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| Science Online (AAAS) |  |
1997-current |
| Access to the complete online Science database with hypertext links to related citations in Medline, the ISI Citation Index, and to full text articles in 200 scientific journals. Also allows access to ScienceNOW, an online news service of Science magazine. | ||
| Science Reference Center | ||
| Contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Designed to support the middle school and high school curriculum. | ||
| Science.gov | ||
| Gateway to millions of pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. | ||
| ScienceDirect (Elsevier) | |
Dates vary |
| Access to scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals. Search over 40 million abstracts from scientific articles. Link out to articles from over 120 other publishers. | ||
| SciFinder Scholar (CAS) | ||
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Chemistry abstracts. Requires a SciFinder account. Please click here to create an account before using SciFinder for the first time. | ||
| SCImago Journal & Country Rank | ||
| Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the ScopusŪ database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. | ||
| Scopus (Elsevier) | dates vary | |
| Abstract and citation database covering over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Emphasis on science and social science. | ||
| Shakespeare Bibliography | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
| Short Story Index | |
1984-current |
| Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals, with full text of more than 1600. | ||
| SIAM Journals Online | |
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| Full-text journals from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | ||
| Siku Quanshu | ||
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Siku Quanshu, comprising four traditional divisions of Jing (Classics), Shi (Records), Zi (Scholars) and Ji (Collections), contains more than 3,400 titles, total of 79,000 volumes bound into more than 36,000 books on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. These classics represent the most abundant, complete and comprehensive canon of Chinese civilization. PC only, Internet Explorer only. Follow link to download software and instructions for installing. | ||
| Smithsonian Global Sound | ||
| A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes American folk music, blues, American Indian, jazz, classical, spoken word and sounds, and more. | ||
| Smithsonian Physical Tables (Knovel) | |
9th rev. ed. , 2003 |
| Physics tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. | ||
| Social Science Research Network (Social Science Electronic Publishing) | |
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| Working papers and forthcoming papers in the social sciences. Consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing full-text documents. | ||
| Social Services Abstracts (CSA) | 1980-current | |
| Current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. | ||
| Sociological Abstracts (CSA) | 1963-current | |
| Provides access to world's literature in sociology and related disciplines (anthropology, economics, education, medicine, political sciences, and more) Abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews. | ||
| Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online | current | |
| Statistics on crime and criminal justice-related topics. | ||
| South and Southeast Asian Literature (Alexander Street Press) | ||
| Fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras. | ||
| SpringerLink | |
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| Online scientific, technical, and medical journals from Springer Verlag. | ||
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | |
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| Encyclopedia of Philosophy, incomplete but so far includes over 600 in-depth entries with bibliographies. | ||
| STAT-USA/Internet (Dept. of Commerce) | |
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Business, economic and trade information from the Federal government. Includes State of the Nation (U.S. domestic economic and financial data) and Globus & NTDB (daily trade leads from Trade Opportunities Program and Dept. of Agriculture) Title to be cancelled effective 8/1/05 | ||
| State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 5th Ed. | |
1997-98 |
| Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included. | ||
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | 1995-2003 editions | |
| Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Also a guide to other data sources from the Census Bureau, other federal agencies and private organizations. | ||
| Statistical Universe (LexisNexis) | |
varies |
| Statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, international organizations. Coverage: <br /> - all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index. <br /> - some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index. <br /> - approximately 2,000 titles from 00 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics. | ||
| Story Finder | |
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| Contains short stories, from classic to contemporary with explanations, biographies, pictures and more. | ||
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