| Selected Databases by Subject: Science |
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means 50%+ any type of full-image; 49% or less all other formats |
means 90%+ full-image files; 9% or less all other formats |
FS in the Other Information column indicates a FirstSearch database. |
More details here.
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 |
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| Title | Vendor | Other Information |
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ACS Web Editions ![]() |
ACS | American Chemical Society Full-Text Web Editions; alternate access. |
AGRICOLA ![]() |
US Dept of Agriculture | FS; Agriculture; includes some aspects of environmental studies |
Annual Reviews Online ![]() |
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
FT through WilsonSelectPlus |
H.W. Wilson | FS; Subject oriented periodical index; includes some areas of computer and information science |
BasicBIOSIS ![]() |
BIOSIS | FS; Subject oriented periodical index which covers most recent 3 years |
BioDigest ![]() |
Plexus Publishing | FS; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc. |
Biological & Agricultural Index [BioAg]
FT through WilsonSelectPlus |
H.W. Wilson | FS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; includes some aspects of environmental studies |
EbscoHost > Academic Search Premier ![]() |
Ebsco/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 ![]() |
Ebsco/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 ![]() |
Ebsco/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 ![]() |
U.S. Government | FS; Index of U.S. government publications |
General Science Abstracts [GenSci]
FT through WilsonSelectPlus |
H.W. Wilson | FS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; indexes journals in all aspects of the sciences |
GEOBASE ![]() |
Elsevier Science | FS; Subject oriented periodical index; geology and geography and ecology database |
GrayLIT Network ![]() |
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. |
IEEExplore
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IEEE | Full-text for most IEEE journals, newsletters and conference proceedings. |
IOP Electronic Journals ![]() |
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 ![]() |
Ebsco | Indexes more than 400 journals, includes indexing for research reports and conference proceedings. |
JSTOR ![]() |
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 |
American Mathematical Society | MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. |
MEDLINE ![]() |
National Library of Medicine | FS; Indexes medical journals; professional level |
Nature, Nature Archives Online, Nature Research [aka Nature Monthlies] ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 |
Massachusetts Medical Society | Complete contents; text+graphics and full-image files. |
New York Times ![]() |
NYT |
FS; Indexing; abstracting since 1994 |
Project Muse (coverage 1996+) |
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 ![]() |
APA | FS;
Abstracts of psychology literature, including neuro- and brain-sciences, since 1887; very comprehensive indexing |
PsycARTICLES |
APA | FS; 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.
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ScienceDirect ![]() |
Elsevier | Full-text of more than 700 science journals |
Wiley InterScience ![]() |
Wiley | Full-image of more than 300 journals, citations, indexing and tables of contents for more than 100 additional titles. |
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