Online Article 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.