Best 20+ eResearch Indexes

• ADS Home Page - (Astrophysics Data System) Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy
  • Abstracts
  • Abstracts search template
  • Journal/Volume/Page Query Form
  • Observatory/Society Publications Query Page for the Astronomy database
  • Proceedings Query Page for the Astronomy database

• ARI - (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg)
• ARIBIB - (ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References)
• ARIPRINT - Astronomischer Jahresbericht (AJB) - This astronomical bibliography contains GIF images of AJB Volumes 1 - 68 (1899 - 1968). The author index and chapter titles of all the AJB volumes can be searched online in the database ARIBIB
• Dissertations and Theses - (Partial Full Text, 1861 -) Titles published since 1997 are avaiable in digital format for PDF download. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts. (formerly ProQuest Digital Dissertations)
• Dissertations and Theses @ University of Hawaii - (Partial Full Text) Complete full text of University of Hawaii theses and dissertations from 1996 to the present (formerly Current Research @ University of Hawaii)
• EBSCOHost - (Partial Full Text) Over 10,000 full-text journals in 20+ databases covering all subjects (Academic Search Premier is the default database)
• Engineering Village 2 / Compendex - (Citations/Abstracts Only, 1970 -) International engineering journals, conference proceedings, technical reports and trade publications.
• GeoBase - (Abstracts, Citations, Partial Full Text, 1980 -) One million+ records, current coverage of 1,700+ journals; covers Geography, Ecology, Geology, Oceanography, Geomechanics and Developmental Studies
• IEEE Xplore - (Partial Full Text, 1998 - ) (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection - (Partial Full Text) Archive of scholarly journal literature covering: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Statistics
• JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection - (Partial Full Text)
• JSTOR Health & General Sciences Collection - (Partial Full Text) Extensive backfile of journals in Health, Biological, Engineering, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences (formerly The General Sciences Collection)

• LEVEL 5 - "Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology" sponsored by NASA's Applied Information Systems Research Program (AISRP)
• MathSciNet - (Citations/Abstracts Only, 1940 -) Mathematical literature including journals, conference proceedings, books of mathematics research and Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews in the Mathematical Reviews Database

• NED - (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
• Papers Submitted to Selected Astronomical Publications - (Formerly The Yellow Pages) Advance title list of papers submitted to ApJ, ApJS, AJ, Icarus, PASP, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, and Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• ScienceDirect - (Partial Full Text, 1995 -) From Elsevier; over 1,800 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals
• SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data)
  • SIMBAD at CDS
  • SIMBAD mirror site at SAO
  • SIMBAD User's Guide Version 3.0 Oct 2006

• Sky & Telescope Name Index - Vol.1, no.1 - Vol.108, no.6 (Nov 1941 - Dec 2004)

• SPIE Digital Library - (Full Text, 1998 - ) (International Society for Optical Engineering)
• Web of Knowledge
  • INSPEC - (Partial Full Text, 1969 -) World's largest bibliographic database covers Physics, Electronics, Computers, Engineering, and Information Technology. Six million plus citations with 330,000 abstracts, 4,000 journals, and 2,000 conference proceedings added annually.
  • INSPEC Tutorial - "Welcome to INSPEC via Web of Knowledge"
  • Web of Science (WofS) - (Citations/Abstracts only, 1980 - ) Index to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 70% of the records have author abstracts.
    
    • WofS Tutorial - "Web of Science [v3.0] 2007 : Citation count search"

• WorldCat: Libraries's holdings worldwide: a catalog of books, journals and other materials
  • WorldCat (public version; no login required)
  • WorldCat (via OCLC FirstSearch; UH login required) Linked to interlibrary loan form; limited to 4 users at a time

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