Finding Information using UTPA's Online Databases

Searching Databases within your Major: Sciences & Engineering

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery includes magazines and journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. Only the journal articles are available in full text; click on Digital Library to search for them.

AGRICOLA "created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators," covers "all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines."

AGRICOLA (from EBSCO) "contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations."

American Chemical Society provides full image articles from dozens of chemistry journals. Click on search the journals to search for articles.

Annual Reviews has citations and abstracts for biomedical, physical, and social sciences.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text provides citations, abstracts, and some full text/full image from over 500 engineering, technology, and applied science publications.

arXiv.org archives preprints in physics, computer science, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and quantitative biology.

Astrophysics Data System from NASA includes abstracts (and some full text) on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and Los Alamos preprints.

Biological Abstracts covers international journals in the life sciences from 1980 to the present.

ChemFinder.Com includes chemical structures, physical properties, hyperlinks to more information, and links to other databases.

ChemWeb.Com "the largest online chemical community in the world ... combines a huge range of information for those in research chemistry, the chemicals industries and related disciplines."

CiteSeer.IST is a "scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science" that provides full text articles.

Computer Source provides the "latest information on trends in high technology ...with abstracts and indexing for over 150 titles."

DISCovering Science provides comprehensive coverage to a number of scientific disciplines, but not at an advanced level.

EEVL Xtra cross-searches 20 databases, including content from over 50 publishers, to find articles, books, technical reports and data, eprints, the latest research, industry news, job announcements and quality websites, etc, in engineering, mathematics and computing. It includes some full text articles.

Ei Engineering Village includes Compendex Web and a variety of other engineering sources/information.

Energy Citations Database "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)."

GrayLIT Network "provides a portal for over 100,000 full text technical reports located at the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)."

HCI Bibliography "provides a bibliographic database [of over 20,000 records] on Human-Computer Interaction."

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online has nearly a third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science, including full text database of journals, conference proceedings and standards in the field.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts "provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas...[from] over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals."

IOP, the Institute of Physics, offers full text physics magazines, full image articles from dozens of journals, and other physics information.

JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

National Council for Science and the Environment includes online books, Congressional reports, papers, articles, etc., many of which are full text.

Nature Archives provides complete articles from Nature for the years 1950--1996.

Nature Biotechnology Archives has complete articles for the period March 1983--April 1998.

Nature Chemical Biology "is a monthly [full text] multidisciplinary journal providing an international forum for the timely publication of significant new research at the interface between chemistry and biology."

Nature Genetics Archives includes includes complete coverage for the period April 1992--April 1998.

Nature Materials "is a monthly multi-disciplinary [full text] journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science, blending physics, chemistry, biology and engineering into an innovative product."

Nature Medicine Archives has complete coverage for the period January 1995--April 1998.

Nature Physics "publishes [full text] papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied ...[including] core physics disciplines, but...also ...a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics."

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Archives includes complete articles for the period January 1994--April 1998.

NIST Chemistry WebBook from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NSDL (National Science Digital Library) "is the Nation's FREE online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."

PrePRINT Network "is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. Such disciplines include the great bulk of physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine."

Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) "is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas," including various types of engineering.

ResearchIndex is a "scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature."

Science & Technology Collection "contains over 800 leading full text journals" plus indexing and abstracts for hundreds more, "covering...aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science."

Science of Synthesis Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations "is designed to be the first point of reference before embarking on further searches, providing a route through the mass information available in primary literature." You must allow pop-up windows to open to use Science of Synthesis.

Science Direct provides full image articles from more than 1000 agriculture, arts and humanities, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, engineering, energy and technology, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social and behavioral sciences journals. Click on either the Publications button or the Search button to begin your search.

Science Full Text provides citations and abstracts to British and American science magazines and journals. It also includes full text/full image articles.

SpringerLINK provides abstracts, full text, and full image articles from journals published by Springer. The articles/journals are in the fields of computer science, economics, engineering, law, medicine, mathematics, and life and physical sciences. Click on search to begin your search for articles.

Web of Knowledge contains three citation databases - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which include citations and some links to full text articles from 1975 to the present. We ask all participants to use the LOG OUT button at the end of each search session when they are finished, so that others may use Web of Science.