LibGuides: Science: Databases & Journals

Recommended Databases & Journals

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Recommended Databases for the Sciences

Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 12,500 electronic books, including scholarly monographs, reference materials, and more.
Khan Academy This link opens in a new window
You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free. Great tutorials for Math, Science, Computing, and Economics concepts! Also includes Arts, Humanities, and Test Prep topics.
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of YouTube videos.
Saylor Academy This link opens in a new window
A nonprofit initiative offering fully free and online courses in many subject areas for self-paced learning. It offers nearly 100 full-length courses at the college education level.
Learning materials are created and curated by educational professionals. Most content is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Some Third-party content is subject to copyright. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
SSRN This link opens in a new window
SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks. SSRN is the number one research repository in the world, with networks within that span across multiple disciplines.
SSRN hosts over 325,000 authors’ submissions of nearly 600,000 papers and over 700,000 abstracts within the SSRN eLibrary, delivering over 100 million downloads.

Open Access Scholarly Articles, Books, Theses, and Dissertations
Be aware that many of the recommended databases on the "Databases" tab will also contain theses and dissertations.

PQDT Open Access This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open Access Version- Read the full-text of open access dissertations and theses.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Metadata comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 3,256,024 theses and dissertations.
U of MN Open Access Publishing This link opens in a new window
Created by the University of Minnesota, this collection contains: peer-reviewed journals, papers and conference proceedings, scholarly ebooks, and full-text electronic textbooks.
EThOS This link opens in a new window
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research. EThOS helps institutions to meet the expectation of the UK Research Councils that PhDs supported by a Research Council Training Grant should be made freely available in an open access repository.