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Research Databases for
Science and Mathematics
Choose from core research databases, encyclopedias, online science portals, and selected web pages. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.
Resources with Full-Text
Core Research Databases
Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Full-text
Access Science
Provides the full-text of the famous Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with additional content including science news and biographies.
Type: Full-text
Agricola
Contains bibliographic records back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Type: Index with Citations
Bio Digest
Provides detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students and interested nonscientists of the biological sciences.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Environment Abstracts
Provides abstracts from more than 950 journals published in the fields of environmental and sustainability science. Also includes abstracts of Environmental Impact Statements.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Geo Base
Supplies bibliographic information and abstracts for resources in ecology, geology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography.
Type: Index with Citations
GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations
Encyclopedias
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Covers key figures in science from classical to modern times.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Includes discussion of historical and contemporary environmental issues, polices and debates.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
Presents articles on areas of controversy in science and technology.
Type: Full-text
Environmental Science: In Context
The cross-curricular encyclopedia focuses on earth and environmental science, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Type: Full-text
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Includes articles about thousands of living species with photographs and habitat descriptions.
Type: Full-text
Real-Life Math
Illustrates everyday math concepts with clear examples.
Type: Full-text
Online Science Portals
arXiv.org
The Cornell University sponsored repository is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
Type: Web Page
Highwire Press Science
The Stanford University sponsored site provides access to the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world.
Type: Web Page
Science.gov
Provides a search gateway to documents hosted and produced by U.S. government agencies.
Type: Web Page
Scirus.com
The search engine offers a science-specific search on the open web.
Type: Web Page
World Wide Science
The global science gateway connects visitors to international science portals and resources.
Type: Web Page
Selected Web Pages
The Mathematical Atlas
Features an index of themes in mathematics.
Type: Web Page
National Library for the Environment
The government sponsored web site offers access to over 1500 reports on environmental issues.
Type: Web Page
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The search engine retrieves information from a network of digital libraries offering in-depth studies in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Type: Web Page
Tree of Life
The collaborative project has the goal of documenting all living and extinct organisms and using the features of the web to interlink related content.
Type: Web Page
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