Tina Smith
Charles L. Brown Science & Engineering Library
434.982.4537
tls9n@virginia.edu
University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400113
Charlottesville VA 22904-4113
434.924.3021
fax: 434.924.1431
US and UK research in emerging technologies including computing, electronics, biotechnology, medicine. construction, electrical and chemical engineering. Covers articles, tech reports, proceedings, etc.
Provides searchable, full-text access to 69 journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Search a group of CSA journal indexes covering research, regulatory developments and new patents in all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, environmental and marine biology.
Searches peer-reviewed journals, academic books, technical reports, bulletins, and conference proceedings in the life sciences: agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. The database is international with literature from over 125 countries and dozens of originating languages.
Compendex, also know as EI Compendex Plus is a large interdisciplinary engineering database listing journal articles, technical reports and conferences, and adds over 220,000 new abstracts each year. Includes book reviews.
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
All aspects of biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Three companies, EBSCO,;OVID; and CSA provide access to the Medline database. The 3 companies may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same.
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.