SCIENCE DATABASES
Type of access:    Free to the public        Faculty, staff, and students only


Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

Agricola - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1970-present | Updates: daily | Provider: National Agriculture Library] 
This database contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

ChemIDplus Advanced - [Contents: Contents: full-text entries | Coverage: Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine]
This database allows users to search the National Library of Medicine ChemIDplus database of over 370,000 chemicals.

Credo Reference - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Credo Reference]
This databases consists of over 350 reference e-books covering a range of subjects. There are also over 200,000 images and audio files.

 

Directory of Open Access Journals - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Lund University Libraries]

This service covers over 3400 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Approximately 1186 are searchable at article level.


Google Scholar - [Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

Ingenta - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1988 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Ingenta] 
This database contains over 11 million citations, abstracts, and links to electronic journal articles from more than 20,000 periodicals in all subject disciplines. This database also contains a current awareness service that delivers search alerts and topics of selected journals.

ISI Web of Knowledge[Contents:index, citations, some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - Present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This research platform searches Social Science Citation Index and Medline database simultaneously.

JSTOR - [Contents: full-text & citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: JSTOR] 
This database contains an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly academic publications that includes journals, manuscripts, and pamphlets. Users have access to the Arts and Sciences I and III Collection, along with the Life Sciences Collection. Topics range from statistics, economics, sociology, and political science, to language and literature, and biological, health, and general science journals.
Note: The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available.

Material Safety Data Sheet - [Contents: full text | Coverage: present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Department of Environmental Health and Safety] 
Most current edition. A MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) is designed to provide both workers and emergency personnel with the proper procedures for handling or working with a particular substance.

Medline - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1965 - present | Updates: monthly | Provider: EBSCO] 
Same content as Medline/PubMed but different provider & search interface.

Medline (ISI Web of Knowledge) - [Contents: citations & some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
Medline is a full-text database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.

Medline/PubMed - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1965 - present | Updates: monthly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
International in scope, this National Library of Medicine database indexes over 3,500 journals covering all areas of medicine.

NetLibrary - [Contents: Over 20,000 online books | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: netLibrary] 
Most academic subjects covered. The collection can be accessed either through the Sueltenfuss library catalog (WebCat) or directly at the netLibrary web site.

 
PrimateLit - [Contents: Citations | Coverage: 1940-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries] 
A bibliographic database of over 200,000 citations to the nonhuman primate literature. Covers all literature that significantly mentions nonhuman primates.

PubChem - [Contents: Citations | Coverage: 1940-present | Updates: monthly |
Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This resource provides information on the biological activity of chemical compounds. It is organized into three databases; PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay.

Science & Technology Collection - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebsco]

The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.


Science Direct - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebsco] 
ScienceDirect is a  leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2500 peer-reviewed journal and more than 11,000 books.  There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters, a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5 million additional per year. 

 


Social Science Citation Index - [Contents: index & citations | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This multidisciplinary database indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social science disciplines. Some of the areas covered include psychology and psychiatry, sociology, social work and public health, law, history, philosophy and polital science.

TOXNet - [Contents: Citations | Coverage: 1965-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes access to TOXLINE, a collection of online bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other
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