SCIENCE-related databases

Title: Academic ASAP, Expanded
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database for research in all academic disciplines, including education.

Title: Academic Search Premier
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1965 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Designed specifically for academic institutions, it is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,172 journals in the collection.

Title: AccessScience 2.0
Via: McGraw-Hill
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience 2.0: Premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition; providing access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.

Title: Agricola
Via: Community of Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1979 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Offers over 3.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles, theses, patents, software, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Title: American Chemical Society Publications (ACSP)
Via: ACS Publications
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1996 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text access to web editions of dozens of American Chemical Society journals. Also supports table of contents browsing by journal and an e-mail ASAP Alert service announcing newly available articles from each of the web editions.

Title: Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in atmospheric sciences, chemistry, information technology, engineering, energy resources, food & food industry, marine technology, oceanography, physics, waste management, and more.

Title: ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1971 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: ASFA 3 is the only abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. ASFA 3 contains information that will prove essential to specialists who deal in any capacity with aquatic environments and marine pollution problems, including biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, environmental engineers and scientists, industrial engineers, waste managers, corporate regulatory affairs managers, and government officials.

Title: Biological & Agricultural Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in agriculture, biochemistry, biology, botany, ecology, environmental sciences, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, immunology, limnology, microbiology, zoology, and more.

Title: Biological Sciences Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1982 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Title: BioOne
Via: Amigos Library Services
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2000 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Provides access to journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Title: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies with database
Description: Abstracts of articles appearing in journals in the Arts & Humanities; Natural Sciences; Social Sciences; and Technology.

Title: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Description: A compilation of current morbidity and mortality statistics; updated weekly.

Title: Computer Source
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1985 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Title: EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.

Title: EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1967 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 5980 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Title: Energy Citations Database
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: 1948 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Developed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information. Provides access to DOE publicly available citations.

Title: Engineering Village 2
Via: Compendex
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1969 - present; 1884 - 1968 backfiles
Description: Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with almost seven million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials; updated weekly.

Title: Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Abstracts
Via: CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1967 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 5980 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Title: General Science Full-Text
Via: HW Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text (from 1994), abstracts (from 1984), and indexing (from 1982) to journal articles in astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, zoology, and more.

Title: GeoRef
Via: Community of Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1933 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Access to over 2.3 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses covering geology and the geosciences. Covers the geology of North American from 1785 to the present.

Title: Health & Wellness Resource Center
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness, herbal remedies, alternative or complementary treatments, and information on occupational health and safety.

Title: Health Reference Center - Academic
Via: Gale Group (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A comprehensive resource that provides integrated access to medical, nursing, nutrition, fitness, diseases, drug abuse, and public health and safety information.

Title: Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Via: EBSCOhost (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1975 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.

Title: Highwire Press
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Mostly back issues
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Archive of free, full-text journal articles in the sciences, technology, and medicine; from Stanford University.

Title: Information Bridge
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: 1995 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Consists of full-text literature, conference papers and journal articles produced and made available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward. Also links to Energy Citations Database which includes bibliographic records of literature chemistry, physics and engineering.

Title: JSTOR: Botany & Ecology Collection
Via: JSTOR
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies with publication
Full-Text: Yes
Description: An archive for full-text journal backfiles in science, with articles in the fields of botany and ecology.

Title: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Via: Reed Elsevier Inc. (a Collegiate DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID ard may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides full-text documents from 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and general reference publications. Included in the service are several national newspapers including the New York Times (1977 - present) and Washington Post (1977 - present) and the Chronicle of Higher Education (1997 - present, with no embargo on current issues).

Title: Mary Ann Liebert Publishers: Full-Text Journals
Via: Mary Ann Liebert Publishers
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Founded in 1980, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnolgoy, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. Contains the full-texts of 59 refereed journals.

Title: MathScience Net -- Mathematical Reviews on the Web
Via: American Mathematical Society
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: No
Description: Abstracts of articles appearing in American Mathematical Society journals.

Title: Merck Index
Via: Merck
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances, 446 named reactions with an index, and a supplementary compilation of over 60 pages of tables including a glossary.

Title: Nature
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1950 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Biotechnology
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1998 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Cell Biology
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1999 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Genetics
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1998 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Immunology
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2000 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Medicine
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1998 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Neuroscience
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1998 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Reviews Cancer
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2001 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Reviews Genetics
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2000 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Reviews Immunology
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2001 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2000 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Via: Nature e-journals
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 2000 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

Title: Opposing Viewpoints
Via: Gale Group
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Database that analyzes current issues, from bioethics to environmental policy and global warming, with opposing viewpoints.

Title: PLoS (Public Library of Science): Biology
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current research in the field of biology
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A peer-reviewed journal, published monthly and available free online, featuring research of exceptional significance and articles of a groundbreaking nature that have received extensive coverage in the worldwide news media.

Title: Preprint Network
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: "One-stop shopping" site for preprints in the areas of physics, materials, chemistry, mathematics, biology, environmental sciences and other areas related to DOE's research interests. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).

Title: Science Magazine
Via:PASCAL of South Carolina
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1997 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text access to the journal Science.

Title: ScienceDirect
Via: Elsevier Science
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Full-Text: Yes
Description: A database offering comprehensive coverage (over 1.7 million full-text articles and 3 million abstracts and indexed records), including the fields of biology, biochemistry, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental sciences, microbiology, physics, and astronomy. Designed for interdisciplinary research and to serve the needs of the researcher.

Title: Science's Next Wave
Via: USC Columbia
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. Published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Title: Scirus
Via: Web
Access: No restrictions
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Some
Description: A search engine developed by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information, that searches for science-related information on academic web sites.

Title: SIRS Researcher
Via SIRS (a DISCUS database)
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Contains full-text articles and reports from all the sciences, including earth science, life sciences, physical sciences, applied sciences, and technology. Additional links to award recipients and suggested research topics.

Title: Web of Science
Via: Thomson ISI
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: 1945 - present
Full-Text: No
Description: Comprehensive bibliographic database containing three citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present); Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present); and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Searches in any of three for topic, person, place, and cited reference.

Title: Wiley Interscience
Via: Carolina Consortium
Access: Restricted to North/South campuses
Coverage: Varies
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Provides access to over 300 peer-reviewed journals, reference works, online books, current protocols titles, and databases in Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Math & Statistics, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Astronomy, Polymers & Materials Science, Psychology, and Social Sciences.

Title: Wilson OmniFile Full-Text Mega
Via: HW Wilson
Access: North/South campuses. Students, faculty and staff with a valid USCB Library ID card may access from remote locations.
Coverage: current
Full-Text: Yes
Description: Full-text articles from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including business, education, fine arts, history, law, and librarianship.

See also:

• Population & Statistical Web Resources