Selected Databases by Subject: Science
This is a list of databases that have primarily academic subject orientations.

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Legends: ft means 50%+ any type of full-image; 49% or less all other formats ft image means 90%+ full-image files; 9% or less all other formats FirstSearchFS in the Other Information column indicates a FirstSearch database.
index or ascii Indicates a resource which has less than 50% full-text (usually ascii) materials and/or is primarily an indexing or abstracting tool; be aware that an abstract is also a citeable source.

Databases of Special Interest to Students in Mathematics & Science
Title Vendor Other Information
    
ACS Web Editions ft image ACS American Chemical Society Full-Text Web Editions; alternate access.
AGRICOLA index or ascii US Dept of Agriculture FirstSearchFS; Agriculture; includes some aspects of environmental studies
Annual Reviews Online ft image Annual Reviews This is the complete suite of 30 Annual Reviews. Annual Reviews provide analytical, scholarly summaries of recent research; access to the complete backfiles has been purchased.
Applied Science & Technology index or ascii
 ft FT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; includes some areas of computer and information science
BasicBIOSIS index or ascii BIOSIS FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index which covers most recent 3 years
BioDigest ft Plexus Publishing FirstSearchFS; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc.
Biological & Agricultural Index [BioAg] index or ascii
 ft FT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; includes some aspects of environmental studies
EbscoHost > Academic Search Premier ft Ebsco/Texshare texshare 576 of more than 3,000 titles in this general academic database are science and math journals. For best results, restrict searches to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "Full-Text".
EbscoHost > Computer Source ft Ebsco/Texshare texshare This is a subset of Academic Search Premier with about 300 full-text titles. For best results, restrict searches to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "Full-Text".
EbscoHost > Science & Technology Collection ft Ebsco/Texshare texshare This is a subset of Academic Search Premier with about 800 full-text titles, many of them popular science or K-12 level materials. For best results, restrict searches to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "Full-Text".
GPO: Government Publishing Office index or ascii U.S. Government FirstSearchFS; Index of U.S. government publications
General Science Abstracts [GenSci] index or ascii
 ft FT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; indexes journals in all aspects of the sciences
GEOBASE index or ascii Elsevier Science FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; geology and geography and ecology database
GrayLIT Network ft U.S. Government a portal to more than 1 million full-text technical reports form numerous government agencies; e.g. DOE, DOD, EPA, NASA, and so on.
IEEExploreft image IEEE Full-text for most IEEE journals, newsletters and conference proceedings.
IOP Electronic Journals ft image Institute of Physics UTSystem provides access; UTPB has access to the Standard Service only. This means twenty-five of thirty-eight journals are available full-text, and that no "deep backfiles" are available.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts ascii or index Ebsco Indexes more than 400 journals, includes indexing for research reports and conference proceedings.
JSTOR ft image JSTOR Archives & provides full-text for more than 600 scholarly journals from their beginnings to the most recent 4 to 7 years (varies with vendor contracts). For example, JSTOR contains the full-text of all numbers of American Journal of Mathematics from volume 1, 1878-volume 117, 1995, and Ecology from volume 1, 1920-volume 77, 1996.
MathSciNet:
Mathematical Reviews on the Web
index or ascii
American Mathematical Society MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years.
MEDLINE index or ascii National Library of Medicine FirstSearchFS; Indexes medical journals; professional level
Nature, Nature Archives Online, Nature Research [aka Nature Monthlies] ft image Nature Full-text and Full-image (PDF) files. Nature and Nature Research are from 1996 forward; Nature Archives Online provides access to 1987-1996 files. PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
Nature Reviews ft Nature Includes Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Cancer, Drug Discovery, and Immunology. As with other Nature Online publications, PDF files usually print better, but some full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
New England Journal of Medicine Online ft image Massachusetts Medical Society Complete contents; text+graphics and full-image files.
New York Times index or ascii NYT FirstSearchFS; Indexing; abstracting since 1994
Project Muse (coverage 1996+) ft image Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) This database contains the full-text of several journals related to the sciences: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 2004+; Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1996+; American Journal of Mathematics 1996+; Comparative Technology Transfer & Society 2003+; Ethics and the Environment 2001+; Global Environmental Politics 2003+; Human Biology 2001+; Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences 2000+; Literature and Medicine 1996+; Perspectives in Biology & Medicine 2000+; Perspectives on Science 1998+.
PsycINFO_1887 index or ascii APA FirstSearchFS; Abstracts of psychology literature, including neuro- and brain-sciences, since 1887; very comprehensive indexing
PsycARTICLES ft image APA FirstSearchFS; an online database containing more than 27,500 searchable full-text articles from 49 peer reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present.
ScienceDirect ft image Elsevier Full-text of more than 700 science journals
Wiley InterScience ft image Wiley Full-image of more than 300 journals, citations, indexing and tables of contents for more than 100 additional titles.


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