Selected Databases for Research in Science
The libraries’ Databases by Title page provides access to all databases available at the College of Wooster. The following databases may prove especially useful when searching for information in science.
Database |
Description |
Search
System Date |
| Academic Search Complete | Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily. | EBSCOhost Early 1970s- Updated daily |
| ACM Digital Library | Provides indexing, abstracts, reviews and full text for articles published in Association of Computing Machinery journals, magazines and conference proceedings. | ACM 1985- |
| AGRICOLA | Indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Includes records for scholarly periodical articles, books, serials, patents, technical reports, audiovisual and other materials. | EBSCOhost 1970- |
| Alt HealthWatch | Covers complimentary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness by providing access to full text articles from more than 180 peer-reviewed and professional journals and magazines, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. | EBSCOhost 1990s- |
| ArticleFirst | Index of articles from the contents pages of journals covering nearly 12,500 journals in all academic disciplines and popular culture. | FirstSearch 1990- Updated daily |
| BIOSIS Previews | Provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts to biological and medical literature focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Includes references from journals, international meetings, reviews and books. | OSearch 1980- Updated monthly |
| CINAHL Plus | This database provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. It also indexes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. The database provides access to full text of 337 journals, as well as legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. | EBSCOhost 1937- |
| Compendex Historical Compendex |
Contains abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Includes journal articles, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials. Indexes more than 2,600 published journals. Historical Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database that provides references to the historical literature in the field. See also: Engineering Village | OSearch 1969- (Compendex) Updated monthly 1884-1968 (Historical Compendex) |
| Computers and Applied Sciences Complete | This database provides indexing for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications and other reference sources in subject areas related to the many engineering disciplines, computer theory and systems, new technologies, and the business and social implications of those technologies. Full text is available for more than 500 periodicals. | EBSCOhost Coverage varies |
| Engineering Village |
EI Engineering Village is a cross database searching service offering a wide range of resources covering applied science and engineering. Databases include:
Compendex, which contains references and abstracts from some 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports covering all engineering disciplines. Online coverage is from 1884 to date; EI Patents, including millions of patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office; GeoBase, which is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation; NTIS, the National Technical Information Service database, which contains bibliographic records and abstracts for unclassified reports from U.S. and international government agencies such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Materials cited date from 1899 to the present; and, Referex Engineering, which is comprised of six collections of full-text searchable engineering reference e-books. |
Engineering Information Coverage Varies |
| Environment Complete | This database provides indexing for journals in the fields of environmental science, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline. It also provides full text for selected monographs and for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education. | EBSCOhost Coverage varies |
| Faculty of 1000 Biology |
This online research service highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of more than 2300 selected leading researchers. Launched in January 2002, The service offers an immediate evaluation of individual papers by the authors peers, making it a useful current awareness tool. | BioMed Central |
| Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index | This database provides indexing and abstracts to articles about horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management and horticultural therapy. It indexes more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. | EBSCOhost Coverage varies |
| GeoRef | Provides indexing and abstracts to references from the American Geological Institute’s geoscience database, including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses, as well as items from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies. Covers the worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics. | OSearch 1785- Updated monthly |
| GPO Monthly Catalog | Most complete index to federal government publications from the legislative, judicial and executive branches. Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). | FirstSearch 1976- Updated monthly |
| GreenFILE | GreenFILE provides indexing, abstracts and full text for information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling. The multidisciplinary database draws connections between the environment and such disciplines as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. Source documents include scholarly, government and general-interest titles. | EBSCOhost |
| Health
Source: Consumer Edition |
This database is a collection of consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. |
EBSCOhost 1984- Updated daily |
| Health
Source: Nursing/Acdemic Edition |
This database provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975. | EBSCOhost 1984- Updated daily |
| INSPEC INSPEC Archive |
Covers the literature of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Computing and Control, and Information Technology, and Manufacturing and Production Engineering. Related areas covered by INSPEC include oceanography, geophysics, biomedical engineering, and biophysics. Indexes more than 4000 journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations. The archive indexes the older, backfiles of scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. | OSearch 1969- Updated weekly 1898-1968 (Archive) |
| LexisNexis Government Periodicals | Indexes of articles from more than 180 periodicals published by agencies of the U.S. Government. | LexisNexis 1988- Updated quarterly |
| MathSciNet | MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing more than 60 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Mathematical Reviews provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. | AMS 1940- Updated monthly |
| MEDLINE |
MEDLINE contains bibliographic
citations and author abstracts from more than 4,500 biomedical
journals covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the
preclinical sciences. Articles are indexed using MeSH
subject headings. See also: PubMed |
EBSCOhost 1950- |
| NCBI Databases | The databases produced or maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information use the web-based Entrez search and retrieval software to provide access to nucleotide and protein sequence data, 3D protein structures, and genomic mapping information, as well as to bibliographic citations to the primary biomedical literature and full text of many articles. See the NCBI Entrez Databases material below for descriptions of these databases. | Entrez |
| PapersFirst | Indexes papers presented at conferences worldwide and received at the British Library Document Supply Centre. | FirstSearch 1993- Updated semimonthly |
| ProceedingsFirst | Provides citations to conferences, congresses, symposiums, expositions, meetings, and workshops held throughout the world and received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Each record lists all papers presented at the conference. | FirstSearch 1993- Updated semiweekly |
| ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Abstracts included for doctoral dissertations from 1980 to the present and master’s degree theses from 1988 to the present. Masters theses and British and Canadian dissertations indexed selectively. | ProQuest 1861- |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | This multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of science provides basic subject and author searching as well as cited reference searching. This feature is useful because it allows you to search the database for articles that cite a known author or work. SCI, one of the databases in ISI’s Web of Science, indexes more than 5700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines from 1980 to the present. | ISI 1980- |
| SciFinder | A user-friendly Internet-based search system which provides access to chemical and biomedical information indexed in CAS databases and in MEDLINE. The new Web version of SciFinder requires each individual user to register. See Introduction to the Web Version of SciFinder for more information. | Chemical Abstracts Service 1907- Updated continuously |
NCBI Entrez DatabasesThe databases produced or maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information use the web-based Entrez search and retrieval software to provide access to nucleotide and protein sequence data, 3D protein structures, and genomic mapping information, as well as to bibliographic citations to the primary biomedical literature and full text of many articles. Some of the databases include:
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