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Applied Science Full Text
Indexes international and English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Reference area print index. [Wilson Web]
Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. [from FirstSearch]
Computing
Coverage: 1986-present. ProQuest Computing features a selection of computing journals in the Science, Business, and Finance subject areas. Coverage includes product reviews and articles. [Proquest]
General Science Index
Coverage: 1978-present. Updated monthly. Indexes journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and other fields. Reference area print index.
General Science Index Online
Indexes journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and other fields. [from WilsonWeb]
GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. 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. [from EBSCO]
JSTOR
Journal archives across the curriculum. The individual titles can be found in NKUIRE.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
"LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s." [EBSCO]
Safari Books Online
A collection of e-reference books on information technology topics.
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Scientific American
The archive currently contains the entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 through the present. The issues are presented in PDF format, which maintains the integrity of the printed page with all the graphics.
Scirus.com
Search engine for scientific information from Elsevier.
Toxnet
"A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas."
Wilson Select Plus
Articles in science, humanities, education, and business. [from FirstSearch]
WilsonWeb
Access to Art Index, Biography Reference Bank, Book Review Digest Plus, General Science Index, Humanities Index, and Library Literature.

Chemistry:

Chemical Abstracts
Coverage: 1908-1994. Reference area print index.
National Library of Medicine
Coverage: Access to various medical databases provided by the National Library of Medicine. PubMed is the free version of MEDLINE.

Life Sciences:

Agricola (EBSCOhost)
This bibliographic database provides more than 2.5 million citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for this database dates back to 1979. AGRICOLA offers a variety of source types related to agriculture. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
An alternate version is also available: Agricola (at USDA).
BasicBIOSIS
A subset by journal title and year of BIOSIS Previews, designed specifically for undergraduate students taking introductory biology courses. A five-year rolling file, the database provides information on recent developments in virtually every life science discipline. Includes basic life science journals found in college and university libraries, and new indexing information that facilitates searching and accurate record retrieval. [from FirstSearch]
Biology Digest
Coverage: 1989-present. Updated 9 times per year. Index covering the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students. [from FirstSearch]
BIOSIS
Coverage: 1989-present. Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) provides the most comprehensive coverage of worldwide journal literature in the life sciences. [Silverplatter]
EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. [from EBSCO & KYVL]

Medical:

Academic Search [Lexis-Nexis]
Coverage: Most recent 20 years. Full-text articles from major newspapers, international news sources, broadcast news transcripts, popular and news magazines, and major trade journals. Strong coverage of current events and business news. The "Company Financial" section includes annual reports back to 1984, current company information from the Disclosure database, Hoover's Company Reports, EDGAR filings, stock reports, and more. Also provides access to Medline, health news, accounting and tax sources, and legal resources. [from Lexis-Nexis]
Cancerlit
"A bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s to the present and is updated with approximately 10,000 records every month."
CINAHL with Full-Text
The authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 700,000 records. [from EBSCO & KYVL] Need help getting started with CINAHL?
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition, and professional health care publications. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
Hospital and Health Administration Index
Coverage: 1978-present. Updated 3 times per year. Index to journal articles on hospital and health care administration. Reference area print index.
MEDLINE in EBSCO
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Also: MEDLINE in FirstSearch
MEDLINE Plus
From the National Library of Medicine. Provides information on health and diseases. Contains a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, among other resources.
National Library of Medicine
Coverage: Access to various medical databases provided by the National Library of Medicine. PubMed is the free version of MEDLINE.
PsychArticles
Contains full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists. In 2006, the historical backfiles of the journals were added to the database.
Also: PsychArticles Advanced Searching Interface
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides coverage of nearly 500 full-text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
PsycInfo
Contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. [from EBSCO & KYVL]
PubMed
"PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Physical Sciences:

GEOBASE
Coverage: Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in journals on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more. [from FirstSearch]
GeoRef
Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. [from EBSCO]

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