Scientific Database Descriptions

The Library Web site offers many databases for the exclusive use of the UMASS Lowell campus. The material found here cannot be found using Internet search engines as the UML Libraries have paid for access.  If you are "surfing" and access the Library home page, you will not be allowed to use these databases.  If you have cable modem, DSL or other fast connections, use the instant proxy from the library home page. [Just click on Off-Campus users start here; your UML email address and password are what you need].  PPP accounts (for modem users) are available on application.

The Library now has over 41,000 journals available in full text.  These journals may be available in one OR MORE databases which are subscribed to by the Library.  If you find an item you want, look for the LinkSource button. Click on it and you will be presented with a list of all places the item is available in Full Text.  These links will take you right to the article in another database. Links are also offered to the UML E-Journal list so you can see what journals we have in electronic format and connect to them directly from that list.  If you are searching for a particular journal, go to the UML E-journal list, and use the FIND box to locate your journal.  Links to both electronic and the UML collections are found here.

Chemical Abstracts. 1907-  Available as  SciFinder Scholar (SFS), a full electronic access. Look for SFS icon on PC's in the Library; and most UML science and engineering professors also have the software installed on lab computers. Open 24 hours a day with the exception of early Sunday mornings.  Software for SFS must be installed and for those instructions, click here. We no longer have paper copies of Chemical Abstracts. SciFinder2006 is current software edition available.
This database is the premier source for any chemical information.  It covers upwards of 10,000 titles per year.  SFS also offers links to other references, and links into many full-text items.  Absolutely the FIRST source for any chemical search.  Tutorials are available on computers in Olney Hall, rm 223 or can be downloaded onto your own computer from here.

Engineering Index.  1970-, is available as COMPENDEX, 1970- 
 1920-1969 Shelved on 1st floor. It covers approximately 7000 titles.
This database covers the field of engineering very well.  Links are also available to ScienceDirect journals. An extremely important source for all engineers, regardless of their specialty.

Ebsco 1990-  This is a general information database supplier. Academic Search Premier contains full text for about 3600 of the 4200 journals indexed.  Also includes other databases, which may be searched separately or in combination: Medline, CINAHL, PsycInfo & PsycArticles, ERIC, Econ Lit, SociologyFT, MLA Bibliography, Environmental Policy, and EJS Citations (a table of contents service).
 Indexing from 1984- and full text from 1990-.  Full Text or citations may be printed,  saved or emailed.

Infotrac: 1980- This contains several databases of interest.  Expanded Academic Index is the index for 1500 academic journals, including full text for about 1200 of them. Others include: Health Reference Center, General Business ASAP, Biography Resource Center, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. For college papers do not use General Reference Center, which indexes only popular magazines, not suitable for your research endeavors.
This is a general database, a good place to start for material in any field.  Full Text or citations may be printed,  saved or emailed.

ScienceDirect. 1995- This database covers approximately 1800 Elsevier Press journals, with full content for about 1200 of them, via our subscription through the Boston Library Consortium. As subscribers, you may set up free alert services, if you wish to monitor developments in a particular field or a certain journal.

MEDLINE, the premiere medical database provided by the US Government,  is available on Ebsco 1966-, CSA,  and in SciFinder Scholar.  Also on the WEB at: PubMed.   PubMed also offers links to journal articles but if UML does not subscribe to the electronic journal, the link will not work.

Lexis/Nexis: Academic Universe Business news, medical, legal and biographical information. Court cases included, both federal and state. Full-text.

Cambridge Scientific offers access to a number of databases, including the Polymer Library (formerly RAPRA, and the premier database for Plastics information) and Engineered Materials Abstracts. The Biological Sciences comprehensive database covers all biological and biochemical topics.  All aspects of biology may be searched at once, or you may concentrate on a specific section of biology by going here.

Knovel.com  A database of over 900 technical handbooks in all fields of science and engineering.  Database may be searched for particular properties of a chemical, and a number of the titles offer interactive graphing capabilities. Knovel includes the entire International Critical Tables, Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook, and many important plastics engineering sources, such as the full text ANTEC (plastics engineering) conferences.

Wiley-Interscience journals offers the full-text of 380 journals, back to 1997.  The majority of the journals are science and engineering titles.

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last updated: 1/2/07