General Science

Academic Search Complete - is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
American Chemical Society Full-text articles available  a comprehensive collection of the most cited peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.  Provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.
Annual Reviews    Full-text articles available  provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 32 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information^® (ISI).
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  covers major areas of research, including materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, art history, and linguistics.
Factiva - great for an international viewpoint. Full-text articles available  TIP:  Click the More Like This link for more articles on that topic.
GEOBASE (VIVA-FirstSearch) Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology
Highwire Press    largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1053 journals and over 4 million full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers.
MathSciNet access to seven math journals.
Open Science Directory - provides a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special program journal titles.  Access to over 13,000 scientific journal titles
Science Magazine Full-text articles available  a leading journal of current research and news in science
Today's Science (Facts on File) Full-text articles available available  short list of science topics in the headlines, list of  science experiments, cover stories, new articles and crossword puzzles (fun way for students to learn more about scientific issues).
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals

Engineering and Computer Science

ACM Digital Library (Assoc.of Computing Machinery)  (Association for Computing Machinery)     Full-text articles available  access to seven computing journals
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Computer Technology  
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Materials Science  
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Engineering Specialties  
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 670 periodicals.  
Computer Database (VIVA-InfoTrac)   Full-text articles available  computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
CRC ENGnetBase collection of online databases, provides a portal to an ever-growing supply of information. Every month, we add new resources to each netBASE to provide up-to-date, comprehensive information.
OCLC Electronic Collections Online-Computer Science,  Engineering,  Mathematics, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Full-text articles available
Material Sciences    Full-text articles available  collection of scholarly journals
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals
Yourjournals@OVID (physical science and engineering)   Full-text articles available an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

Life Sciences

Agricola - THE agriculture database
Annual Reviews  Full-text articles available    provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 32 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information^® (ISI).
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Biological & Medical Sciences  
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Earth & Environmental Sciences  
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Agricultural Sciences  
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Aquatic Sciences  
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,108 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 650 journals.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - free biodiversity info from around the world
GreenFILE - goes back 35 years for scholarly and non-scholarly scientific publications.
OCLC Electronic Collections Online   Life Sciences   Full-text articles available  
OCLC Electronic Collections Online Physical and Environmental Sciences    Full-text articles available  
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals
Yourjournals@OVID (life sciences)   Full-text articles available

Medicine

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - millions of photographs you can legally download.
AgeLine Database
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Medical & Biological Sciences
CINAHL (VIVA-Ebsco) - Nursing and Allied Health   Full-text articles available (Must use IE5.x and above or Netscape 6.x and above)  available  Cumulative index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.  The nearly 40 years, the CINAHL database has been the authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.
freemedicaljournals.com - over 50 free medical journals.   You will need to register, but it's free.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.  
Highwire Press   Full-text articles available  largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1053 journals and over 4 million full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers.
IDEAL -   Full-text articles available Biomedical Sciences collection of scholarly journals
MEDLINE (VIVA-Ebsco)  provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine lists citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Pre-CINAHL  (VIVA-Ebsco)   Full-text articles available  A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
ProceedingsFirst (VIVA-FirstSearch)   index of worldwide conference proceedings
PsycInfo (VIVA-Ebsco)    Full-text articles available  (Must use IE5.x and above or Netscape 6.x and above)  2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection Full-text articles available  provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods
PubMed  - service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1850s.  Includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
IDEAL -   Full-text articles available Biomedical Sciences collection of scholarly journals
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals
Yourjournals@OVID    Full-text articles available

Psychology

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - millions of photographs you can legally download.
AgeLine Database
IDEAL - Psychology (VIVA)  Full-text articles available  collection of scholarly journals
Opposing Viewpoints     Full-text articles available  Today’s hottest social issues.  Offers pro and con viewpoints, overviews, primary source documents, biographies, court-case overviews, full text articles, statistics, podcasts, etc.
PAIS  International 1972 – current public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations articles.
PsycInfo (VIVA-Ebsco) Full-text articles available  2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
PsyArticles (VIVA-Ebsco) Full-text articles available  more than 100,000 full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in psychology from 59 journals with coverage spans 1894 to present.
Wiley InterScience  - over 3 million articles across 1400 journals
Yourjournals@OVID    Full-text articles available

Subject Guide to Online Periodical Databases - use this if you have a subject area, for example psychology, but don't know which of our 200+ databases would work best for your topic.

