Marine Sciences Research Databases

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AccessScience
Contains over 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 scientists. Online version of print McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. current.
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- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
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See also: MHEST.com, a free online companion to the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. The site has been completely redesigned and now features an index search tool, more supplemental articles, 9 Spotlights including audio interviews and other rich media from AccessScience, related McGraw-Hill titles, and additional multimedia offerings.
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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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Beilstein CrossFire
Information on over 7 million organic compounds. Covers chemical structures, data on preparation, reactions, physical properties such as boiling point, melting point, and spectral identification. Note: Beilstein does not index polymers. 1771- present.
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The Beilstein Commander software is also available on all SuperHOMER computer workstations within the UConn libraries in the 'Other Databases' folder on the Windows desktop.

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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. The Helminthology database is part of CAB Direct's data. 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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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Offers: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts; GeoRef; LLBA (linguistics); Oceanic Abstracts; PAIS; Sociological Abstracts; and Water Resources Abstracts. See description for coverage.
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Access to the following databases:
- Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
- BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
- Criminology: A SAGE Full text collection
- GeoRef
- LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Oceanic Abstracts
- PAIS (current & historic)
- Philosopher's Index
- Political Science : A SAGE full text colleciton
- Politics and International Relations : A SAGE full text collection
- Psychology: A SAGE full text collection
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- Sociology: A SAGE full text collection
- Water Resources Abstracts
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Compendex
Interdisciplinary engineering database, with over 6 million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings. 1970 to present.
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- Engineering Village
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Abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conferences papers and technical reports are included. Over 220,000 abstracts added annually.
Features:
- Over 6,000,000 records from 1970 to the present
- An update every seven days
- References and abstracts from over 5,000 journals, conferences and reports
- Ei Thesaurus, containing over 9,000 terms and synonyms
Instant in-depth coverage on:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Agriculture Engineering & Food Technology
- Automotive Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer and Data Processing
- Control Engineering
- Control Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Engineering Geology
- Engineering Management
- Engineering Mathematics
- Engineering Physics
- Environmental Engineering
- Fuel Technology
- Industrial Engineering
- Instruments and Measurement
- Light and Optical Technology
- Material Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Nuclear Technology
- Ocean and Underwater Technology
- Petroleum Engineering
- Sound and Acoustical Technology
- Transportation
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Environment Abstracts

Scholarly articles on all aspects of the environment. 1975-1999.
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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.
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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GeoRef
International geoscience literature, covering engineering and environmental geology, hydrology, and paleontology. North American geology: 1785-current; international geology: 1933-current..
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Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Major areas of coverage include:
- Areal geology
- Economic geology
- Engineering geology
- Environmental geology
- Extraterrestrial geology
- Geochemistry
- Geochronology
- Geophysics
- Hydrogeology and hydrology
- Marine geology and oceanography
- Mathematical geology
- Mineralogy and Crystallography
- Paleontology
- Petrology
- Seismology
- Stratigraphy
- Structural geology
- Surficial geology
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Marine Science Resources (CSA)
Summaries of articles in oceanography, geosciences, and water resources.Search Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Georef, Oceanic Abstracts, and Water Resources all at the same time. 1970s to present.
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Covers:
- Aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography
- Geosciences, geochemistry, geophysics
- Water resources, water and wastewater treatment, water pollution
- Oceanography, marine and brackish-water environment
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Oceanic Abstracts
Summarizes articles about the marine and brackish-water environment. Focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. 1981-current.
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Comprehensive in coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Major areas of coverage include:
- Biological Oceanography
- Ecology
- Physical and chemical oceanography
- Marine geology
- Geophysics
- Geochemistry
- Marine pollution
- Nonliving marine resources
- Navigation and communications
- Maritime law
- Desalination
- Ships
- Shipping
- Marine biology
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Organic Syntheses

Covers preparation of important organic molecules and the illustration of novel synthetic methods. Contains all of the nine Collective as well as Annual Volumes and Indices.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.
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- Dissertation Abstracts
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Reaxys

Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.
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The Reaxys database provides a single platform to search the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry, Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, the US Patent and Trademark Office Database and world and European patents. Reaxys provides in-depth chemical substance and reaction data particularly useful for compound synthesis.
Reaxys includes both the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
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SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar client is no longer available. Please use the web based version .
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- Chemical Abstracts
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SciFinder Scholar client is no longer available. Please use the web based version
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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. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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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.
Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".
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TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)

Scientific articles, factual information, and data on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. 1966-current.
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Also covers Toxic Release Information (data on the estimated quantities of chemicals released to the environment or transferred off-site for waste treatment, and information related to source reduction and recycling), and Chemical Information (identified by name, structural diagram, or CAS Registry Number).
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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