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1. Academic Search Premier
   The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full-text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full-text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
2. Academic Universe — Medical
   Contains articles from medical & health news sources and journals.
3. ACM Digital Archive
   Includes full-text of journal articles and proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery.
4. American Chemical Society Publications
   Online editions of the journal publications of the American Chemical Society.
5. American Institute of Physics Online Journals (See Scitation)
   Provides full-text access to journals published and distributed by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies. Covers physics, astronomy, electronics, engineering, materials science, mathematics and associated disciplines.
6. American Journal of Physics
   A publication of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
7. Biological Abstracts See: Biosis Previews
8. BioMed Central Open Access 
   Makes original Science, Technology and Medicine research freely available. 
9. BioOne
   Full-text access to research literature in biology.
10. Biosis Previews
    Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. BIOSIS also combines the content from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.
11. Books 24x7
    Access to electronic versions of hundreds of books in computer science, ranging from programming to graphic design.  Must use your IUS username and password for access both on and off campus.
12. Books at Ovid Full Text
    An online collection of books in medicine, nursing, life sciences, engineering, and related subjects.
13. Britannica Online
    Consists of the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.
14. Cell Press Free Archives 
    Publishes scientific research and reviews.
15. Chemical Society Publications
    Online editions of the journal publications of the American Chemical Society.
16. CINAHL Full Text 
    Providing full text for more than 580 journals indexed in CINAHL.
17. D-Lib magazine
    A monthly publication dealing with digital libraries.
18. Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open access scientific and scholarly journals.
19. Elsevier ScienceDirect
    Includes citations, abstracts, and the full text of journals published by Elsevier in medicine, natural sciences, technology, and social sciences.
20. E-EROS (Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis) 
    A database of over 70,000 reactions and around 4,000 of the most frequently consulted reagents.  It is fully searchable by reagent, reaction name, catalyst, structure, and experimental conditions.  It also allows full text searching. 
21. The Exploratorium
    A museum of science, art and human perception.
22. GreenFILE 
    A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
23. (H1N1) Influenza: An evidence-based information portal
    A portal leading to free resources from DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, and Patient Education Reference Center concerning H1N1 (Swine flu) as well as other influenzas.  For additional resources, see also H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center.  This site, available through ebrary, includes a selection of online books published by government agencies on H1N1.
24. Health & Wellness Resource Center (with Alternative Health Module)
    Provides full-text access to medical and and general-interest journals and periodicals, newspapers, and reference works on a range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices.  Also includes some streaming videos, and a directory for accessing contact information for clinics, medical centers, and foundations.
25. Health Business FullTEXT
    This database provides full text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration and much more.
26. Health Reference Center Academic
    Provides access to the full text and images of nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and reference books.
27. Health Source - Consumer Edition
    This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
28. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
29. HealthStar (Ovid)
    Contains citations to the published literature on health services research, including both clinical and non-clinical  aspects of health care delivery.
30. Hindawi Publishing Open Access Journals
    Peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences.
31. Historical New York Times
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
32. Influenza: An evidence-based information portal
    A portal leading to free resources from DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, and Patient Education Reference Center concerning H1N1 (Swine flu) as well as other influenzas.  For additional resources, see also H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center.  This site, available through ebrary, includes a selection of online books published by government agencies on H1N1. 
33. Ingenta (Formerly CARL UnCover)
    Indexing/abstracting of thousands of journals and provides tables-of-contents and an article notification service.
34. Institute of Physics Journals:
    Includes full-text of New Journal of Physics, Distributed Systems Engineering and Physics Education; also includes abstracts of other Institute of Physics journals.
35. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship 
    Provides full text original articles relating to  nursing education scholarship
36. Journal of Machine Learning Research
    Computer Science journal on Artificial Intelligence.
37. Journals at Ovid Full-Text
    Includes full-text of over 500 journals in the health sciences (e.g. nursing, medicine, mental health, etc.)
38. JSTOR Plant Science
    A comprehensive online research tool for exploring the world’s botanical resources.  Includes plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.
39. LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
    Provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
40. MathSciNet
    A database of bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
41. MCB University Press Emerald Library Journals
    Engineering, marketing, management, etc.
42. MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
    MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
43. MEDLINE & other medical databases (Ovid)
    Access to MEDLINE (1950-current); MEDLINE Daily Update, MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, and OLDMEDLINE (1948-1965) as well as other Ovid medical and health sciences databases, including selected full-text.
44. Merriam-Webster
    Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
45. Micromedex Healthcare Series
    Provides access to evidence-based information for clinicians, including in-depth coverage of different drugs and diseases, toxicology, laboratory tests, alternative medicines, and patient education.
46. Nature 
    Access from 1987 - present
47. New York Times (Historical)
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
48. Nursing Resource Center
    An online resource for beginning LPN, LVN, ADN, RN, and BSN students with information on diagnoses, treatments, and care for patients.
49. Ovid Databases
    Includes access to the Ovid databases MEDLINE and HealthStar, as well as acess to our subscribed eBooks and journals published by Ovid.
50. Plant Cell and Plant Physiology
    Electronic access to the journals Plant Cell and Plant Physiology available through IUCAT or the Full-text Journals A-Z List.
51. Plant Science (JSTOR)
    A comprehensive online research tool for exploring the world’s botanical resources.  Includes plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.
52. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Journal of the National Academy of the Sciences, covering research in the biological, physical, and social sciences.
53. Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Provides the ability to search across all PLoS journals for articles on biology, clinical trials, genetics, and medicine. 
54. PubMedCentral
    U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
55. Reaxys
    A web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data, chemical reactions. Includes access to the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. Access Note: When accessing Reaxys from off campus, you may receive notification that the website certificate is not valid. (This is due to Reaxy’s URL having a double SSL connection.) To access the site you will need to either click okay on the warning (Internet Explorer) or click to add an exception (Firefox).
56. ScienceDirect
    Includes citations, abstracts, and the full text of journals published by Elsevier in medicine, natural sciences, technology, and social sciences.
57. Science in Context
    A popular science database that includes reference resources, journal and periodical articles, multimedia, and vetted web links.  Science Resource Center includes topical overviews, biographies, and experiments in the the major science disciplines: Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science, as well as the History of Science and Science and Society.
58. Scitable 
    A science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution.
59. Scitation
    Provides full-text access to journals published and distributed by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies. Covers physics, astronomy, electronics, engineering, materials science, mathematics and associated disciplines.
60. Stat!-ref (Online) 
    Provides access to information in latest editions of medical, chemical, and pharmacological texts, dictionaries and indexes.
61. TechXtra
    A searchable interface for finding articles, books, websites, industry news and research, job announcements, technical reports and data, thesis & dissertations, and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.
62. Testing & Education Reference Center 
    Provides preparatory guides and practice tests for college and graduate exams (ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, SAT) as well as required career entry tests (ASVAB, NCLEX, PRAXIS, TESOL, etc.).  Users must create their own username and password for access to the guides and practice tests.
63. Wiley Journals Full-Text
    Provides full-text coverage of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical and professional journals from the mid-90's to current.

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