Washington and Lee University
| Producer: | Ingenta | |
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| Description: | One of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 19 million articles from 29,500 publications, including 8,000 online. You can search all of these journals or browse specific topics. Provides access to the full text of online articles through online purchase of individual articles or through subscriptions to publications. You will have to use the Periodical Finder to get the full text of articles. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms: Use parentheses ( ) to group search terms. For example, shark and (white or blue) will bring back articles containing the word shark plus the word white, and/or shark plus blue. Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. For example, "third wave" might give you results from various academic disciplines. Apply Boolean operators with two or more phrases to restrict the search e.g. "third wave" and "feminist theory". Wildcards: Use asterisks * to create wildcard searches. A search for psychol* will return results containing psychology, psychological, and psychologically. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | American Mathematical Society | |
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| Description: | An index to the scholarly literature of mathematics, including articles, books, papers, and other materials. The electronic file corresponds to the printed publications Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications which have extensive coverage of some aspects of Computer Science (especially the computational side). Many of the scholarly journals of Computer Science are included. Coverage: 1940 (the 1940 edition of Mathematical Reviews) to the present. Updated daily. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms: Adjacency is assumed within a field. For example, the search text invertible matrix will return only those records in which the two words occur consecutively. It will not match invertible triangular matrix. Parentheses may be used inside a field to override Boolean operator precedence rules. Wildcards: The wildcard character is the asterisk * and may be used in all fields except MR Number and Mathematics Subject Classifications fields (MSC Primary/Secondary and MSC Primary). Citations to articles in American Mathematical Society publications have the capability to link to the full text. Look for a "Full Article Text" button to the right of a citation. Important: You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader software to retrieve the text in PDF format. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science Mathematics | |
Connect to: SIAM Journals Online
| Producer: | Society for Industrialized and Applied Mathematics | |
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| Description: | Electronic editions of SIAM's journals published on an accelerated article-by-article basis. 1997 to present. Online journal archive (1952-1996) available here. | |
| Usage Tips: | Advanced Search allows you to search by title, author last name, abstract, keywords, and AMS classification codes. Use the drop down menus to choose which parts of the publications you want to search. (I.e., if you want to look for the word "theorem" in the abstracts of articles, select abstract so that all results contain the word "theorem" somehwere in the abstract.) Combining Terms: there are no operators to indicate phrases, such as parentheses or double quotes. For help using this resources, click here. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Mathematics | |
| Producer: | Washington and Lee University Libraries | |
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| Description: | Comprehensive list of databases and online indexes for the sciences | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | Elsevier B.V. | |
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| Description: | Online full text access to our subscriptions to journals published by Elsevier, with an archive starting in 1999. This includes the Trends in . . . journals, Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and many others. The database allows searching on over 1,700 journals from Elsevier Science including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell, and Tetrahedron and over three million articles and over 59 million abstracts from all fields of science. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Wildcards: Use ! to find a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it. For http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalListURL&_update=y&_auth=y&_acct=C000053098&md5=7173bf2f1fc8a62c05e6f3ea7a00be2e&subjColl=all&stype=title&type=subscribedexample, a search for behav! would find behave, behaviour, behavioural. Use an asterisk * to replace characters anywhere in a word, except the first character. Use one asterisk for each character you want to replace. For example, a search for wom*n would find woman and women. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Description: | Described as the largest citation-and-abstract database in the world, Scopus features broad coverage of scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences literature, as covered in about 14,000 peer-reviewed resources, as well as academic Web sites from the Scirus database. Scopus also functions as a citation-indexing tool. | |
| Usage Tips: | Entries dating from 1996 include complete reference (bibliography) listings, while earlier entries (back to 1966) include only citations and abstracts.
Combining Terms You can search for entries containing two or more terms by combining them with "AND" in the search statement. Example: college AND stress Phrases Search for a multi-word phrase by placing the terms within double quotation-marks. Example: "binge drinking" Wildcards/Truncation The search system will automatically search for singular and plural forms of a term that is entered. Example: cell will find cell and cells. A question-mark (?) will replace a single character in a search term. Example: analys?s will find analysis and analyses. An asterisk (*) can replace any number of characters in a search term. Example: behav* will find behavior, behaviour, behavioral, behaviors, behaviorism, etc. Citation Indexing Note that most entries include a "Cited By" option, which allows you to see publications which have cited the item you are viewing. Full Text Many entries in the database include "View at Publisher" links, intended to lead you to the complete text of articles, etc. on publisher Web site. In many cases, we actually will not have access to these materials. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General Sociology Economics | |
Scopus Citation Tracker (Info)
Connect to: Scopus Citation Tracker
| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Track how often articles have been cited by other authors. A comparable service to Web of Science's Cited Reference Searching, you can enter an author's name and generate a report of how a particular article has been cited by other authors by year. View the articles, print the Citation Overview, or export the Citation Overview into a CSV file, ready to be converted to an Excel spreadsheet. | |
| Usage Tips: | Start by doing an author search. Select the article you would like to track, then select the Citation Overview button.  A tutorial is available for Scopus Citation Tracker. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Cambridge Dictionary Of Statistics (Info)
Connect to: Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics
| Producer: | Cambridge University Press / Ebrary | |
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| Description: | Fourth edition (2010) contains nearly 4,000 entries, "covering medical, survey, theoretical, and applied statistics, including computational and graphical aspects. Entries are provided for standard and specialized statistical software. In addition, short biographies of over 100 important statisticians are given." | |
| Usage Tips: | You can preview the contents by clicking on "Contents" in the TOC column on the right side of the opening page.
