Science Resources
Databases || Books || Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries || Online Full Text Journals || Websites
| This database offers indexing for 8,175 journals, including full text for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. | |
| Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. | |
| Provides online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences, and science. | |
| Provides access to thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. The legal component of the database includes comprehensive, current legal information. This consists of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials. | |
| Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. | |
| Nature Reviews Neuroscience covers the breadth and depth of modern neuroscience by providing an authoritative, accessible, topical, and engaging first port of call for scientists who are interested in all aspect of neuroscience -- from molecules to the mind. | |
| Offers current articles in nearly every academic discipline, as well as current affairs and general interest topics. Subject areas include: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | |
| PubMed lets you search more than 16 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. It provides access to MEDLINE® and to articles in selected life sciences journals not included in MEDLINE. |
To find books, browse through the collection on the first floor of the library to find reference works. Most reference books in the sciences will be found in the Q ’s and T's, but some specialized items will be found elsewhere. The following reference books will get you started (all found on the first floor).
General:
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology Q121 .M3 2002
McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science & technology Q121 .M29 1994
McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science & technology Q121 .M29 1994
Specialized:
Facts on File dictionary of astronomy QB14 .F3 2000
Facts on File dictionary of biology QH302.5 .F322 1999
Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia (17 vols.) QL7 .G7813 2003
Facts on File dictionary of chemistry QD5 .F222 1999
Oxford dictionary of physics QC5 .C56 2000
Encyclopedia of physics QC5 .R596 2004
Facts on File dictionary of environmental science TD9 .W95 2001
Facts on File dictionary of earth science QE5 .F237 2000
Facts on File dictionary of weather and climateQC854 .F328 2001
Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes QE521 .R57 2001
Encyclopedia of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones QC944 .L66 1998
Encyclopedia of the sea GC9 .E38 2001
Facts on File dictionary of biology QH302.5 .F322 1999
Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia (17 vols.) QL7 .G7813 2003
Facts on File dictionary of chemistry QD5 .F222 1999
Oxford dictionary of physics QC5 .C56 2000
Encyclopedia of physics QC5 .R596 2004
Facts on File dictionary of environmental science TD9 .W95 2001
Facts on File dictionary of earth science QE5 .F237 2000
Facts on File dictionary of weather and climateQC854 .F328 2001
Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes QE521 .R57 2001
Encyclopedia of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones QC944 .L66 1998
Encyclopedia of the sea GC9 .E38 2001
Medicine:
The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Baillière's Midwives' Dictionary
Black's Medical Dictionary
Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
Collins Dictionary of Medicine
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
Dictionary of Medicine, Peter Collin Publishing
Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
International Dictionary of Homeopathy
Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
Mosby's Dental Dictionary
Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mosby's Emergency Dictionary
Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia
The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines
Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary
Baillière's Midwives' Dictionary
Black's Medical Dictionary
Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
Collins Dictionary of Medicine
Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
Dictionary of Medicine, Peter Collin Publishing
Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
International Dictionary of Homeopathy
Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
Mosby's Dental Dictionary
Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mosby's Emergency Dictionary
Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia
The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines
Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary
General Science:
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Astronomy Encyclopedia
Atlas of the Universe
The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
Collins Dictionary of Astronomy
Collins Dictionary of Biology
Dictionary of Astronomy, Peter Collin Publishing
Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, Wiley
Guide to Gems
Guide to Global Hazards
Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils
Guide to Seashells of the World
Guide to Stars and Planets
Guide to the Oceans
Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda
The Macquarie Dictionary of Trees & Shrubs
McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
The Penguin Dictionary of Physics
Astronomy Encyclopedia
Atlas of the Universe
The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
Collins Dictionary of Astronomy
Collins Dictionary of Biology
Dictionary of Astronomy, Peter Collin Publishing
Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, Wiley
Guide to Gems
Guide to Global Hazards
Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils
Guide to Seashells of the World
Guide to Stars and Planets
Guide to the Oceans
Illustrated Dictionary of Science, Andromeda
The Macquarie Dictionary of Trees & Shrubs
McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
The Penguin Dictionary of Physics
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Health & Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Health & Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences & Mathematics