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Databases are for Lake Forest College affiliated users.
Recommended Databases
American Chemical Society Web Editions
Current Contents (science & social science)
GREENR
(environment)
JSTOR (cross-disciplinary)
LexisNexis
(Choose "Power Search" and select "Medical News"
or "All Full-Text Medical Journals")
MEDLINE (medical -- also available through ISI )
PROLA
(Physical Review Online Archive)
PubMed
(health, medicine & molecular biology)
Scientific American Archive Online
Web of Science (sciences and social sciences)
WebFeat
(search across databases)
More Science & Technology Databases
Academic
Search Premier - EBSCOhost (cross-disciplinary)
AGRICOLA (agriculture)
Annual
Reviews (science)
Anthropological
Index Online
(anthropology)
ArticleFirst
(scholarly articles)
BioDigest
(biology, ecology & health)
BioOne
(biology, ecology & environment)
Blackwell-Synergy (cross-disciplinary)
Clinical
Pharmacology (prescription drug info)
Credo Reference — Science (reference e-books)
EBSCO
Animals (animal nature & habitat)
Electronic
Collections Online (cross-disciplinary)
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
GEOBASE (geography, geology & environment)
GPO
(government publications)
GreenFILE
(environment)
Health
Source: Consumer Edition (health & prescription info)
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (medical)
Highwire Press (free Stanford journals)
Ingenta Select, now Liebert
Online (medical, law & science)
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe (full-text newspaper articles)
PapersFirst
(conference papers)
Philosopher's
Index (philosophy)
PNAS
Online (biological, physical & social sciences)
Primary
Search (education)
Proceedings
(conference papers)
Professional
Development Collection (educators)
Project
Muse (cross-disciplinary)
PsycInfo (psychology)
PubMed
Central (full-text)
Regional
Business News (local newspapers)
Scientific American Archive Online
SciFinder (chemistry) first time users must register
SIRSResearcher (social issues)
Social
Services Abstracts (social work, welfare & social policy)
Sociological
Abstracts (sociology)
Stat-USA/Internet (business,
economic & trade data)
Web
Editions from the American Chemical Society
Wiley InterScience — formerly Blackwell Synergy (cross-disciplinary)
WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine statistics and equations
WorldAlmanac
and Book of Facts
WorldCat (book catalog for libraries worldwide)
Worldscope (financial info)