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MathSciNet   from American Mathematical Society  Search Tips  

Covers pure and applied mathematics and statistics, including applications to other fields, such as physics, computer science, and engineering.  Most entries contain either an author's abstract or a critical review.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books from Current Mathematical Publications (CMP) and Mathematical Reviews (MR).  1940 to present.

 

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Academic Search Complete   from EBSCO  Search Tips  

Provides full text for over 7,000 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more.  Coverage varies by publication.  Some full-text PDFs from 1985 to present.

 
Access Science (Encyclopedia)  from McGraw-Hill  

AccessScience is the online version of the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with access to all the articles, fully illustrated.  In addition, it includes new trends and developments in science and technology from the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology volumes, and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical TermsAccessScience also includes biographies of scientists, Nobel Prize winners in all fields for all years, headlines from the journal Science News, and links to related web sites.

 
Applied Science & Tech Index   from Wilson  

Provides indexing, abstracts and some full text articles for more than 390 periodicals.  Includes aeronautics and space sciences; atmospheric sciences; chemistry; computer technology and applications; construction industry; energy; engineering; food and food industry; geology; mathematics; metallurgy; meteorology; mineralogy; oceanography; physics; textiles; transportation; and other industrial and mechanical arts.  Indexing 1983 to present; abstracts beginning in March 1993; some full text beginning in 1997.

 
A Dictionary of Units  from Cleave Books  

A summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI.

 
Dissertations and Theses   from ProQuest  

This database contains records for more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Also included is the full text content for nearly 900,000 dissertations.  Includes extensive coverage of North American graduate schools, with coverage of some European universities beginning in 1989.  Includes bibliographic record of dissertations written in the United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts, for titles available from 1986 in 'ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.  A separate database contains the subset of Marquette University doctoral dissertations in full text.

 
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement  from Univ. North Carolina  

This dictionary includes all the units of the International System of Units (SI); many other units of the metric system used in everyday life or in science, either currently or recently; various non-metric scientific units such as the astronomical unit, the electronvolt, and the parsec; all the units of the English traditional systems that can be defined with reasonable precision; selected traditional units from cultures other than English; and certain measurement terms and notations which are not "units of measurement" in a strict sense, but which are used much as if they were.

 
Journal Citation Reports - Science & Social Sciences  from ISI  

This unique multidisciplinary resource presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories, including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, ‘hottest’ journals, and largest journals. The "Science" portion covers about 5,000 leading international science journals from ISI database and the "Social Science" portion covers 1700 leading journals from Social Science Citation Index.  Basic information about each journal is also included, e.g. publisher, frequency, title changes, subject categories assigned, etc.  Covers 2004 to 2006.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

 
Math Archives Topics in Mathematics  from Univ. Tennesse-Knoxville  

Mathematics Archives, a free resource from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, links to various WWW resources on mathematics, organized by topic.

ProQuest Central  from ProQuest  

Multidisciplinary database with 11,000+ titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text.  It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

 
ProQuest Research Library   from ProQuest  

Indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range of magazines and journals.  It includes general interest and news publications as well as selected scholarly journals.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full text and full image articles.  Coverage varies by title with good coverage for late 1980's to present, some earlier coverage.

 
Safari Tech Books Online   from ProQuest  

This resource offers a breadth of full-text IT related books.  Topics include: IT management, e-commerce/business, programming languages, graphics, hardware, multimedia, security and many others.  All of the titles are available in MARQCAT.  For a list by title Check MARQCAT.  Marquette has licenses for three simultaneous users.  If you have difficulty accessing this resource try again in a few minutes.

 
Science Citation Index   from ISI  

Included in Web of Science which combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

 
Science.gov  from USA.gov  

Science.gov is an interagency cooperative providing a unified search of the government’s scientific and technical information.  30 databases and over 1,700 web sites are included.  Material is selected by the following agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Interior as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.  Science.gov mainly provides citiations and in some cases abstracts.

 
Sciences in ProQuest   from ProQuest  

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of science topics including agriculture, biology, chemistry, computing, engineering, physics and telecommunications.  Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.  1986 to present.

 
Scitopia  from Scitopia.org  

Includes documents from 21 societies and organizations as well as patents and governemnt data.  Organizations included are listed on the advanced search screen.

 
Table of Integrals, Series, and Products  from Academic Press picture of CD-ROM

Offers searchable database containing 20,000 formulas for integrals, sums, series, and products, hypertext links, bookmark function, and notebook feature.  Includes TeX source code for selected formulas

 
Topics in Mathematics (Math Archives)   see - Math Archives Topics in Mathematics
 
Web of Science   from ISI  Search Tips  

Combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  1980 to present.  VPN recommnded for off-campus access.

 

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