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DATABASES & INDEXES | Title | Description |
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| Provides access to almost 500 trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexing begins in 1983, abstracting in 1993, and full text for selected titles in 1997. | |
| Provides access to almost 200 popular science magazines, professional journals, and The New York Times Science Section. Indexing begins in 1984, abstracting in March 1993, and full text for selected titles in 1995. | |
| NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) | A division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NCBI was established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information. PubMed is among the array of databases and software available at this site. |
| PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources, including PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. | |
| SciFinder Scholar Installation Instructions |
An electronic version of Chemical Abstracts (1907 to present), providing access to more than 8,000 journals and patent references. The system includes more than 26 million substance records and CAS registry numbers. The database is updated daily. USNA has limited access; only two simultaneous users are supported at this time. Use of this product is limited to Midshipmen, faculty and staff engaged in teaching and learning activities. You can search the file by chemical substance, chemical reaction, research topics, authors, specific reference, and performing organization. Search results include links to full-text articles (if USNA access is provided) and abstracts. Midshipmen, faculty and staff can access SciFinder Scholar in the Reference Area of Nimitz Library. |
| Torpedo Ultra | This link is to an information resource at the Naval Research Lab (NRL). Torpedo is a source for full-text access to journal articles published by Elsevier (almost 800 journals are covered) as well as full-text access to more than 1 million technical reports published by NRL. Torpedo includes a search engine to search topics in the articles and reports that are part of this system [Search Help]. |
| Web of Science | Provides Web access via the Naval Research Lab to the Science Citation Index Expanded database, a collection of high quality research information from leading professional science journals from 1985 to present. The database offers access to articles' cited references, including articles, government reports, and patents. (Science Citation Index on Index Shelves 1961-1997.) |
ADDITIONAL DATABASES IN RELATED FIELDS: |
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American Men & Women of Science |
American Men & Women of Science full-text e-book from Gale Virtual Reference Center. |
| (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) Provides access to literature in the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackish-water environments from 1978 to the present. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.) | |
| Dictionary of Scientific Biography | Dictionary of Scientific Biography full-text e-book. |
| (Educational Resources Information Center) ERIC is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to education-related literature. ERIC provides access to the broad range of educational resources included in Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education. | |
| (Formerly EI Compendex) Online index to the engineering literature, including journals, technical reports, and conferences. | |
| Provides access to dozens of indexes and databases in a variety of subject areas. Password required; contact the Reference Desk at x32420. Patrons wanting to use WorldCat Online click here. | |
| Catalog of U. S. Government Publications July 1976-Present. | |
| Provides full text for nearly 270 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books. | |
Produced by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Inspec provides access to the world's scientific and technical literature in the areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing, control engineering, and more. |
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Full-text archive of scholarly journals including a general science collection. Select More Information for tips in using JSTOR. |
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| Provides access to technical literature on marine-related topics. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.) | |
| Scitopia | Scitopia is a free search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies. Search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data. Fifteen societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship help you with your queries. |
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Last updated: 11 August 2008