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  • AccessScience A Best Bet database
    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.
    Also Known As
    • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
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  • INSPEC A Best Bet database
    Indexes scholarly articles in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. From the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). 1969-current.
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  • IOP Journal Archives
    Full-text journals from the Institute of Physics. 1874 - 10 years ago.
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  • NTIS (National Technical Information Service) A Best Bet database
    Current U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. 1964-present.
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  • Optics InfoBase
    Covers optics research. Searches 13 scholarly journals published by the Optical Society of America. Varies depending on journal.
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  • PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive A Best Bet database
    American Physical Society journals. 1800s- current, plus: Physical Review: 1893-present; Physical Review Letters: 1958-present; Reviews of Modern Physics: 1929-present.
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  • Safari Tech Books
    Full text of 250 electronic books in technology and business fields, from publishers such as O'Reilly & Associates, Que, New Riders, Sams, Prentice-Hall, and Addison-Wesley.
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  • ScienceDirect
    Scholarly journal articles in physical and chemical sciences; life sciences; health sciences; engineering; psychology; social sciences, and humanities. 1995-current.
    Also Known As
    • Science Direct
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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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  • SPIN A Best Bet database
    Articles from scholarly physical science journals, published by the American Institute of Physics, its member societies, and other affiliated organizations. 1975-present.
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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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