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Research Guide: Physics & Astronomy — Databases

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Databases for Physics & Astronomy:
Biological Abstracts -- a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics -- full text handbook covering biochemistry, chemistry and physics not included in ENGnetBASE
Engineering Village 2 -- access to Compendex, ENGnetBASE and US Patent Office
ENGnetBASE -- full text of engineering handbooks
MEDLINE -- provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more
Science Citation Index -- Researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
ScienceDirect College Edition - Health & Life Sciences Journal Collection -- access to peer-reviewed health and life sciences journal articles
State Academies of Science Abstracts -- -- index to the publications of U.S. state academies of science

	Databases available only in Rockwell Hall, Room 201:
	Cambridge Structural Database -- "is a database of crystallographic, chemical and bibliographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds"
	SciFinder Scholar --- web version of Chemical Abstracts

Databases with a Cross-Disciplinary focus:
Academic Search Premier -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study
LexisNexis Academic -- provides full text and citation access to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal disciplines
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online -- includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year
Oxford Reference Online Database -- full text of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press