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ScienceDirect

The three collections that comprise the College Edition of ScienceDirect are as follows: Health & Life Sciences – Consisting of over 1,100 titles, the HLS collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering nursing and allied health, biology, sports science, environmental science, veterinary sciences, and much more. Physical Sciences & Engineering – The PS&E collection brings together over 730 journals to deliver cutting edge information in the areas of chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, information technology, energy, and more. Social & Behavioral Sciences – Comprised of over 380 high-quality journals, the S&BS collection delivers comprehensive coverage in the fields of business administration, management, accounting, psychology, political science, education, economics, sociology, and more.

Scopus

Scopus (EBSCOhost)
Scopus Alerts (Lite) (mobile iPhone App)
Scopus Mobile (EBSCOhost)
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database which covers 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers. The majority of the publications are in science fields, however humanities and social sciences are represented. It also includes coverage of:

• Over 1200 Open Access journals
• 500 Conference Proceedings
• Over 600 Trade Publications
• 200 Book Series

Scopus contains millions of records, of which 16 million records include references going back to 1996 (75% include references), and 17 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1841. Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.

Coverage: 1841 - present, updated bimonthly

Scirus

Scirus (EBSCOhost)
Scirus Mobile (EBSCOhost)
This site searches more than 450 million science-specific Web pages. Provides users with scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web. Information includes reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents and journals.

Applied Science & Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

Applied Science Full Text Mobile
Applied Science & Technology Full Text contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.

Coverage: Indexing 1983 - present
Abstracting 1993 - present
Full text 1997 - present

GeoRef

GeoRef Mobile
Indexes bibliographic records from books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. Subjects include environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy.

E-Journals

E-Journals Mobile
Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for journals managed through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text.

Government Periodicals Index

Index to articles published by agencies of the U.S. government.

Coverage: 1988 - present

Government Periodicals Index Tutorials

Facts on File: Today's Science

Facts on File: Today's Science (EBSCOhost)
Facts on File: Today's Science Mobile (EBSCOhost)
Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier Mobile
Contains full text articles from nearly 4,600 journals, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Provided by the KYVL

General Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)

General Science Abstracts Mobile
Indexes articles on a variety of science-related information. Designed for students and non-specialists.

Coverage: 1984 - present, updated monthly

General Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) Tutorials