Natural & Physical Science Reference Ebook


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Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. The Complete Dictionary includes the 18 volumes of the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography and the 8 volumes of the recently published New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Science and its TimesScience & Its Times The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work.

Natural & Physical Science Databases

Academic Search Premier - funded by the New Jersey State library, it provides full-text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Ed. It also includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies of well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography® and the latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.

CQ Researcher - explores one current issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year (reports start in 1991).

Discovering Collection - a comprehensive reference database for the study of literature, history, science, biography, and social sciences.

Omni Full-Text - a cross-disciplinary database which combines and searches Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, Business Abstracts, and Social Science Abstracts. Contains the full text for some articles.

Proquest Research Library - a general interest database covering popular to scholarly journals. Contains the full text for some of the articles.

Science Direct - a database of selected journals related to physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

SIRS - SIRS Government Reporter contains current and historic government documents, directories and almanacs. SIRS Renaissance contains current perspectives on the arts and humanities. SIRS Researcher contains selected articles from popular journals and newspapers regarding current social issues, health, science, and business.