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Finding Articles in Research Databases
(go to DA Orgs/Library for off-campus access)
Science Databases
- Access Science (full text)
Full text science encyclopedia ( McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology) plus definitions, biographies, news, evaluated websites, study guides, and illustrations and images - Science Reference Center (full text)
Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources--topics include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife
General Databases including science periodicals
- Academic Search Premier (full text plus citations and abstracts only)
A general academic database that indexes over 8,000 leading publications in all subject areas and provides full text for over 4,000 of those titles--over 3,500 titles are peer-reviewed or scholarly publications--search this database along with Science Reference Center using the drop-down menu - InfoTrac Web (full text plus citations and abstracts only)(search several databases at once)
General OneFile, Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic, General Reference Center, Health Reference Center, Student Edition - Lexis-Nexis (news, law & legislation, statistics)(full text)
"Includes major U.S. and international newspapers; leading magazines, wire services and broadcast news transcripts
Science Databases at UMass
UMass is a public library. Massachusetts residents, including Deerfield students, can visit the library and use their databases.
Selected Internet Resources
(Websites should always be evaluated for authorship, accuracy, and currency)
Articles & Sites
- Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
- Zubbles Home Page & Video (founded in 2004)
- Tim Kehoe's Site ("Tim has been featured in Fortune Small Business, Business Journal, Entrepreneur, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Popular Science, Believer and also made appearances on National Public Radio, Discovery Channel, NBC, CBS")
- Zubbles on NPR (12/22/2005)
Major Patent Sites
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Database
Full text and bibliographic searching of US patents from Jan. 1976 to the present. Full text of patents, including images, is available free of charge (requires Tiff viewer to print). The Bibliographic database consists of the front pages of U.S. patents. The front page of a patent includes data such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name, as well as the abstract and a brief description of the patent's contents. The Manual of Classification is available from this site.
Research Guides on Patent Searching
- Research U.S. Patents on the Web (U. of Central Florida)
- Patent Research (Washington State University)(PDF file)
- Guide to Patent Information (U. of Wisconsin)
- U.S. Patent Searching (Oregon State)
- Patents and Trademarks (U. of Massachusetts)
Selected Internet Resources
- Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry (Indiana U.)
Need help with citing sources?
MLA Citation Style Guide
NoodleBib (citation management tool)