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SUBJECT: General Sciences

Recommended starting places

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.

AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
(reference resource, e-books)
Includes articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, thousands of illustrations, Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
(reference resources, encyclopedias)
A database of specialized encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Oxford Reference Online
(reference resources, dictionaries and encyclopedias)
A collection of over 100 subject specific reference sources and dictionaries from Oxford University Press.

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Google Scholar
(article index, e-books, free non-subscription resource)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.

JSTOR
(article index)
JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I Collection and Mathematics & Statistics Collection provide complete backfiles of 161 core scholarly journal titles starting with the first issues. Note that there is a gap, usually 1 to 5 years, between the most recent issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb)
(article index)
1890-1982. Contains indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

ScienceDirect
(article index)
1993-present. Over 1,800 full text journals in the areas of science, technology, and medicine. Full text coverage for all titles goes back to 1995; coverage for IDEAL titles goes back to 1993.

Windows Live Academic Search
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
(reference resource)
A catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide.

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