Which ones do I use?

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ALWAYS A GOOD START: The AccessScience database provides information from The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and is an excellent resource for all scientific topics. Environment Complete is a recent edition (Fall 2007) to the database collection and is also a great place to start.

BOOKS: Refer to the Books section of this site <click here>.

GENERAL TOPICS: Students in General Studies science courses often write papers on basic topics such as "How do earthquakes work?" These types of papers are usually best researched in databases other than the ones listed in this section, the contents of which is frequently too narrowly focused for such topics. For general topics, you may be served best by a multidisciplinary, social science, business, history, or general database. Specifically

• General/Multidisciplinary databases: General OneFile and ProQuest [All combined].
• Social science: Academic OneFile, Academic Search Complete, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Research Library.
• Business: ABI/Inform Complete, Business Source Premier and General BusinessFile ASAP
• History: History Reference Center and World History Collection
  History? Yes! If you need biographical information about a mathematician, a history of volcanic eruptions, or things of that nature, a history database may be an excellent resource.
• General: Encyclopedia Britannica, Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, and Oxford Reference Online Premium

SERIOUS RESEARCH: A few of the databases in this section do provide full text articles—specifically, ACS Web (Chemistry), BioOne (Biology), Environment Complete, and MathSciNet (Mathematics). Others provide indexing to articles that while not full text may be available via interlibrary loan. In either case, the vast majority of material that is provided will be decidedly scientific in nature.

ACS Publications (American Chemical Society) via ACS

Provides some abstracts of articles and some full-text articles found in publications of the American Chemical Society.

Environment Complete via EBSCOhost

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,590,000 records from 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 960 active core titles) as well as 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for 400 journals and 80 monographs.