General Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals. Includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more. -
Summon This link opens in a new window
Summon is a library search engine that lets you search CONSORT, the majority of the library's databases, ebooks, media, and lots more from a single search box.
Science Databases
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowAnnual Reviews offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Includes work from disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
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arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowOpen access to 1,317,907 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Scientific Advisory Board and the arXiv Member Advisory Board.
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Astrophysics Data System This link opens in a new window
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a tool for finding astronomy and planetary science publications operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in partnership with with NASA and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astronomy. -
Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Engineering Village provides a searchable index of abstracts and citations of engineering literature and patent information. -
Scitation This link opens in a new windowScitation is home to the most influential news, comment, analysis and research in the Physical Sciences.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Periodicals
Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals can be incredibly dense reading for undergraduates. For this course, the following science periodicals present material that is often more understandable for students at this level.