Databases (Periodical Indexes and Abstracts) - Use for Finding Articles
Found under the heading of Databases on the College of Charleston Libraries Web page. In order to access most of the databases from off-campus, you need a user name and password, click on off-campus/dorm access to databases on the C of C Libraries Web page to find out how.

Subject Specific/Multidisciplinary

MathSciNet
Encompassing both Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, this index is the most comprehensive in the discipline.
Note: Find journal article references in math.

Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. (Please log out when you are finished.)
Note: Find journal article references in biology, chemistry, physics, etc.

Science Direct
Full-text to over 1,200 in the scientific, technical and medical fields. Over 1.5 million articles available.
Note: Find full-text journal articles in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, etc.

Astrophysics Data Service
Access to four databases containing more than 2 million abstracts in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the Los Alamos preprints in astronomy. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Note: Find journal article and journal preprint references in physics (astrophysics).

Institute of Physics Archives
Full text of the Institute of Physics journals from the late 1800's to 1994. Currently, our full text subscription does not extend beyond 1994.
Note: Find full-text journal articles in physics (astrophysics).

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases, it is the world's largest and most comprehensive database of chemical information. Available to students on library computers, and computers in the Chemistry Department’s Student Reading Room.
Note: Find journal article, patent references in chemistry.

General

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
Note: Find journal, as well as magazine, newspaper article references in any academic subjects.

InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index
Provides bibliographic references, abstracts or full text for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly and general-interest publications. Covered subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences and current events. The backfile includes citations to articles back to 1980. Updated daily.
Note: Find journal, as well as magazine, newspaper article references in any academic subjects, some available in full-text.

PapersFirst
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide covering congresses, symposia, expositions, workshops, and meetings since October 1993.
Note: Find proceedings papers.

Created 1/6/06, last updated 1/20/06, Dongmei Cao, Science Librarian, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston.
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