General Social Science
- Social Work AbstractsProduced by the National Association of Social Workers. Off-campus access is restricted to WUSTL students/faculty/staff. (8 concurrent users)
- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsProvides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
- Social Science Citation Indexvia Web of Science (1980 - )
Journal index. A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. - Social Science Research Network"...Database containing abstracts on over 30,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents." http://www.ssrn.com/
General Science Databases
- Web of ScienceJournal index. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Updated weekly.
- ScienceDirectContains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full-text and bibliographic book and journal information.
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975- )Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Updated quarterly.
- Science Citation IndexProvides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to find relevant, comprehensive research data.
- Scopus'SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.'
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Public Health Databases
- Applied Science Full-textJournal Index, some full text articles. Includes the full text of more than 98 periodicals beginning in January 1997. More than 350 periodicals covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Updated monthly.
- Global healthArticles, reports, abstracts. Covers public health information, includes international citations. Goes back to 1973; the archive begins in the early 20th century
- Health and Wellness Resource CenterCovers newspapers. Off-campus access is restricted to WUSTL students/faculty/staff.
- PoplineWorldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues. http://www.popline.org/
- PubMedPubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 800 leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Has thousands of full text papers.
- Merck IndexThe Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,350 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1,000 retired monographs.
- KnovelDatabase of engineering technical references, chemical properties, and mathematical tools.
Environmental Studies Related Databases
- AGRICOLAServes as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.
- BioOne Abstracts and IndexesThis bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the full-text articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers.
- CompendexA comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
- Encyclopedia of Global ChangeThe 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth.
- GeoRefNearly 2 million records about geology and earth sciences. 1785 to the present (North American); 1933 to the present (entire world). Updated bi-monthly.
- GreenFILEOffers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
Anthropolological Databases
- Anthropology PlusContains both Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute, UK. Citations to articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology, from works published in En glish and other European languages, 19th century to present.
- AnthroSourceFull text. Brings 100 years of anthropological material online, including current issues for 15 of the American Anthropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications; an electronic archive of all AAA journals; holdings information; seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications. Searchable.
- ARD - Anthropology Review DatabaseARD - Anthropology Review Database
Cites reviews in print and online publications for written literature, films/videos, audio recordings, multimedia/software, and web resources. "Intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aw are of what is being published and helping them evaluate its relevance to their own interests." - Global healthArticles, reports, abstracts. Covers public health information, includes international citations. Goes back to 1973; the archive begins in the early 20th century