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Databases / Indexes

Academic Search Elite Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Biological Abstracts Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Biological Abstracts encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included. More than 6,500 serials are monitored for inclusion.

Ei Engineering Village Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Engineering Village is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields. Engineering Village features: COMPENDEX is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature. INSPEC includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

FRANCIS Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A multilingual and multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering the humanities (archaeology, history of art, history of science, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory, religions), social sciences (administration, computer and law, education, ethnology, geography, health , sociology) and economics (economy, energy economics, management ).

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
HST describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology in these and allied fields. Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.

Inspec Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics

Inspec Archive 1898-1968 Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering.

ISI Web of Knowledge Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A citation database that includes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, 1900-present, the Social Science Citation Index, 1956-present, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

Journal Citation Reports on the Web Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A comprehensive resource for journal evaluation, ISI's Journal Citation Reports uses citation data drawn from over 7,600 scholarly and technical journals worldwide and includes all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Data reveals the highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest journals.

PsycINFO Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1500 journals in more than 35 languages, and book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.

Scirus Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A science-specific Internet search engine. Searching can be restricted to specific disciplines and resource types in advanced search. A search will lead to full-text journal articles in e-journals the library subscribes to, as well as free resources on the Web.



Dissertations

Current Research @ CIC Institutions Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text of all CIC dissertations (including University of Iowa, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts are available for earlier dissertations.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Full Text) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. The Database offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.



Journal Collections

Annual Reviews Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

BioOne Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Collection of the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Blackwell Synergy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Cambridge Journals Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Elsevier ScienceDirect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.

HighWire Press Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

IngentaConnect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

JSTOR (Journal Storage) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.

Open Science Directory
Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.

Oxford Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

SpringerLink Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.

The University of Chicago Press Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Wiley InterScience Restricted Resource - UI Access Only



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