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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.
American Men and Women of Science 23rd ed. Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
Credo Reference: Science Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.

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Annual Reviews Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes the following Annual Review titles: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biophysics, Nuclear and Particle Science, and more.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	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.
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.
esp@cenet European Patent Office Patent Databases Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(Coverage varies by country) Provides access to the full-text of patents from most western European (EP) countries; also includes patents from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Japan (PAJ), and other countries, including the United States and Canada.
LexisNexis Academic Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides the full text of U.S., European, and Japanese patents from 1790 to the present. Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
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.
SPIN Web (Searchable Physics Information Notices) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1975 to present) Part of Scitation. Includes indexes and abstracts for over 100 major American and Russian physics, astronomy, and engineering journals. Also includes the Advance Abstracts Database, which contains early abstracts from American Institute of Physics journals. Note: the Library subscribes to some, but not all, of the journals listed in SPIN.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent Databases Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1790 to present) Provides page images for all U.S. patents from 1790 onwards as well as the full text of U.S. patents issued from 1976 to the present and the full-text of U.S. patent applications from 15 March 2001 to the present. For patents before 1976, you can only search by patent number or patent classification. Note: When you have located a patent and want to view the actual page images, click on the "Images" button that appears at the top of the screen. You may need to download a free plug-in to view the page images.