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Academic Search Complete  
Humanities, social sciences, news and events, sciences, policy -- mutli-disciplinary coverage of journals. Includes many full text articles.
ACM Digital Library  
Citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
ACM Guide to Computing Literature  
Citations and abstracts from the computing literature
ACS Web Editions  
ACS web editions is an online database that contains the 5 most current year of content of ACS publications.
Agricola  
Citations to journal articles, government reports, and books in agriculture and related disciplines.
Agricola (via the National Agricultural Library)  
Citations to journal articles, government reports, and books in agriculture and related disciplines.
Alt Healthwatch  
Full text articles and other documents and publications covering topics in complementary and alternative medicine.
Annual Reviews Online  
Full text extensive research reviews of current and emerging topics in a variety of disciplines: biomedical, physical and social sciences.
arXiv (Archive X)  
Open access to 388,573 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus  
Citations and some full text for articles in ~350 core life sciences magazines and journals.
BioOne  
BioOne is an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences; mostly published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
BIOSIS Previews (Ovid Interface)  
Citations and abstracts of the biological and biomedical literature.
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Birds of North America (BNA) Online  
Provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.
Business Source Premier  
Full text and citations to articles on all aspects of business, company profiles, and country information.
CiteSeer  
Search engine for literature on computer and information science.
Cochrane Library  
Full text of evidence-based reviews of clinical trials and healthcare/medical interventions.
Compendex  
Citations and abstracts of the engineering and applied science literature.
Conference Papers Index  
"Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world." Coverage dates: 1982-present
Dictionary of Organic Compounds   
This database contains concise chemical, structural, and citations on organic compounds. Data includes formulae, chemical structures, physical properties.
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)  
Online full text compendium of twenty UNESCO-published disciplinary encyclopedias concerned with all aspects of sustainability.
Environmental Science and Pollution Management  
Citations and abstracts of the environmental, ecology, and water resources literature.
Geobase  
Citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature of geography, geology, ecology, and international development.
GeoRef  
Citations and abstracts of the earth sciences (including palaeontology) literature.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module  
Full text of popular reference books, journals, magazines and pamphlets for consumers and health care professionals. Includes popular information about alternative health therapies.
Health Reference Center Academic  
Full text of nursing and allied health journals, includes full text and images selected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
Health Source: Consumer Edition  
Article citations and many full text articles from popular health and medicine journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition  
Article citations and many full text articles from health and medicine journals
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine  
The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database provides access to articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and conference proceedings in science, technology, and medicine.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)  
Vast archive of social science data, including aging, child care, criminal justice, demography, education, political science, public and mental health, and sociology.
IEEE Conference Proceedings at PSU Library  
PSU Holdings of IEEE Conference Proceedings
IEEE Xplore  
Index and full-text of IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards.
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database  
The ICSD is a searchable database of more than 93,000 inorganic structures, including including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds. You can search on fields like element(s), citation information (author/journal/title/years), chemical/mineral name, crystal system, space group, minimum distance, cell size/mass, and Pearson Symbol.
IOPscience  
Institute of Physics journal content back to 1874
Knovel  
full text science and technology reference books
MathSciNet  
Citations and abstracts of the mathematics and statistics literature.
MEDLINE (Ebsco interface)  
Comprehensive database covering research literature in all areas of medicine from 1953-present. Published by the National Library of Medicine includes links to open access full text articles.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch interface)  
Comprehensive database covering research literature in all areas of medicine from 1953-present. Published by the National Library of Medicine includes links to open access full text articles.
MEDLINE (Ovid Interface)  
Citations and abstracts for journal articles in all areas of medical practice and research.
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MEDLINE (PubMed interface)  
Citations and abstracts for journal articles in all areas of medical practice and research
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)  
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Full-text access to approximately 240,000 government-sponsored technical reports from 1964 to 2000. Access restricted. Ask at Reference Desk for details on Web-based access at http://www.ntis.gov/FDLP/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2ffdlp%2fDefault.aspx
PubMed (Interface for MEDLINE)  
Citations and abstracts for journal articles in all areas of medical practice and research
Science Citation Index  
Provides access to abstracts and references found in more than 5,800 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals.
Science.gov  
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies including research and development results.
ScienceDirect  
Full text of articles published in PSU-subscription Elsevier journals from 1997 - present
SciFinder  
Citations and abstracts of the chemistry and chemical engineering literature.

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SourceOECD  
OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.
SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices)  
Citations and abstracts of articles from the major American and Russian physics journals.
TRIS (Transport Research Information Services)  
Citations in the transportation literature.
UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)  
UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.
Web of Science  
Citation searching across thousands of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the arts & humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Weldasearch  
Citations and abstracts of the welding and allied processes literature.
Zoological Record  
Citations from the zoological and animal science literature.
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