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This Guide features resources available for research in Science & Engineering.
Find books, ebooks, book chapters, journals and journal articles, conferences and conference papers, video and audio recordings, and other items provided by the library.
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General Science Full Text This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews. Date coverage: abstracts 1984 - present, selected full text 1995 - present.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is one of the core general science databases covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and allows the user to search conference proceedings.
Guides to specific science disciplines.
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Biology, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, history and philosophy of science and scientific biography, physics, mathematics and statistics.
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