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 Sciences
Resource Guide
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WebsitesScience Resource Guide
Start here for help browsing, searching, and citing research materials in the
sciences. Compiled by our science librarian, Connie Ghinazzi.
Databases
ScienceDirect COLLEGE EDITION
There are two Science Direct College Edition databases. The Physical Sciences and Health and Life Sciences sets are comprised of 1500 journals with full text access beginning in 1995 through the current edition. Both databases are searched simultaneously. To see only the full text articles, change All Journals to Subscribed Journals in the Source search box.
ACS Journals
American Chemical Society journals and journal archives provide immediate access to all titles published by ACS from 1879 to the current issues. Use this database to find the highest quality articles in chemistry and related fields.
Agricola
Over 2200 sources with detailed abstracts relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, environmental pollution and animal science. Dates covered are 1970 to the present.
Applied Science & Technology
Covers over 700 English language scientific and technical publications from around the world. This database provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in scientific and technological fields. Coverage is from 1983 to the present.
BioDigest
Has detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students. BioDigest covers 1989 to the present.
BioOne
A scholarly resource primarily for bioscience fields, this is a full text, pdf database of 86 scientific society journals from 1999 to the present.
Chemical
Abstracts
Provides abstracts for more than 8000 scientific journals, primarily on chemistry but including the chemical aspects of the other natural sciences. This database is available from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the week and expanded hours on the weekend. To get log-in information, contact
Connie Ghinazzi, Natural Sciences
Librarian.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Provides access to over 2900 journals in nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health. Index includes citations for more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
This database provides full text for over 4100 peer-reviewed articles with illustrations on the current theory, practice and understanding of basic and applied aspects of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on cell and molecular biology and its relevance to medicine. It is frequently updated.
Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals.
General Science Abstracts
Designed for students and non-specialists, GenSciAbs offers indexing and abstracts for 265 of the leading science journals and magazines from the US and Great Britain. Topics covered include: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Health & Medicine, and Zoology. General Science Abstracts database contains indexing from the present back to 1984.
GEOBase
This database covers over 2,000 international journals on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines from 1980 to the present.
GeoRef
Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is the comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3000 journals. GeoRef provides coverage for North America from 1785 to the present and geology from the rest of the world from 1993 to the present.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Subject area: Sciences
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition offers searchable full text in over 550 scholarly journals focusing on the medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health. Full text articles date back to 1975.
JSTOR Journal Archive
JSTOR includes full-text, pdf format journals covering all aspects of the sciences. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today’s date are available. Here's why.
Loring Map Library
The Loring Map Library is held in two locations on the Augustana Campus, in the Thomas Tredway Library and Swenson Hall of Geosciences. The collection includes over 100,000 printed U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps at 1:100,000, 1:62,500 and 1:24,000 scales, Sanford Fire Insurance maps for the state of Illinois, relief maps, atlases, and much more. The Tredway Library portion of the collection has been moved to the north end on the first floor and is available for checkout.
MathSciNet
MathSciNet, a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles.
MEDLINE
Medline indexes over 19,000 journals published internationally and includes over 15 million records covering all aspects of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline includes citations from 1950 to the present.
Pre-CINAHL
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide the most current awareness of new journal articles, and includes articles not yet completely indexed. Once the bibliographic records are complete, the articles move to the CINAHL database.
PROLA
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) from the American Physical Society provides full text, fully searchable archive for physics. It includes Physical Review Letters from 1958-present, Physical Review Series I-III A-E from 1893-2004, Review of Modern Physics from 1929-2004, and Physical Review Special Topics. Current
subscriptions to
Physical Review A and
Review of Modern Physics can be reached by selecting title.
Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
This resource provides access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities. Users can manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery.
Scientific American Online Archive
Scientific American Archive Online contains the entire editorial content of Scientific American with all special issues from January 1993 through to the present.
Stat Ref Health
Stat Ref Health is a collection of 38 completely searchable, full text medical textbooks. These can be used as an extension of the medical reference collection we hold in print.
Websites
PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Managed by the National Library of Medicine(NLM), PubMed web page
provides MedLine database information, plus out-of-scope citations on general science and chemistry topics. Two searchable subsets of PubMed are particularly useful. PubMedCentral, or PMC, is the fulltext subset to the PubMed site. The second is the Books option, which allows you to search by keyword in current biomedical textbooks covering all major fields of medicine.
HighWire Press - http://highwire.stanford.edu/.
Stanford University maintains web versions of hundreds of peer reviewed journals. Almost 2 million free full text articles are accessible through this site. Some publishers limit free access in the most recent issues. If a message box appears denying access to full text, see if we own it at Augustana’s Periodicals. If we don’t have access to it, request the article through ILL.
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Astrophysics Data System - http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature. Please note that all abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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http://www.cdc.gov
The CDC is the place to find current, reliable information on diseases. It provides full text of the MMWR and searchable access to other CDC publications. The CDC Wonder site at http://wonder.cdc.gov provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data. Another subset is the National Center for Health Statistics for statistical reports on health related issues at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs.
CiteSeer.IST Scientific Literature Digital Library -
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu
This digital library focuses on offering free, full text scholarly articles on computer and information science literature.
Darwin Digital Library of Evolution – http://darwinlibrary.amnh.org
Sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History Library, its goal is “to make the full literature of evolution available online from the 17th century to the present."
Directory of
Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly
journals in all subjects. Over 1000 journals are searchable at article
level.
DOEInformationBridge
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http://www.osti.gov/bridge
The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics from 1995 forward.
Provides the largest and most current free clinical information for physicians and health care providers. Its evidence based content makes it an excellent resource to use in conjunction with research articles in PubMed and subscription databases.
Medline Plus - http://medlineplus.gov/
MedLine Plus provides consumer health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine, written in layperson's language. This is a terrific starting point for your research and it provides links to in-depth articles and clinical trials.
National Environmental Publications Internet
Site (NEPIS) -
http://www.epa.gov/nepis
NEPIS offers over 9000 full text, online documents of the United States Environmental Protection Agency dating back to early 1970s.
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - http://soils.usda.gov
A webpage that provides an excellent blending of academic, governmental and professional resources organized by types of users: geographers, students, planners and soil scientists.
NECI Research Index -
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs
This is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
PandemicFlu.gov – http://www.pandemicflu.gov/
One stop access point for avian and pandemic flu information with links off their research activities page to very current research articles.
The Tree of Life - http://tolweb.org/tree/
One of the early Web projects on biodiversity and phylogeny, the Tree of Life project's goal is to provide "information about the evolutionary history and characteristics of all organisms." New tools and excellent graphics have made this a wonderful resource.
United States Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov
Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment.
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