Science & Technology Databases
Subject Specific Databases
- Science Reference Center (Ebsco/iCONN)
Full text from books, journals, magazines, reference sources, and videos on life sciences, physical sciences, earth & space sciences. Includes materials suitable for middle and high school use. All Ebsco databases (for combined searching.)
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Abstracts and selected full text articles in scientific, technical and medical fields. Science Direct help
- JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields. Use the Advanced Search to limit to journals in one or more specific subjects, including aquatic science, biology, botany, ecology, general science, health science, history of science, and/or zoology.
- ASTA: Applied Science & Technology Index (FS)
Indexes engineering, computer science, math, physics, and related literature.
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: Credo Reference: Science, Oxford Reference: Science
- See also: Databases for Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Physics
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic One File (iCONN)
Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.
- Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Indexes/abstracts articles in 3000+ scholarly journals in sciences, social sciences and humanities, and general interest magazines and newspapers. Many articles available in full text. All Ebsco databases (for combined searching).
- CQ Researcher
Full text of the weekly CQ Researcher, covering multiple viewpoints on current controversial social issues.
Good for social and ethical issues of science and technology topics.
- Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/iCONN)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
- General (InfoTrac) OneFile (Gale/iCONN)
Formerly InfoTrac OneFile. For college students. Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.
- General Reference Center Gold (Gale/iCONN)
Multi-source general interest reference tool, with articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (iCONN)
Articles from law, business, and medical journals; articles from major newspapers and general interest magazines; transcripts and other materials. Try General and News for newspaper coverage of science topics; Legal for law reviews on regulation and ethics of science and technology; People for biographical coverage of scientists.
- Opposing Viewpoints
Dynamic online library of current event topics including the facts, as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Good for social and ethical issues of science and technology topics.
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Gale Virtual Reference Library (use the Advanced Search to limit to Environment, Science, Technology, and/or other topics).