1. Use the Find tool (the magnifying glass in the top upper right corner of your browser) and type in your search term.  This will search the entire article for your topic.  You can quickly see if the article talks about your topic.
2. Once you find one good article, search all appropriate databases using the author or authors of that good article.  Authors often write more articles on their field, so this is a quick way to find more articles on your topic.
3. Also do an author search on the Internet.  This could bring up the author's web page or institution where he works/teaches/researches.  E-mail the author and ask if his/her article is available anywhere online.  Often times they will send you the article even if it is not available online, especially if they know you are a high school student.
4. If any of the articles you have found list the subject headings for that article, use these as search terms to find more articles on your topic.
5. If any good articles you have found on your topic have a list of references/works cited/related sources/bibliography at the end of the article, these articles and/or books may be good sources for your paper.
6. Use all the synonyms for your main topic that you can think of.  There's a thesaurus listed above in Online Reference Sources - Dictionaries.  Or you could use WORD's thesaurus which is under the Tools menu.
7. Type in your search terms using the plural AND singular tense.  Sometimes this will bring up different results.
8. Once you find one good article, do a journal search in the appropriate databases using the name of that journal.  Chances are this journal has carried other articles on your topic.
9. Use Boolean searching.  Click here for a cheat sheet on how to do this.
10. Click the Peer-Reviewed or Refereed boxes under any search boxes.  This will limit your results to only articles that have been reviewed and approved by other experts in the field.

Academic Info - Science Gateways
AGRIS/CARIS Information Centre - UN site treats all aspects of agriculture.
Biology Browser
Biome
Digital Librarian - Science
Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology
Environmental Sites on the Internet
Essential Science Indicators:  Special Topics - provides citation analysis, interviews, and essays on current high-interest topics in science by noteworthy scientists in their particular fields.  A new topic is added each month.
EurekAlert! - index of  research advances in science, medicine, health and technology
How Things Work.  - website from a professor at UVA that explains the physics of everyday life
INFOMINE:  Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing, & Math
Internet Public Library Reference Center - Science & Technology
ISIHighlyCited.com - recognized for decades as the world leader in citation searching
Librarian's Index to the Internet - Science, Computers & Technology
National Biological Information Infrastructure - good source for regional information.  Resources not otherwise easily found.
National Science Digital Library
NewScientist.com: special reports on key topics in science
Refdesk.com
Science.gov - portal to vast amounts of scientific and technical information resources at various US agencies
SciTechResources.gov

Google Scholar - click here for how to use it so that it shows all of the databases we receive through the VCCS (Virginia Community College System).
ResearchIndex (CiteSeer)  (formerly called CiteSeer) is a computer science research search engine with a number of unique capabilities, including citation indexing, links to related and similar documents, bibliographic coupling and collaborative filtering.
Biocrawler  Directory and search engine for biological information.
Chemie.DE  Directory and search engine for information about chemistry. Click on the "search engine" link on the home page to search.
Scirus  combines a targeted crawler from FAST that focuses only on web sites with scientific content, with Elsevier's massive scientific information resources drawn from thousands of journals and books.
Search4Science  a search engine put together by scientists for scientists. It shows -- if you enter simple keyword searches you're often presented with related scientific terms to expand or limit your query. The service is powered by Northern Light, so results are also clustered in Northern Light's Custom Search Folders.
Biolinks A search engine for scientists, with links to journals, organizations, companies and more. It spiders the web and has human-categorized results.
SciSeek  a focused web directory created by human editors. It's a useful tool for browsing for information in a specific scientific area.
iCivil Engineer catalogs Internet resources of civil engineering technology; covering all disciplines: architectural, construction, environmental, geotechnical hydraulic, structural, surveying and transportation.

None on your topic?  Look at the SearchEngineWatch's specialty search engine page for more.

9/25/08