Science - General Research Resources
Journal
Article & Patent Databases | Reference Sources | E-Prints
Online Journals & Dissertations |
Web Guides | Associations
& Organizations | Other
Journal Article & Patent Databases
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
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
- E-Print Network - Dept. of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Provides one-stop browse/search access to more than 16,100 Web sites containing e-prints, full text searching of over 524,000 e-print documents indexed from Web sites, deep Web searching across 39 major databases containing close to 20 million pages of searchable full text, and links to more than 2,300 professional scientific societies.
- 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: We do not download articles at the Elsevier ScienceDirect site. Go instead to OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC). OhioLINK subscribers (including Oberlin) access the resources offered at ScienceDirect at the EJC, where they are archived in perpetuity.
- Scientific American online archive (from 1993 to the present) | print
- OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
- JSTOR archive of scholarly journals: browse General Science
- Other online journals to which the library subscribes are all fully cataloged on OBIS; choose periodical title search for quickest access.
- The Electronic Journal Finder is another useful guide to online journals accessible from Oberlin, through publishers' agreements with various database providers.
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)
- The National Academies
- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute)
- The National Center for Standards and Certification Information at the National Institute of Standards and Technology email:
- National Science Foundation
- The Nature Conservancy
- Smithsonian Institution
Other Resources
- 4000 Years of Women in Science Univ. Alabama
- In-Cites: Sientists, journals, institutions, nations, and papers selected by ISI Essential Science Indicators.
- Nobel e-Museum Official Web site of the Nobel Foundation
- Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- Research Training Program, National Museum of Natural History
- ScienceNOW Web site of Science magazine is updated daily with the latest news in the world of science. The full-text of Science is not available, however, since the library does not subscribe to the current online version. You can use the print version in the Science Library.