The following indexes are among the many available via MNCAT from University
Libraries at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/indexes.phtml
Academic Search Premier
[Coverage: Coverage varies, some
starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.] The world's largest
academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text
for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500
peer-reviewed journals.
AccessScience
The online version of McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of
Scientific and Technical Terms.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
The online
version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
Biological Abstracts
[Coverage:
1980-2003.] Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of
the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal
literature.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent
publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed
biomedical research
BIOSIS Previews
[Coverage: 1996 - present, updated
monthly.] Covers the biological and medical sciences, including
biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and
zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers,
technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications.
CAB Abstracts
[Coverage: 1973 - present.] CAB
Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production,
forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science,
agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics,
recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health
CANCERLIT
[Coverage: 1983 - present, updated
monthly.] This international bibliographic database pertains to all
aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy;
chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis;
biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth
factor studies.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S.
GPO)
[Coverage: 1976 - present.] Produced by the Government
Printing Office, 1976 to the present, the Catalog of United States Government
publications includes print and electronic Government information products
created by Federal agencies and is updated daily.
Chemical Abstracts (vis SciFinder Scholar)
[Coverage:
1907 - present.] SciFinder provides access to CAS databases (Chemical
Abstracts and more) via a desktop client/server application for Mac and
Windows.
CHEMnetBASE
[Coverage: Varies.] CHEMnetBASE is a
reference source for locating chemical facts, properties, literature references,
and for performing structure searching.
CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
Includes
information from 16 different databases created by agencies of the US Federal
Government.
CINAHL
[Coverage: 1982 - present, updated
monthly.] CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, has
a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines,
biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected
standards of professional practice.
Compendex/Engineering Index
[Coverage: 1884 - present,
updated monthly.] Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical
periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering
disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and
related fields in science and management.
Computing Reviews
[Coverage: 1974 - Present.]
Computing Reviews selectively reviews articles, books, and proceedings to the
current research, theory and applications in computer science and related
fields.
Current Protocols
Series of standard, authoritative
guides to research laboratory methods in the life sciences; the U of M
subscribes to 9 Current Protocols titles: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Human
Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Protein
Science, and Toxicology.
Dekker Encyclopedias
Online access to:Encyclopedia of
Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering; Encyclopedia of Dietary
Supplements; Encyclopedia of Pest Management; Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science; Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science; Encyclopedia of
Soil Science; Encyclopedia of Water Science; Quality Engineering. Remote
access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and
faculty.
Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge)
[Coverage:
1996 - present.] DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and
quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics,
chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies,
engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other
topics.
Digital Dissertations
[Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral
dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).] Dissertations and theses
from over 1000 universities.
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis for Plastics
Engineering
Describes uses of DMA & gives data for 120
thermoplastics families.
E-Texts for Health Sciences
Links to electronic versions
of medical textbooks.
EDP Sciences
Remote access available for University of
Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty Please note we do not have
a subscription to every e-journal provided by this vendor.
Effect of Creep and Other Time Related Factors on
Plastics
A 2-volume set showing effects of creep and time on over 60
generic families of thermoplastics, elastomers, alloys and others.
Effect of Sterilization Methods on Plastics and
Elastomers
Summarizes the topic, & gives data about effects of
gamma, electron beam, & beta radiation; steam autoclave; ethylene oxide;
chemical disinfectants; & dry heat sterilization, and the physical changes
accompanying the above.
Effect of Temperature and Other Factors on Plastics
A
2-volume set about plastics under varying operating conditions at a range of
temperatures.
Electronic Journals: Science and Engineering
NOTE: Remote
full-text access to many of these electronic journals is restricted to
students, staff and faculty at the University of Minnesota.
Elsevier – Brain Research Interactive
Remote access
available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and
faculty.
Elsevier Science Direct
[Coverage 1998-present for most
titles.]Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities
students, staff and faculty.
Encyclopedia of Mathematics
The Online Encyclopaedia of
Mathematics is an up-to-date, comprehensive, graduate-level reference work.
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk-Othmer)
One of
the most comprehensive and well-known encyclopedias in the field of chemical
technology; it also contains a great deal of basic chemistry.
Encyclopedia of Chromatography
Includes more than 400
articles on a variety of chromatographic techniques.
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
This updated edition
of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry covers the following areas of
inorganic chemistry: Main Group Elements; Transition Metals and Coordination
Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Solid State,
Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and General Inorganic Chemistry,
Theoretical and Computational Methods.
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
An
integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopedias, produced by UNESCO, that
"presents authoritative, comprehensive, and integrated approaches to the
science, technology, and management of natural and human resources necessary for
life support".
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
[Coverage:
1982-89.] The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences provides information on
statistical theory and the applications of statistical methods in various
scientific fields.
Energy Citations Database
[Coverage: 1948-.] Energy
Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related
scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its
predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration
(ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
ENGnetBASE
[Coverage: Varies.] ENGnetBASE is a
reference source for locating engineering information, including data, formulas,
graphs, and tables.
ENVIROnetBASE
Collection of environmental science
handbooks published by CRC Press.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Database
[Coverage: 1967 - present.] This database provides
comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.
