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ProQuest Digital Dissertations

 As a visitor, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. To search the entire database of more than 1.6 million titles, you will need to connect from a subscription institution.
Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. 

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search

 

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

An initiative to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries.

http://www.theses.org/

 

U.S Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases Of United States. The database is searchable and covers all U.S. patant from 1975.

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

 

ERIC Database

ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Our version of the Database, updated monthly with the latest citations available, provides access to ERIC Document citations from 1966 through May 2001 and ERIC Journal citations from 1966 through February 2001

http://askeric.org/Eric/

 

PubMed (MEDLINE DATABASE)

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

http://www.pubmed.com

 

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)

National Agriculture Library (NAL) is adding over 1,000,000 records from 1970-1978 to the AGRICOLA articles database.More than 650,000 records from 1974-1978 have already been added.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/

 

Scirus

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, it enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily. It was launched by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information.

http://www.scirus.com

 

ChemWeb ( database of Chemical abstracts)

ChemWeb.com is a unique combination of a wide range of information relevant to anyone in chemical research and the chemicals industry. Ay of these resources are completely FREE to registered users. egistration takes just a few minutes. You will then be able to access ChemWeb. services immediately.

http://www.chemweb.com/

 

Documents in Information Science

DoIS (Documents in Information Science) is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. At the moment it holds about 5469 articles and 753 papers, 2043 of them are downloadable from the site.

http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/local/search.html

 

AGECON (Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics)

AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.

http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/

 

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

The collection currently contains more than 1.1 million references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports) and consists of 660 MBytes of BibTeX entries. More than 16000 references contain crossreferences to citing or cited publications. More than 100,000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. There are more than 2000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information.

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/

 

PubSCIENCE

PubSCIENCE provides users the capability to search across a large compendium of citations (more than 100 Journals)including abstracts of peer reviewed journal literature with a focus on the physical sciences and other disciplines of concern to the Department of Energy (DOE).

http://pubsci.osti.gov/srchfrm.html

 

FishBase (Fishery Science)

FishBase presents detailed information on population dynamics, genetics, morphology, trophic ecology, physiology, ecotoxicology, reproduction, etc. 

http://www.fishbase.org/

 

The Animal Virus Information System

The Animal Virus Information System (AVIS) is produced by the Bioinformatics Distributed Information Centre, University of Pune, Pune, India. Animal viruses are described. At present information on more than 1700 viruses is available.

http://bioinfo.ernet.in/www/avis/avis.html

 

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements

http://ods.od.nih.gov/search.html

 

Anthropological Index Online

The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library)

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/Search_AI/search_bib_ai/anthind

 

The NASA Astrophysics Data System

Over 1 billion records served. In March, 2002 the ADS had served over 1 billion records since the beginning of the ADS in 1993

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

 

Population Index

You may search the Population Index database for 1986-2000 (46,035 citations) by author, subject, geographical region and/or year. You may also search for text anywhere in a citation, including the title, series and abstract.

http://popindex.princeton.edu/search/index.html

 

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in about 25 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. Any institution is welcome to join in contributing its research materials. All RePEc material is freely available.
The RePEc database holds over 135,000 items of interest, over 44,000 of which are available online: 88,000 working papers, 41,000 journal articles, 700 software components 1,700 author contact listings, 5,800 institutional contact listings.

http://repec.org/

 

Internet Movie Database

Searchable and huge database of Internation movies coverning more than 250,000 films, 500,000 casts, 50,000 directors, 60,000 screen players.

http://www.imdb.com/

 

Library of Congress Online Catalog

Searching catalog of Library of Congress including bibliographic information of more than 12 million books.

http://catalog.loc.gov/

 

LiBDex (Database of OPACS-Library catalogs)

Index of 17,950 Libraries in the world. Searching libraries names or browse geographical index of libraries. A directory of publishers worldwide and OPAC vendors is accessible.

http://www.libdex.com/

 

Find Articles.com

FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

http://www.findarticles.com/

 

PubList

Searchable database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and other periodicals in print and electronic format.

http://www.publist.com/

 

The IPL Books Collection

The IPL Books Collection (formerly known as Online Texts) contains over 20,000 titles that can be searched or browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.

http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

 

THE ON-LINE BOOKS PAGE

Search more than 16,000 books title mostly free by authors, titles and subjects.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

 

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

Free Translation (database for automatic translation)

FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. Translate a text or web site.

http://www.freetranslation.com/

 

Iranian Information and Documentation Center

Search the Iranian database of dissertations, research projects, journal articles, proceedings, governmental reports, researchers profiles and other Iran-related databases.

http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/

 

National Library of Iran

Search the National Bibliography Of Iran by author, title and subject and display bibliographic information of books in several formats.

http://www.nli.ir/

 

 

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