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Subject Specific Databases

• GEOBASE (FS)
  Worldwide literature on geography and geology.
• GeoRef (Ebsco)
  Indexes and abstracts materials in geoscience.
• JSTOR
  Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
  Abstracts and selected full text articles in scientific, technical and medical fields. Science Direct help.
  
• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias: Oxford Reference Earth and Environmental Sciences Collection; Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia; Philip's Atlas of the Universe; Collins Dictionary of Astronomy; Dictionary of Astronomy; Guide to Gems; Guide to Global Hazards; Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils; Guide to Stars and Planets; The New Penguin Dictionary of Science; McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology; Philip's Guide to the Oceans.

Subject Related Databases

• AGRICOLA (FS)
  Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
• ASTA: Applied Science & Technology Index (FS)
  Indexes engineering, computer science, math, physics, and related literature.
• ERIC (Ebsco) with selected full-text
  ERIC on Ebsco provides online access to some full-text articles and ERIC Documents (EDs).
• Inspec (Ebsco)
  Abstracts and indexing for scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, information technology, production, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, from 1969 to the present.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (iCONN), Congressional Universe, and Statistical Universe
  Full text court cases, bills, statutes, regulations; articles from law, business, and medical journals; articles from major newspapers and general interest magazines; transcripts and other materials.
• Oxford Reference Physical Sciences
• Oxford Reference Science
• Web of Science (ISI)
  Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
• Xrefer Plus Science

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
  Indexes/abstracts articles in 3000+ scholarly journals in social sciences and humanitites, and general interest magazines and newspapers. Many articles available in full text.
• Article 1st (FS)
  Index of articles from c.12,500 journals.
• CQ Researcher
  Full text of the weekly CQ Researcher, covering multiple viewpoints on current controversial social issues.
• Digital Dissertations
  Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Full text of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/iCONN)
  Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
• InfoTrac OneFile (Gale/iCONN)
  For college students. Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.
• Papers First (FS)
  Indexes papers presented at conferences.
• Proceedings (FS)
  Index of conference publications.
• Wilson Select Plus (FS)
  Full text articles in a variety of humanities and social sciences
• WorldCat (FS)
  Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Subject Guides

• Astronomy
• Earth Sciences
• Maps and Cartography