LIS 612 - Sci-Tech Resources - The University Libraries

LIS 612 - Science & Technology Information Sources

Provides citations, author abstracts, and cited references (footnotes to a scholarly article) to more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals.
Dates of coverage, 1985 to present.
Corresponds to the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Includes the capability to perform a cited reference search, which allows you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article. Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more.
Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Education journals by using the Journal Citations Reports for the Science journals (most recent data on diskette at the Reserves Desk, Jackson Library).

Provides the full text of approximately 300 publications of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Covers journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, and publications by affiliated organizations and special interest groups (SIGs).
Provides customization and tables of contents services.
Also includes the Online Computing Reviews Service (critical reviews of the computing literature).

Provides citations on all aspects of agriculture, including agricultural economics, geography, agricultural engineering, home economics, animal science, human nutrition, chemistry, life sciences, energy, natural resources, entomology, plant diseases, cooperative extension, insect pests and their control, food science, rural sociology, forestry, and veterinary medicine.
Includes over 3.5 million citations from 881 sources. Citations refer to journal literature, government reports, patents, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, and dissertations acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.

Provides citations to published research, a dictionary, and data on clinical trials.
AIDSearch is a combination of three databases (MEDLINE AIDS/HIV, AIDSDRUGS, and AIDSTRIALS) providing information about Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics.
All three databases are from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
MEDLINE AIDS/HIV is a subset of Medline providing citations from journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues related to AIDS.
AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in AIDSTRIALS.
AIDSTRIALS includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases.

Provides citations and abstracts for over 4,000 biology and life science journals published worldwide.
Covers anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, botany, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, human biology, microbiology, physiology, reproduction and sex, and zoology.
List of journals covered
For coverage from 1926 to 1968, use the print version of Biological Abstracts at QH301 .B37.

Provides the full text of over 60 journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Indexes about 1,200 nursing and allied health journals; full text links are provided for many journals.
Covers all aspects of nursing and nursing education, allied health, biomedical, consumer health, and patient education.
Books and book chapters, dissertations, standards of practice, and reviews of educational software packages are also indexed.

An integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions.
Offers links to web sites for conferences, seminars, books and journal articles from around the world. Also includes data sets, teaching activities, teaching resources and current issues discussions.
Provides a wide range of resources, many in full-text, in earth science, astronomy and biology.
Although it primarily serves undergraduates, Earthscape is also an online reference for graduate students and professionals

Provides the full text of over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles in the biological sciences.
Includes illustrations, tables, figures, references, and source of further reading.
From the publishers of Nature.

Provides citations and abstracts for journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports on geography, geology, and ecology.
Core areas include cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, photogrammetry, and volcanism.

Indexing and abstracting for over 1,000 Nursing, Allied Health, and Nutrition periodicals.
Full text available for 540 scholarly journals

Contains more than 1.7 million citations (with abstracts since July 1979) to books, journals and conference proceedings.
Covers math, statistics, and computer science, and their applications in mechanics, physics, engineering, operations research, systems theory and control, quality control, and other areas.
Indexes over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present). Current Mathematical Publications is a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications. Most items are later reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. All items in Mathematical Reviews appear first in Current Mathematical Publications.
Links to some full text sources are provided; however, the library must subscribe to a particular ejournal in order to view the full text.
Guide to the journal abbreviations used in MathSciNet

The MEDLINE databases index articles from leading medical and life sciences journals.
Subject coverage includes biology, microbiology, environmental health, nutrition, public health, anatomy, physiology, genetics, sports medicine, and hospital administration plus much more.
Citations in these databases are compiled by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library.

Provides access to full text of over 1,500 scholarly journals from Elsevier.
While the primary focus is the natural sciences and medicine, scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences are also included.
Users can search one, all, or a combination of subjects.

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