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Finding Books - Search the catalogs by author, title or subject.

Clarkson University Library Catalog
Local Catalogs
e Books - Collections, restricted to Clarkson users, which can be searched by subject. Individual titles are included in the catalog.
e Books Free to the Public

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Finding Journals - Check the catalog or the journal printout which is located in the library to find journals.

Electronic Journals
Print Journals - titles currently received in print
Our Complete Journal List - includes all of Clarkson's journal holdings as well as full text titles that are accessible through databases
eJournals and repositories free to the public - journals and articles which do not require a subscription to access

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Finding Journal Articles - Search databases and journal collections to find journal articles by subject, author or title. If the article isn't available in full text, search Our Complete Journal List to see if we have the journal either in print or online. If Clarkson does not have the journal, submit a request for the article through Interlibrary Loan.

**Recommended.

ABI/INFORM Proquest
(ProQuest Research Library Collection; ABI/INFORM Global; ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry; ABI/INFORM Dateline)
dates vary; 1971+ business, social sciences, humanities; research journals & popular magazines as well as newspapers many articles are full text
Agricola (National Agricultural Library) 1970+ index to agricultural journals not full text

** Basic Biosis (FirstSearch)

R 016.57 B615 A/I Biological Abstracts

1988+

1970-1992

 

index to articles in top 350 Biology journals

 

not full text

 

BioMed Central (BioMed Central journals are also archived in PubMed Central.)

dates vary free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research full text
Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Scholar) 1907+ index to all the fields of chemistry links to full text for titles to which the library subscribes
Free Medical Journals dates vary access differs for each title; registration may be required each title varies
Highwire dates vary free trials, journals and back issues  
JSTOR dates vary digital archive of scholarly publications covering various subject areas; begins with volume 1 of most publications to last 5 years full text
Medline/Pubmed 1966+ primary index for medicine; includes cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry links to full text for titles to which the library subscribes
PubMed Central dates vary U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journals full text
Science Direct 1995+ science, engineering, and management journals from Elsevier press full text for titles to which the library subscribes
SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive dates vary "Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years" full text

**Web of Science
(Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index)

R016.5 S4161 A/I Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index CD-Rom

1994+






1968-1989

1988-1994

Science Citation includes engineering; Social Sciences includes business & economics; scholarly, peer-reviewed journals not full text
Wilson OmniFile 1994+ social sciences, business, humanities, applied science & technology full text

Complete List of Databases

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Internet

Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) - "geospatial data and metadata for New York State, with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions"

New York State Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse

Federal Government resources - USA.gov, the Patent Office, and Federal Regulations.

Frequently Used Sites Linked to U.S. Federal Government Information

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