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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
ACS Publications (American Chemical Society)
The ACS Journal Archives provides access to 120 years of chemical research published in more than 30 ACS journals.
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AGRICOLA
The AGRICOLA database contains citations to agricultural literature
housed in the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators
from 1970 to the present.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
ASTA covers the applied and practical aspects of the sciences. It provides coverage of nearly 750 journals and contains more than 1,300,000 records.
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BasicBIOSIS
A subset of the BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts). This database is designed specifically for use by college students.
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Biological and Agricultural Index
Biological & Agricultural Index provides comprehensive indexing of over 290 key international English-language periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences.
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Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar)
Chemical Abstracts provides millions of journal article references from nearly 9,500 major scientific journals worldwide and patents. "SciFinder Scholar" is custom search engine software needed to access the Chemical Abstracts database and is installed on select computers in De Vries Hall.
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CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)
Congressional Quarterly Researcher is a definitive reference resource for research in American government,
politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ
Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are
combined in this indispensable collection.
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E-Print Network
The E-Print Network is a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.
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Engineering Index (Compendex)
Engineering Index, also referred to as Compendex, is the most
comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world.
Compendex contains over 8 million records and references over 5,000
international engineering sources including journal, conference, and
trade publications.
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Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
Entrez is a cross-database search engine for approximately 24 life science databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information. Some of the subjects covered include: gene sequences, molecular
structure, proteins, and nucleotides.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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MEDLINE
Citations from approximately 4,800 worldwide journals with approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences and a concentration on biomedicine. The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals from 1966 to the present.
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PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
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Science Direct
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed ATM journals.
The Hekman Library subscribes to only a small number of citations found in this database. Interlibrary loan must be used to retrieve articles. Many of the features and services offered in this database are functional only for subscribers of Science Direct. The Hekman Library does not subscribe, so Calvin users access the site as guests.
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SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
Chemical Abstracts provides millions of journal article references from nearly 9,500 major scientific journals worldwide and patents. "SciFinder Scholar" is custom search engine software needed to access the Chemical Abstracts database and is installed on select computers in De Vries Hall.
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WorldCat (Public)
WorldCat (Public) is a global network of library content. This WorldCat site provides some services and functionality not offered on the other WorldCat site, but the content is identical. WorldCat is ideal for locating research sources not owned by Calvin so that the sources can be acquired through InterLibrary Loan.
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Reference Materials
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (the web site is called Access Science) is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 definitions.
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Atlas of Immunology - QR182 .C78 2003
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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology - QR81 .B46 2001
Definitive work for the study of bacteriology.
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Biotechnology - PE1435 .R4 V.72 NO.4
A small collection of "accessible" articles on the ethical, legal, and technological issues of biotechnology.
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics - QH332 .E52 2004
Covers ethical and moral dimensions of scientific and technological innovations; basic concepts of life, death, health, etc.; principles and virtues used as guides for human behavior; world-wide religious traditions; history of medical ethics; and disciplines contributing to bioethics from anthropology to the sociology of science.
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Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology - TP248.16 .M87 2000
Includes bibliographical references and an index.
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Encyclopedia of Immunology - QR180.4 .E53 1998
A four-volume work that includes bibliographies with entries. Somewhat dated.
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Encyclopedia of Life Science - QH302.5 E54 2002
Over 5,000 leading experts contribute 4,000 articles across the complete field of the life sciences.
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Encyclopedia of Microbiology - QR9 .E53 2000
A four-volume work that includes bibliographic entires.
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Encyclopedia of Virology - QR358 .E52 1999
A three-volume work that includes bibliographies with entires. Somewhat dated.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome - QH447 .E53 2003
Written by 1400 experts, this unique encyclopedia has over 1000 peer-reviewed articles covering a wide range of topics, from structural and functional genomics to ethical and social issues.
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World of Microbiology and Immunology - QR9 .W675 2003
In this two volume set, "The editors intend to provide an understanding of disease and human health, and succeed by combining microbiology and immunology to produce a coherent and understandable encyclopedia." The encyclopedia also contains many biographies of lesser-known scientists.
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Web Sources
BiologyBrowser
A portal designed "to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world."
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Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central provides access to peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central - the leading biomedical open access publisher. This site features chemistry-related articles published in Chemistry Central Journal and independent journals utilizing BioMed Central's open access publishing services.
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INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level.
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MedBio World
"...the largest medical and bioscience information resource and reference site on the Internet, which provides access to medical and bioscience journals, associations, databases and other medical resources, with more than 35,000 active links."
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Microbiology Information Portal
A collection of news articles, web resources and forums for microbiology.
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information..
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NCBI GenBank
GenBank® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
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Science.gov
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites.
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Scirus: for scientific information only
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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