Epocrates Rx Clinical Drug Database
Peer-reviewed drug
information including off-label indications and formularies in an easy to use
format.
Essential Science Indicators
[Coverage: Dates
vary.] This analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists,
institutions, countries, and journals.
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Evidence base medicine
reviews provides content from two databases: Cochrane database of systematic
reviews, published by Update Software for the Cochrane Collaboration, and Best
evidence, a database containing all the articles from ACP journal club (a
publication of the American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal
Medicine) and the articles from Evidence-based medicine (a joint publication of
the ACP and British Medical Journal Group).
Fish & Fisheries Worldwide
[Coverage: 1971 - present,
updated quarterly.] A working biologist's index to all aspects of
ichthyology, fisheries and aquaculture, including fish management, natural
history, and fish health, plus environmental, habitat, and commercial
information.
Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
[Coverage:
1969 - present.] Search here to find citations and abstracts for journal
articles, conference papers, technical reports and international patents in food
processing, storage, and safety, food additives, food chemistry and
properties.
ForestScience.info
[Coverage: 1939 - present.]
ForestScience.Info (formerly TreeCD) is an online abstracting and indexing
database of records describing the research literature of forest science, wood
science, and related topics.
GenBank
GenBank is the National Institutes of Health
genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA
sequences.
Geobase
[Coverage: 1980 - present, updated
monthly.] Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and
ecology.
Geological Society of America
Remote access available for
University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.
GeoRef
[Coverage: 1785 - present.] Index to the
worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology,
hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy.
Harrison’s Online|
Consists of the latest edition of the
basic text of Harrison's principles of internal medicine, sections on clinical
trials, updates (and their related references, including abstracts) related to
the text and an online pretests section.
Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary
Gives technical
and descriptive data for common substances and phenomena.
Health and Medicine in the News
[Coverage: May 1994 -
present.] Lists citations to health-related articles reported in the Star
Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities [Minneapolis Edition].
History of Science and Technology (web)
[HST: 1976-to
date.] Includes articles about the history of science in all historical
periods.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
[Coverage:
Science, 1976 - present; Technology, 1987 - present; updated annually.]
Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history
of science and technology.
HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health
and biological sciences database.
IBIDS – International Bibliographic Information on Dietary
Supplements
[Coverage: 1986 - present.] IBIDS contains
bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific
journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals,
herbal and botanical supplements from the Office of Dietary Supplements at the
NIH.
images.MD
[Coverage: Varies.] images.MD compiles
over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived
from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases.
Ingenta
This index provides bibliographic citations
derived from tables of contents pages of over 26,000 journals. Remote
access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and
faculty.
IngentaConnect
[Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated
daily.] Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities
students, staff, and faculty. This index provides bibliographic
citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20
million articles from 30,000 publications.
INSPEC
[Coverage: 1896 - present, updated monthly.]
Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics
and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control,
and information technology.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
[Coverage: 1970 -
present, updated monthly.] Provides information on all phases of the
development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. The
Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 3 users at any one time.
International Union of Crytallography
Remote access
available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and
faculty.
IOP (Institute of Physics)
Remote access available for
University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.
ISI Web of Knowledge
The ISI Web of Knowledge provides
the Web of Science interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI
Citation products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences,
social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX) Guide
The
Antibiotic Guide is a decision support tool intended to provide clinicians with
concise, digested, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of
infectious diseases.
Journal of Applied Statistics
[Coverage: 1995 - present
online. 1985 - present in paper copy in Mathematics Library (310 Vincent
Hall).]
Journals<at>Ovid
Remote access available for
University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty. The
Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 3 users at any one time.
JSTOR
Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the
humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Knovel
Engineering handbooks and monographs.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Provides the full text
of significant conference proceedings in the field.
Lecture Notes in Physics
This series contains lectures
and tutorial reviews based on original research material from all fields of
physics and astronomy.
MATHnetBASE
MATHnetBASE provides full text access to many
mathematics reference sources published by CRC Press.
MathSciNet
[Coverage: Mathematical Reviews(MR): 1940 -
present, updated monthly; Current Mathematical Publications (CMP): 1985 -
present, updated daily.] A comprehensive index, with abstracts, to the
research literature of mathematics.
MD Consult
Full text access to selected medical texts,
medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and
CME materials. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin
Cities students, staff and faculty. The Libraries' subscription to this resource
allows for 7 users at any one time.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
[Coverage: 1966 - present, updated
weekly.] MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences. The
Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one
time.
MedlinePlus
[Coverage: updated daily.] MedlinePlus
has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other
trusted sources on over 590 diseases and conditions.
Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and
Biologicals
Classic reference source for chemists; contains over
10,000 entries on drugs and pharmaceuticals, common organic chemicals and
laboratory reagents.
MICROMEDEX
Provides access to drug information resources,
including DRUGDEX; POISINDEX; Martindale, the Extra Pharmacopoeia; Index
Nominum; and Physician's Desk Reference.
NANOnetBASE
Online, full-text handbooks covering topics
in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
NASA Technical Report Server
[Coverage: NASA: 1962 -
present, updated monthly; NACA: 1915 - 1960.]
