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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
ASCE's (American Society of Civil Engineers) Electronic Information Retrieval Service - 1973 to present
Indexes and abstracts over 90,000 ASCE publications.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
Contains thousands of bibliographic references and full-text journal articles and other publications published by the ACM.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - 1930s to present
International coverage of architecture, architectural sculpture, city planning, and landscape architecture. Provides regular access to 1,000 periodicals. Selective coverage back to the 1860s.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete - coverage varies - Full Text
Covers all aspectes of the applied sciences, including engineering, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context.
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.
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.
GeoRef [EBSCO]
Access to over 2.3 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present; and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to present.
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.
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.
SciFinder Scholar - 1907 to present (Available only in the Libraries) - Smith Libraries Only - Help
The most comprehensive chemical literature database in the world. Indexes journal articles, conference papers, books, technical reports, dissertations, patents and over 28 million chemical substances.
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.
Annual Reviews: Biomedical Sciences - Full Text
Selected full-text and index.
Annual Reviews: Physical Sciences
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.
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.
DOE (U. S.Dept. of Energy) Information Bridge
Report literature.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
Expanded Academic Index [GALE] - 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.
Ingenta - 1997 to date
Free searching and browsing of more than 25,000 publications in the arts and sciences
Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals - Full Text
Contains the full-text of most IOP journals.
MathSciNet - 1940 to present
Covers the world's mathematical literature including 1,799 journals. Provides Web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
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.
Virtual Technical Reports Center: E-prints, Preprints and Technical Reports on the Web
University of Maryland Libraries
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
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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.
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.
NEWS
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.
Current News
Eurekalert Alert
Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this site provides the latest news about science and technology.
BBC News: Science/Nature
ISI Essential Science Indicators: New Hot Papers
Lists the most cited science papers in the current two-month period. Interviews with the authors are also included.
Nature
New Scientist
Scicentral: Engineering
ScienceDaily
REFERENCE TOOLS
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
RefWorks Workshops - Fall 2008 - Help
Register now for a Fall 2008 workshop: Wed. 10/1 (3-4:30), Thurs. 10/2 (3-4:30), Tues. 10/21 (3-4:30), or Wed. 10/22 (7-8:30pm). Location: Neilson Library Classroom
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.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Full Text
Patents and Standards
[PATENTS] BUBL LINK Catalogue of selected Internet resources: Patents and Inventions
Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University.
[PATENTS] Delphion Intellectual Property Network
[PATENTS] European Patent Office
[PATENTS] LSU Libraries: Patents and Trademarks
[PATENTS] U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
[PATENTS] U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Web Patent Database
[PATENTS] World Intellectual Property Organization
[PATENTS] Google Patent Search
Indexes patents back to 1790.
[STANDARDS] American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
[STANDARDS] American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
[STANDARDS] American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
[STANDARDS] Department of Defense (DoD) Specifications and Standards
[STANDARDS] Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
[STANDARDS] International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
[STANDARDS] National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
[STANDARDS] NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standard
[STANDARDS] Standards & Specifications - University of Waterloo
[STANDARDS] Websites for Standards (St. Louis University and Engineering Div. of Special Libraries Assoc.)
Style Manuals
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
INTERNET META-SITES
Cornell University Library: Engineering Research Guides
Edinburgh Virtual Engineering Library: EEVL
Engineering Electronic Library
Swedish Universities of Technology Libraries.
FirstGov for Science
A gateway to key Federal Government agencies that provide scientific and technical information.
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.
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: Engineering
Yahoo: Engineering
INTERNET RESOURCES
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Full Text
Includes nearly 800 "free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
DOE Data Explorer (OSTI) - Full Text
Points to collections of scientific research data prepared by or for the U. S. Department of Energy.
E-How: Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything - Full Text
EnergyFiles - U.S. Department of Energy.
How Stuff Works - Full Text
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.
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.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
ISIHighlyCited.com
Provides biographical information and the major publications of over 250 researchers whose papers are among the most highly cited in the sciences.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Indexes key U.S. government report literature.
Scirus
Search engine for ScienceDirect and science resources on the Web.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Scholarly Societies Project
American Society for Engineering Education
Institute for Women and Technology
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering
National Science Foundation
National Society of Black Engineers
Onlineethics.org: Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Society of Women Engineers
Women in Technology
Women in Technology International (WITI)
RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
Clark Science Center
History of Science and Technology Program
Picker Enginering Program
Smith College Engineering Majors Research Skills - Spring 2007
Research and information literacy skills identified as essential for Engineering majors at Smith College.
Young Science Library
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
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Older Engineering Class Guides
Archived class guides may not be up-to-date. Please ask a Librarian for assistance if you encounter broken links.
HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN
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