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Browse Database List by Subject -- Science and Medicine
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Indexes and abstracts over 1600 magazines and journals in all fields of the sciences, social sciences, communication sciences, and humanities since 1980, and reproduces the full text for over 600 titles.
Indexing and abstracts, along with selected full text, of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
Collection of online medical reference books, including Harrisons Online; Goodman and Gilmans Pharmacology; Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment; and Schwartz Surgery Online.
This online version of McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology includes articles, definitions, biographies, and weekly stories on scientific and technological breakthroughs.
Index of journal articles, monographs, theses, reports, and other documents related to all aspects of agriculture, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
American Chemical Society Archives
Full text of all journals published by the American Chemical Society. Coverage varies by title.
Full text of nearly 100 peer-reviewed research journals in the fields of medicine and biology. Coverage varies by title.
Full text of over 80 peer-reviewed biosciences journals.
Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from applied life sciences journals, with coverage from 1973 to the present.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from over 950 nursing and allied health journals, from 1982 to the present. Covers over 950 English language journals and publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
Collection of databases that provide high quality, reliable information on the effects of intervention in health care decisionmaking.
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database that provides summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, from 1970 to the present.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides links to over 1,000 free online scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text of doctoral dissertations and some masters theses from most North American graduate schools and some European universities. Indexing from 1861 to the present, abstracts from 1980 to the present, and full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990 to the present.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans
Digitized collection of books and pamphlets printed in America between 1639 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. Based on Evans' American Bibliography, the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, the database can be searched and browsed in a variety of ways.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Online collection of English and foreign language books and pamphlets published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents.
ELS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences)
Research-level encyclopedia covering all areas of biology, with many references and illustrations and over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles.
Collection of original full text articles from authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive online medical reference materials covering 65 professional specialties.
Descriptions of over 25,000 tests and research instruments, including both commercial and noncommercial measures, with coverage from 1900 to the present. Go to http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1533 for more details.
This leading reference work on world affairs provides political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories.
Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports in the fields of geography, geology, and ecology, with coverage from 1980 to the present.
Abstracts and full text of articles from scholarly journals in the geosciences; coverage varies by title.
Global Development Finance (GDF)
Access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for 136 developing countries, from 1970 to the present.
Searches for articles, books, theses and other scholarly materials on a variety of topics through Google interface, with links to full text in UConn Libraries where available.
Indexing, abstracts, and full text of scholarly and general interest articles focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics such as global warming, recycling, and alternate fuel sources. Coverage varies by title.
HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)
Provides access to information on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques,
vignettes/scenarios, & other tests in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science since 1985.
Full page and article images of the Hartford Courant newspaper, with coverage from 1764 to 1984.
Keyword and table of contents searching for over 25,000 multidisciplinary periodicals, along with Reveal research alerts and table of contents (TOC) alerts services. You must register for a password before logging on.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Online edition of 26 volume encyclopedia covering all fields of the social and behavioral sciences.
Full-text access to the top brokerage firm, investment bank, and trade association reports on companies, industries, and global markets.
Full text of U.S. nationwide public opinion surveys, from 1935 to the present. Includes survey results from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, and Pew Research.
JSTOR provides digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals in many academic fields, beginning with the first issue up to a ‘moving wall’ of 2 to 5 years.
Indexing and full text of theses and dissertations related to the science of movement or physical activity, with indexing from 1948 to the present and full text from 2003 to the present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Consists of over 250,000 bibliographic records with abstracts citing journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media since 1973. Over 2,600 journals from 50 countries are scanned for inclusion in the database.
Full image online archive of every page published by The Times from 1785 to 1985.
LWPA -- Linguistics Working Papers Directory
Abstracts of working papers in theoretical and experimental linguistics.
Abstracts of speeches and written works containing statistics on current social, economic, political, health, environmental, and public policy issues, from 1984 to the present.
Full text of scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology.
Indexing and abstracts of standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas, with coverage from 1989 to the present.
Full text articles covering new developments in organic synthesis, with coverage from 2000 to the present.
Full text of scholarly articles in Nature, Nature research journals, Nature Reviews, and Nature Clinical Practice journals, with coverage from the late 1990s to the present.
Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2003. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
Series of indexes to periodicals, newspapers, and books on a variety of subjects, with coverage from 1786 to 1922.
Indexing and abstracts of U.S. Government-sponsored worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related literature, with coverage from 1964 to the present.
Indexing and some abstracting of literature published in the field of philosophy from 1940 to present.
Summaries of scholarly articles on the topics of population, family planning, and related health issues, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
Collection of full text books and journals in the field of psychiatry, with coverage from 1998 to the present.
Indexing and abstracts of literature published in the field of psychology, from 1887 to the present.
Index to over 4,000 medical and life science journals, with links to selected full-text articles.
Collection of over 50 electronic books in the fields of medicine, nursing and allied health.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from popular U.S. general interest periodicals, from 1890 to 1982.
ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines.
Full text of 11 reference books in behavioral science, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, drugs, materials science, optics, soils, and more.
Indexing and abstracts of articles from scientific, medical, technical, and social science journals, with coverage from 1966 to the present.
Provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social
science, and policy science.
Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings, and research papers on the topic of sports and fitness.
Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce.
International trade and market information and statistics.
Tabular data pertaining to business and industry. Includes statistical data, tables, charts, and graphs from trade publications, magazines, and journals.
Filings, quotes, investment research, and earnings estimates for U.S. and global companies
Indexing and abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with coverage from 1994 to the present.
Full text of scholarly articles from the world literature on zoology, along with indexing of books, reports, and other materials, with coverage from 1945 to the present.
Databases displaying this notation are supplied to the University of Connecticut
as part of the Connecticut Digital Library
project. A note for off-campus users: you must use the
Law Library Research Database pages in order
to access iConn databases from off campus.