Online Database Resources: Science

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Access Science is the electronic version of the 9th edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Each article contains web links to other resources and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources in Access Science are McGraw Hill Yearbooks (science research updates), Science News articles, and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technology Terms.

Advanced Placement Source
This database is a collection of full-text articles from over 6,100 journals from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains over 1,300 journals that focus on the sciences. APS has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.


This database is a collection of 17,400 American biographies from throughout American History. ANB is the electronic version of the 24 volume print collection of American National Biography. It is updated quarterly with several hundred biographies and revisions added yearly. Each entry also provides links to related web resources and a bibliography.

Green File Green File
This database offers information covering all aspects of the environment and the impact of humans. The collection includes: scholarly journal articles, government reports, popular titles.


JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years (current issues are not available). JSTOR offers over 100 journals that focus on science.

Nature Online
Nature Online is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology.  This online version of the print journal has coverage from 1997 to the present issue.  The online site also features a weekly podcast, news and research highlights.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography home page
The Oxford DNB is a collection of over 50,000 illustrated biographies of prominent British figures. The Oxford DNB is an expanded version of the Victorian Dictionary of National Biography with revisions and the addition of 16,500 biographies.

Oxford Reference Online
This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. Oxford Reference devotes close to half of its collection to the sciences. Some titles include: A Dictionary of Chemistry , The Oxford Companion to the Earth, and Science, Technology, and Society.

Science Direct
ScienceDirect's Freedom Collection from Elsevier Publishing includes over 1,600 authoritative titles from the core scientific journal literature, including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.  The search page is able to be customized with personalized settings by creating a unique login and password.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center covers all of the scientific fields, such as biology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics. The SRC contains 630 full-text publications including: science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and biographies. To access SCR click on “EbscoHost Web” and replace “Advanced Placement Source” with “Science Reference Center” in the drop-down menu

Scientific American Archive
Scientific American is a scholarly science journal with articles written by experts in the field. The coverage of Scientific American is from 1993 to the present. All the articles are in PDF format with full color images.

WorldCat  WorldCat
Using the FirstSearch interface, WorldCat is a global network of libraries that unite their collections in one master catalog.   WorldCat is searchable using simple keywords, just like you do at your favorite Web search sites. An advanced search helps you limit results to specific authors, subjects, formats, and dates.