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Astronomy
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  • Star*s Family - search by key words for locations such as institutes and observatories, dictionaries, guides, symbols and personal home pages of astronomers.

    Biology

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  • PubMed is an experimental service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

    Chemistry/Biochemistry

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  • Material Safety Data Sheets - a great collection.
  • Publications of the American Chemical Society - check current tables of content of ACS journals.
  • Extocnet - a guide to pesticides.
  • Solvent Central.Com - recommends solvent solutions for commercial and industrial problems.

    Computer Science

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  • ACM Journals Search Engine Queries are based on free-text searching in summaries of papers in the ACM publications database. Each summary contains title, author, journal, abstract, categories and subject descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System, as well as the text of brief critiques published in Computing Reviews.

    Engineering

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  • EI CompendexWeb - Engineering Index Online.
  • NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards, an ANSI-sponsored service.
  • ASCE's Civil Engineering Database - 80,000 ASCE records since 1975.
  • EELS - Electronic Engineering Library, Sweden
  • EEVL E-journal Search Engine - Search 150+ Full Text Journals.
  • ICE - Internet Connections for Engineering from Cornell U.
  • Solvent Central.Com - recommends solvent solutions for commercial and industrial problems.
  • SPIE Publications Archives
  • NASA Tech Reports Servers - search several data bases.
  • CSSInfo - has the stuff that makes technical people smarter and their jobs easier.

    Environment

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  • CNIE the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment featuring Congressional Research Service reports.

    Funding

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  • Access Government & Private Funding Sources via Community of Science.

    General

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  • Britannica On-line
  • Internet Search Engines
  • Science Citation Index

    Government Resources

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  • Government Printing Office - USC is a Government Documents Depository.
  • Patent and Trademark Office-search patents here.

    Geology

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  • GeoRef

    Marine Sciece

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  • Wind and Sea - The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator

    Mathematics
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  • Full Text Search of Classic Math Books
  • MathSciNet Search -Sorry - USC Columbia Campus only.
  • Mathematics Preprints - at MSRI. Similar to LANL Physics Preprints.
  • MathSearch

    Nursing / Public Health

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  • AMA - American Medical Association - Search JAMA, American Medical News, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, and Archives of Internal Medicine. Free access to certain articles and issues.
  • CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
  • Healthfinder? is a gateway consumer health information web site from the United States government.
  • PubMed is an experimental service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

    Miscellaneous
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    Physics
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  • Los Alamos Physics Preprint Search Engine

     

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