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General Science Resources

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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(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.
General Science Abstracts Full Text
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 250 English-language periodicals in a variety of science disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental science, food and nutrition, genetics, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.

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.
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
General Science Resources
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
Contains the fully-searchable text of electronic, science-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection.
You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Reference Universe
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
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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.

Other Resources
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 33 Annual Review titles.
Credo Reference
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
An online collection of over 390 reference books covering all subject areas; contains dictionaries (including foreign language dictionaries), encyclopedias, atlases, and subject-specific works. Useful for quick reference and basic information. For more detailed information, try the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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.
Environment Abstracts
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals.
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.
Scientific American Archive Online
Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.
(1993 to the present) Contains the full text of articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind. Includes color pdfs.
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
  • ... and more
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
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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.

Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).