Over 2000 biographies of leading scientists and links to concepts directly from the biography page.

Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

Major contributors to a science discipline from antiquity to present are included in this 2-volume work. The index makes it easy to look up entries by subject or person's last name.

The premier biographical set includes deceased scientists dating from antiquity who have made significant contributions. These biographical entries are detailed and contains bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The coverage is international in scope and highly authoritative.  The subject index allows for searching based on subject rather than by person. Where appropriate, diagrams and mathematical equations are included in the descriptions.

From the veteran encyclopedist of the Internet Eric Weisstein, this is a reference collection sponsored by Wolfram Research and is continually growing. Related entries linked to each scientist provides helpful context and connections otherwise not apparent.

Biographies and all Nobel Lectures are here for viewing and downloading.

An helpful resource list from Bryn Mawr College.

Provides abstracts to journals, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, materials science, electrical engineering, telecommunications and computer science. Covers 1969-present.

INSPEC has some unique fields, not always necessary to use but can help get more precise answers for more complicated systems. For example to look for CdSe nanoparticles, you might use the Chemical Index field, helpful for finding materials that do not have a clear stoichiometric ratio such as composites and crystals with dopants. (Enter CdSe-bin AND nano* to search for CdSe as a binary system) in the advanced search screen. Limit it to treatments of application (A) (document describes actual use or a device, method, technique etc) or General  reviews (G) (a survey of state-of-the-art)  to find interesting articles.

See user guide for details on the database and how to search it well.

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, a substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information. Covers chemistry, biotechnology, toxicology, environmental science, and medicine, from 1907 to the present.

Check out their table of contents for almost 2,000 journal titles!

Provides links to journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society. The Tri-Colleges may access the full-text of the latest 40 years of most of these titles. Browse graphical table of contents for more recent issues!
ACS Nano
Nano Letters
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, B.

A platform hosting research content, news and most cited articles. Journal content includes ALL IOP published content back to 1874. Also included are 6 journals published by Turpion, a publisher that covers the Russian physics literature in translation. The fields covered are physics, mathematics, engineering, chemistry and biology.

Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals. Search in selected subject categories for more precise answers.

Short research articles called Letters which describe original research are placed in context by accompanying Editor's Summary and News & Views capsules. These summaries help to place the research articles in context of the broader field.

List of science-related magazines and other online resources. Browse table of contents for special articles with an attendant Perspectives article which provides very useful context in which to place the research.

This American Institute of Physics-sponsored site (called Scitation) provides an interface for the SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database. This allows for searching and browsing of  articles from major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals. Also includes conference proceedings, preprints, and even MedLine as one of the searchable collections. Covers 1975-present, plus full access to

Scitation publications contain forward links to articles that cite it, links to related articles, errata, editorials commentaries and author-supplied supplementary material which can include multimedia.

Check to see if your favorite journals are covered.

AIP and APS jointly compile weekly relevant papers in these areas:

• Superconductivity
• Biological Physics
• Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Quantum Information
• Ultrafast science

See all titles covered by this service, including the big 3- Science, Nature and PNAS!

Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily.
Excellent for broad topic searches such as Statistical Mechanics. Numerous equations and linked articles. Check out the "For further study" link and dictionary entries.

Google Scholar has convinced many publishers to allow their robots to index their sites. As a result, many articles can be found and are ranked by the prominence of the author's and journal's previous papers, how many citations it already has, when it was written, and so on. Look for the new link on the upper right for "Recent articles" -- or switch to "All articles" for the full list. Click on "Group of n" to find alternate ways to get full text.

More project info and search tips are available .

Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific web pages including academic, publishers and scientific and professional society websites and their publications databases. If an answer is found and to be available through ScienceDirect (an Elsevier product) and if we have a subscription, we can see the full text of the item. You can find out which publishers are now available for searching. Helpful suggestions of alternate keywords are offered!

The latest edition is on reserve but the older edition is available for checkout.

"What distinguishes this book on scientific presentations is that it anchors all its advice in the experiences of scientists and engineers, including such successful presenters as Richard Feynman, Heinrich Hertz, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Linus Pauling as well as currently active laboratory directors, scientists, and engineers."--BOOK JACKET.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Library ACS Style Guides
Excellent online guide with links to related sources. This lists the reference formats for most of the sources you will encounter.