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| Core Resources | | | INSPEC | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1969 to present) Indexes and abstracts the worldwide literature in the fields of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, telecommunications, computers, control technology, and information technology. Includes citations from over 4000 journals as well as information about conference proceedings, books, and reports. | | | MathSciNet | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1940 to present) The online version of Mathematical Review; contains citations and abstracts to the world literature on mathematics, computer science, statistics, econometrics, and related disciplines. | | | Web of Knowledge | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Includes:- Web of Science, an index of current and historical journal articles as well as a powerful tool for finding works that have cited a specific author or article
- Biosis Previews (1969 to present), an index of over 5,000 journals in the life and biomedical sciences
- Derwent Innovations Index (c. 1963 to present), an index of over 11 million patent records
- ISI Proceedings (1990 to present), an index of over four million conference papers
- Medline (1950 to present)
- An Index to Organism Names
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Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| Reference Resources | | | AccessScience | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of the most recent edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms as well as biographies of scientists and science and technology news. | | Contains the fully-searchable text of the 23rd edition of American Men and Women of Science (8 vols.; Gale, 2007). Provides biographical information for 120,000 living scientists, including birthdates, fields of specialty, education, current positions, awards; memberships, and addresses where available. | | Contains the fully-searchable text of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie (18 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1870-1990) and the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Noretta Koertge (8 vols.; Detroit: Scribner's, 2007). Includes biographies of natural scientists and mathematicians from all historical time periods; international in scope. | | Contains the full text of over two-dozen reference books, including The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, The Atlas of the Universe, The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists, The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and much more. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas. |
| Other Resources | | (1913 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,400 periodicals in a wide variety of applied science and technology fields, including acoustics, aeronautics, artificial intelligence, engineering, food science, geology, information technology, metallurgy, mineralogy, neural networks, robotics, textiles, transportation, and waste management. Includes Industrial Arts Index. Also indexes book reviews. | | | ebrary | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary. | | | JSTOR | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals. | | | Reference Universe | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books. | | WorldCat | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries. |
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Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).
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