Databases by Subject - Science

Academic Search Complete
Full-text scholarly database with broad subject coverage, including biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology, sociology, and more. Collection includes over 9,800 titles, with more than 5,400 in full text.

American Chemical Society Publications
Full text access to publications from the American Chemical Society. Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical and Engineering News, and Journal of Organic Chemistry are among included titles. Database covers items published from 1879 to the most current research.

BioMed Central
Independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Broad subject coverage with more than 1,000 titles in the directory.

Energy, Science, and Technology Information (DOE)
Department of Energy site that provides access to energy, science, and technology research and development information. Links to Information Bridge (full-text DOE research reports), Energy Citations, and E-print Network (e-prints of papers in advance of publication).

E-print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers
Set of powerful tools that facilitate access to and use of scientific and technical e-prints communicating the results of a wide range of research activities of interest to the Department of Energy.

FreeMedicalJournals.com
Site provides links to more than 1,300 medical journals available on the Internet in full-text for free. This collection of medical journals includes materials for the scholarly researcher and for the general public.

GrayLIT Network
Portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. Agencies participating in the network include Department of Defense, Department of Energy, the EPA, and NASA.

IoP Select
Special collection of articles chosen from Institute of Physics Publishing's research journals, covering all physics. Articles are accessible via the Select service for 365 days. All articles chosen for IoP Select are published first in the source journals (available in print and electronically).

MathSciNet
Citation database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940; provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.

MedlinePlus
Health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Contains information on health topics, drug information, dictionary, encyclopedia, and directories of health care professionals.

PLANTS Database
Resource of the National Plant Data Center. From the site: "The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools."

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Non-profit organization of scientists and physicians "committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." PLoS publishes its own journals: PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine.

PubMed
Citation database of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals; includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

PubMed Central
Full-text database of biomedical and life sciences journal literature available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Access to full text, scholarly journals in a wide variety of subject areas. Content in the life sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences is all included in this database. Content not limited to the sciences, although that is the field of emphasis. The social sciences & humanities component offers full text access to hundreds of titles in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, business, economics, and psychology.

Science.gov
Gateway to selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

SciFinder Scholar
NSU students now have access to the Chemical Abstracts Service database, which includes references from over 9,500 journals and more than 50 active patent issuing authorities. These journals provide complete coverage in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, and medicine. In addition to these subject areas, SciFinder Scholar contains the worlds largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. To access SciFinder Scholar, please contact the NSU library reference desk. Access is limited to NSU faculty and student

Scirus
Science-specific search engine that searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages to locate scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web, including the latest reports and peer-reviewed articles and journals.

Scitation
Scitation indexes articles from 120 scholarly journals on topics in physics and engineering. Topics include mathematics, civil engineering, semiconductors, optics, and nuclear physics. Some full text content is included, but Scitation is made up largely of abstracts.

Web of Science
The Web of Science interface is the main way to access three major citation indexes. One is the Science Citation Index, which contains citations for scholarly journals in the areas of chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and astronomy. Another major resource is the Social Science Citation Index, which contains citations on subjects such as political science, history, anthropology, social issues, sociology, philosophy, and women's studies. These resources are searchable by topic, author, source, or cited reference and cover dates from 1992 to the present. The final resource included is the Arts & Humanities Index, which includes archaeology, literary reviews, art, music, history, religion, and theater abstracts. Coverage in the Arts & Humanities index dates from 2001 to the present.