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History of Science, Technology & Medicine 1975 - present The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database incorporates four bibliographies, The Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography of the History of Techn... View History of Science, Technology & Medicine Online

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Early European Books (EEB) Pre-1701 Early European Books provides online full-text access to a deep digital archive of rare books on all aspects of life and culture in the early modern period. The content is from the leading national... View Early European Books (EEB) Online
History of Science, Technology & Medicine 1975 - present The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database incorporates four bibliographies, The Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography of the History of Techn... View History of Science, Technology & Medicine Online
IndexCat (National Library of Medicine) IndexCat is a digitized version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. The content and coverage is the same as the printed catalog. See: About Index-Catalogu... View IndexCat (National Library of Medicine) Online
PubMed 1950 - present PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 journals in ... View PubMed Online

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American Periodicals 1740 - 1940 American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century. Titles ran... View American Periodicals Online
APA Style Guide to Electronic References This guide (in PDF format) is adapted from the 6th edition Publication Manual of the APA; up-to-date guide to formatting electronic references in APA Style. Outlines key elements for referencing el... View APA Style Guide to Electronic References Online
Book History Online 1973 - present An international bibliography in the field of book and library history, BHO "provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monogr... View Book History Online Online
British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) 1680s - 1930s This database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ... View British Periodicals (1680s to the 1930s) Online
COS Pivot 1998 - present COS Pivot offers a number of services, such as the Funding Opportunities database, the Funding Alert email update service, and the COS Funded Research and COS Expertise features. The COS Funding Op... View COS Pivot Online
Electronic Enlightenment 18th century A project of the University of Oxford and other universities and organizations, Electronic Enlightenment is a web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the eighteenth centu... View Electronic Enlightenment Online
Historical Abstracts 1955 - present Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Ca... View Historical Abstracts Online
History of Science and Technology Dates vary The History of Science and Technology Collection brings together in digital facsimile two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about scientific research at the University of W... View History of Science and Technology Online
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) International database of 15th-century European imprints for nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501. Includes some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th ce... View Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) Online
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts 1970 - present IPA provides worldwide, comprehensive bibliographic coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature. SUBJECTS COVERED: Biopharmaceutics, Drug Therapy, Economics, Education, Ethics... View International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Online
Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) 1957 - 1995 The Joint Publications Research Service was a U.S. government organization established in 1957 to supply government agencies with translations of unclassified foreign documents consisting of the fo... View Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) Online
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 1997 - present JCR provides a means of determining the relative importance of scholarly and technical journals within their subject disciplines by using a variety of citation and article counts attributed to each... View Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Making of the Modern World I & II (1450-1914), The 1450 - 1914 This wide-ranging collection looks at history through the lens of wealth and trade with a focus on economics in the widest sense, including political science, history, philosophy, sociology, and sp... View Making of the Modern World I & II (1450-1914), The Online
New York Academy of Sciences Digital Archive 1817 - present This collection of digitized primary sources provides access to two hundred years of scientific research and progress in the fields of natural history, natural sciences, medical research, climate s... View New York Academy of Sciences Digital Archive Online
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global 1637 - present ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global includes millions of doctoral dissertations in all subject areas completed at over 700 academic institutions worldwide. Some masters theses are also included.... View ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Online
ulrichsweb.com Ulrich's Periodical Directory Current Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, or ulrichsweb.com (formerly Ulrich's Plus), provides detailed information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publication... View ulrichsweb.com Ulrich's Periodical Directory Online
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... View Web of Science Online
World Biographical Index Current The database World Biographical Index contains short biographical details on people who either lived in, or were influential in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Australasian-Pacific region, and North and ... View World Biographical Index Online
WorldCat via FirstSearch Before 1000 BC to the present WorldCat is a catalog of millions of books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives, manuscripts, scores, computer files, and web sites owned by OCLC member libraries around the world, including... View WorldCat via FirstSearch Online
WorldCat via WorldCat.org Before 1000 BC to the present WorldCat is a catalog of millions of books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives, manuscripts, scores, computer files, and web sites owned by OCLC member libraries around the world, including... View WorldCat via WorldCat.org Online

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