- Academic
Search
- Provides full text for
over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
- AccessScience
- Online version of the
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
[Off
campus use requires browser set-up.]
- ACM
Digital Library
- The ACM Digital Library is
the ultimate online resource for those interested in the computing
industry. It offers over 30 publications, all full-text conference
proceedings, publication archives dating back to the 1950s, over
1.2 million pages of text, and over 850,000 bibliographic citations.
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- AGRICOLA
- AGRICOLA is a bibliographic
database which encompasses "all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines,
including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and
water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural
products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition." NAL
version (free)
- Aldrich
Catalog
- Online version of the
Aldrich catalog. Entries provide information on compounds such as formula
weight and CAS registry number. Register with the site and gain access
to up to date Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
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- BasicBIOSIS
- Citations and abstracts
to articles in core life sciences journals.
- Biology
Web Resources
- A guide to biology web
resources compiled by the library's biology bibliographer, Amy Besnoy.
- BioOne
- BioOne is the product of
innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries,
academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely
valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience
research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by
small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have
been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated,
cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource
of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and
environmental sciences.
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- Buffer
Design
- A buffer calculator program;
the user enters in the desired parameters and the formula necessary
for making the buffer is generated.
- Chemical
Abstracts
- An academic account with
STN provides access to Chemical Abstracts and the Registry file. Special
training is required and hours of access are limited.
[Password
required.]
- Chemistry
Journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS Web Editions)
- A searchable database
of all ACS journals, plus full-text access to journals which Copley
subscribes.
- Chemistry
WebBook
- This site provides thermochemical,
thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard
Reference Data Program.
- Citing
Electronic Information
- how to cite Internet resources,
Web pages, and other forms of electronic information
- Clase
and Periodica
- Index of Latin American
journals in the sciences and humanities. Contains information from
articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings,
technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals
edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,
as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
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- Earthscape
- columbia earthscape selects,
gathers, edits, and links the widest range of Earth resources available
online.
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- EBM
Reviews - Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
- Evidence Based Medical
Reviews. Full
description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.
- EBM
Reviews - Best Evidence
- Evidence Based Medical
Reviews. Covers 1991 - present.
Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.
- EBM
Reviews - Cochrane Database
- Evidence Based Medical
Reviews. Full
description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.
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- Energy,
Science, & Technology Information Resources – U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE)
- Includes scientific
and technical information resources of the Department of Energy's Office
of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in broad disciplines
such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy
efficiency, and other related subject areas. Resources include tools
for cross searching bibliographic citations, full-text technical reports,
preprints, and journals citations residing in multiple databases and
Web sites.
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- Fundamental
Physical Constants
- The NIST reference on
physical constants, units and uncertainty.
- GEOBASE
- Covers geography and
geology.
- GRC
Geothermal Research Library
- The Geothermal Resources
Council offers the most comprehensive bibliographic geothermal library
in the world. Over 30,000 citations for individual articles from
GRC and other geothermal publications can be found by simple keyword
searches.Searches may be done without a password, however,
to access full-text articles from this database contact Reference
Librarian, Amy Besnoy at abesnoy@sandiego.edu or at extension 2368.
- Health
Source Plus Nursing (EBSCO)
- Links to a number of alternative
and consumer health databases as well as a full-text database of about
480 scholarly health and nursing journals
- IOP
- Institute of Physics Journals
- Provides access to all
tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat,
PDF or PostScript formats for those journals to which USD subscribes.
- JSTOR
- A full-text, searchable
archive of core scholarly journals. Current issues are not available
on JSTOR. Read these JSTOR Search
Tips.
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- Marine,
Oceanographic, and Freshwater Resources
- index to aquatic sciences,
fisheries, oceanographic, and marine environmental literature 1960 to
present
- MathSciNet
- Online version of Mathematical
Reviews . Indexes and reviews the mathematical literature.
- MEDLINE
via Ovid
- MEDLINE is the major database
on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of
cell and molecular biology topics. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon
when finished.
- MEDLINE
via PubMed
- MEDLINE is the major database
on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of
cell and molecular biology topics. Must capitalize search operators
(that is, AND, OR and NOT) when using PubMed
- PROLA
- Physical Reviews Online Archive
- Contains nearly complete
electronic copies of Physical review journals from their initial volumes
through 1997.
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- ScienceDirect
- Provides
access to full-text articles from over 600 journals in six subject collections
including: agricultural & biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics
& molecular biology, chemistry, earth & planetary sciences,
medicine, and social science. [Important
Note]
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- SciFinder
Scholar
- SciFinder Scholar® is
a point-and-click desktop research tool that provides easy access
to the information in the CAS databases (>41million substances
from 1957 to date, >22 million references from 1907 to date, >6
million reactions from 1974 to date, >750 chemical supplier catalogues
and regulatory information), as well as Medline (references from
1958 to date). Includes a comprehensive and current collection of
published scientific research, taken from 8,000 journal titles and
35 patent-issuing organizations, through a variety of ways - by author
or organization names, research topics, substance identifiers, chemical
structures and reactions. *** [Important
Note: When you click on the link above you will be asked to enter
your USD user name and password. You will then be taken to USD's
SciFinder download area which contains instructions for installing
the software on either Windows or Macintosh machines. SciFinder is
an on-campus only database and limited to two simultaneous users
at one time. Please be sure to logoff when you are finished with
your session. You will be asked to read and accept the SciFinder
user agreement before connecting to the database.***
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