Electronic Resources:
General Science and Earth Science

Resource Name	Source	Description
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides citations and abstracts of the world's literature dealing with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments and organisms. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in cooperation with four United Nations agencies and a growing network of national research centers throughout the world produce ASFA. Updated monthly.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides abstracts to literature in the environmental sciences. Topics include air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and U.S. federal environmental impact statement. Updated monthly.
Expanded Academic ASAP	InfoTrac SearchBank	Provides indexing for recently published popular magazines and scholarly journals. Topics include astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. Selected full-text articles. 1995 - present with access to backfile (1980-1994). Updated weekly.
General Science Abstracts	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for general science periodicals. Topics include anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine, and health. Indexing from May 1984 - present, abstracts from March 1993 - present. Updated monthly.
Geobase	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for geology, geography, and ecology publications. Topics include cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geochemistry, hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, sedimentology, and volcanology. 1980 - present. Updated monthly.
GeoRef	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for publications in geology and the earth sciences. 1785 - present. Updated bi-monthly.
Life Sciences full-text journals (Academic Press)	IDEAL (Academic Press) Journals	Under "Major Subject Category", click on Life Sciences. Includes full-text of journal articles. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, is required to view and display journal articles.
MathSciNet		Provides an electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Math Publications, published by the American Mathematical Society. 1940 - present; review text 1980 - present. Updated daily.
Oceanic Abstracts	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides theoretical and applied research summaries as well as business and marketing aspects in this database. Information ranges from medical, scientific and industrial applications in electronics to promising new technologies in communications. Updated monthly.
Physical and Environmental Sciences full-text journals	IDEAL (Academic Press) Journals	Under "Major Subject Category", click on Physical and Environmental Sciences. Includes full-text of journal articles. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, is required to view and display journal articles.
WebElements: The Periodic Table on the World Wide Web		Wide range of information on any element of the Periodic Table. Also includes ChemDex, supporting searches of nearly 3000 chemistry Internet sites ChemPuter, providing interactive calculators for chemistry.

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