History & Philosophy of Science Databases
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History Databases | Philosophy Databases | Science Databases
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. Note: Click Logout when finished. |
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| Google Scholar An academic version of the famous search engine. |
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| 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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