Subscription Databases and E-books
- AccessScience from McGraw-Hill
AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
- American Journal of Science
The Journal is devoted to geology and related sciences and publishes articles from around the world presenting results of major research from all earth sciences.
- Books 24x7 ITPro
Gain instant access to hundreds of computer and IT reference e-books from publishers such as John Wiley & Sons, Springer, Ross, Microsoft Press, and others.
- Environmental Encyclopedia
Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.
- Mathematics Magazine (2006 - Present)
Available from JSTOR, Mathematics Magazine offers lively, readable, and appealing exposition on a wide range of mathematical topics.
- New
Book of Popular Science
an encyclopedia for students that not only has information about science and scientists but also science games, puzzles, and brain teasers.
- Rich's Business Directory - Northern California High-Tech Guide
This database from Rich's Business Directory includes all high-tech companies and contacts based in Northern California, including the Silicon Valley area. Companies: 10,734 Contacts: 44,277.
- Safari
Tech Books Online
Browse computer and IT books from O'Reilly & other publishers in eBook format. Search for specific topics and code fragments across entire collection.
- Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific and mathematic disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
- Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a research database that provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. It contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Websites Selected by Librarians
- Scirus
Award-winning science-specific search engine with special features to help pinpoint science web pages, peer-reviewed articles, scientific conferences, abstracts and patents. Accesses a large database of scientific, technical, and medical journals.
- INFOMINE - Biology, Agriculture and Medical Sciences
From the University of California, this site provides well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the internet covering most major life, agricultural and medical subjects. Each record includes an annotation and in-depth indexing terminology. Please note, some search results are fee-based. Please select the "free" option from the "Resource Access" menu to locate free only resources.
- INFOMINE - Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math
From the University of California, this site provides well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the internet covering most major subjects in physical sciences, engineering, computing and math. Each record includes an annotation and in-depth indexing terminology. Please note, some search results are fee-based. Please select the "free" option from the "Resource Access" menu to locate free only resources.
- National Academic Press (NAP)
Publishes the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. In addition, the NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics including engineering and science. All PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) are available for free downloading.
- SciCentral
Gateway to over 50,000 sites pertaining to over 120 specialties in science,
engineering, and medicine.
- Science Daily
This site is an online news source that covers science, technology and medicine. Easily searched by topic, it is updated frequently.
- Science Information
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet, a gateway to sites on a variety of science topics; such as, animals, astronomy, environment, mathematics, and technology.
- Cornell Math and Science Gateway
From Cornell University, this is an annotated subject guide to resources in mathematics and science.
- Science.gov: Firstgov for Science
Browse a wide range of subjects in this searchable "gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U. S. Government agencies, including research and development results".
- Eric Weisstein's World of Science
In addition to in-depth encyclopedias of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and chemistry, this site features brief biographies of scientists, who can be searched by gender, historical period, branch of science, nationality, and awards.
- Animal Diversity Web
From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, this is an online database covering the natural history of all types of animals. It includes classification, description, ecosystem roles and conservation status in its coverage of each animal.
- The Periodic Table of Videos
Created by the University of Nottingham this site provides a description of all 118 chemical elements in video format.
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