Science and Technology Sources on the Internet

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

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.