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Science and Engineering: Search returned 153 titles.

19th Century Masterfile Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Cumulative index to the microfiche edition of Nineteenth Century. Subject indexes for periodicals, newspapers, books, US Congressional Record, US and UK Government Documents, and US Patents. Contains full text links to the citations from Harper's Magazine Index, Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, and some additional titles. Other search results will contain citations only. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, most titles were published in the mid-1800's and early 1900's.

ABC-CLIO eBooks Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. A browsable collection of electronic reference works in all academic subjects. The site includes encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works. Each individual title is searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

ATSDR Toxological Profiles Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. From the U.S. Public Health Service's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Provides data on health effects and hazardous substances, chemicals, and compounds. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Academic Search Complete from EBSCO Searchable database with citations and abstracts for journal articles in all academic disciplines. The full-text of over half of the articles is included. Many of the journals are peer-reviewed. Database and interface provider is EBSCOhost. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

AccessScience Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (9th ed.) with enhanced content from annual yearbooks, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms and Science News. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Agricola Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Citations and abstracts for articles on all aspects of agriculture. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1979 - present

American Chemical Society Publications Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database containing the full text of over 40 journals from the ACS. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies. Most journal subscriptions begin 1996-2000.

American Meteorological Society Journals Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable full-text of journals from the AMS. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Choose Aquatic Sciences from the subject list. Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1971 - present

ArticleFirst Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The Article First database from Firstsearch/OCLC provides citations from the table of contents pages of journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1990-present.

Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1947. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Web: UCSC Library Research Guide Provides links to virtual libraries, electronic journals, preprints and eprints, teaching resources, indexes, and many more types of resources. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Astrophysics Data Systems (NASA Astrophysics Data Systems) ADS contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Varies by file.

BIOSIS Previews Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. 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. Database provider: ISI. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1969 - present

BioOne Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database of 45 online journals in biological, environmental, and ecological science. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 2000-present.

Bioinformatics: UCSC Science and Engineering Library Subject Guide Contains links to resources for finding articles, electronic journals, sequence and structure databases, software, books, and more. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Biology Databases of Interest to Ecology & Evolutionary Biologists Compares features of UCSC-licensed biology databases BIOSIS, Zoological Record, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Web of Science and the freely available Google Scholar. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Biology Databases of Interest to Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biologists Compares features of UCSC-licensed biology databases BIOSIS, PubMed, Faculty of 1000, Web of Science and the freely available Google Scholar. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Biology: A UCSC Science and Engineering Library Subject Guide Reference tools, article databases, online journals, and other research tools for Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Blackwell/Synergy Online Journals Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database of over 300 full-text journals in the sciences and medicine. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection Available online to all Web users. Searchable database of over 800 botanical teaching slides. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

CHEMnetBASE Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable reference source which includes the following: Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD) Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs (Formerly Pharmasource) Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, Polymers: A Property Database, and Properties of Organic Compounds. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

CRC Journals Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of journals articles in chemistry, engineering, environmental science, food sciences, life sciences, medicine, and physics. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, most journals titles include 1998-present.

CSA Illumina Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

California Digital Library (CDL) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The CDL is the University of California's 11th University library. Its goal is to build the University's digital library, assist campus libraries with sharing their resources and holdings more effectively, and provide leadership in applying technology to the development of library collections and services. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Cambridge Journals Online Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database with full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Cambridge University Press (CUP). Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Catchword Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, full-text database of journals from the publisher Catchword. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Chemistry Resources: UCSC Science Library Provides links to electronic journals, article indexes, reference resources, data sources, patents, and many other types of online materials. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Clase and Periodica (ClasePeriodica) Available online to UCSC students, staff and faculty. Index of Latin American journals in the social sciences, sciences and humanities. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1975-present (Clase), 1978-present (Periódica)

Collective Knowledge Resource Portal Available online to all Web users. Searchable and browsable collection of instructional and research resources in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and computer engineering. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Columbia Gazetteer Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Comprehensive and searchable encyclopedia of geographical places and features. Entries include demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Compendex Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Citations with abstracts from journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings in engineering and technology. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1884 - present Compendex Quick Reference Guide

Computer Engineering: A UCSC Science & Engineering Library Subject Guide Provides links to print and electronic resources in the library collection, virtual libraries, and professional organizations in the fields of computer engineering. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Computer Science: UCSC Science & Engineering Library Subject Guide Provides links to article databases, books, conference proceedings, electronic journals, encyclopedias, Websites, and other research materials. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Conference Papers Index Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1982 - current

CrossFire Commander Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. 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. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Current Index to Statistics Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, online index of journal articles and publications in statistics and related fields. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1975-current.

