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Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage
AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology) (McGraw-Hill)
Science encyclopedia with biographies of scientists, new trends and developments in science and technology and definitions of scientific and technical terms.
E-PRINT Network (Dept. of Energy)		1998-current
Gateway to web sites and databases worldwide containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics, but also in such areas as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (Knovel)		2003
Critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances.
JSTOR		Dates vary
Backfiles of selected electronic journals in economics, finance, language, literature, mathematics, population/demography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, ecology, higher education, and Asian studies.
ProQuest		1986-current
Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes some newspapers, Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
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.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus� 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.
Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances (Knovel)		2003
Table of values�with�a list of substances accompanied by thermochemical data.� Includes values of heats of formation, transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction.
*UXL Encyclopedia of Science*		2nd ed., 2002
Topics profiled are related to the physical, life, and earth sciences, as well as to math, psychology, engineering, technology, and the environment. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Wiley Interscience Journals (Wiley)		dates vary
Includes full-text of Wiley journals in science, business, education, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology, social sciences.