Databases,
Catalogs & Suppliers
Many are free and open to searching by anyone, but some charge, and some require
an account to search.
Be aware many of the following links take longer to load than you may expect, please be patient.
General
- All that JAS
- links to dozens of journal abbreviation sources
- BioMedNet - Medline and more, register
to search for free, some services cost
- Blackwell
Science - tables of contents for hundreds of journals, most back to
1997; more current than Uncover
- Cambridge Univ Press - online -
tables of contents and abstracts back to 1997; need account to get PDFs
- IngentaConnect - good for verifying
recent publications (do not need an account to search).
- CISTI - Canada Institute
for Science and Technical Information
- Dissertation Express -
order a paper copy of a dissertation from UMI (here is the logon
if you already have an account)
- Enviro$ense
- Association Listing - contact info for many trade associations with environmental
involvement
- GrayLit - network - US Federal Gov't
gray literature search site
- ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
- FindArticles.com
- free fulltext of popular journals
- ISI - (Institute for Scientific Information)
- JAKE - good for finding ISSNs
- MIT Theses - and E-Theses online (Mass.
Institute of Tech.)
- NTIS - Electronic Catalog - 1990
to present
- OnVideo - Resource guide
to online and mail order video resources
- ResearchIndex - NECI Scientific
Literature Digital Library - computer science is especially good, some PDFs
- UNESCO - sources 1996-present online
in PDF
Polar
and Northern Regions -Alaskan and Arctic Resources
Engineering, Patents,
and Standards
Natural and Physical
Sciences
Humanities, Education, & Social Sciences
International Resources
Russia
- Access Russia
- Center for Russian, East
European, and Eurasian Studies - at Univ of Texas Austin
- PenSoft Publishers - large catalog,
scientific focus
- Russian Periodicals Online
- Russian Studies
and Slavic Resources - at Princeton University
Germany
- GBV (Gemeinsamer
Bibliotheksverbund) - large German bibliographic system incl. union
catalog, periodical indexes, free searching, English interface
- KVK - Karlsruhe
Virtual Katalog - HUGE multi-catalog system, includes other foreign catalogs
such as British Lib and Lib of Congress
- Subito - full-text service, free
guest login
Sweden
- LIBRIS - union
catalog of Swedish libraries, English language interface, check out the
other specialized databases and bibliographies
France
- SU - System Universitaire de Documentation
- large French collective catalogue, searchable only in French
Japan
- Japanese Info - pub
info, ISSNs, and other info for Japanese journals, English titles
- Japanese Journal
Info Web - union lists, links, tables of contents
China
- Gateway Service Center
- Chinese language materials, English interface, free, digitally transmitted
articles
India
- INFLIBNET - multiple university
book, thesis, and serials catalog