Databases

Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, and Interdisciplinary Databases:

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts general science and engineering periodicals in covering various aspects of engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. 1984-present.


Astrophysics Data System
Indexes and abstracts journals in astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, instrumentation, and physics.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
The 2000 version of the database has physical property data on many chemical compounds, physics forumlae, and integral tables.
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CrossFire
Online version of Beilstein and Gmelin which include reaction paths and physical property data for organic, inorganic, organometallic compounds. 1771-present.
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Dissertation Abstracts
The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. 1861-present.


General Science Abstracts
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, and health. 1984-present.


INSPEC (Physics Abstracts)
Coverage includes physics, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. 1969-present.


Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provides easy access to data (impact factors, most cited journals, etc.) that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals.


Organic Syntheses
presents detailed experimental methods for synthesis of organic compounds.1921-present


PapersFirst
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.


Preprints:
CERN
Monthly listings from 1994 onwards of preprints from CERN, preprints received and scanned at CERN, and some of Los Alamos eprint archives.
Los Alamos National Labs
Started in Aug 1991, xxx.lanl.gov is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
SLAC
Search more than 400,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries since 1974.

ProceedingsFirst
Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.


SciFinder Scholar
Chemical Abstracts back to 1907.


U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Search more than 2 million U.S. patent applications or grants since 1976, including bibliographic texts, abstracts, and all claims. Search by patent number or classification for patents issued 1790 to 1975.


Web of Science
Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary subject and author searching AND cited reference searching. 1975-present.


Other Science Databases:

Biological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts current research in agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. 1985-present.

Compendex (Engineering Index)
Ei covers literature that makes a definite contribution to knowledge in the subject areas of applied physics, chemical and process engineering, civil engineering, computers and data processing, electronics communication, and mechanical engineering. 1970-present.


GeoRef (info)
GeoRef is the CD-ROM version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933.

MathSciNet
MathSciNet covers Mathematical Reviews and provides the full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present.


Medline
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Journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. 1965-present.