Dekker Online Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database of full-text journals from the publisher Marcel Dekker, Inc. Subjects include scientific, technical, and medical information. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Design Automation Library Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner Contains text from: Design Automation Conference (DAC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), European Design Automation Conference (EDAC), Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, and SIGDA Newsletter. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Dictionary of Natural Products Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. A database of approximately 100,000 organic substances, and includes chemical and physical data together with key literature references. Available online, part of ChemNetBase. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Dictionary of Organic Compounds Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. A database of over 150,000 organic substances, and includes chemical and physical data together with key literature references. Available online as part of the ChemNetBase. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Digital Flora of Texas Project Available online to all Web users. Browsable and searchable database of 17,000 plant images. Browse by family or search by keyword. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Dissertations & Theses (a.k.a. Digital Dissertations or Dissertation Abstracts) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Citations for U.S. dissertations and masters' theses. Abstracts are included for all entries published since 1980. Full-text for all University of California dissertations issued since 1997 is available in pdf format. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1861 - present Also available through Proquest Interface.

EBSCO Animals Searchable online encyclopedia of animals. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

EIS - Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government. Each entry includes a description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1985 - current.

ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable and browsable database of handbooks and texts in all areas of engineering. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

ENVIROnetBASE: Environmental Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of handbooks and texts in environmental sciences. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Earth and Planetary Sciences on the Web: UCSC Science Library Subject Guide Provides links to indexes, electronic journals, professional organizations, reference materials, and Websites. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. Currently comprised of approximately 102,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. Includes approximately 44,000 journal articles -- indexes and abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; approximately 36,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately 23,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports. Vendor is CSA. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1971 - present

Electrical Engineering: A UCSC Science & Engineering Library Subject Guide Provides links to print and electronic resources in the library collection, virtual libraries, and professional organizations in the fields of electrical engineering. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The searchable version of Wiley's 6-volume reference work which covers all aspects and fields of environmental microbiology from aquatic microbiology to biofilms and biodegradation and environmental biotechnology, to public health and water treatment microbiology. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable reference work on the biological sciences. Topics include biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, and science and society. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

EndNote Movie Tutorials Short web movies show the basics of importing citations into EndNote. Databases include a CSA database (GeoRef), OVID databases and PubMed. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Energy Citations Database Includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1948 - present

Environmental Impact Statements Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Presenting the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. (Bimonthly. 450 abstracts/year) Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1985-Current

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable 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. Vendor is CSA. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1981 - present Search multiple earth and environmental science databases.

Environmental Studies 104A : Library Research Guide Research help for Environmental Studies 104A. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Environmental Studies 156 Library Research Guide Resource links for ENVS 156 - Environmental Action Writing. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Environmental Studies 157 Library Research Guide Library research help for Environmental Studies 157, Writing for the Natural Sciences. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Environmental Studies: Science Resources: A UCSC Library Research Guide Provides links to tools for finding background information, articles, books, statistics, and websites useful when researching environmental science. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Environmental Toxicology: Library Subject Guide Provides links to information for finding articles, electronic journals, reference materials, legislation, associations, non-profits, and chemical products. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Expanded Academic Index ASAP from Infotrac/Gale Available to UC students, faculty, and staff. As of July 1, 2008 this database has been replaced by Academic Search Complete from EbscoHost. Though the interface is different, the coverage of articles and journals is the the same. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1980-present.

