Books
Indexes to Journal Literature
Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.General Science Abstracts
Indexes periodicals on astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, math, medicine, and physics, 1983 to present.Web of Knowledge
Simultaneous searching of Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews and Medline. Covers all fields of science. Citation searching as well as subject searching.
Reference
Biography Resource Center
Information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text from nearly 250 periodicals.IEEE History Center
A division of IEEE devoted to the preservation, research and promotion of the history of information and electrical technologies. Includes the IEEE archives (unpublished records and historical photographs) and oral histories. Good for biographical information. Much of the material is available free in full text. NOTE: users must return to the main search screen to conduct additional searches, instead of using the search bar on the results screen.
Articles, Technical Reports, Etc.
CiteSeer / ResearchIndex
Provides citation indexing of electronically available preprints, mostly in Computer Science. Includes many articles that have appeared in refereed journals, but also some that never will. Users are responsible for verifying the quality but the citation indexing helps.ArXiv
Searchable access to nearly half a million open access (free full text) e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and StatisticsIEEE Xplore 2.1
Provides access to index of articles covering electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Contains full text documents from IEEE and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. Please note that Earlham does not have full-text access to this service, but guests can search for free. Users with personal IEEE passwords should be able to access full-text materials.
Federated Searching
TechXtra in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing
A suite of 10 freely available resources that provides access to article citations and full text, web sites, dissertations, industry news, technical reports, e-prints, newsletters, etc. in engineering, mathematics and computing.Scitopia,org
Search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data. Most atricles require a login to access, but when free full text access is available, it is provided.
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