Science and Technology
Resources Online
Depending on your
specific topic, you may find resources listed on the subject pages for Biology,
Chemistry, Computer
Science, Environmental
Studies, Geology, Mathematics,
Medicine
or Physics to be
useful in addition to the resources listed below.
Contents:
Finding Books | Periodical
Indexes | Locating
Periodicals |
Other Databases
Finding
Books
Hiram College Library
Catalog -- for locally held materials.
OhioLINK Catalog -- for
the combined catalogs of Ohio academic libraries.
National Academy Press -- over 2,500
science-related books online.
WorldCat
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Combined catalogs of more than 10,000
libraries worldwide. Currently includes more than 40 million
bibliographic records for books, journals, media, etc.
Periodical
Indexes -- For periodical
articles relevant to your particular topic.
Applied Science
and Technology (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Indexes more than 400 core sources in science and technology.
History of Science
and Technology (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Indexes journal articles, books, reviews, and other materials related to
the history of science and technology.
Academic
Search Premier (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Multi-disciplinary database that indexes and abstracts some 4,300
periodicals. Provides full-text to more than 3,300 with 2,500
being peer-reviewed journals.
Electronic
Journals Center (off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Searchable, full-text issues of nearly 4,000 journals from major
publishers.
INSPEC
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Indexes and abstracts the scientific and technical literature in
physics, computer science, information technology, and electrical
engineering. INSPEC covers more than 4,000 journals, more than
2,000 conference proceedings, books, reports and
dissertations. Coverage is international and goes back
to 1969 with more than 6.7 million records.
GPO
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
Indexes more than 450,000 U.S. government publications from July 1976 to
the present.
Locating
Periodicals
Once you have identified relevant articles for your topic, you
will need to find the actual article. Depending on the database(s)
you searched, you may have already found the text of the article online.
If not, to see which articles are owned by the Hiram College Library,
check the Hiram
College Library Periodicals Holdings List, as well as the
OhioLINK
Electronic Journal Finder to see which periodicals are
available online in full-text.
Other Databases
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text of all 29 Annual Review publications.
Full-text is provided for 1996 to the present with bibliographic
citations for the years 1984 through 1995.
AccessScience
(off-campus Hiram users, click
here)
The web version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology, the database also includes news from the world of
science, biographies of famous scientists, and links to related
articles.
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