FORENSICSnetBASE: Forensic Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of handbooks in forensics and criminal investigation. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Faculty of 1000 Biology Available online to UC faculty, staff and students The Faculty of 1000 Biology database describes itself as a "next generation literature awareness tool...that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 2300 selected leading researchers." It covers all of biology, including ecology, molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, marine ecology, etc. It includes reviews of articles from the 1990s to the present. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1990's - present

Film and Video Catalog: UCSC Available online to all Web users. A searchable database of videotapes, laserdiscs, 16mm films, and DVD's in the UCSC library collection. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Fishes of the Northeastern Atlantic & Mediterrean Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner A comprehensive account of all fish species in the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Food Chemical News (FCN) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of publications in food chemicals and related regulations. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

GRIN: Great Images in NASA Available online to all Web users. Searchable and browsable archive of over a thousand images of significant historical interest scanned at high-resolution in several sizes. This collection is intended for the media, publishers, and the general public looking for high-quality photographs. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of encyclopedias and dictionaries in many subjects including education, environment, history, law, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Cross search Gale Virtual Reference and Expanded Academic ASAP.

GeoRef from CSA Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. 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. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1785 - present Alternate access.

Handbook of Psychology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The searachable, online version of Wiley's twelve-volume reference work includes sections on research methods, personality and social psychology, educational psychology, health psychology, and many others. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Hazardous Material Control & Management/Hazardous Material Information System(HMC&M/HMIS) Library use only: Science Library Chem Corner The HMC&M/HMIS disc provides access to: The hazardous material information system (DOD repository for material safety data sheet information; the Ships hazardous materials list; the Hazardous materials users guide. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Updated annually

Health Information: A UCSC Science Library Research Guide Available online. Provides links to Websites on the following topics: sexually trasmitted diseases, men's health, women's health, alternative medicine, nutrition, diet, drugs, hotlines, local hospitals and clinics, the Medline database, and medical dictionaries. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database of 30+ electronic journals focusing on the topic health sciences and nursing. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.

Highwire Press Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable database of full-text journals from Highwire Press. Note: UCSC does not have subscriptions to all journals in the database. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Contains information from the following print files: ISIS current bibliography of the history of science and its cultural influences, 1976- ; Current bibliography in the history of technology, 1987- ; and Bibliografia italiana di storia della scienza. Vendor is RLG/Eureka. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering. Covers: 1975 - present

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Cross-searchable databases of official, unclassified U.S. Government policies or positions on homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Also includes news and reports, websites, and governmental and non-governmental databases. Source: Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

How to Find UCSC Theses and Dissertations Finding aids for locating postgraduate papers completed at UC Santa Cruz. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

IEEE Xplore Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

INSPEC Archive (1898-1968) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering. Corresponds to three print resources: Science Abstracts (1898-1902) and its successors Physics (Section A), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Section B), and Computer Science (Section C). The backfile covers original and translated articles, dissertations, conferences, papers and proceedings, books, book chapters, reports and patents published in Europe and America. Figures and tables are included. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1898-1968

INSPEC from OVID Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computers, and information technology. Contains abstracts. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1969 - present

IT KnowledgeBase from Auerbach Publications Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable publications and journals in the field of information technology. Part of the CRC Press suite. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

InfoSECURITYnetBASE: Information Security Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of handbooks in information and computer security. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Inspec Quick Reference Guide Tips for searching the Inspec database. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Inspec AutoAlerts Tutorial

Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of full-text journals from the Institute of Physics. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: Articles published 1874-present.

International Classification of Diseases Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner Compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics and the Health Care Financing Administration. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Updated annually.

International Nuclear Information System (INIS Database) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of citations to journal articles and grey literature with scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

JSTOR Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia features over 27,000 pages and 800 articles on chemistry and related fields; this 27-volume encyclopedia includes: CAS registry numbers, over 5,000 photos, charts, graphs, figures and tables, in-depth up to-date information on regulations, patents and licensing. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Kluwer Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, full text database of academic journals published by Kluwer. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

LexisNexis Academic Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Formerly known as Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, this searchable full-text database is divided into five major content areas: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical Research, and Reference. The news section contains the text of many regional, national, and international newspapers and other news sources. The business section contains information on companies, business news, industries, and accounting. The legal section contains extensive information on state and federal case law as well as law reviews and legal news. The reference materials include country profiles, polls and surveys, and biographies. The medical section indexes medical journals and health news sources. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal or news source.

MATHnetBASE: Mathematics Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searachable database of handbooks in mathematics and mathematical analysis. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

MELVYL Union Catalog Available online to all Web users. Books, periodical titles (no articles), media, and other publications from all of the UC campus libraries. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1,000 A.D. - present Also available via Telnet.

