes to research and newspaper articles from 4,000+ periodicals. This link searches Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest Newspapers, and many more.
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ACM Digital Library Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Database of the Association of Computing Machinery consists of full text, citation, and abstract journals, magazine, and conference reports from 1966 to present.
American Chemical Society journals  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full-text access to all ACS journals online.
American Geophysical Union journals  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full-text access to all AGU journals.
American Mathematical Society Journals  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Online access to these AMS journals: Conformal Geometry and Dynamics; Representation Theory; Journal of the AMS; Mathematics of Computation; Proceedings of the AMS; Transactions of the AMS
Astronomy & Astrophysics Annual Reviews Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full text annual reviews of scholarly research in the fields of astronomy & astrophysics.
Auto Repair Reference Center  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Chilton repair manuals back to 1954.
Earth and Planetary Sciences Annual Reviews Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full text annual reviews of scholarly research in the fields of earth & planetary sciences.
Elsevier Journals (Science Direct) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Over 620 full-text research journals from Elsevier. The years for which full-text is available will vary for each journal.
Energy & the Environment Annual Reviews  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full text annual reviews of scholarly research in the fields of energy & the environment.
GeoRef (Ebsco) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
(1785-present) A comprehensive geosciences database containing over 3 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Subjects include: environmental & engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology & oceanography, and mineralogy.
GeoScienceWorld Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
A comprehensive resource for research in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked and inter-operable with GeoRef.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Offers authoritative content on green technologies. Primary areas of focus include Agriculture, Law & Politics, Economics & Trade, Pollution, Energy, Resource Management, Environment & Ecology, Science & Technology, and Social Factors.
Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Technology  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Provides information on the different styles of instructional design methodologies, tips, and strategies on how to use technology to facilitate active learning as well as techniques to help faculty and researchers develop online instructional and teaching materials.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (FirstSearch) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly. Covers 1975-present.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library (IEL)   Full Text Available Remote Access Available
1988+ Full-text access to all IEEE journals, conferences and standards, representing almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature.
IOPscience  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full-text access to scientific, technical and medical content in over 80 journals published by the Institute of Physics. Covers 1874-present.
Journal of Chemical Education  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full online content from 1924 to present.
Knovel Science & Engineering E-Books  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
More than 1,400 e-books in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering.
MAS Ultra School edition (Ebsco) Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from over 515 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas.
Merck Index 14th ed. (Knovel)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
The Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs.
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
1915-present. Full text and abstracts from every issue of this important science journal, including the Early Edition.
Safari Tech Books Online  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Nearly 1,000 full-text e-books in computer science, especially from O'Reilly and Que. Note: Limit of 2 simultaneous users to the entire collection.
Science in Context (Gale)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Merges Gale's reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Science of Synthesis (Thieme)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
A new edition of Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. It will comprise 48 vol. between 2000 and 2008. The emphasis is on the provision of highly evaluated chemical information from leading experts. It will cover the whole field of organic chemistry based on all published and readily available sources from the early 1800s until the year of publication. Science of Synthesis is a fully interactive, text and structure searchable information tool for every chemist.
Science Online (AAAS)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
(1997-current) Full-text access to the Science journal directly from the publisher.
Scientific American Archive Online  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Full color PDF images of all Scientific American articles from Jan. 1993 to present.
SciFinder Scholar (CAS) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
The CAS databases provide access to: >23 million single- and multi-step reactions; >2 billion predicted property values; >4 million experimental properties; the CAS REGISTRY database with >53 million substances; all relevant patent records from 9 of the major patent offices; sequences combined from CAS and GenBank databases.
Springer Protocols  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
More than 20,000 searchable online protocols in life sciences and biomedicine. They provide step-by-step “recipes” which can be executed in a controlled laboratory environment.
SpringerLink Abstract Available Full Text Available Remote Access Available
(Journals 1997+; E-books 2006-2010.) Online access to 1,300 Science, Technology & Medicine journals, 12,000 e-books (2005+), & the entire Springer Protocols collection (20,000).
Web of Knowledge (ISI) Abstract Available Remote Access Available
The ISI Web of Knowledge is a very selective index to literature in Science, Social Science and Art & Humanities. It also shows the number of times articles have been cited by other researchers.
Wiley Online Library (was Interscience Journals)  Full Text Available Remote Access Available
Access: Current titles only; no backfiles. Content from >2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, lab manuals & The Cochrane Library of Medicine. Topics include: Business, Finance, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics, Psychology.