Science Information
BOOK SHELF LOCATIONS
- 500 - 599
CATALOG SEARCH TERMS
ONLINE DATABASES
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
- Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
- Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, BIOGRAPHIES, experiments, activities, and definitions.
WEBSITES
Biology and Ecology
Agricola- From the National Agriculture Library (NAL), accesses one of the largest collections of agricultural information in the world.
The Agricultural Network Information Center (AgNIC)- Comes from an organization of more than 60 partners including many prominent agricultural schools.
BioOne- An extremely powerful e-journal package and database for the biological sciences.
Entrez Crossdatabase Search- This federated engine searches 32 databases in the life sciences, most of which come from the NLM.
FishBase- Detailed scientific information about fish.
NatureServe- Information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
PLANTS Database- Detailed scientific information about plants.
PubMed- The NLM's search interface for it's own database of medical information, which is the most comprehensive medical database in the world.
Treesearch- A search engine for publications produced by the U.S. Forest Service.
Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences
The American Chemical Society Publications- A powerful and clean searchinterface for the society's journals.
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) Directory of Pre-print & E-print Servers- A comprehensive collection of international mathematical pre-print and e-print servers.
ArXiv.org- An open access site for over 500 thousand e-prints in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library- Offers access to every article it has ever published.
CiteSeerx- A search engine & digital library for computer and information science literature, data, algorithms, and software.
IEEE Portal- A portal for engineering literature and information on technology.
Scitation- Coverage is primarily in physics, chemistry, and technological sciences, with some overlap for the biological sciences.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO/NASA) Astrophysics Data System- A digital library portal for research.
SPIRES High Energy Physics Literature Database- Integrates various sources and serves as a gateway to all information in the field of high-energy physics.
Zentralblatt MATH- The ZMATH Database comtains around 2.7 million entries in pure and applied mathematics.
Energy, Environment, Geosciences, and Natural Resources
Energy Citations Database- This database provides free access to more than 2 million science research citations and more than 200 thousand electronic documents.
GeoScienceWorld- A collaboration of 6 prominent earth science societies and institutes.
ToxNet- A federated search engine provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for coverage of toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
USGS Publications Warehouse- A great resource for geology and related fields.
Wilderness.net- A cooperative project that offers a specialized and comprehensive array of resources in the area of wilderness studies.
Multidisciplinary Indexes
Annual Reviews- Annual Reviews is a nonprofit scientific publisher that provides indexing to about 45 journal titles.
Cambridge Journals Online- Produced by Cambridge University Press, provides indexing to more than 200 journal titles.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)- Hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries, provides access to more than 4,000 journals.
Highwire Press- Claims to be the largest archive of free full-text science articles.
IngentaConnect- A large index primarily of journal articles from more than 30,000 publications.
OAIster- A union catalog of digital resources with more than 20 million records.
Oxford Journals- Produced by Oxford University Press, provides indexing to more than 200 journal titles.
ScienceDirect- Produced by Elsevier, the largest publisher of science, technology, and medical information.
SpringerLink- Provides indexing to more than 2,000 journals and 30,000 books.
Wiley Interscience- Content is interdisciplinary across the sciences.
WorldCat- A global catalog of library holdings with more than 135 million bibliographic records.
Science Search Engines
Science.gov- A gateway to government science information and research results.