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Databases covering Science & Technology
 
Database name / Provider Description

Academic Search Premier / EBSCOhost

Coverage: ca. 1975 -- (varies with journal)
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Contains indexing for more than 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

AccessScience / AccessScience

Coverage: n/a
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Full text of the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus news, recent developments in research, scientists' biographies, and links to related Web sites.

ACS Publications / ACS Publications

Coverage: 1996 --
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

The University's "Web edition subscriber" agreement permits full text access to the content of all American Chemical Society journals EXCEPT the following titles: Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemical Innovation, Chemistry Letters, Modern Drug Discovery, Today's Chemist at Work.

AGRICOLA / FirstSearch**

Coverage: 1970 --
Full text: No
Available from off campus: No

Records from 881 journals and other materials covering every major agricultural subject.

Annual Reviews / Annual Reviews

Coverage: 1996 --
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Online access to the full text of the following Annual Reviews titles: Anthropology, Biochemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Energy & the Environment, Ecology & Systematics, Immunology, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Physiology, Phytopathology, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology. You can search the content of all 29 Annual Reviews titles. However, you can only view the full text of the titles to which Benedictine subscribes.

Basic BIOSIS / FirstSearch**

Coverage: most recent 5 years
Full text: No
Available from off campus: No

Records from core life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries, including both popular and scholarly science journals.

BioDigest / FirstSearch**

Coverage: 1989 --
Full text: No
Available from off campus: No

Detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists in biology, ecology & health.

Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations) / Proquest

Coverage: 1861 --
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

References, abstracts and full text (1997 onwards) of doctoral dissertations from accredited American and Canadian, selected British and European universities, covering all academic subjects. Masters theses are also included from accredited North American Universities.

ebrary / ebrary

Coverage: n/a
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Electronic collection of approximately 44,000 books in the Academic Complete collection which includes 16 key subject areas.

GEOBASE / FirstSearch**

Coverage: 1980 --
Full text: No
Available from off campus: No

Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports on geology, geography, and ecology.

GreenFILE / EBSCOhost

Coverage: n/a
Full text: Some
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

JSTOR / JSTOR

Coverage: varies with journal
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Collection of full text journals in the arts and sciences and literature. Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 117 titles in fifteen disciplines. The Language & Literature Collection includes 58 titles spanning the literary cultures of many different countries, and in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.

MathSciNet / AMS

Coverage: n/a
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.

PHYSICSnetBASE / Taylor & Francis Group

Coverage: varies
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

From astrophysics to quantum physics, materials science to optoelectronics, this unified library offers both fundamental theories as well as contemporary investigations of time, matter, and space. PHYSICSnetBASE includes many volumes from the world-renowned Institute of Physics Publishers.

Proceedings / FirstSearch

Coverage: 1993-10-01 …
Full text: No
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Citations and the table of contents for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Science Citation Index Expanded / Thomson Scientific

Coverage: 1996 -
Full text: No but contains links to full text
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.

ScienceDirect / Elsevier

Coverage: 1993 -- (in general; some individual titles vary)
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Full-text electronic access to 1200 titles in the Health & Life Sciences and Social & Behavioural Sciences collections.

Web of Science / Thomson Scientific

Coverage: 1991 -
Full text: No but contains links to full text
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Includes Science Citation Index Expanded: provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.

Wiley Interscience / Wiley Interscience

Coverage: n/a
Full text: Yes
Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)

Access to electronic versions of many of the journals that the library currently subscribes to in paper. All other Wiley InterScience journals are available as table of contents and article abstracts. Individual full-text titles are listed under "Find journals & newspapers at Benedictine".

 

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