- American Chemical Society Publications
- The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. This link will give you full-text access to over thirty American Chemical Society publications covering the period 1996-present.
URL: http://pubs.acs.org/ - Annual Reviews
- Annual Reviews- provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource that synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature. They are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews in the sciences include Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Biophysics, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Genetics, Annual Review of Microbiology, and the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
URL: http://www.annurev.org/ - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS)
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) is the most comprehensive reference work ever published in the biological sciences. Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,100 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles. An essential read for life scientists as well as a valuable resource for teaching, the articles are written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage.
URL: http://www.els.net/ - Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.
Science titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 27 vols. 2008.
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. 4th ed. 6 vols. 2008.
- Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. 5 vols. 2002.
- Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. 3 vols. 2008.
- Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources. 2006.
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 10th ed. 20 vols. 2007.
- Medicine, Health, and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources. 2006.
- GreenFILE
- GreenFILE is a new database that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources. GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Comprised of both scholarly as well as general interest titles, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. Also includes selected government documents and reports. GreenFILE’s indexes more than 600 titles and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records.
URL: http://www.greeninfoonline.com/ - Medline
- Medline is the National Library of Medicine’s comprehensive collection of citations in the medical field indexing nearly 10,000 journals beginning in 1965. Scope is beyond medicine to include all scientific fields. Some full-text is included.
URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MEDLINE;FSIP - Public Library of Science
- The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource.
URL: http://www.plos.org/journals/index.php - PubMed Central
- PubMed Central (PMC) is the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. It was developed and is operated by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It includes GenBank, the genetic sequence data repository, and PubMed, the database of citations and abstracts to biomedical and other life science journal literature. PubMed (which encompasses Medline) allows researchers and clinicians alike to locate relevant articles and, in many cases, link directly to a publisher's site for the full text.
URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ - Todays Science
- Today’s Science is a database presented by Fact On File. It bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year backfile, Today’s Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology. Information is presented in context, clearly explained, and heavily illustrated.
URL: http://www.2facts.com/Direct2.aspx?ItemID=WE59&ID=95663 - Wiley InterScience
- Wiley InterScience is a major science database that includes both citations to journals and full text journal articles. The majority of the full text available has been published in the past ten years. CSU has access to 272 journals in this database. (The database indexes many more journal titles than this. If you are prompted for payment, then this is not one of the 272 journals available in full-text.) Ask at the main reference desk for further assistance in using the resource.
URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/search/allsearch - World Wide Science
- WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway providing one-stop federated searching of national and international scientific databases.
URL: http://worldwidescience.org/
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
