Research Guides: WRTG 3030 Science and Society: Science Research

Science Specific Databases

Engineering Village
Comprehensive database of scholarly literature in engineering and other applied sciences.
Biosis Citation Index (Web of Science)
Database useful for biotech and biochemical engineering that includes life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
GeoRef (ProQuest)
Comprehensive collection of scholarly geoscience literature, covering all areas of the world. Includes the following collection: GeoRef in Process.
PubMed
Database provided by U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s.
Access note: Must use this special URL for CU Full Text links to appear in article abstracts.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Useful for human computer interaction. Covers psychology and psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology, business, law, and similar disciplines.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Scholarly articles in the fields of addition studies, anthropology, criminology, economics, family studies, gerontology, ethnic studies, political science, psychology, social work, and urban studies. Includes the following collections: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Multidisciplinary index to thousands of popular and scholarly journals, including engineering trade journals, from 1975 to current.
Web of Science, Web of Science database
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching. Includes some indexing and full-text linking for ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Access note: To access the API, set up your account and select "Web of Science API Lite" at Step 3 “Subscribe to an API.” For research support using the API, please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship.
Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of CU Full Text links.

Google Scholar Video by CU Earth Sciences Librarian
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