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Science Research Guide

   

Databases 


Agricola
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.
 

Biology Digest
Abstracts articles in about 190 biology-related journals.

JSTOR

Using the acronym for “journal storage”, this collection contains complete back issues of 241 scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines. Issues from the most recent five years for each title are not included in the collection.

MEDLINE
The premier medical index covering over 9,600 journals in all areas of medicine. Some citations include abstracts.

Original Sources - Science and Mathematics

Full-text of major works in the areas of general science, physical science, life science, applied science and mathematics.

ProQuest Research Library

Contains the citations and abstracts of over 1,000 titles across disciplines. Of those 1,000 titles, 710 provide users with full-text, images and graphics online. Indexing and full-text coverage begins in the early 1990s for most titles.

  
Reference Works

Concise dictionary of physics. Isaacs, Alan. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. Ref QC5 .C56 2000

McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science & technology. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005. 
Ref Q121 .M29 2005
 
Van Nostrand’s concise encyclopedia of science / Christopher G. De Pree, Alan Axelrod, editors ; with a foreword by Glenn D. Considine. Ref Q121 .V25 2003
 
 
Subjects

Search the library catalog using the following Library of Congress subjects:
 

Bible and evolution
Bible and science
Biology
Chemistry
Life--Origin
Molecular Biology
Physical Laws

Physicists
Physics
Religion and Science
Science
Science--History
Science--Philosophy
Science and civilization
 
 
 
 
 
Internet Resources
 
A search engine for locating high quality Web resources in the physical sciences.
 
In-depth website that covers basic and advanced topics in physics and includes links to additional resources.
 
Full-text of major works in the areas of general science, physical science, life science, applied science, and mathematics.
 

Organization making scientific articles and research available for free under Open Access license.

PubMed

PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.

Directory listing of science information provided by the U.S. government.
 
Searchable directory for topics in physics.

 

Selected Journals 


American Journal of Science (Online 2001-present)

Isis (Online 1913 to 2004) 

Journal of Biology (Online 2002-present)
 
Journal of the Geological Society (Online 1996-present)
 
Journal of Geology (Online 07/2002-05/01/2006)
 
Journal of Paleontology (Online 9/1997-present)
 

Journal of Physical Studies (Online 1997-present)

Journal of the History of Biology 

Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics (Online 2002-2006)
 
New Journal of Physics (Online 1998-present)
 
Physics Today (Print September 2001-present)
 
Physics World (Online 2002-present)
 
Science (Online 1988-2005)
 
Scientific American (Print June 2001-present)

Created: August 2008 by Melanie Gladden
Updated: January 2010 by Sara Pensgard