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    There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible  Databases for the Public
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  • The Databases

      

     

    Academic Press/IDEAL  

    {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals} 

    IDEALSearch allows searching of bibliographic information, abstracts and added keywords of articles contained in the Academic Press IDEALibrary of over 170 journals, many from 1996-present.  

      

    ACM Digital Library  

    {http://portal.acm.org/redirect.cfm?url=dl/} 

    ACM Digital Library allows searching of articles from publications of the Association for Computing Machinery by author and/or keywords taken from the titles, abstracts and/or full-text. Accounts are available free of charge to any individual. You do not need to register to browse the library using the Table of Contents. You do need an account to search, use binders, and retrieve full-text articles. Coverage: 1985-present 

      

    Agricola:  

    {http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/} 

    Citations to the literature of agriculture and allied disciplines from  the U.S. National Agriculture Library. Coverage: 1978-present.  

      

    AIDSLINE:  

     http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 

    Literature covering research, clinical aspects, and health policy issues  on AIDS and HIV-related disease. U.S. National Library of Medicine.  Coverage: 1980-present.  

      

    Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH):  

    http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/ 

    Citations and abstracts to the alcohol abuse literature from the  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Coverage: Late 1960's  - present.  

      

    American Chemical Society:  

     http://pubs.acs.org/journals/aoc/aoc_search.html 

    The American Chemical Society electronic journals site allows  searching of articles from over 25 electronic journals in chemistry  published by ACS. Coverage: 1996-present.
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA):  

    http://www.aiaa.org/Research/index.hfm?res=3 

    Contains author, title, paper number, and conference date and location  information for papers presented at AIAA meetings from 1999 to the  present. AIAA's technical journals are now available online via CatchWord.  

      

    American Institute of Physics  

    {http://scitation.aip.org/} 

    Browse tables of contents for AIP electronic journals; most abstracts  are accessible.  

      

    ASCE Civil Engineering Database:  

    http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html 

    Citations to all American Society of Civil Engineers publications.  Provides Access to over 80,000 bibliographic and abstracted records.  Coverage: 1973 - present. 

      

    Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service:  

    http://adswww.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html 

    NASA-funded database provides access to four sets of abstracts:  Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and  Preprints. Coverage: 1975 - present.
  • Bioethicsline:

    http:/{/igm.nlm.nih.gov/}   

    Ethical, legal and public policy issues surrounding health care and biomedical research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Coverage: 1973-present.
  • Carl UnCover  

    {http://www.ingenta.com/} 

    Database of current article information taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information for more than 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since fall 1988. UnCover offers you the opportunity to order fax copies of the articles from this database.  

      

    Cambridge University Press Journals Online 

    {http://www.journals.cambridge.org/} 

    Cambridge University Press allows searching of articles from its electronic journals by journal title, author, author affiliation, and/or keywords taken from the titles, abstracts and/or full-text. Coverage: 1990-present. 

      

    Cancerlit:  

    {http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/literature} 

    Comprehensive coverage of the cancer literature from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Coverage: 1963-present.  

      

    CatchWord Journal Search  

    {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/} 

    CatchWord, Ltd. is an electronic journal host for over 700 journals from  over 45 publishers. The CatchWord search engine allows searching for  articles from that collection of journals by author, article title,  journal title, abstract or by full text. The resulting bibliographic  records are freely available, but full text is available only to  subscribers through CatchWord. 

      

    ChemWeb  

    http://www.chemweb.com/ 

    Free Registration. Search "The Library" for citations to chemistry  journals and ChemWeb's Chemistry Preprint Server. Beilstein Abstracts is  free to members. 

      

    CISTI  

    http://cat.cisti.nrc.ca/screens/opacmenu.html 

    Database produced by Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical  Information. Materials in the sciences, technology, and medicine. 

      

    Combined Health Information Database (CHID)  

    http://chid.nih.gov/ 

    Provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health  information and health education resources from the U.S. National  Institutes of Health. 

       

    Contentville  

    http://www.contentville.com/ 

    Search magazines, books, dissertations, screenplays, speeches, etc.  Citations are free, text is not. Some materials available free on other  web sites (speeches), so check before you pay. 

      

    Digital Dissertations  

    http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway 

    The most current two years of the Dissertation Abstracts database, over  225,000 citations and abstracts, freely available for searching. The  database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American  graduate schools and European universities.
  • DOE Reports Bibliographic Database  

    {http://www.osti.gov/bridge/} 

    Contains citations for Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored scientific and technical reports distributed by DOE between 1994 to 2000. The full-text for these bibliographic records has been made available for public access through the Government Printing Office's Depository Library Program.  

