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HSTM : History of Science, Technology and Medicine via OCLC FirstSearch (1975-present)
References to journal articles, chapters and reviews. It covers the influence of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present.
 
BISS : Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza
This database is incorporated into HSTM. It contains references to articles on European history of science and technology.
 
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of electronic reference works which includes the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics and the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
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Dissertation & Theses Full Text via Proquest (1637 - present)
Major source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full text is available for most theses from 1997 onwards.

Note: theses may be slow to download off-campus, as some of the files are large.
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Expanded Academic Index ASAP via Gale Infotrac
Full text and abstracts to over 1500 multidisciplinary journals.
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Factiva
Full text newspaper articles and pictures from over 8,000 international newspaper and newswire publications.

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Google Scholar
An academic version of the famous search engine.
 
JSTOR
Full text of major Classics and Ancient History journals. Does not include the current five years of issues.
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Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
Contains the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Useful for subject and citation searching for any discipline.
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BIOSIS Previews via Web of Knowledge (1926 - present)
References to articles on biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, instrumentation and methods.
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Medline via OvidSP (1950 - present)
Reference to articles on all aspects of medicine.

Index Medicus 1879 - 1965, the print precursor to Medline is located in the Medical Library.
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PsycINFO via OvidSP (1806 - present)
References to articles on all aspects of psychology.
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Scirus (1806 - present)
Freely available guide to science sites and publications on the Internet. If relevant articles are found, use the Library Catalogue to locate the journal and download the text.
 

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