Health Sciences

Provides access to medical, health, and wellness information from authoritative medical sources including reference works, full-text magazines, journals and pamphlets, with descriptive links to selected web sites.

1997 -

Pollution Abstracts provides access to environmental information concerning scientific research and government policies on atmosphere, emissions, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues.

1981 -

Covers 625 of the most important English-language journals across all the social sciences, including full text of articles from over 200 of them as far back as 1995.  Its records describe feature articles, biographical sketches, interviews, obituaries, scholarly replies, and book reviews longer than one-half page; book reviews of government documents and letters to the editor are not included.  Subject areas covered include:  Addiction Studies • Anthropology • Area Studies • Community Health & Medical Care • Communications • Corrections • Criminal Justice • Criminology • Economics • Environmental Studies • Ethics • Family Studies • Gender Studies • Geography • Gerontology • International Relations • Law • Mass Media • Minority Studies • Planning & Public Administration • Policy Sciences • Political Science • Psychiatry • Psychology • Public Welfare • Social Work • Sociology • Urban Studies.

1983 - (Indexing); 1984 - (Abstracts); 1995 - (Selected full text)

Applied Science and Technology Full Text covers 350+ key, international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology. It is a good source of information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. It abstracts interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically valuable editorials and letters, tables, charts, diagrams, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings; it also cites book reviews. Each record contains a bibliographic citation.  Full text is included for many of the articles.

1983 - (Indexing); 1993 - (Abstracts); 1997 - (Selected full text)

Combined access to Chemical Abstracts CAPlus, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCAT databases and Medline. Search by chemical structure or substructure, reaction, name, formula, etc., or by natural language query. Database use requires the creation of an individual user account for current U-M affiliates (see instructions in guide). For general public walk-in use, contact the Chemistry Librarian.

1907 - present (varies by type of data)

Provides full-text access to recent volumes of scholarly journals in the health, life, physical and social sciences published online by HighWire Press, the "Internet Imprint" of the Stanford University Libraries.

Varies by journal title.

The MBF database covers technical and commercial developments in iron and steel, nonferrous metals, and relevant non-metallic materials such as polymers, ceramics, and composites.

1985 -

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serial publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles. Coverage: 1952 to present

1952-

A bibliographic database of the agricultural literature, containing records of materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. Index to articles in agriculture, soil sciences, forestry, and related areas.

1970 -

Brief citations of articles from tables of contents of over 12,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Updated daily.

1990 -