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ACCESS SCIENCE -- Online science reference material; provides access to articles, fully illustrated, from McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and more.

TODAY’S SCIENCE -- Presents the latest scientific discoveries and fundamental concepts that underlie them. Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, Today's Science covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

ENVIRONMENT COMPLETE -- Indexing, abstracts, and full text of articles and monographs on: agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE -- Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. It includes indexing, abstracts, and full text for scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

MASTERFILE PREMIER -- Multidisciplinary database providing full text for general reference publications covering subject areas of general interest. It includes full text from reference books, biographies, and primary source documents, as well as an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

NEWSPAPER SOURCE PLUS -- Full text for regional and national newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns. This database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.

ASSOCIATES PROGRAM SOURCE -- This database, designed for junior & community colleges, focuses on degrees and certification programs including: accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics -- Online version of the classic Handbook; provides a concise source of data needed by R&D professionals, engineers, and students, including conversion factors, terminology and nomenclature, physical constants, and properties spanning the full range of the physical sciences.

MERLOT Science and Technology -- Merlot is a collection of databases that have been created to be used by students. The sites have been reviewed and can supplement your assignments.

ENGnetBASE: Engineering Electronic Library -- An online, searchable collection of more than 200 engineering reference works. Published by CRC Press, one of the world's leading publishers of engineering handbooks, it covers subject areas such as: aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, lasers and optical engineering, materials science, and mechanical engineering.

COMPUTERS & APPLIED SCIENCES COMPLETE -- Covers research and development of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It includes indexing, abstracts and full text of articles in engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies, from academic journals, professional publications, and reference sources.

LIBRARY, INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS (LISTA) -- Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) -- A vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

NATURE -- Online version of the international weekly journal of science.

ANNUAL REVIEWS OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in the physical sciences; synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifies the principal contributions in the various disciplines.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY -- Online access to peer-reviewed journals and magazines of the American Chemical Society.

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY -- Online access to publications by the American Mathematical Society.

FUENTE ACADEMICA (in Spanish) -- Provides full text for scholarly Spanish language journals in academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.


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