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- Compendex and INSPEC
Search Inspec & Compendex together. Indexes scholarly articles in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.
1969-current.
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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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- NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
Current U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
1964-present.
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Central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audiovisual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries.
Subject Coverage:
- Administration & Management
- Aeronautics & Aerodynamics
- Agriculture
- Behavior & Society
- Business
- Chemistry
- Communications
- Computer Sciences
- Education
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Sciences
- Health Care
- International Trade
- Library & Information Sciences
- Materials Sciences
- Mathematical Sciences
- Medicine
- Military Sciences
- Natural Resources & Earth Sciences
- Nuclear Science
- Physics
- Regulations
- Research Administration
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
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- Knovel Library
Over 800 full-text engineering and scientific reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards in engineering and chemistry.
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- Physical Chemical Properties for Biologists, Chemists and Engineers
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Subject areas include chemistry and plastics, materials science, environmental science, microelectronics materials, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, food sciences, and mechanical engineering.
Knovel has embedded data with a set of innovative analytical tools to make the data found more productive. The software allows for graph plotters, equation plotters, digitized graphs and other tools to customize data from the available tables.
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Note:
The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to
Licensed Electronic Resources on behalf of the University of
Connecticut community. License agreements usually stipulate
the following rights and restrictions:
Permitted Uses: Authorized Users may typically display, download,
print, and copy a reasonable portion (generally one or two
articles or one book chapter) of the Licensed Electronic
Resource.
Restrictions: Systematic downloading, distributing, or
retaining substantial portions of information or using
software such as scripts, agents, or robots, to retrieve
information is generally prohibited.