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| ARTICLES | | |  Help Finding Articles | | | All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Includes sites that provide journal abbreviations for several scientific disciplines. | | | PubMed Journals Database
Search for journals by topic, journal title or abbreviation, ISSN, or browse by subject terms. | | |  Journal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals. | | | Scholarly Articles | | | Agricola - 1979 to present
Indexes more than 2,000 serial titles as well as books, conference proceedings, research reports, government documents, theses, patents, software, audiovisual content, and microforms pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. | | | BioDigest - 1989 to present
Abstracts written in a non-technical style from over 370 life-science sources covering: botany, medicine, health, zoology, and environmental science. | | | Biological Abstracts - 1926 to present
Indexes articles in the life sciences and biomedical fields, including biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, zoology, agriculture, etc. | | | BioOne - Full Text
Indexes and provides over 50 full-text research and high-impact journals in the fields of biology, ecology, and the environmental sciences. | | | Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index - 1990 to present
Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. | | | General Science Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles from over 160 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain. Covers general science topics including: anthropology, astronomy, pollution, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, health, and more. | | | Health Reference Center - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and related topics. | | | LexisNexis Environmental - Coverage varies by title. - Full Text - Help
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information related to environmental issues. | | | PubMed (Medline) - From 1950s to present - Help
Provides access to over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Check out Medline Tutorial. | | | Science Direct - Full Text
Indexes 1,200 science and technology journals published by Elsevier Science and contains the full-text of about 600 of these titles. Provides links to scientific, technical and medical information on the Web. | | | Web of Science - 1900 to present
Indexes and abstracts science & technical journals (1900 to present) and social science journals (2003 to present) published around the world. Provides unique cited reference searching, in addition to keyword and other search options.
| | | American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications - Full Text
Indexes all of the American Chemical Society's journals and provides links to the full-text of most of them. | | | Annual Reviews: Biomedical Sciences - Full Text
Selected full-text and index. | | | ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Lists articles from the table of contents of over 12,000 journals covering: business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. | | | Engineering Village 2 - 1970 to present
Provides extensive access to the world's engineering literature. Indexes and abstracts over 5,000 journals, conference papers, patents, and technical reports. Links to quality Web sites. | | | Expanded Academic Index - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Full text access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts and humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, across all academic disciplines. | | | Google Scholar - Help
Links to scholarly books, articles and more. Results are incomplete and vary greatly by subject. Always use other library databases for a complete search of scholarly topics.
| | | History of Science, Technology and Medicine - 1975 to present
Lists journal articles, proceedings, books, reviews & dissertations related to the development and influence of science. Combines Isis Current Bibliography, citations from the Wellcome Library, and two other major history of science bibliographies. | |  | Index Kewensis - Use Internet Explorer - Smith Libraries Only | | | Ingenta - 1997 to date
Free searching and browsing of more than 25,000 publications in the arts and sciences | | | INSPEC - 1969 to present - Smith Libraries Only
For access, contact the Science Librarian. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. | | | JSTOR - Full Text
Complete full text backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, and Music excluding the most recent 2 to 5 years. | | | PapersFirst - 1993 to present
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide including a wide variety of subjects discussed at the covered meetings. | | | Proceedings - 1993 to present
Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. | | | PubMed Central - Full Text
An archive of life science journals provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. | | | Popular Articles | | | ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Lists articles from the table of contents of over 12,000 journals covering: business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. | | | LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases. | | | Scientific American Archive Online - 1993 to present - Full Text
Authoritative articles (color PDF's) and book reviews for a general audience covering topics such as aeronautics and space, biology, chemistry, environmental science, consumer health, medicine, physics, and scientific subjects currently in the news. | |
| BOOKS AND MEDIA | | | Help Finding Books | | | Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more. | | | Library Catalogs | | | Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst. | | | NLM (National Library of Medicine) Locatorplus
Catalog of books and other materials. | | | WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records. | | | LIBWEB
Libweb currently lists over 2400 pages from libraries in over 70 countries. | | | Book Purchases and Reviews | | | Books in Print - 1979 to present
Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present. | |
| REFERENCE TOOLS | | | Biological Sciences [Oxford] - Full Text
Oxford dictionaries of biology, ecology, plant sciences, scientists, zoology, and the Oxford Companion to the Body. | | | Biographical Sources | | | Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [Gale] - Full Text
Full-text biographical articles on scientists, from classical antiquity to modern times. | | | Dissertations and Theses | | | Dissertation Abstracts Online - 1861 to present
Covers over 1,560,000 masters theses and dissertations from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Abstracts since 1980. Abstracts provided beginning in 1988.
| | | Encyclopedias | | | AccessScience - Full Text
Over 7100 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. | | | Britannica Online - Full Text
Full content including over 80,000 in-depth articles, detailed maps, multimedia, and research tools. | | | Statistics | | | LexisNexis Statistical - Help
Access to statistical information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. Includes summaries of statistical publications, and links to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and government Web sites. | | | Style Manuals | | | Citation Guides & Style Manuals | |
| INTERNET RESOURCES | | | Consumer Health Internet Resources
Consumer Health Reference Center, Massachusetts General Hospital. | | | DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Full Text
Includes nearly 800 "free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals." | | | International Plant Names Index (IPNI) - Full Text
A database of the names of all vascular plants. Compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.
| | | Library of Congress Science Tracers Bullets Online
Bibliographic guides. | | | National Academy of Sciences - Full Text
Over 2,000 full text books on Science, Engineering, and Health. | | | National Library for the Environment
National Council for Science and the Environment. | | | National Women's Health Information Center
A service of the Office on Women's Health in theDepartment of Health and Human Services. | | | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) | | | Plants Database
Provides a wide variety of information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. | | | Aluka - Trial ends June 30, 2008 - Full Text
Scholarly materials on Africa - articles, books, site reports, archival material, maps, photos, drawings, etc. Divided into three sections: African Cultural Heritage Sites & Landscapes; African Plants; Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. | | | ISIHighlyCited.com
Provides biographical information and the major publications of over 250 researchers whose papers are among the most highly cited in the sciences. | | | NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Indexes key U.S. government report literature. | | | Scirus
Search engine for ScienceDirect and science resources on the Web. | |
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