University Library

Research Tools and Databases in Science Writing

LexisNexis Academic (Lexis Nexis Academic)
Coverage varies

News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Proquest Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Wall Street Journal

Includes: Newspaper articles in Los Angeles Times, New York Times (includes book review and magazine sections), and the Wall Street Journal. Access to text: Complete full-text in PDF.
PubMed
Covers articles written in mid-1960's - present.

For medical articles - this is the place to go. For the most up-to-date access to peer-reviewed articles on an incredible variety of biomedical topics, including medical research, genetics, bioinformatics, physiology, oncology, nursing and more. If you don't see the UC E-Links button in the Abstract display, you are not in the customized UC version!
Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
Covers: 1900 - present.

Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.