Materials Science: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of 15+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of materials science, polymers, and plastics. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1965.

MathSciNet Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. 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. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1940 - present

Mathematics WWW Resources: A UCSC Science Library Research Guide Provides links to virtual libraries, electronic journals, preprints and eprints, teaching resources, indexes, specialized math searchers, software, and professional associations. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Merck Index Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. An encyclopedia of chemicals and drugs. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 13th Edition

Methods in Enzymology Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner CDROM version. See also Science Reference Collection QP601.A1M4. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Murmurs of Earth Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner A CD-ROM database of the images, sounds, and music sent with the Voyager interstellar spacecraft; accompanied by Voyager gallery, a booklet of color images sent back by the spacecraft, and Carl Sagans book on the Voyager project. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

NASA Image eXchange (NIX) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Cross-database search of images from NASA. The database includes images from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Johnson Space Center, the Ames Research Center, and many more. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE: Neuro Sciences Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable and browsable database of handbooks and texts in many areas of neurology and psychiatry. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

National Research Council of Canada Online Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable full-text database of journals from the Natl. Research Council of Canada. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Natural Standard Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. An international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Includes herbs and supplements. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Nature Publishing Group Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable full-text database of journals from Nature. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

NetTrail Information Literacy Tutorial Available online to all Web users. Self-paced online information literacy tutorial. Topics include: types of information sources, choosing a topic, comparing library resources with the web, CRUZCAT, finding articles, and information ethics. Tutorials can be taken either all at once or individually and in any sequence. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

OAIster from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services Available online. Searchable collection of working papers, preprints, reports, eprints, and other 'hard-to-find' documents from academic organizations around the world. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

OLDMEDLINE Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. This database must be searched using the NLM Gateway. OLD MEDLINE contains journal articles on all aspects of medicine and preclinical sciences. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1957-1965.

Ocean Sciences: A UCSC Science Library Subject Guide Provides links to electronic journals, article indexes, reference resources, data sources, and many other types of online materials. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Oceanic Abstracts Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment. Vendor is CSA. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1981 - present

Online Journals List (UCSC) A searchable or browsable list of online journals licensed by UCSC and the California Digital Library. The database links to the Website and full text of each journal. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Optics InfoBase Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable web-based repository of 10 full-text optics research journals. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage: Varies depending on journal title.

Ovid AutoAlerts Tutorial This feature allows users to automatically run a search in the Ovid databases and the search results will be emailed to the user. This service is often called current awareness or selective dissemination of information (SDI). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Oxford Reference Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Large, searchable database of reference sources including English language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotation sources, and encyclopedias. Subjects include art and architecture, environmental science, literature, history, food and drink, law, maps, medicine, mythology, medicine, politics, religion, and science. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Papers First Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. PapersFirst contains citations of papers presented at meetings, conferences workshops, congresses, expositions, and symposia from all over the world and received from the British Library Document Supply Center. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1993 - present

People's Daily (Ren Min Ri Bao) Access limited to UCSC faculty, staff and students. Access to full text of People's Daily Archives. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. 1946-2005

Physics WWW Resources: A UCSC Science Library Research Guide Provides links to virtual libraries, electronic journals, preprints and eprints, teaching resources, indexes, software and data, and professional associations. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

PrimateLit: a bibliographic database for primatology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff "The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography)." Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. 1940-present

Proceedings First Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. ProceedingsFirst contains the searchable tables of contents pages from worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1993 - present

Project MUSE - Johns Hopkins University Press Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies.

PsycINFO Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Citations and abstracts of articles, books, and book chapters with information on psychology and related disciplines. Also known as PsycLIT. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1872 - present Search multiple social science databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Access also available from the database mirror site.

PubMed Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. This searchable database of citations to biomedical literature is the National Library of Medicine's version of MEDLINE. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers articles written in mid-1960's - present. Help is available for searching PubMed.