For help with browsing, searching, and printing while using the Ebrary e-book interface, see this guide. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Mathematics Sociology Politics -- General | |
Journal Abbreviations In The Sciences (Info)
Connect to: Journal Abbreviations in the Sciences
| Producer: | Telford Science Library | |
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| Description: | A collection of resources for deciphering journal title abbreviations, which are very prevalent in the scientific scholarly literature. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Science Reference Sources (Info)
Connect to: Science Reference Sources
| Producer: | Washington and Lee University Libraries | |
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| Description: | A list of science specific dictionaries and encyclopedias. Updated as new resources are acquired. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Connect to: Calculus on the Web
| Producer: | Temple University Mathematics Department | |
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| Description: | An online resource for practicing calculus. The student section of COW is called the "Manager" and includes interactive modules allowing users to change values and parameters. The COW Library is divided into books, chapters, and sections each corresponding to content you would find in a live calculus course. | |
| Usage Tips: | While COW is available to the public, only Temple students may log in for recorded sessions. CAUTION: You can get a wrong answer many times, and COW will not tell you the correct answer. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Mathematics | |
Course Guides For The Sciences (Info)
Connect to: Course Guides for the Sciences
| Producer: | W&L | |
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| Description: | The gateway page to course guides in biology, chemistry, geology, environmental studies, mathematics, physics and engineering, and psychology. Go to specific discipline guides, or use some of the general interest items listed. This is a great replacement for the old Science Library homepage. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology | |
Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math (Info)
Connect to: Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math
| Producer: | Math Forum @ Drexel University | |
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| Description: | A searchable web site for students and instructors that provides not only answers to math questions, but also explains how certain math topics may be taught in the classroom. User may submit questions to "Dr. Math" and the question may be answered and posted on the web site. Dr. Math may be searched or browsed by education level. | |
| Usage Tips: | An excellent tutorial is found here. | |
| Tutorial: | http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ask/finding.html | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Mathematics | |
National Science Foundation Award Abstracts Database (Info)
Connect to: National Science Foundation Award Abstracts Database
| Producer: | National Science Foundation | |
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| Description: | Find out who's doing what research and what they said about it to get funding. You can search by keyword, by name, by institution. The records aren't research reports, but you can learn a lot about what's current and how science is presented to funding agencies. Includes advice on how to prepare a grant proposal and a search for funding your own research. | |
| Usage Tips: | A-Z Index of Funding Opportunities Guide to Funding Opportunities Grant Proposal Guide Award Search | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
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| Description: | This is an automated website that allows students to quickly check answers to basic math problems, which are presented in a timely manner by volunteers. This is not a tutorial type of resource since it only provides the answer to the problem submitted. No information on how the answer was arrived at is provided. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Mathematics | |
| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Specialized search engine which focuses on over 450 million science-related Web pages. Also searches for publicly-accessible science journal article citations and PDF documents that Google misses, including documents from institutional repositories. Focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here.
A Firefox toolbar is available. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Scitopia.org is a meta-search for content published by 15 sci-tech societies, including American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, IEEE, Institute of Physics, SIAM, and more. 150 years of research published in peer-reviewed journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings are available in the 3 million documents currently indexed. | |
| Usage Tips: | This search engine will retrieve citations for you, then link you to the society's website for the full text. If W&L is not a member, you may not be able to gain full text access.
You may also get table of contents RSS feeds for some society journ | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
| Producer: | Cornell University | |
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| Description: | Open access to 356,658 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology. Owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, and partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Search by keyword or browse by subject or date. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Wildcards: Wild card '*' can be used anywhere but at the beginning of a term. Combining Terms: Combine terms with parentheses. To search for exact phrases, use double quotes (") - Warning: can be slow (try using AND instead) | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Engineering | |