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Academic Search Premier
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.
Annual Reviews Online
Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Britannica Image Quest
Over 2 million images from providers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, and Getty. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.
DOE Information Bridge
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.
Energy Citations Database
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

Over 6,000 educational films available for immediate online viewing

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. 1

GEOBASE
NOTE: GEOBASE is no longer available via FirstSearch as of 7/1/11. Currently available search alternatives covering content similar to GEOBASE include Summon, GeoRef, Web of Science, and Environmnetal Sciences & Pollution Management.
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals fully covered, with an additional 3,000 selectively covered; also books, monographs, proceedings, reports are indexed. Coverage/update: 1980 to present; adds new records daily. (Updated monthly)
GeoRef
Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. (Updated twice monthly)
GeoScienceWorld
Comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of full-text peer-reviewed journals. GeoScienceWorld was founded by the following leading earth sciences organizations:

* American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
* American Geological Institute (AGI),
* Geological Society of America (GSA),
* The Geological Society of London (GSL),
* Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
* Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
* Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
MINABS Online

Content from MINABS Online is now incorporated in GeoRef.

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.

National Science Digital Library
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
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
Proquest Dissertations & Theses
Note: New interface! Check out the quick start overview [pdf] and YouTube tutorials of the new interface.
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.
Science Citation Index
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)
Science.gov
A gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Ebooks
Includes more than 100 SEG titles from the 1950s to the present
Summon
Summon is a powerful, yet simple search tool that allows you to discover the breadth of Temple Libraries' collections. Whether you need to find books, scholarly articles, films, music, dissertations, archival material or other library sources, Summon has you covered.

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