Science Subject Guide

Gail Atwood

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Primary Resources

 

  • ABC-Clio Reference eBooks
    • A collection of reference ebooks through ABC-Clio.
  • Annual Reviews
  • CINAHL Basic
    • CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
  • CQ Researcher
    • CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
  • FACTS.com
    • Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
  • FirstSearch
    • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title.Be sure to search these databases:
      • ASTA
      • BioAgIndex
      • GenSciAbs
      • MEDLINE
  • Gale's Virtual Reference Library
    • A collection of reference e-books.
  • GreenFile
    • Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    • International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine 
  • IDEAL
    • International Digital Electronic Access Library - 174 full text journals through Science Direct.
  • JSTOR
    • The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 119 complete back runs of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. See the journal list.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
    • Search full text newspapers, company news and financial info, International/Federal/State legal information, medical and health information (some abstracted), as well as general reference resources (see Journal Titles list).
  • MEDLINE
    • All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
  • PreCINAHL 
    • A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
  • Project Muse
    • Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. See Journal Titles list.
  • Sage Fulltext Collections
    • SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Click here to search the journals from off campus. You will not be able to export directly to Refworks using this link.
  • Turfgrass Information Center
    • The Turfgrass Information Center (TIC), a specialized unit at the Michigan State University Libraries (MSU), contains the most comprehensive publicly available collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world.
  • Wiley InterScience Full-text Journals (Includes Blackwell Journals) 
    • A fulltext journal collection covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.

Secondary

  • ABI/INFORM
    • A leading business database with full-text available for many titles including the Wall Street Journal. Includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
    • Over 1500 full-text ebooks from the American Council of Learned Societies covering most humanities disciplines and area studies. 
  • eLibrary Elementary
    • Easily searchable reference sources, especially suited to K-12, including 35 popular magazines, 37 reference books, 11 newspapers, TV & radio transcripts, and a rich archive of photos and maps.
  • FirstSearch
    • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title. Be sure to search these databases:
      • ATLAReligion
      • BiographyInd
      • EducationAbs
      • Wilson Business
  • Christian Periodical Index (CPI)
    • Christian Periodical Index is an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. Some of these titles titles are available full-text online.
  • Ebrary
    • A large collection of religious titles in an electronic format. You will need to download the Ebrary Reader before using this site.
  • Educator's Reference Complete
    • Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
  • Emerald Fulltext Journals
    • A journal collection from Emerald of over 100 fulltext journals covering subjects including management, HRM, international business, library science, and engineering.
  • ERIC
    • Access full text ERIC documents by ERIC number, author, or title.
  • Harpweek
    • Electronic access to the images and text of the Harper's Weekly 19th century issues.
  • History Study Center
    • A rich full-text history database from Proquest.
  • Gale Databases
    • Computer Database
    • Educator's Reference Center
    • General Business File ASAP
    • Health Reference Center
    • Junior Edition
    • Kids Edition
    • Kids Infobits 
    • Student Edition
  • International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral Sciences.
  • PsycINFO (CSA)
  • SIRS Discoverer
    • Research resources for grades K-9

Interdisciplinary Resources

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites.
  • FirstSearch
    • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title. Be sure to search these databases:
      • Article First
      • ECO
      • GPO
      • Wilson Select Plus
      • WorldCat
  • Gale Databases
    • Academic OneFile
    • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • General Reference Center Gold
    • InfoTrac OneFile
  • Learning Express Library
    • A test preparation site that provides access to hundreds of online practice tests and courses including practice tests for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT. You will need to sign up as a new user and create a user account.
  • MEL
    • Michigan Electronic Library
  • Netlibrary
    • A collection of almost 25,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.  
  • RefWorks
    • A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    • Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).