      

    Earthquake Engineering Abstracts  

    {http://nisee.berkeley.edu/eea.html} 

    Citations to the earthquake engineering and earthquake studies literature from the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), UC Berkeley. Contents include selected technical reports, conference papers, monographs, and journal articles. Coverage: 1971-present.  

      

    EPA Publications Catalog  

    {http://www.epa.gov/epahome/publications.htm} 

    Citations to over 5,500 Environmental Protection Agency publications on a variety of environmental topics.  

      

    Fish and Wildlife Reference Service Bibliographic Database  

    {http://fa.r9.fws.gov/r9fwrs/dbinfo.htm} 

    Citations to unpublished research reports on fish and wildlife projects  produced by state agencies from the Fish and Wildlife Reference Service. 

       

    GrayLit Network  

    http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ 

    GreyLit Network allows searching of technical reports from several  different U.S. government agencies (including the Department of Defense,  Department of Energy, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency) with  a single search. Links to full text when available.  

      

    IEEE  

    {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/DynWel.jsp} 

    Browse tables of contents of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
  • nfoJump  

    {http://www.infojump.com/} 

    InfoJump is an article search engine that indexes electronic periodicals and online versions of print publications. Consists of 5 million articles, increasing at the rate of 10,000 articles per day.  

      

    HighWire Press  

    http://highwire.stanford.edu/ 

    The journals HighWire supports correspondingly focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM). Articles may be searched by author, title or abstract keyword, or full-text keyword, with the ability to limit by date range, and to a specific journal or selected group of journals. Free full-text articles are available. 

      

    HISTLINE  

    {http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/} 

    Covers the history of medicine literature from the U.S. National  Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1964-present.  

      

    Institute of Physics (IOP)  

    http://www.iop.org/ 

    The Institute of Physics electronic journals site allows searching of  articles from over 20 electronic journals in physics published by IOP and  allied publishers. Some current issues available for free via username  and password. 

      

    Kluwer  

    {http://www.springer.com/} 

    Kluwer Online's Search function allows searching of tables of contents  and abstracts of articles contained in the Kluwer Online collection of  over 250 journals, many from 1996-present.  

      

    Los Alamos National Laboratory E-Print Archive  

    http://www.arxiv.org/ 

    Research papers in the area of physics and related disciplines,  mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and  neuroscience. 

      

    MEDLINE (PubMed)  

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ 

    Citations to journal articles in all areas of medicine and health  sciences from the. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1966-present. 

      

    Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL)  

    {http://www.ncstrl.org/}  

    International collection of computer science research reports and papers. Coverage: 1976-present.  

      

    OLD MEDLINE  

    http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd 

    Citations published in the 1960 - 1965 Cumulated Index Medicus; covers  the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences.  U.S. National Library of Medicine.  

      

    POPLINE  

    {http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/} 

    Citations to the literature of population, family planning, and related health issues U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1970-present (including selected citations back to 1886).  

      

    Project Muse  

    http://muse.jhu.edu/search/search.pl 

    A searchable index of the 40 Johns Hopkins University Press journals  online with Project Muse. Searching is available for over 5,000 articles,  including author, year, journal title and keywords from titles, subjects  or full-text.  

      

    PubSCIENCE  

    {http://pubsci.osti.gov/} 

    Contains current article information taken from the journals of more  than a dozen participating science publishers, plus all the citations  from the DOE Energy database. Focuses on the physical sciences and other  energy-related disciplines.
  • ResearchIndex  

    {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/} 

    ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to  improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature.  ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the web.  Produced by the NEC Corporation Research Institute. 

      

    Royal Society of Chemistry  

    {http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/fjournalsearch.asp 

    The Royal Society of Chemistry electronic journal site allows  searching of articles from more than 20 electronic journals in chemistry  published by RSC and allied publishers. 

      

    Selected Water-Resources Abstracts  

    {http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/pubs/} 

    Citations to USGS abstracts on water resources. U.S. Geological Survey.  There are about 10,000 abstracts in the entire data base. Coverage: 1977  - present. 

      

    SPACELINE  

    {http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/} 

    Citations to the space life sciences research literature from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1961-present.  

      

    TOXNET & TOXLINE  

    http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ 

    System of full-text and bibliographic databases oriented to toxicology  and related areas. Includes Toxline that has citations dealing with the  toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of  drugs and other chemicals.  

      

    Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database 

    http://199.79.179.82/sundev/search.cfm 

    TRIS contains more than half a million records of published and ongoing  research on all modes and disciplines in the field of transportation.  TRIS is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at  the National Academy of Sciences. Coverage: 1960s-present. 

      

    Wiley Interscience  

    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/simplesearch 

    Access to tables of contents and abstracts for some 300 Wiley  journals is available to guest users.

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