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Steacie Science and Engineering Library > Science Databases

Science Databases

A- Z List of key databases in the Sciences (along with instructions on setting up RSS Feeds in brackets)

A-C D-F G-L M-R S-Z

Academic OneFile (setting up RSS Feeds)

ACM Digital Library

Agricola

Anatomy Physiology Online

Applied Science and Technology Index (Setting up RSS Feeds)

Arctic Science and Technology Information System. ASTIS

arXiv.org e-Print Archive

Biological Abstracts (Link 1, Link 2)

Business Source Premier (Setting up RSS Feeds)

Canadian Periodical Index (Setting up RSS Feeds)

CBCA Complete (setting up RSS Feeds)

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (Setting up RSS Feeds)

CiteSeerX

CogNet

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Compendex (via Engineering Village) (setting up RSS Feeds)

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Computer Database

Computing Research Repository

Conference Papers Index

Current Index to Statistics

D

Design and Applied Arts Index

Data & Statistics Guide

EBMR : Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE and CCTR (no RSS – set up Alerts)

Education Index

Expanded Academic ASAP

Environment Index (Setting up RSS Feeds)

ERIC Database

Factiva (RSS feeds)

G

GDCN Global Daily

General Science Index (Setting up RSS Feeds)

GeoRef (setting up RSS Feeds)

Google Scholar

Guide to Computing Literature (ACM)

HEP-INSPIRE High-Energy Physics Literature Database (RSS Feeds Icon at the bottom of the results page)

Highwire Press (RSS Feeds for journals)

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

IEEE Xplore (setting up RSS Feeds)

Inspec (Via Engineering Village) (Link 1, Link 2)

JSTOR (setting up RSS Feeds)

Lexis-Nexis Academic (RSS Feeds)

Locus: SIAM’s Online Journal Archive (setting up RSS feeds)

M

MathSciNet Mathematics Subject Classification

Medline (Ovid) (AutoAlerts)

Molecular Biology Database Categories

NASA Astrophysics Data System

OregonPDF in health & performance

Odesi

P

Physical Education Index

Primal Pictures (Anatomy) Demo

Primal Pictures (Physiology)

PrimateLit

Proquest (setting up RSS Feeds)

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health

Proquest Theses & Dissertations (North America & Europe) (setting up RSS Feeds)

Proquest Theses (UK & Ireland) (setting up RSS Feeds)

PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)

Project Euclid

Psychiatry Online

PsycINFO (setting up RSS Feeds)

PubMed (setting up RSS Feeds)

Reaxys

RefWorks

Research Library (setting up RSS Feeds)

S

Scifinder Tutorial (Scifinder Keep Me Posted Alerts)

Scholars Portal e-journals

SciVerse/Scopus (setting up RSS feeds)

SPIRES HEP Database

Sport Discus (setting up RSS feeds)

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory

Web of Science (Link 1, Link 2)

Wiley Interscience (Register for e-mail alerts)