|  Academic Search Premier | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. |
| | 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. |
| (c. 1879 to present) Provides the full text of journals published by the American Chemical Society. The Davidson College Library has access to the complete Legacy Archives (1879-1995) and to recent content in many, but not all, ACS journals. |
| | Agricola | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (1970 to present ) Contains citations and abstracts to agricultural literature acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Covers the areas of agriculture, agricultural economics, and food and nutrition. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| | BioOne | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (2000 to present). A collection of over 50 peer-reviewed journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full-text coverage generally begins in 2000. |
| | BioOne Abstracts & Indexes | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1998 to present) Indexes the BioOne collection, with keyword-searchable abstracts and links to full-text articles. |
| Expanded content and new interface!
(1969 to present) Includes citations and abstracts for articles in over 5,000 journals; also includes citations to books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and patents. International in scope. Covers the entire field of the life sciences, including biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, and interdisciplinary fields like biochemistry, bioengineering, biomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Part of Web of Knowledge. |
| | CINAHL with Full Text | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,200 journals as well as selected books, conference proceedings, and essays in 17 allied health disciplines including nursing. Also contains full-text articles from 320 journals. |
| | Clinical Pharmacology | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains current information about prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs. The "Drug Monograph" entries contain pharmaceutical information and often include images of the drugs; the "Patient Education" entries provide information about drug interactions and side-effects. Search the database using either the generic or the brand name of the drug. |
| | 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. |
| (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. |
| Contains the full text of over one hundred reference books -- including many encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format. The Davidson College Library has some of these books in paper format as well.
This collection is a combination of titles selected and purchased by the Davidson College Library and by NC LIVE. |
| (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. |
| | Health Source | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1984 to present) Provides indexing, abstracting, and some full text from over 255 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more. It also provides full text for over 1,065 pamphlets and 23 books. Full text coverage begins in January 1990. |
| | ingenta | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (Formerly CARL Uncover) An online index to almost 25,000 periodicals. Approximately 53% of the articles are in the areas of science, technology, and medicine; 33% are in the social sciences, and 14% are in the humanities. Ingenta also allows you to view journal tables of contents and to have articles faxed to you for a fee. |
| | 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. |
| (c. 1874 to present) Provides the full text of journals published by the Institute of Physics; several of the journals cover topics in Chemistry as well as Physics. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | LexisNexis Academic | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Provides a wide variety of legal documents, including articles from law reviews and journals, federal and state case law, federal and state codes and regulations, U.S., European, and Japanese patents from 1790 to the present, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and directories of law schools.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only. |
| | 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. |
| (1950 to present) Includes citations and abstracts to articles in over 5,200 biomedical, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering journals. This version of Medline is from the National Library of Medicine, which also provides links to some full-text articles as well as access to other health-related databases.
The library also has Medline through Web of Knowledge (1950 to present). |
| | Medlineplus | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| Provides general and consumer information on diseases and health-related topics. Also provides links to medical dictionaries and encyclopedia, and lists of hospitals, physicians, organizations and Web sites. |
| | OmniFile Full Text Mega | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. |
| An online collection of over 220 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more.
Technical requirements: Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher and a high-speed Internet connection. |
| (c. 1893 to present) Provides the full text of journals published the American Physical Society. |
| | PsycARTICLES | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1894 to present) Contains the full text of 59 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most APA journals are available from volume 1, issue 1. |
| | PsycINFO | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1887 to present) Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and doctoral dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. |
| A collection of open access, peer-reviewed biology and medical journals. Includes PLoS Biology, PLoS Clinical Trials, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, and PLoS Pathogens. PLoS is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 with the goal of making scientific and medical literature freely accessible. The Davidson College Library is a Sponsor of the PLoS. |
| | 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. |
| Contains the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) as well as working papers, preprints, and other "grey literature" from a number of institutional repositories. Bepress publishes journals in the fields of Business, Economics, Law, Marketing, Medicine, Political Science, and Public Affairs. |
| (1851- ) Provides the full text of many of the RSC journals. The Davidson College Library has access to the Journal Archive (1851-2004) and to more recent content in many, but not all, journals. |
| (1993 to the present) Contains the full text of articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind. Includes color pdfs. |
| | SciFinder Scholar | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1907 to present) Includes the following Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases: CA plus, which contains over 30 million references to journal articles, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations; CAS Registry, which contains information about over 40 million chemical substances. Also includes Medline (1950 to present).
Note:- To use the Web version of SciFinder, you first need to register
; you only need to do this once.Only one person may access the database at any one time. When you are finished searching, please log off.Use of SciFinder Scholar is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College. |
| (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. |
| | TOXNET | | Off-Campus access available; no password required. |
| (Approx. 1996 to present). A collection of databases containing information on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Some databases, like the Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB), contain factual information ; others, like TOXLINE, contain citations to journal articles, books, and technical reports. |
| (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. |
| | 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. |
| | World News Connection | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1995 to present) Contains full-text, English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world. Covers political, scientific, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events. These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Earlier years of the FBIS Reports are available on microfiche and CD-ROM. |
