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General Science

For more information about General Science resources contact Svetlana Korolev or schedule a Research Consultation.

For more specific resources in Science see Subject Guides.

To find books and journals in the UWM Libraries collection search Catalog (guide)

Contents: Databases | Guides | Selected Web Sites

Library Databases (For Finding Articles) UWM only

Academic Search
1984-present; indexes over 3,400 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in the areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, and multi-cultural studies. Full-text is available for 2,000 journals starting with January 1985. Guide
Annual Reviews
1984-present; indexes biomedical, physical, and social sciences review literature. Full text. Note that the library does not pay for access to all titles. Guide
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
1983-present; indexes over 480 English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. Guide
General Science Full Text
1984-present; more than 280 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, medicine, and health. Full-text is available for 61 journals starting with January 1995. Guide
HighWire Press FREE ACCESS
1948-present; indexing and selected full text to over 800 journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical and social sciences. Guide
IngentaConnect [Formerly Carl Uncover] FREE ACCESS
Current; free abstracting service covering over 29,000 scholarly journals in many academic fields including engineering, library science, medicine, science, and technology. Full-text of selected journal articles is available to signed in UWM users. Individual users can order articles for a fee. Free e-mail alert service is also available. Guide
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References
Dates vary; a collection of over 600 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet. Field Guide | Guide
LexisNexis Statistical [formerly Statistical Universe]
Search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on Statistical Universe and government Web sites. Guide
MATERIALSnetBASE
Dates vary; Full text of over 200 books in materials science.
MathSciNet
1940-present; an index to the international research literature in mathematics, math-related research in computer science, statistics, econometrics, and other disciplines, produced by the American Mathematical Society. Covers nearly 1800 journals and has records for over 330,000 articles. Guide | Help Index
Safari Books Online
Dates vary; Full text of books from technology publishers.
Science Direct
Dates vary; Indexes over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals and hundreds of book series from Elsevier in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences and humanities. For more information about recent changes to Science Direct access, see Science Direct Web Editions Discontinued.
SciFinder Scholar [Chemical Abstracts]
1907-present; A research tool for accessing information in Chemical Abstracts databases. Covers all areas of chemistry and related scientific disciplines. Indexes of more than 9,000 journals, including cover-to-cover of 1,500 key chemical journals (1994-), patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and dissertations. | Help | Guides
     [Only UW-Milwaukee students, faculty and staff are eligible to use and download a SciFinder client. Contact Library Automation to obtain the program. The client can only be used from a UWM computer or while dialed into the UWM modem pool.]
This title is available on computers in the library, via the Start menu. Click on the Windows Start Button button in the lower left corner of your screen, and choose your database from the Programs menu.
Web of Knowledge - Tutorial
1987-present; includes three databases within the Web of Science platform: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Also includes ISIHighlyCited.com, which lists the most influential scientific authors, and EndNote Web, an online bibliographic citation manager. Guide

Research Guides

Selected General Science Web Sites FREE ACCESS

Patents