Science Databases
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
CiteSeer IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library
A digital library designed "to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency and timing". This database includes algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries, and indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.
· Update frequency: daily
· Type: citation index / full-text
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
Highwire Press
Highwire Library of Science and Medicine offers thousands of free full-text articles.
Making of America, Cornell University
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University of Michigan
Drawing on the depth of primary materials at the University of Michigan and Cornell University libraries, these two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
· Coverage: 1840 - 1900 (Cornell)
· Coverage: 1850 - 1877 (U of Michigan)
· Type: full text