Provides citation with
abstracts mostly to technical reports relating to aerospace research.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCAM)
[Coverage: 1963 - present.] Division of the NIH
concerned with alternative medicine.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
This database
contains authoritative, current information on herbal medicines and supplements,
including safety, effectiveness, known constituents, and possible interactions
with other substances.
Nature
Includes Nature weekly, as well as EMBO and the
"Academic and Society" and "Research and Reviews" titles.
Nature Biotechnology Directory
Global information
resource listing over 8,000 organizations, product and service providers in the
biotechnology industry.
Nature Protocols
Nature Protocols is an online resource
for experimental protocols, primarily in biology and chemistry, including
authoritative, peer-reviewed 'Nature Protocols' and an interactive 'Protocols
Network'.
NTIS National Technical Information Service
[Coverage:
1964 - present.] NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide
scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related publications with over
2.0 million bibliographic records since 1964. Contents include research reports,
computer products, software, video and audio. See the NTIS Website for an
overview of subject coverage and document delivery services.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection:
Comprehensive
[Coverage: 1975 - present.] Designed for nursing
and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this
database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of
nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health
disciplines.
Oceanic Abstracts
[Coverage: 1981 - current.]
Abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water
environment.
Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC
International
Chemical and microbiological analytical methods
validated by the AOAC Official Methods Program.
Ornithological Worldwide Literature
[Coverage: 1983 -
present.] OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the
worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.
PAPERCHEM
[Coverage: 1967 - present, updated
quarterly.] Indexes publications relating to pulp, paper and allied
technologies.
Patents (United States)
[Coverage: 1790 - present,
updated weekly.] The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all
US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of
every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date.
Publisher/Producer is the U.S.
Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook
A handy collection
of data, units, equations and topic reviews for chemical engineers.
PestBank
[Coverage: Current information; updated
quarterly.] The PEST-BANK Pesticide Product Data file describes specific
pesticide products in detail.
Plant Information Online
[Coverage: 1982 - present,
updated daily.] Includes current sources in North American nurseries for
over 70,000 plants; over 200,000citations to current plant science literature,
listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an
evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images. Note:
Non-University users can obtain access for a fee.
Pollution Abstracts
[Coverage: May 1981- present.]
Citations and abstracts for articles, conference papers and technical reports on
air, water and soil pollution, pollution control, and hazardous waste
disposal.
Polymers: A Property Database
A user-friendly interface
gives access to names, physical property data, supplier information, structures,
applications, & manufacturing process.
Prokaryotes, The
A reference work on the biology of
bacteria.
PubMed – Public Version
[Coverage: 1950 to
present.] Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences -
the public version provides only limited full text access to journal
articles.
PubMed – U of M Students, Staff & Faculty
[Coverage:
1950 to present.] Primary source of journal article access for the health
sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline
e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
Remote access
available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and
faculty. Articles published from 1841 to 1996 are available at the
RSC Journals Archive.
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
[Coverage: 1992 -
present.] Published by INION, the Institute for Scholarly Information in
the Social Sciences, the RAS Bibliography covers materials in the humanities and
social sciences published in the Commonwealth of Independent States, in Eastern
European countries, Western Europe, and North America.
SAE Digital Library
Provides full-text of SAE (Society of
Automotive Engineers) technical papers and SAE Special Publications (SP's) from
1998 to present.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI)
[Coverage: 1994 -
present, updated weekly.] Covers the sciences, including agriculture,
astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science,
materials science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, oncology, pediatrics,
pharmacology, physics, plant sciences, psychiatry, surgery, veterinary science,
and zoology.
Science of Synthesis
Science of Synthesis is an
electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides
access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references
back to 1835.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Search the abstracts or titles
of 1800 scientific and social science journals from Elsevier Science.
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics)
Remote access available for University of Minnesota --
Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.
TOXLINE
[Coverage: 1965-present.] TOXLINE includes
citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters,
and meeting abstracts, papers and reports on Toxicological, pharmacological,
biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
TOXNET
Online collection of toxicology-related databases
including HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), IRIS (Integrated Risk
Information System), TOXLINE, and several others.
Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
"The
worlds's largest technical encyclopedia," this is also a very trusted source of
information on a wide variety of fields that involve chemistry.
USPTO Web Patent Databases
[Coverage: 1790 - present,
updated weekly.] This database from the the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and
full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the
most recent weekly issue date.
VET CD
[Coverage: 1989-present; 1973-present.]
VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com.
Water Resources Abstracts
[Coverage: 1967-present.]
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on
water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control,
pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
Web of Science (ISI)
[Coverage: 1994-date (sciences)
1975-date (arts & humanities).] Web of Science is the Web interface
for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international
journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Wiley Database of Polymer Properties
Based on the
'Polymer Handbook, an essential reference in polymer science, this database is
updated quarterly.
Wiley Interscience
Full text collection to 1,000
journals, major reference works, online books from John Wiley, a publisher of
scientific and social science literature.
Zoological Record
[Coverage: online 1978 - present,
updated monthly. Printed version 1864-present, published annually.] The
premiere index for the zoological sciences, this is a comprehensive index to the
world's zoological literature from approximately 6000
journals.
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