Finding Articles in Science Journals

Essential Databases & Indexes

Biological Abstracts -- older print volumes in Science Library, 1980- present is available online as Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS.

Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar. Limited to two simultaneous users, with a personal login specifically for users with oberlin.edu email address. (Contact the science librarian for registration information.)

GeoBase: non-western hemisphere emphasis for all of the earth sciences.

GeoRef: U.S. and western hemisphere emphasis. Excellent retrospective and current resource.

INSPEC: physics, electronics, computing, engineering; thoroughly comprehensive, detailed indexing and subject thesaurus.

MathSciNet: Web version of Mathematical Reviews.

Medline: has many access points: we recommend Medline via OhioLINK search interface (which provides access to many full-text journals online, plus catalog information from OBIS and OhioLINK Central); you can also search it as PubMed at the NLM/NIH, or via SciFinder Scholar.

ISI Web of Knowledge: An important interdisciplinary index for all areas of basic science research; links to full-text and library catalog information.

SciFinder Scholar: provides access to Chemical Abstracts and related databases.