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Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. As of September 30th, 1999, the library includes:
* Over 31,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
* Tables of Contents with over 7,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward
* Tables of contents with nearly 35,000 citations from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

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)

Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. Disciplines covered include Botany, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Evolutionary ecology, Neurology, and Toxicology. Temple has access to abstracts from 1997 forward.

Online library of thousands of titles covering information technology and finance. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles. Temple subscribes to the ITPro and FinancePro collections.

Burger's provides broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new, as well as experienced, medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, and molecular biologists. Burger's offers a comprehensive, global perspective of drug design and drug development.

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

Comprised of the following Chapman & Hall and CRC Press chemistry reference sources, CHEMnetBASE allows you to search and extract essential data and tables.

* The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
* Combined Chemical Dictionary
* Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
* Dictionary of Drugs
* Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
* Dictionary of Natural Products
* Dictionary of Organic Compounds
* Properties of Organic Compounds


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Online library of scientific literature that aims to improve the functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness of scholarly communication in computer science scholarship. Offers algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. (Updated daily)

The CPC Program Library is an integral part of the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Library's function is the storage and dissemination of refereed computer programs in physics and physical chemistry, whose detailed descriptions have been published in the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Program Library provides access via the Internet to the Library programs and to the corresponding full-text articles. The Program Library currently holds over 1,800 refereed computer programs which have been contributed by scientists from all over the world. As such it represents a major repository of computational knowledge and technique. These programs range in size from under one thousand to tens of thousands of lines of code. The contributed programs have been coded in a variety of programming languages including Algol, Ada, C, C , Lisp, Mathematica, Maple, Occam and Pascal: however, the vast majority of contributions are programmed in Fortran.

The titles in the Current Protocols Series provide hundreds of basic to advanced research protocols and overviews covering areas of interest in the life sciences. Each protocol contains a materials list, and the units feature commentary and guidelines written and edited by experts. All protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability, lab-tested in leading laboratories, and then thoroughly scrutinized by expert editorial boards to make sure you can easily duplicate them in your own labs. Temple University subscribes to the following Current Protocols:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in MRI
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

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.

Covers current ecology research across a range of disciplines, focusing on how organisms of all kinds interact with their environments and with other organisms. Includes relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. (Updated monthly)

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) includes articles, essays, and news in the biological and life sciences. More than 6,000 illustrations are provided. Core coverage: biochemistry, biodiversity, cell biology, clinical medicine, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics history, philosophy of science, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant science, structural biology, and virology.Contains peer-reviewed articles commissioned from 5,000 world-renown scientists. All articles have a list of reference, some of which provide links to external Web sources. Appendix and glossary components provide descriptions of biochemical and taxonomical data, acronyms and abbreviations, synonyms, units, and other technical data. "Special Essays" were commissioned to address 50 "hot topics." By creating an account on My Profile, users may save searching histories as well as articles for later review.

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

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)

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)

The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewert Talks contains 1,000 online audio-visual seminar style talks, each especially commissioned from leading world experts.

Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

(Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.

JSTOR, originally funded by the Mellon Foundation, began as an effort to ease the increasing space problems faced by libraries by converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space, improved access to journal content and offer a possible solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes.

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)

The Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs. Compounds are selected from biomedicine, agriculture, and various disciplines of chemistry.

The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected literature references for each substance.

The Merck Index Online consists of several databases:

* The Compound Search database allows searching for compounds by physical properties, compound attributes, and structure.
* The Organic Name Reactions database contains a list of reactions which have come to be recognized and referred to by name within the chemistry community. The descriptions are composed of name(s) associated with the reaction, the original and/or primary contributor(s), a concise description of the transformation, a reaction scheme, key references, and cross references to other organic named reactions.
* The Additional Tables section lists multiple tables, including abbreviations, glossary, and a chemical terms translator in PDF format.

A NASA-funded project which contains millions of records in four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics, and Geophysics. Preprints are available in many of these areas, as well as links to full-text journal articles.

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

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Temple subscribes to titles in the Biology, Business, Classics, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Math, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Religion, and Social Work subject-area collections.

Electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. (Updated daily)

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.

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)

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.

Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, and medical journals and thousands of ebooks published by Elsevier.

SpringerLink provides online access to hundreds of journals and books across many disciplines, with a focus on the sciences. Note that Temple does not have access to all content.

The Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science consists of 50 to 100-page electronic books that synthesize important research or development topics.

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