Search journals and conference proceedings in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Provides detailed citation analysis and citation searching capabilities.
Multidisciplinary search covering many types of resources. Provides good citation searching. To set up links to full text available through BC Libraries, go to Settings and enter Boston College in the Library Links area.
Search for life science and biomedical research. Includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
Chemistry and related fields, including citations to journal articles, books, patents, technical reports, conference papers, electronic resources, etc.
Supplementary Databases for the Biological Sciences
Search the drug and pharmacology literature. Includes: effects and uses of drugs, drugs being developed, clinical and expermental aspects of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, side effects and adverse reactions.
Searches across AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases to cover topics such as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses.
Citations, abstracts and full text (when available) to more millions of dissertations and masters theses from North American colleges and universities from 1861 to the present, and from around the world since 1988.
Inspec is the world's largest bibliographic database focusing on physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computer and control engineering and information technology.
A comprehensive database of scientific and technical engineering research, covering all engineering disciplines.
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