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American Chemical Society Journals
Access to the full text of ACS journal publications from the date of first publication to the present. Each journal also carries free access to an RSS feed for that journal.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Full text and index

arXiv e-Print Archive
Search article preprints ("e-prints") that have been submitted for comment and review among peers, for publication in journals, and prior to presentation at conferences. Coverage areas include physics, mathematics, and computer science.

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  • Full text and index

Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

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  • Full text and subject index

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews abstracts and indexes information in biology, biochemistry, and the life sciences from more than 5,500 sources around the world, including journal articles, meeting and conference reports, books, and patents. BIOSIS Previews is updated weekly with more than 560,000 new citations each year.

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  • Coverage: 2004 - 2006

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
This resource covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

Encyclopedia of Animals (EBSCOhost)
This resource offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Environment Complete
This resource offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Full text for over 750 journals and more than 130 monographs is included.

Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

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  • Full video

GreenFILE
This resource offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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Institute of Physics (IoP) E-Journals
Browse the full-text of The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astronomical Journal, Physics Education, and an extensive free and historical journal archive.

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MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering over sixty years of the world's mathematical literature. MathSciNet provides access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, an early awareness journal.

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Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
This resource provides full text from over 340 military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 380 magazines. Some titles included are Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense. PROLA: Physical Review Online Archive
A full text archive of the existing issues of the journal Physical Review from its inception in 1894 to 2002, including Physical Review A through E, Special Topics, Letters, and Review of Modern Physics. Reviews of Modern Physics is full-text 1929 – present. All American Physical Society (APS) journals are searchable through PROLA.

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  • Full text and index

SciFinder Web (Registration with your @swosu.edu email address required – click here)
Important: SciFinder Scholar for Windows/Macintosh was replaced by SciFinder Web on April 10, 2009.
SciFinder Web provides electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, which includes these resources:
 · CAS Registry file with over 32 million organic and inorganic substances and over 59 million biosequences. You can also see the latest CAS registry number and sequence count.
 · CAPlus, the most comprehensive database of all chemical literature. CAPlus includes patents and conference proceedings.

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Today's Science (FACTS.com)
Today's Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, Today’s Science covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

Chemistry Net Resources
A directory of useful chemistry-related Internet sites.

Mathematics Net Resources
A directory of useful mathematics-related Internet sites.