Sciences Selected for a Virtual Library

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

General and Interdisciplinary

Subscription Databases/Services

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

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.

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

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