Journal articles                                       

LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTH INDEXES:

BioOne - electronic journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Articles in BioOne are fulltext, and include all illustrations and links from the original printed articles. BioOne journals are published by scholarly societies, museums and other organizations, many of which are members of the American Institute for Biological Sciences.

ProQuest Biology Journals - Full-text journals in the life sciences. 

 

Agricola - The National Agricultural Library Catalog (AGRICOLA) provides citations to agricultural literature (books and articles).

National Agricultural Library Digital Repository (NALDR) -- Provides access primarily to older issues of important, heavily used NAL serial publications.

 

CINAHL with Full-Text - Most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals,  with full-text coverage dating back to 1981.

Pharmaceutical News Index - Pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries. 

ProQuest Family Health - Full-text information covering numerous aspects of family health from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. 

ProQuest Health and Medical Complete - Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. 

PubMed  - Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  Provides citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.  Provided by the National Library of Medicine, part of the Federal Government's National Institutes of Health.

GENERAL SCIENCE INDEXES:

PNAS Online  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA Online.  Includes the full text plus the figures, tables, equations, and references of articles in PNAS dating back through 1996.
Online access available through LCSC campus network only.

ProQuest Science Journals - Full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.  

SCIRUS - A comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, it enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily. It was launched by Elsevier Science, the leading international publisher of scientific information.

Public Library of Science - A new publishing venture by scientists.  PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.   Most of their articles are available through PubMed Central in full-text.

Google Scholar - A new product from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.

 

GENERAL JOURNAL DATABASES:

ProQuest Central - Includes articles from over 11,000 magazines and journals.  Many, but not all, provide the full-text of articles.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences. 

Research Library - A smaller collection of periodicals than ProQuest Central.  Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. 

ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers. 

 

EDUCATION INDEXES:

ERIC - Contains citations and abstracts from almost 1000 education-related journals.  Citations to the contents of ERIC Documents, including conference papers and curriculum suggestions.  The LCSC Library has most recent ERIC Documents, full-text, on microfiche. 

ProQuest Education Journals - Leading full-text journals in education and related fields. 

Books and other Monographs

LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.  Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.

Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Electronic Books from the LCSC Catalog:

 

Pollution A to Z / Richard M. Stapleton, editor in chief.

 

Statistical handbook on infectious diseases / Sarah B. Watstein and John Jovanovic.

 

WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world.  Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan.

Google Books - Info from their Website:  "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book."  Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.

WSU Library Catalog - (Washington State University). To find out if they have any books on your topic,  search on "Keyword."  Keep your search BRIEF with just a word or a few words!  To find out if they subscribe to a particular journal, click on "Journals, Magazines, Newspapers" in the drop-down box next to the "Go" button.  Searching this link is helpful if you are going to go to WSU to do research; THEY CHARGE LCSC TO SEND MATERIALS VIA INTERLIBRARY LOAN!

Web Sites

 

Ecology & Environment Websites:

Atlas of Our Changing Environment - An environmental atlas of sites around the world that have experienced drastic environmental changes.   Produced by the United Nations Environment Programme.

Climate Change : The Discovery of Global Warming -- A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change.  Provided by Spencer Weart, Director, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.

Crude oil watch - the latest information on crude oil prices.

Endangered species expenditure reports - from the Fish and Wildlife Service.

EPA Office of Water - Contains links to regional water information, water news, and 25 Quick Finder links under the topic areas of Ground Water and Drinking Water; