Multi-Disciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary resource providing articles from peer-reviewed journals. UCO's Collections include Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Ecology & Botany II, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Archival access only.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities. - Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.
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WorldCat and ILL
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowWorldCat searches the catalog records of libraries across the globe. Records include many formats: books, serial titles, DVDs, CDs, conference proceedings, and maps.
Request these items through Interlibrary Loan.
Databases Related to Chemistry
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of scholarly articles, with a strong emphasis on the sciences and social sciences.
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Research Guides by Subject
Concept Definitions and Subject Overviews - InspecScholarly articles, books, dissertations, patents and reports covering all fields of engineering and technology.
- ProQuest Central: Science This link opens in a new window
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Features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text, for a total of over 2.7M records. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowA service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and 35 other databases and individual life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics.
How to search an EBSCO database
Research Guides by Subject - IOP Science (Institute of Physics) This link opens in a new windowJournals published by the Institute of Physics in the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, chemistry and biological physics.
Other Sources
- International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (1st Electronic Edition)This classic and well-known reference was originally published from 1926 - 1930 for the National Research Council in 7 volumes. It contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Featuring physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties, it is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS) (2014)eLS includes peer-reviewed articles spanning the life sciences from cell biology to ecology with high-quality illustrations, article glossaries, and a list of further reading. UCO has access to content published in 2014 and before.
