Science - General Research Resources

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Journal Article & Patent Databases | Reference Sources | E-Prints
Online Journals & Dissertations | Web Guides | Associations & Organizations | Other

Journal Article & Patent Databases

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Academic Search Premier popular press, news + scholarly journals

Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Other OhioLINK databases for Science and Engineering

ESP@CENET: Europe's Network of Patent Databases

USPTO Patent Database

Reference Sources

• Access Science: Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (McGraw Hill) print volumes available at Q121 .M3
• American Men and Women of Science Q141.A47
• The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists Q 141 .B528
• The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science Q 141 .B5285
• A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients Q 141 .C252
• A Dictionary of Scientific Biography in Main Ref and Science Oversize Q 141 .D5
• Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology Q123 .E497
• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment online; including acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, air quality, climate change, sustainability and weather.
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science Q 121 .G35
• McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms Q123 .M15 2002
• Oxford Reference Online - Science dictionaries & encyclopedias
• ScienceWorld physics, mathematics, chemistry and astronomy. Wolfram Research
• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations Q 179 .E64
• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia Q 121 .V3

E-Prints, Online Journals, Electronic Dissertations

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• E-Print Network - Dept. of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Search 35,300 websites and databases worldwide, containing over 5.5 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including chemistry, biology and life sciences, and more.
• Nature 1997 -
  We also have essentially all issues in print and maintain a current print subscription.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Science 1997-
• Science 1880-2002 (JSTOR archive)
  
• ScienceDirect.com OhioLINK users now can access most journal backfiles and current issues at the Elsevier ScienceDirect site. Choose "Oberlin College OhioLink" as your institution.
• ScienceDirect archives will also be loaded at the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC).
• OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
• JSTOR archive of scholarly journals: browse by discipline
• Journal Finder thousands of more journals, accessible through licensed databases and subscriptions.

Web Guides

• Google Web Directory: Science
• SciCentral "award winning gateway to scientific resources and news" powered by
• Science.gov a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies.
• Scirus; search engine for science, developed by Elsevier publishing
• The Virtual Library: Science the "oldest catalog of the Web"
• World Wide Science.gov  global science gateway to national and international scientific databases

Associations and Organizations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science)
• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
• The National Academies
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Engineering
  • Institute of Medicine
  • National Research Council
• National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute)
• The National Center for Standards and Certification Information at the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
• National Science Foundation
• The Nature Conservancy
• Smithsonian Institution

Other Resources

• 4000 Years of Women in Science Univ. Alabama
• Nobel Prize e-Museum Official Web site of the Nobel Foundation
• Smithsonian Research, Fellowships and Internships
• ScienceNOW Up to the minute Science news from Science magazine is updated daily with the latest news in the world of science.