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Sciences

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) -Search and find bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985, including works published by affiliated organizations.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) -is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

Analytical Abstracts (RSC) -"...is the only abstracting service designed specifically to meet analytical chemistry information needs. It provides comprehensive coverage of new techniques and applications." 1980 to present."

Applied Science & Technology Index (H.W.Wilson) -Already established processes or already manufactured items-e.g. how to make them run faster, better, cheaper or make something like them. "Covers more than 480 core English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management."

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (CSA) -"Is published in association with a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distributions literature."

Biosis Previews (OVID) -the world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) -Selected science databases including Medline, Oceanic Abstracts, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Artbibliographies Modern and DAAI.

Chemical Abstracts -Search Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar®.

General Science Index (H.W.Wilson) -"covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times." (H.W.Wilson) - "covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times."

IEEE IEL (IEEE) - Electrical and computer engineering- research and development. Search and retrieve full text of IEEE and IEE/IET publications including transactions and proceedings from more than 120 IEEE journals, 900 active IEEE standards, and the proceedings of 400 annual conferences. The majority of the content dates back to 1988; content from select publications back as far as 1950.

INSPEC (EBSCO) -INSPEC created by the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology. Containing over 7 million records, INSPEC provides coverage from over 3,500 journals, 1,500 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports.

JSTOR -is a full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes arts & sciences, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searched by keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library.

LISTA (EBSCO) -(Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

MathSciNet -Mathematical Reviews on the Web (American Mathematical Society) - "provides searching of over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications."

Medline (EBSCO) -MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

Medline, for Medline see Pubmed

Oceanic Abstracts (CSA) -"Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. It is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics."

PsycINFO (EBSCO) -PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology. Journal coverage spans 1887 to present, including international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. Also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Incorporates searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. Contains from each of the 51 journals: journal articles, letters to the editor and errata. PsycArticles

PUBMED (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM) -Provides free access to the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles in more than 4600 journals in the fields of pre-clinical sciences, healthcare, clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, allied health, among others. Now includes links to full-text articles in PubMed Central.

Safari (ProQuest) -Full-text information technology books from Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly and Associates, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Que, and Sams. The library has subscribed to a small collection of Safari books (some books will show up as previews not full-text) as a pilot project to test out this product and to better understand your requirements and uses of electronic books. Please send your comments on this service to your library liaison or the collection development librarian, Bruce Barnes, Email Bruce Barnes.

Science Reference Center (EBSCO) -a general science oriented database with full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

SciFinder Scholar® -from American Chemical Society, is the search interface to the Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE databases. It provides subject coverage that includes the chemical aspects of astronomy, biology, education, engineering, economics, geology, history, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It is available for use from specially designated workstations in the Reference area on the 2nd floor of the Library. Please ask at the Reference Desk if you cannot locate them. The SciFinder Scholar® client software may also be downloaded for use by UMass Dartmouth students, faculty and staff in campus offices and labs after registering with the Science Librarian. (On Campus Use Only)

Textile Technology Complete (EBSCO) -from the Institute of Textile Technology provides international coverage of the literature of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production, processing and related subjects including journals, books, conferences, theses, technical reports, trade literature, and other material acquired by the Institute's library. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile science research, the production, processing, automation and management systems of these operations, as well as the major resources from the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.

Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge) -Web of Science, formerly known as Science Citation Index, traces the references at the end of each paper published in a broad collection of 8000 journals in science and engineering. Use this database most efficiently to discover who has cited a paper written in the past.

Wilson Web (H.W. Wilson) -Access to the full range of Wilson databases subcribe to by the library. The list includes Applied Science and Technologies Index, Art Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Bibliographies Plus Index.