Subject Guide for the Sciences

 

General and Interdisciplinary
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental Studies
Mathematics and Computer Science
Physics

 

General and Interdisciplinary

Subscription Databases/Services

Academic Search Complete A multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering indexing, abstracting and some full-text. Also includes image collections of people, places, historical photos, and more.

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewedjournals only.

WorldCat provides records of books and other materials (films, manuscripts, recordings, etc.) available at thousands of OCLC-member libraries. New records added daily.

Internet Sites

Scirus is a science-specific search engine from Elsevier. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages.

HighWire Press - Stanford, HighWire Press provides an extensive archive of free full-text science articles from scholarly journals.

AGRICOLA - Web Access, 1970 - present. (National Agriculture Library)  Updated daily. 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, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.

FindArticles.com contains an archive of full-text articles from over 300 magazines and journals dating back to 1998. Topics include business, health, society, computers and technology, and more. Full-text articles can be read, printed, and/or emailed at no cost. To determine if a particular journal is indexed, click on "by Name A--Z" after "View Publications" and look in the alphabetical listing.

Know Play provides links to a variety of different types of information.

Measure 4 Measure is "a collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc;" - sites that perform calculations. It is divided into categories.

National Science Digital Library The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Our team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.

SciDev.Net: Science and Development Network website for the Science and Development Network, a nonprofit organization for providing science and technology information to developing countries. Browse through news items, opinion pieces, editorials, and features. Dossiers, policy-oriented guides, are provided on a variety of topics. Dossiers contain policy briefs, articles, opinions and topical features. Use a search box to locate information by date, section or keyword.

Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results.