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Keith Russell
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  • AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition which provides authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Its continuously updated content also includes definitions of scientific and technical terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies, biographies, news, and videos. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)
  • Provides online full-text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society contained in two databases: ACS Web editions; and ACS Journal archives.
  • Provides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences in the Annual Reviews publications.
  • Provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
  • Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing engineering journals and conference materials.
  • Online, digital version of the print handbook of the same title. Searchable across tables and chapters, this resource provides access to physical science data, and physical property data of common compounds, both inorganic and organic. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)
  • Full text of association and society journals in geology and related geosciences beginning with the year 2000. The journals may be searched individually or in sets of particular interest, and the GeoRef database may also be included in a search if desired.
  • Provides indexing and abstracts to technical reports from both U.S. and non-U.S. sponsored research. Compiled by the U.S. National Technical Information Service, the database covers topics in the sciences, engineering, business, and social sciences. Reports received since 1997 are available as downloadable PDF files. Publications under 20 pages are free.
  • OnePetro (expands SPE eLibrary significantly): This database provides access to technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production produced by nine or more organizations, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Petroleum Institute (API). Some content from some of the organizations covers other topics, including energy, corrosion, and road and subway tunnels. SPE manages the database. Content from at …
  • Online, searchable database which provides access to information on tens of thousands of commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. Helps identify unknown compounds and can be used to locate additional data and references for a known compound. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)
  • SciFinder Scholar is a downloadable client that provides access to CAplus, MedLine, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. Includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts. Includes the substructure search module. SciFinder Scholar is available on several workstations in the Anschutz Library and Spahr …
  • Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum. Online version of: Arts and humanities citation index (1975-present); Science citation index (1900-present); and Social sciences citation index (1956-present).