S&E Databases and Research Tools

  • Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts.
    CSA
    Covers: 1971 - present
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  • Open access to 546,172 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
  • Searchable database contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1947.
  • ADS contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives.
  • Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. You can search BIOSIS, Zoological Record and Web of Science at the same time. Choose the All Databases tab.
    ISI
    Covers: 1926 - present
  • Investigative reports on contemporary and “hot topic” issues in the news.
    Covers: 1991 - present.
  • CrossFire is a client/server application for searching the world's largest electronic collections of organic chemistry, inorganic and organometallic data: CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin. The two data files contain millions of compounds and reactions.
  • Searchable online index of journal articles and publications in statistics and related fields.
    Covers: 1975-current.
  • Database of citations and abstracts of articles and reports on the following topics: agricultural biotechnology, air quality, bacteriology, environmental impact statements, safety science, waste management, toxicology, pollution, and environmental science.
    CSA
    Covers: 1981 - present
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  • Unique literature awareness tool. Highly selective and highly subjective database of the "best" articles selected by top researchers. You can search for specific articles or topics, or browse various Top 10 lists. Register for alerts to have articles of interest emailed to you.
    1990's - present
  • Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
    CSA
    Covers: 1785 - present
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  • Large multidisciplinary search engine with results ranking and previews. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature including journal articles.
    Google Scholar
  • Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
  • 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.
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  • Searchable database of citations for articles in 'Mathematical Reviews' from the American Mathematical Society. Covers mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the physical sciences. Full-text links to many original articles from the American Mathematical Society.
    Covers: 1940 - present
  • Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment.
    Covers: 1981 - present
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  • 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.
  • Citations and abstracts of articles, books, and book chapters with information on psychology and related disciplines. Also known as PsycLIT.
    Covers: 1872 - present
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  • 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!
    Covers articles written in mid-1960's - present.
  • Requires either a downloaded client or web client, to access the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CASREACT.
    Covers: Chemical Abstracts (1967- ); Registry (1957- ); CASREACT (1985- )
    Scifinder Web
  • Searchable full-text database of journals from SIAM.
    CSA
  • Includes approx. 90,000 full-text papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1995.
  • Searchable full-text database of articles in over 400 journals, mostly in the sciences. Now includes over 20,000 ebooks.
  • A comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry.
  • Deals with the present state of geophysics. Chapters include: Seismology and Structure of the Earth, Mineral Physics, Geodesy, Earthquake Seismology, Geomagnetism, rustal and Lithosphere Dynamics, Mantle Dynamics, Core Dynamics, Evolution of the Earth and Planets and Moons.
  • 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.
    ISI
    Covers: 1900 - present.