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arXiv.org

”Open access to 534,199 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics”

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Earliest submissions from 1991

Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service

The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a gateway to the online Astronomy and Physics literature, including journal article abstracts and abstracts from NASA's Scientific and Technical Information group (STI).

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Journal article abstracts from 1995 to the present. NASA STI abstracts from 1975.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to provide a guide to the principal contributions of the field.

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All articles since September 1963 (Vol. 1)

Annual Reviews

Indexes review articles published in Annual Reviews series. Primarily science & technology.
Also access to full-text for all series. Enters at the Advanced Search page.

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ScienceDirect

Search and read over 2,200 full-text Elsevier journals in science, technology and medicine.

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Backfile coverage starts with 1997.

Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST

Electromagnetic constants, atomic and nuclear constants, physico-chemical constants and universal constants from the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Science and Technology. Browse or search the listings, get correlation coefficients between any two constants, and get some constants in non-SI units.

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From the 2006 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants. Older values available in PDF form.

National Virtual Observatory (NVO)

From their FAQ: ”The NVO home page has links to a number of easy-to-use applications. These let you locate sources of astronomical data and catalogs, compile information about particular objects or positions on the sky, cross-correlate survey catalogs, generate your own object catalogs from images you have, search for and analyze spectra from several large spectral surveys, determine the overlapping sky coverage of various surveys and catalogs in regions of interest, repair inaccurate coordinate information in image headers, make mosaics from several sky survey image collections, and collect information about transient events.”

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AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)

Access all the articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Includes the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

A new astronomical picture each day with a description written by a professional astronomer. Includes an RSS feed of images.

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NASA Images

”Public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. ”

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Images of Earth, the solar system, the universe and the NASA space program.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

A new astronomical picture each day with a description written by a professional astronomer. Includes an RSS feed of images.

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Astronomy resources on the Web

A selection of the wide range of freely accessible Internet materials created by and for astronomers.

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Website for NASA with access to program information, images, public outreach and publications.

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World of Astronomy

A dictionary/encyclopedia for astronomical terms and concepts. Explanations are simple, topic coverage is good but not complete.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

Coverage:

Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles