Databases by Subject - Science & Technology

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
AccessScience	Search McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online.	Current	Y
ArticleFirst	Citations from 15,000+ journals on all topics. Titles Indexed \| Search Tips	1990-	N
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography	Articles on the professional lives of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and inventors from classical antiquity to modern times.	2007	Y
ENGnetBASE	745+ Engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Search Help	Current	Y
General Reference Center Gold	InfoTrac database for full text magazines, reference books, and newspapers on a variety of topics. Titles Included	1980-	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Journal Citation Reports	JCR within ISI Web of Knowledge helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. ThomsonReuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends.	Current	N
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
Knovel	Collection of 1600+ science and engineering handbooks, including the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine. Titles Included \| Help Center	Current	Y
Science Citation Index Expanded	Covers the journal literature of the sciences, including citation information for authors' works. Titles Included \| Tutorial	1990-	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
Science Online	From Biology to Weather, information and news on all science topics. We also have access to Facts on File Science Online Titles Included	1992-	Y
Scitation	Search abstracts of several journals from American Physical Society (APS), and science and engineering societies. Search Tips	1957-	Y
SpringerLink	Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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