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To access a search screen, you must first select a journal then choose the journals you want to search. Full text of the following American Journal of Physiology journals: AJP - Cell Physiology; AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism; AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology; AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology; AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; AJP - Renal Physiology; AJP - Consolidated; as well as the following journals: Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Reviews, News in Physiological Sciences, Advances in Physiology, Education, The Physiologist, APS Legacy Content
A searchable database for bibliographic records from 1984-1995. Provides annual reviews of to over 29 fields in three subject areas (biology and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences). Full-text from 1996 to the present. Updated annually.Covers trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals in sciences, engineering and technology from 1983 to the present.
Covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture. Indexes 335 key periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture. Includes current book reviews. Records cover 1983 to the present and are updated monthly.
A database of journals and books covering the agricultural and life sciences. Also includes reviews of and links to web resources.This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. As of August5, 2010, there are 5,255 journals in the directory, 2,188 journals are searchable at article level, and 430,565 articles are included in the DOAJ service.Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions from 1861 to the present. Includes some master's theses and World Languages and Cultures dissertations. Updated monthly.
Films On Demand is a vendor of web-based digital video delivery service.Indexing from 1984 for nearly 300 periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed. In-depth abstracts of 50 to 150 words written by professionals with science backgrounds. From 1995 to the present, full text articles from nearly 100 periodicals.An alternative interface for the PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine access to Medline.InformaWorld hosts journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by the Taylor & Francis group, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.Ingenta is a document delivery service and comprehensive index to over 23,000 scholarly scientific and technical journals. Several options allow you to set up an alerting service or deposit account for ordering articles sent to your desktop. The copyright and service fee is quite pricey, but the database is handy for verifying citations.Provides full text access for scholarly journals in the areas of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The Life Science Collection is also available. This database covers a complete journal run from the first issue up to the most recent three to five years.Corresponds to the print edition of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Literature. Over 9,580 journals are indexed, beginning in 1965. The First Search version allows you to link your search results to the Weinberg Library holdingsIndexes every published congress, symposium, conference exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Indexing begins in 1993.PEDro: the Physiotherapy Evidence Database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in the area of physiotherapy. PEDro is an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP).Proceedings indexes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia workshops and conventions in a wide range of disciplines.ProQuest Biology Journals™ provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 320 titles, with more than 280 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.ProQuest Science Journals provides research support for both the applied and general sciences. Coverage begins in 1986. The 740 journals cover topics relating to all major fields of study, including: Physics, Engineering, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry, and many more.Includes the full text of 175 Academic Press journals. Its aim is to improve access to scientific journals starting with the complete 1996 issues. Over 2000 articles are added monthly. Subject areas covered in this database are applied sciences, social sciences, dentistry, nursing, economics, business law and finance.For over 160 years, Scientific American has been the source for understandable, authoritative reporting on developments in every field of science. Access the entire editorial content of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and all special issues from January 1993 to the present.SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,800 fully peer-reviewed journals and indexing for more than 25,000 books online. To restrict your search to resources to which the Library has access, chose “Library Subscribes.”Indexes 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, laboratory manuals and management resources. Fulltext of articles is available only for those journals to which the library subscribes. Indexing is interdisciplinary. Users may search all disciplines or select: business, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and statistics, computer science, earth and environmental science, physics, astronomy, education, polymers and material science, engineering, psychology, law, and social sciences.
