Science Databases
| Academic Search Premier | |
| Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies. | |
| Access Science | |
| Online version of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. | |
| ACM Digital Library | |
| The ACM Digital Library is the ultimate online resource for those interested in the computing industry. It offers over 30 publications, all full-text conference proceedings, publication archives dating back to the 1950s, over 1.2 million pages of text, and over 850,000 bibliographic citations. |
| AGRICOLA | |
| AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database which encompasses "all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition." |
| BioOne | |
| BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. |
| Chemistry Journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS) | |
| A searchable database of all ACS journals, plus full-text access to journals which Copley subscribes. |
| Ebrary Academic Complete |
| Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database from ebrary® that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Note: you must first download and install the ebrary reader on your computer before accessing E-books. |
| Emerald | |
| Full text access to MCB University Press journals. Topics covered are management, accounting and engineering (mainly industrial). |
| Energy, Science, and Technology Information Resources | |
| Includes scientific and technical information resources of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas. Resources include tools for cross searching bibliographic citations, full-text technical reports, preprints, and journals citations residing in multiple databases and Web sites. |
| GEOBASE | |
| Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology | |
| Geothermal Research Library | |
| The Geothermal Resources Council offers the most comprehensive bibliographic geothermal library in the world. Over 30,000 citations for individual articles from GRC and other geothermal publications can be found by simple keyword searches.Searches may be done without a password, however, to access full-text articles from this database contact Reference Librarian, Amy Besnoy at abesnoy@sandiego.edu or at extension 2368. |
| IEEE/IET Electronic Library | |
| IEEE/IET Electronic Library features content from the IEEE and UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IEL contains almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications and computer science. It includes access to 143 IEEE Journals, Transactions and Magazines, 24 IET Journals, 850+ annual IEEE Conferences, 23+ annual IET Conferences, and 1,900+ IEEE (Active & Archived) Standards. |
| Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals | |
| Provides access to all tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat, PDF or PostScript formats for those journals to which USD subscribes. |
| JSTOR | |
| JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. |
| Marine, Oceanographic, and Freshwater Resources | |
| Index to aquatic sciences, fisheries, oceanographic, and marine environmental literature 1960 to present | |
| MathSciNet | |
| Online version of Mathematical Reviews . Indexes and reviews the mathematical literature. | |
| Medline Via Ovid | |
| MEDLINE is the major database on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of cell and molecular biology topics. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished. |
| Nature (2005 to Present) | |
| A weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science andtechnology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. | |
| Physical Reviews Online Archive (PROLA) | |
| Contains nearly complete electronic copies of Physical review journals from their initial volumes through 1997. |
| Proceedings First | |
| Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. |
| PubMed | |
| PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
| Sage Premier Journals | |
| The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999. |
| Science (1997 to Present) | |
| Provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, enhanced by additional information, links, multimedia, and user services, as well as a database of scientific-product information. |
| Science Citation Index Expanded |
| Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.) |
| ScienceDirect |
| Provides access to full-text articles from over 400 journals including: agricultural & biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology, chemistry, earth & planetary sciences, medicine, and social science. Note: Full text availabe for subscribed journals from 1997 to present. |
| SciFinder Scholar |
SciFinder Scholar® is a point-and-click desktop research tool that provides easy access to the information in the CAS databases (>41million substances from 1957 to date, >22 million references from 1907 to date, >6 million reactions from 1974 to date, >750 chemical supplier catalogues and regulatory information), as well as Medline (references from 1958 to date). Includes a comprehensive and current collection of published scientific research, taken from 8,000 journal titles and 35 patent-issuing organizations, through a variety of ways - by author or organization names, research topics, substance identifiers, chemical structures and reactions. [Important Note: When you click on the link above you will go to the SciFinder user registration page. You must connect to the user registration page while on campus and also provide a valid USD email address. After you register, use this link (SciFinder) to connect to the database on or off-campus. It is possible that you are unable to begin working with SciFinder immediately because all seats for the web version of SciFinder are currently in use. If this occurs, try logging in later.] *** See the |
| SpringerLink Journals | |
| Includes access to over 1,500 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences. |
| Web of Science | |
| Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references and allows users to conduct broad-based, comprehensive searches that uncover all the relevant information they need. It provides cited reference searching, the unique ISI search and retrieval feature that lets users track the literature forward, backward, and through the database. Web of Science is updated weekly. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.) |
| Wiley Interscience Journals | |
| Includes access to over 250 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences. |
| Zoological Record | |
| The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology. (1997-present) |