Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

Full-text of over 180 periodicals in the applied sciences and technology from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Applied Science & Technology" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Concurrent user limit: 4

ASFA 3 covers research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries, specifically aquatic environments and marine pollution problems. Has relevance for biology, oceanography, limnology, environmental engineering.

Aimed at researchers and clinicians, Bacteriology Abstracts covers a range of topics from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Provides access to clinical findings as well as pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. (Updated monthly)

Beilstein is the major database to organic chemistry, indexing three primary data domains: substances, reactions, and literature. The substance domain stores structural information with all associated facts and literature references, including chemical, physical, and bioactivity data. The reaction domain details the preparation of substances, enabling scientists to investigate specific reaction pathways with reaction search queries. The literature domain includes citations, titles, and abstracts, which are hyperlinked to the substance and reaction domain entries. Beilstein contains information about more than 7 million organic chemical compounds, from 1771 to the present (abstracts from 1980-current). Reactions, chemical and physical properties, all with corresponding literature references, are available.

Beilstein is accessible either via the Crossfire Commander client or via the DiscoveryGate website. Off-campus access is only available using DiscoveryGate.

DiscoveryGate Instructions

System Requirements

* PC users: Windows 2000 or XP; IE 6.0; Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_06 (installs automatically)
* Mac users: Mac 10.4 or higher; Safari 2.0

Installation

Note: Be sure to allow pop-ups for this site.

PC users

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment). The browser may shut down after installation. Just reopen, return to the site, and continue.
4. Click on the Download Software tab.
5. Click on the Download button, and save the installer to your desktop.
6. Close all browsers. Then double-click on the installer, and follow instructions.

Mac Users

1. Open Safari.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment).
4. Follow the directions.

The Cambridge Structural Database is "the world repository of small molecule crystal structures." Further details are available from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

Beilstein is the major database to organic chemistry, indexing three primary data domains: substances, reactions, and literature. The substance domain stores structural information with all associated facts and literature references, including chemical, physical, and bioactivity data. The reaction domain details the preparation of substances, enabling scientists to investigate specific reaction pathways with reaction search queries. The literature domain includes citations, titles, and abstracts, which are hyperlinked to the substance and reaction domain entries. Beilstein contains information about more than 7 million organic chemical compounds, from 1771 to the present (abstracts from 1980-current). Reactions, chemical and physical properties, all with corresponding literature references, are available.

Beilstein is accessible either via the Crossfire Commander client or via the DiscoveryGate website. Off-campus access is only available using DiscoveryGate.

DiscoveryGate Instructions

System Requirements

* PC users: Windows 2000 or XP; IE 6.0; Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_06 (installs automatically)
* Mac users: Mac 10.4 or higher; Safari 2.0

Installation

Note: Be sure to allow pop-ups for this site.

PC users

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment). The browser may shut down after installation. Just reopen, return to the site, and continue.
4. Click on the Download Software tab.
5. Click on the Download button, and save the installer to your desktop.
6. Close all browsers. Then double-click on the installer, and follow instructions.

Mac Users

1. Open Safari.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment).
4. Follow the directions.

Also known as: Beilstein

The DOE Information Bridge provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) makes this web site available to the public in partnership with the Government Printing Office (GPO), through GPO Access.

Also known as: Department of Energy Information Bridge

e-EROS is the online version of the core reference work Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. It contains systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. The database contains around 70,000 reactions and around 4000 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions.

Also known as: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis

Designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) the Energy Citations provides access to the Department's scientific and technical information. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. Covers literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

Films on Demand is a library of thousands of streaming videos across all disciplines from Films Media Group. All Temple users can search and view films or specific segments of films. If you establish a user account from within Films on Demand you can also create playlists from the various films/segments for your own use or for sharing with other Temple users.

Also known as: FMG,Films Media Group

Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

Key features of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online include:

* Over 1,000 articles, with more than 600 new or updated -- over 10of the content is updated annually
* Monthly updates that keep the online version on the cutting edge of chemical technology
* Previous versions of revised articles archived for posterity
* An easy to use interface that allows one to Search or Browse through the articles for quick reference and convenience
(description provided by publisher)

MINABS Online replaces the print journal Mineralogical Abstracts, formerly published quarterly with a separate annual index issue. MINABS Online is a database containing continually updated abstracts covering mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, crystallography, gemmology, meteoritics and allied subjects.

Also known as: Mineralogical Abstracts

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the NSDL is a digital library of exemplary educational resources for social science, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For all education levels, elementary through higher education.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world's largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Digital resources in OAister include:

--Digitized (scanned) books and articles
--Digital text
--Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
--Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
--Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
--Data sets (downloadable statistical information

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Also known as: Digital Dissertations

Web-based access to CrossFire Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases.

The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. SCI Expanded: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. Averages 17,750 new articles per week. Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Contains a current total of over 17 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Web of Science

Provides online access to one of the most in-depth authoritative information sources available on synthetic methodology. Information is available on 18,000 generally applicable experimental procedures, including 180,000 reactions and 800,000 structures. Also included is the searchable full-text of the various editions of the higley esteemed, almost 200 year-old Houben-Weyl.

A gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.

SciFinder Scholar is an interface to the Chemical Abstracts (CA) database which includes early 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents and other documents. Sources for Chemical Abstracts include more than 8,000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. About 14,000 records are added every week, with much of the information added to the database on a daily basis. CA also covers 29 national patent offices and two international bodies. About 16of the CA database, approximately 2.5 million records, are from the patent literature. (Updated weekly)

SciFinder Scholar enables you to:

* do substructure searching of the literature. By using your mouse to draw a structure, you can easily define rings, chains, substituents, and R-Groups of interest
* get reactions, starting with structures of interest
* and also search by topic, author name, chemical name, formulas, and CAS registry numbers.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Chemical Abstracts

The trial includes access to all English language ebooks from 2005-2009 as well as book series dating back to 1997. This totals about 19,000 titles.

Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), 1975-present.