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This Guide features resources available for beginning, basic or interdisciplinary research in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING.
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General Science Full Text A 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 Web 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.
Resources featured in this Guide are for basic and interdisciplinary Science and Engineering research. Here are some Guides to specific science disciplines. Even more are available please see Other Research Guides.
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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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