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Articles

Academic OneFile

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific and scholarly journals which have been peer-reviewed and are free.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

General Science Abstracts, 1984+
In print 1978/79-1984    Storage Q 158.5 G45
Indexes and abstracts about 160 popular scientific journals. 

General Science Collection

Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides a wide range of full-text news, business, legal, and reference information.

Open Science Directory
span class="listheading">Full text science periodical articles for free.

Scirus
Indexes journal articles,  but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Biographical Information

Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century. Call Number: Reference Q 141 B5285 2000
Biographical information for 2,500 women scientists from antiquity to mid-20th  century ( all are dead).  Give several paragraphs of information for each woman and bibliographic references.

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Biographical information for over 1000 scientists.  Can search by name, gender, minority status, historical period, nationality, and prize winners

Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
This dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.

ISIHighlyCited.com
Lists the most cited researchers in 21 subject categories.  Includes biographical information and a listing of publications.  You can search by name, category, country, and institutional affiliation.

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.Call Number: Reference Q 141 N45 2008

Data/Statistics

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measure

Scientific American Science Desk Reference.Call Number: Reference Q 173 S397 1996
Over 1,700 answers to frequently-asked or difficult-to-answer questions. Check Table of Contents here.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

McGraw Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Based on the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.Call Number: Reference Q 121 M3 2007
A multi-volume basic science encyclopedia.

Government Information

Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Handbooks & Guides

Getting Started with Mathematica
An introduction to Mathematica, with exercises and references for further investigation.

Style & Citation Guides

Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

American Statistical Association
The Association web page includes news, educational resources, and career resources.

AMSER : Applied Math and Science Education Repository
AMSER is a portal of educational resources geared to community and technical colleges, but free to all.

INFOMINE
INFOMINE is a huge collection of scholarly internet sites. Each website is carefully evaluated, cataloged and checked for status by the Libraries of the University of California.

National Science Digital Library
 A digital library of "exemplary resources collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels."  You may ask a science, math, or technology question through the AskNSDL question and answer service.

Science Animations: Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links
Over 100 links to interactive science content.

Truman State University Student Mathematica Software Distribution
The University's license with Wolfram Software allows each TSU student an installation of the Mathematica software.