LibGuides: The A.E. Studzinski Library: Science Department

PowerSearch for Gale Databases

Out of State Access to Gale Databases
To access the Gale databases from another state, use this link to Gale's product menu. Gale databases are restricted by Massachusetts geolocation of IP.

Neuroscience Links

The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern - news articles, research, general information about neurological diseases

National Institute of Health - definitions, diagrams, basic descriptions

National Science Digital Library

Better Search Than Google

ArXiv.org
Cornell University
Open access to 1,447,659 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics
CiteSeerx
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web.
Europe PMC
Europe PMC is a repository, providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines. Europe PMC provides links to relevant records in databases such as Uniprot, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), Protein Data Bank Europe (PDBE) and BioStudies.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar allows the students and educators to search across a wide range of academic literature. It is essentially designed to help you discover scholarly sources that exist on your topic. If you discover your sources, you will want to get your hands on them. If you want to learn how to set the preferences, you need to watch the video tutorial on Google Scholar Settings.
IOPScience
About IOPscience
IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.

What makes IOPscience different?
IOPscience has been designed to make it easy for researchers to discover relevant content and manage their research information.
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With IOPscience you can:
Speed up your research: find relevant content quickly with enhanced search filtering
Save time: re-run previous searches, tagging your favorite articles
Keep up to date: receive RSS feeds and email alerts when new content is published
Access more content: view articles plus preprints and news
Interact and share: embrace social bookmarking to share articles
Discover related research: explore relevant articles based on subject classification codes
Make it personal: customize your alerts, save articles of interest, and view newly published articles within your subject areas
Find out more
To find out more about IOPscience you can:

View our series of six short, easy-to-follow videos that demonstrate the search functionality and additional support available on the IOPscience platform. Whether you are new to IOPscience or already use it, these tutorials will help you get the most out of your searches.

If you have any questions, please contact our customer services team at custserv@iop.org.

If you are taking part in a demonstration of IOPscience please use the demonstration site.
ABOUT IOP LINKS
PLOS
Public Library of Science
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PLOS was founded as a nonprofit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to advance progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. We believe that OPEN is a mindset that represents the best scientific values, bringing scientists together to share work as rapidly and widely as possible, to advance science faster and to benefit society as a whole.
RefSeek
Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

RefSeek's unique approach offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine—increasing the visibility of academic information and compelling ideas that are often lost in a muddle of sponsored links and commercial results.
ScienceResearch
Using state-of-the-art federated search technology from Deep Web Technologies, ScienceResearch.com accelerates your research by returning the most relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections to one, easily navigable page. Each search is done in real-time, searching the collections you select as if you were entering the search term on each separate website yourself. ScienceResearch.com removes duplicate results, and then weighs each result for relevance according to how closely it matches your search word or search term.

Science Databases

Climate Change Indicators | EPA
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.

EPA partners with more than 40 data contributors from various government agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations to compile a key set of indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change. These indicators also provide important input to the National Climate Assessment and other efforts to understand and track the science and impacts of climate change. Explore the indicators here.
Environmental Studies and Policy
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The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
National Geographic Virtual Library
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National Geographic and Gale have partnered to bring vast resources to digital life with National Geographic Virtual Library. Now libraries can offer access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of books, maps, images, and videos.
Science in Context
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Science In Context is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Drawing students in with captivating subject matter, Science In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather.

The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Smithsonian Collections Online
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The Smithsonian, America’s foremost research and education institution, has partnered with Gale to launch a series of collections from Smithsonian’s vast archives. This partnership has yielded collections covering American history, culture and innovation.

Science Studzinski Library Research Orientations

Physics | Research Resources | Mr. Peter Dankert
Research on global climate change
Anatomy and Physiology | Research Resources | Dr. Crowley
How to find resources for A & P t-test project
Physics | Research Resources | Mr. Nichols
Research on renewable energy
Biology | Research Resources | Brother Tim Paul, C.F.X.
Research on viruses for Biology 1
Climate Science Project Based Learning | 8th Grade
Research orientation for 8th grade project based learning
Physics | Research Resources | Brother DiMarchi
Research on nuclear energy

Science Web Sites

Chemistry World
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The Royal Society of Chemistry [GB]
Did you hear about the chemist who got caught stealing and dumping cyanide down a curbside drain? Chemistry World did. Its reporters described the crime in detail, the same way they approach all their chemistry-related coverage — including its quirky stories, nerdy features and industry news. You can tell Chemistry World enjoys diving into nitty gritty science, describing how chemical bonds and reactions enable researchers to study art, distill gin, create new materials and advance renewable energy. The site also offers advice to chemists, describing routes to professorship and how to break into the field as a woman or minority.
[from LiveScience]
NPR Science
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If you'd like your science news delivered into your ears rather than your eyeballs, check out the Science section of the National Public Radio (NPR) website. Their audio news stories cover a broad range of science topics, delving into global issues like climate change and conservation as well as investigating technology innovation, new directions in space exploration and the latest discoveries in health and medicine. Their "Brain Candy" section addresses slightly more esoteric science questions — such as why Olympians are turning to non-alcoholic beer as their post-sport drink of choice, and what happens when you program a neural network to generate romantic messages on candy hearts for Valentine's Day. You can also find animations and music videos by NPR science show Skunk Bear, which are as hilarious (and catchy) as they are educational.
[from LiveScience]
The Pacific Standard
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The Pacific Standard is a bit off the beaten path of science reporting outfits. They don't do much daily blogging about science news, and approach all their stories with an eye toward social justice. But the West Coast magazine and website routinely turn out excellent writing and reporting from offbeat angles on issues like the day-to-day impacts of the changing climate, psychology, sociology and disability that appeal to science fans. [from LiveScience]
BBC Science
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For science news that cuts through the clutter, there's the BBC's science section. Their science stories cover every part of the globe and beyond, and do so with sharp, concise reporting. Plus, with short succinct headlines that don't spare a single word, readers will know exactly what they're getting from every story.
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Physics Central
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The American Physical Society represents some 48,000 physicists, and most of our work centers on scientific meetings and publications-the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With PhysicsCentral, we communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news. We'll describe the latest research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where to go on the web. So stick with us. It's a big, interesting world out there, and we look forward to showing you around.