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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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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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Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic
provides full text access to nursing, allied health
and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters;
pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
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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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PsycINFO
PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association. The PsycINFO database provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Sources for the database include over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.
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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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Encyclopedia of Cancer - RC262 .E558 2002
The alphabetically arranged articles cover a wide range of subjects in the areas of molecular biology, genetics, pharmacology, radiation therapy, biology, and virology.
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Encyclopedia of Genetics - QH427 .E54 2001
A one-volume textbook covering genetics of bacteria and viruses, drosophila and other insects, mammals, humans, and plants as well as DNA-based analysis and population genetics.
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Encyclopedia of Human Biology - QP11 .E53 1997
Presents in nine volumes a broad overview of the current state of knowledge of human biology.
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Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition - QP141 .E526 1999
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is broad based and covers a variety of nutrition related topics.
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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 public health - RA423 .E53 2002
This four-volume compilation provides basic information on more than 900 programs, services, organizations, health behaviors and the prevalence, epidemiology, and costs of communicable diseases.
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Encyclopedia of Reproduction - QP251 .E635 1998
Four volumes provide an excellent reference on all aspects of reproduction and reproductive technologies.
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Encyclopedia of the Human Brain - QP376 .E53 2002
Covering anatomy, physiology, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, neuropharmacology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and behavioral science, this four-volume encyclopedia contains over 200 peer reviewed signed articles from experts around the world.
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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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Harrison's principles of internal medicine - RC46 .H333 2005
Coverage of over 4,700 diseases and disorders - more than any other internal medicine text.
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Hormones, brain, and behavior - QP356.45 .H433 2002
A comprehensive work discussing the effect of hormones on the brain and, subsequently, behavior. A five-volume major reference work.
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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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Merck Index : an Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - RS51 .M4 2001
An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals including monographs, reactions, tables, and various indexes.
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Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary - R121 .M89 2001
Over 1,500 pages of specific medical information in a full-color nursing dictionary.
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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
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts by developing and enforcing regulations, performing environmental research, sponsoring voluntary partnerships and programs, furthering environmental education, and publishing information.
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Extension Toxicology Network (ExToxNet)
Information on this website has been developed by toxicologists and chemists within the Extension Service of the land-grant universities listed below. A major goal has been to develop unbiased information in a form understandable by the non-expert, and to make that information fully searchable and selectively retrievable.
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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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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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