Re: [LM_NET] HIT: Science Databases

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

Thanks to everyone who has offered suggestions for this problem.  My teacher has 
his PhD and the classes (AP) do research into the most current medications on the 
market (many of which are currently released and have been reviewed in the New 
England Journal of Medicine---no this is not a medical school disguised as a high 
school....it's just this teacher's thing to do this type of research.) 

Anyway, here are some suggestions for Science Databases.  I'm posting the list of 
ideas and some links, if others are interested.  I'm going to give all of these to 
him to review.  If I get no response or a negative response, I'll assume that 
nothing will please this teacher (unless we become a part of the of John Hopkins 
Library).

Here's the list: 
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AllLearn Directory
http://www.alllearn.org/er/directories.cgi


How about The Reference Suite @ FACTS.com , the Today's Science on file?
http://www.facts.com/facts-db-ref.htm


 General Science Full Text database


 AccessScience by McGraw Hill  (the  folks who put out 
that big science print encyclopaedia  we all had).
http://www.accessscience.com/

WilsonWeb Science database 

Have you looked at
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/


Since we can only afford "free" info, we use the following two sites
for "advanced" science articles, lectures and papers:

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

http://bubl.ac.uk/

Get a subscription to Dialog.  It gives you access to hundreds of
databases and you pay only when you are searching.


you may want to take a look at H.W. Wilson's Science Full Text
Online.  Our review is available at the following link:
http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/search/reviewdetail.asp?Code=13337
 
Access Science which is the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology online

As far as Information Science and Technology goes, there is a database by 
the name of InfoSci Online offered through Idea Group Inc that is extremely 
comprehensive - it pretty much has articles with everything that technology 
touches - mainly in science.  For further information, go to 
www.idea-group.com.

I got a trial earlier this year on a science database offered by Facts on File.  My 
science teachers liked it. I'd also suggest going to a university library website 
to find out what they subscribe to.  University of Minnesota-Duluth is pretty good. 
 Try www.d.umn.edu. and follow the links to the library databases.
 
We use Science Online  Their web page is www.fofweb.com. My science teachers
like it alot.Very concise exactly what they need.

You might let him trial Access Science:
http://www.accessscience.com/


Thanks for helping!

~Shonda






Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing 
the impossible."
 ~St. Francis of Assisi
sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp

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