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- Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches.
1980s-present (dates may vary).
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Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.
- Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
- Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
- Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals
While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.
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- AGRICOLA (via EBSCO)
Indexes articles in agriculture, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
1970-current.
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Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA consists of over 3 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to all aspects of agriculture.
Subjects include:
- Agriculture
- Agronomy
- Animal Science
- Aquaculture
- Biology
- Botany
- Breeding
- Crop Management
- Dairy Science
- Ecology
- Environment
- Fertilizers
- Food & Agriculture
- Forestry
- Horticulture
- Natural Resources
- Nutrition
- Pesticides
- Plant Genetics
- Soils
- Veterinary Science
- Water
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- Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
Scholarly articles in the science, technology and management of marine and freshwater environments.
1971-current.
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ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and two international partners.
Major areas of coverage include:
- Aquaculture
- Aquatic Organisms
- Aquatic Pollution
- Brackish Water Environments
- Conservation
- Environmental Quality
- Fisheries
- Freshwater Environments
- Limnology
- Marine Biotechnology
- Marine Environments
- Meteorology
- Oceanography
- Policy And Legislation
- Wildlife Management
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- BIOSIS Previews
Scholarly articles in biology. Essential source for research in biology.
1969-current.
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Excellent search for biology-related research.
The premier database of world biology literature, and a primary source for any biology-related research, BIOSIS Previews contains the references to journal literature from Biological Abstracts, the references to meetings, reports, review articles, books and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM, as well as some unique references.
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- CAB Direct
Covers agriculture. Includes animal, dairy & veterinary sciences; entomology; plant sciences; forestry; aquaculture & fisheries; farming; agricultural economics; food & human nutrition; earth & environmental sciences.
1973-current.
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Coverage is international, including literature from over 125 countries. Indexes over 9,000 journals and 2,500 books are every year. Updated weekly.
Subject coverage:
- Plant Science (including horticulture)
- Animal Science (including nutrition & zoology)
- Pathogen, pest, parasite and weed management
- Human health and hygiene (including human nutrition)
- Natural resources and ecology
- Forestry, forest products and agroforestry
- Soil Science
- Rural Development, Tourism and Economics
- Food science and food products
- Biotechnology
- Agricultural Engineering
- Veterinary Medicine
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- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Covers all areas of biology with many references and illustrations, and over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles. Also covers anatomy, genetics, and neuroscience.
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a research-level encyclopedia covering all areas of biology with many references and illustrations, and over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles. Articles are organized in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity.
Subject coverage:
- Biochemistry
- Cell biology
- Clinical Medicine
- Developmental biology
- Ecology
- Evolution and diversity of life
- Functional and comparative morphology
- Genetics and molecular biology
- Immunology
- Microbiology and virology
- Neuroscience
- Plant science
- Science and Society
- Structural biology
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- Environment Abstracts
Topics include air, water, and noise pollution; solid and toxic wastes; energy and natural resources management and conservation; radiological contamination; population growth and control; and geophysical and climatic changes.
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- GEOBASE
Indexes geography, geology, and ecology. Also covers cartography; climatology; energy; environment; geochemistry; geomorphology; geophysics; GIS; hydrology; meteorology; paleontology; sedimentology; volcanology.
1980-present.
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Indexes journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. From FirstSearch. Subjects include:
- cartography
- climatology
- energy
- environment
- geochemistry
- geomorphology
- geophysics
- geographic information systems (GIS)
- hydrology
- meteorology
- paleontology
- petrology
- photogrammetry
- sedimentology
- volcanology
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- PubMed
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO.
1950s-current.
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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly.
PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
- The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
- SciFinder Scholar
Search Chemical Abstracts and the CAS Registry File of over 19 million chemical substances. The CAS RegistrySM in SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar has been enhanced with additional experimental properties from 1920 - 1987 CA records.
1967-current.
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Properties in SciFinder include:
- Experimental Property
- Boiling Point
- Density
- Electric Conductance/Resistance
- Glass Transition Temperature
- Magnetic Moment
- Median Lethal Dose
- Melting Point/Sublimation
- Optical Rotatory Power
- Refractive Index
- Tensile Strength
Download the SciFinder Scholar 2006 client to your Windows PC or Macintosh. If you are updating from a previous version (1.0, 3.0, 2000, 2001, or 2002--note there is no 2003 version) you should install the 2004 upgrade in the same directory on your computer (default is C:\sfschlr for Windows). This will retain your settings and site preferences file. If you are installing Sci Finder Scholar for the first time with version 2004, you will need to download the site.prf file and copy it to your C:\sfschlr after installing the application.
You may also access the SciFinder Scholar client in the Homer Babbidge Library; it is loaded on all SuperHOMER workstations.
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- Scopus
Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching.
1966-present.
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Because UConn holds a license to
Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.
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- Web of Science
Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching.
1994- present.
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Science Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Agriculture
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
- Patents, when a patent is part of the record
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physics
- Plant Sciences
- Psychiatry
- Veterinary Science & Zoology
Social Sciences Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Anthropology
- History
- Information Science & Library Science
- Law
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science & Industrial Relations
- Psychiatry & Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work & Sociology
- Substance Abuse
- Urban Studies
- Women's Studies
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Art & Architecture
- Archaeology
- Asian Studies
- Classics
- Dance
- Folklore
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Literature & Literary Reviews
- Music
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Radio, Television, & Film
- Religion
- Theater
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- Zoological Record
Scholarly articles on zoology, including the ecology, taxonomy and biology of living and fossil animals. Source is authoritative and covers the world literature. Also includes indexing for books, reports, meetings and journals.
1945 – current.
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