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ARTICLES
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sclinksJournal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals.
All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Includes sites that provide journal abbreviations for several scientific disciplines.
Scholarly Articles
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
Thousands of citations, full text journal articles and other publications from the ACM.
Citeseer.IST (Scientific Literature Digital Library) - Full Text
Provides indexing including citation searching of the computer science literature. Links to full-text documents.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete - coverage varies - Full Text
Covers all aspects of the applied sciences, including engineering, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context.
Engineering Village 2 - 1970 to present
Extensive indexing and abstracts of 5,000+ journals, conference papers, patents, and technical reports worldwide.
Expanded Academic Index [GALE] - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Full text scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts and humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, across all academic disciplines.
General Science Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles from 160+ U.S. and British journals and magazines on anthropology, astronomy, pollution, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, health, and more.
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.
MathSciNet - 1940 to present
Reviews, abstracts, and citations for the world's mathematical literature including Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
Science Direct - Full Text
Indexes 2500 journals and 6000 books in science, technology and the social sciences from Elsevier Science.
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 with cited reference searching.
ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Tables of contents of 12,000+ journals in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Google Scholar - Help
Links to scholarly books, articles and more. Results are incomplete and vary greatly by subject. Always use resource by subject or 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.
Ingenta - 1997 to date
Free searching and browsing of over 25 million articles, chapters, reports, etc. publications in all fields.
PapersFirst - 1993 to present
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide on a wide variety of subjects .
Proceedings - 1993 to present
Lists papers from every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library.
Scitopia
Search engine for the publications of 21 science and technology societies.
xxx.lanl.gov e-Print Archive
Los Alamos National Laboratory automated archive for research papers in physics, mathematics and other fields.
Popular Articles
ArticleFirst - 1990 to present
Tables of contents of 12,000+ journals in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
Scientific American Archive Online - 1993 to present - Full Text
Authoritative articles (color PDF's) and book reviews for a general audience on aeronautics & space, biology, chemistry, the environment, medicine, and more.
BOOKS AND MEDIA
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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.
WorldCat - all dates
Extensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide.
LIBWEB
Libweb currently lists over 2400 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
Book Purchases and Reviews
Books in Print - 1979 to present
Information on all books (scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint, etc.) on all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. With out-of-print titles from 1979 to the present.
NEWS
LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text
Covers a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
Current News
EurekAlert!
Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this site provides the latest news about science and technology.
Science Watch
Tracks trends in scientific research.
BBC News: Science/Nature
Nature
New Scientist
SciCentral
ScienceDaily
REFERENCE TOOLS
Biographical Sources
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [Gale] - Full Text
Full text articles on scientists, from classical antiquity to modern times.
Encyclopedias
AccessScience - Full Text
Over 8500 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology; from McGraw-Hill.
Britannica Online - Full Text
Statistics
LexisNexis Statistical - Help
Summarizes statistical information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. and links to some full text websites.
Style Manuals
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
INTERNET META-SITES
Computer Science
Departments, associations, bliographies, pre-prints, technical reports, book reviews, calculators, dictionaries, encyclopedias, programming languages, and more compiled by University of Albany.
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - 1994 to present
"A virtual library, INFOMINE is a...collection of [22,000] annotated and indexed links" to substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings created by UC Riverside Libraries
Internet Scout Project - 1994 to present
Provides a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. Also includes access to past selections, with over 16,000 critical annotations of Internet sites and mailing lists.
Science.gov
A gateway to key Federal Government agencies that provide scientific and technical information.
Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology
WorldWideScience.org
A federated search engine of national and international scientific databases maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy.
WWW Virtual Library: Computing
Yahoo: Computer Science
INTERNET RESOURCES
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Full Text
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Full Text
Includes nearly 800 "free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
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.
NIST Data Gateway - Full Text
Provides access to over 80 scientific and technical databases that contain reference data and properties on a wide of substances.
OpenDoar (The Directory of Open Access Repositories)
Dirrectory and access to over 1,200 open access publication repositories.
SciTopics (Elsevier) - Full Text
Provides research briefs on an array of scientific and engineering topics written by experts.
NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Indexes key U.S. government report literature.
Scirus
Search engine for ScienceDirect and science resources on the Web.
ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Women in Computing
IEEE Computer Society
National Science Foundation
Scholarly Societies Project
RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
Clark Science Center
Department of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics
History of Science and Technology Program
Young Science Library
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
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