Pubmed Quick Guide Tips for searching the Pubmed Database. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

RLIN Bibliographic File/RLG Union Catalog Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable union catalog from the Research Libraries Group (RLG). The database contains records for books, periodical titles, and media in research libraries around the world. Journal articles are not included. This database was called RCAT when it was part of MELVYL. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1,000 A.D. - present

Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library Available online to all Web users. Searchable and browsable database of rare botanical and gardening illustrations and text. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, full-text database of journals from the RSC. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff Searchable full-text database of journals from SIAM. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SPIE Digital Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff 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. Plans are underway to expand the Digital Library back to 1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers. Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SPIN - Searchable Physics Information Notices Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable, full-text database of journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SPIRES Database of over 400,000 high-energy physics related articles received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1974 - present

STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Handbooks Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of statistical analysis and statistics handbooks. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Safari Tech Books Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable and browsable collection of technical and IT-related ebooks. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SciFinder Scholar Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. NO OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS AVAILABLE Also known as: Chemical Abstracts. Requires a downloaded client, to provide access to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CASREACT. Searches by topic, author, CAS Registry number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. Other searches by chemical name, chemical structure, and formula. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: Chemical Abstracts (1967- ); Registry (1957- ); CASREACT (1985- )

Science Citation Index Expanded via Web of Science. Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Click on {Cited Ref Search} for a cited reference search. Indexes over 5,700 journals. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1900 - present

Science Direct from Elsevier Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. ScienceDirect is a searchable database including the full text of peer reviewed academic journals. Now includes journals from the IDEAL site. Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Science Illustration: A UCSC Library Subject Guide This subject guide provides tips for finding science pictures, photos, illustrations, and images on the Web, in the library, and in indexes and databases. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Science Virtual Reference Shelf Available to all Web users. Quick links to short, factual, and ready-reference type of information in science, math, and engineering. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

Science Writing: A UCSC Science Library Research Guide Provides links to library databases and websites helpful for science writing. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

SlideCat: UCSC Available online to all Web users. A searchable database with textual descriptions of over 200,000 images in the UCSC Slide Collection. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Springer LINK Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable full-text database of articles in over 400 journals, mostly in the sciences. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

TRI Explorer: Toxic Release Inventory Quick Reference Guide The above link provides instructions for the Web version of the database. Help using the EPA database that contains information on specific toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Science and Engineering Library CD-ROM instructions.

Toxline Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1994 - present the last 5 years plus the current year.

UCSC Arboretum Catalog Available online to all Web users. Searchable holdings of the Jean and Bill Lane Library at the UCSC Arboretum. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

UCSC Arboretum Plant Collections Database Available online to all Web users. Searchable database of the plants growing in the UCSC Arboretum. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

UCSC Theses & Dissertations Available online to all Web users. Database of all postgraduate papers published at UCSC, searchable by author or title, and browsable by department, degree conferred, or year of publication. Recent papers awaiting cataloguing are included; catalogued papers are held at McHenry Library Special Collections, as well as in the McHenry and Science & Engineering Library stacks. Includes master's theses and PhD dissertations. Does not include undergraduate theses. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering. Covers: 1967-present.

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work, international in scope and coverage, encompassing all the disciplines and current practice of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering around the world. Its 1000 major articles by 3,000 leaders from research and industrial organizations are well-illustrated with charts and figures and extensive bibliographies. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers 1968-present

Web of Science / Web of Knowledge Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Click on {Cited Ref Search} for a cited reference search. This Web of Knowledge database 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. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: Arts & Humanities 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; Science 1900-present

Web of Science Quick Reference Guide Tips for searching the Web of Science database. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. A citation search guide is also available.

WorldCat Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Also known as WCAT, this searchable catalog contains citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, and videotapes, on all subjects in a variety of languages at libraries around the world. Journal articles are not included. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1000 A.D. - present

Writing 2: Loss of Biodiversity. Writing about Extinction Library Research Guide Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.

XreferPlus Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff. Searchable and browsable collection of online reference materials including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and several subject-specific titles. Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

Zoological Record Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of citations for articles in zoology and animal science journals. Also includes citations for books, meetings, and reviews. Subjects covered include evolution, genetics, marine biology, taxonomy, and veterinary studies. Vendor is Thompson ISI. Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1864 - current.

eScholarship Repository from the California Digital Library Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Searchable database of working papers, pre-publication scholarship, and electronic texts by faculty in UC research units, centers, and academic departments Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.

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