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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 - Help
Indexes and abstracts over 5,300 science and technical journals published around the world. Provides unique cited reference searching in addition to keyword and other search options.
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.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
Contains thousands of bibliographic references and full-text journal articles and other publications published by the ACM.
Global Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
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
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.
Mathematics Journals
List compiled by the American Mathematics Society
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.
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
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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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
ScienceDaily
REFERENCE TOOLS
Physical Sciences & Mathematics [Oxford] - Full Text
Oxford dictionaries of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, scientists, statistics, weights, measures, & units.
Biographical Sources
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography [Gale] - Full Text
Full-text biographical articles on scientists, from classical antiquity to modern times.
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
Style Manuals & Citation Guides - Help
INTERNET META-SITES
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.
Math on the Web
American Mathematical Society
Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology
WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics
WWW Virtual Library: Statistics
Yahoo: Mathematics
INTERNET RESOURCES
Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs - Full Text
Access to over 500 monographs that are out-of-copyright.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Full Text
Includes nearly 800 "free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics
Mathematics Web Sites Around the World
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.
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.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
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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HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN
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