Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
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Contains citations to journal articles covering the humanities, popular culture, science, technology, business and the social sciences. Updated daily.

The CrossFire search database links structure, reaction, text and numeric data in the Beilstein and Gmelin databases. Beilstein database contains information on more than 8 million organic compounds and associated chemical and physical properties and 5 million chemical reactions. There are more than 35 million chemical property and bioactivity records arranged in some 300 searchable fields. The Gmelin database covers more than 1.4 million organometallic and inorganic compounds.

NOTE: Beilstein Crossfire with Abstracts is located in the CD-ROM folder found in the start menu of the public work stations.

An international database covering the life science disciplines, indexing nearly 7,000 journals. Updated monthly.

Provides access to significant literature in the biosciences. Searching is free; full-text access requires an account. Full-text may be available through other KSU databases, such as the Electronic Journal Center.

Free, web accessible databases covering these and other areas: general topics; chemical structure, spectra and properties; specific classes of compounds; drugs and diseases; toxicity and the environment; biomolecular, genomic and proteomic databases; metabolic pathways; and much more.

Free, web accessible databases covering these and other areas: general topics; chemical structure, spectra and properties; specific classes of compounds; drugs and diseases; toxicity and the environment; biomolecular, genomic and proteomic databases; metabolic pathways; and much more.

Three multidisciplinary "Web of Science" databases covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated weekly.
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Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, with abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conference papers and proceedings, and technical reports. Includes links to full-text. Updated weekly.

Index and abstracts to engineering literature published from 1884-1968.

Current Protocols are used in laboratories around the world as the authoritative sources for effective, reliable methods in biological research and experimentation. The web version is searched via the table of contents and provides links to figures, tables, recipes, literature citations, cross-references, and internet URLs in the full-text HTML format. PDF format for printing is also available.

While this resource is available via the web, it requires a user id and password and is available only in the Chemistry/Physics Library. Please check with Chemistry/Physics Library staff to access this resource.

Current Protocols are used in laboratories around the world as the authoritative sources for effective, reliable methods in biological research and experimentation. The web version is searched via the table of contents and provides links to figures, tables, recipes, literature citations, cross-references, and internet URLs in the full-text HTML format. PDF format for printing is also available.

While this resource is available via the web, it requires a user id and password and is available only in the Chemistry/Physics Library. Please check with Chemistry/Physics Library staff to access this resource.

Help guides for specific chemistry, physics, and liquid crystal related resources.

Includes citations for dissertations dating from the first U.S. dissertation issued in 1861. Contains abstracts for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 forward. The work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities are also included. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Full-text coverage of selected journals in the areas of arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.

Comprehensive treatment of all areas of inorganic chemistry, including Main Group Elements; Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Solid State, Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and General Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Methods. Articles are arranged alphabetically and are searchable keyword. HTML and PDF formats are available.

Each of the 600 demonstrations is concisely produced and narrated, each stands alone and illustrates a particular principle of physics. The demonstrations are augmented by slow-motion photography and animation. Videos are accompanied by a printer-friendly PDF page which may contain graphics, tables or figures not easily rendered on the web. Videos are available in RealVideo format and may be streamed or dowloaded.

Use to search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Includes articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. Updated annually.

Contains over 26 million citations of scientific, technical, and medical content with additional resources for business, law and the humanities. This is a fee-based service for which users must register.

Search 150,000 journals by journal title or by ISSN. Search results will be displayed with a list of possible matches. Specific articles may be ordered for a fee. Contact library staff for other document delivery options.

Search current tables of contents for journals in the areas of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, and more. Articles may be ordered for a fee. See library staff for additional document delivery options.

Provides access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology; also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, aeronautics, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. Searches Physics Abstracts and more.

All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts), Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts), Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to Computer and Control Abstracts). Also known as "Electronic Access to Science Abstracts Journals 1898-1968".

A database of of approximately 75,000 thermotropic liquid crystals, which contains free access to the chemical structures and registration numbers of compounds found in LiqCryst 3.2. It also includes 17,000 references from journals, books, conferences, patents and proceedings and Ph.D. theses.

Searchable web version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. This database is produced by the American Mathematical Society. Updated daily.

International index for medical literature, produced by the National Library of Medicine. Addresses all aspects of medicine and health care and offers citations from nearly 4,000 journals, books and book chapters, research and other sources.

PubMed provides free, worldwide access to MEDLINE. It also contains links to the full-text versions of articles at participating publishers' Web sites and access to PREMEDLINE basic citation information and abstracts before full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. New records are added to PREMEDLINE daily.

Provides full-text access to the journal archive of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Includes more than 200,000 original articles published from 1841 to 1996. Use the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center for full-text access to RSC titles after 2004. Advance article access is not available.

NOTE: You must use the provided checkbox to restrict your search to the journal archive.

This "Web of Science" database covers the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, with all cited references captured. Updated weekly.
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Meta database Patent and Journal References from all scientific disciplines, Substance information, Chemical reactions, Regulated chemicals information, Commercially available substances. Searches simultaneously the following sources: Chemical AbstractsPlus; CAS REGISTRY; CHEMLIST; CHEMCATS -Online Chemical Catalogs File, MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE 1958- present. Chemical Structure searches are limited to exact matches of a drawn structure as well as structure with substitution at open positions on the drawn structure.

NOTE: SciFinder Scholar is located in the CD-ROM folder found in the start menu of the public work stations.

A comprehensive science-specific search engine that filters out non-scientific sites and finds peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files. Searches specialty sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect, the U.S. Patent Office, BioOne, and more.

Guides to using the various databases, as well as tips for better searching, provided by OhioLINK.

Each of the virtual journals included presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical sciences. Full-text freely available for those journals to which Kent State University Libraries and Media Services subscribes.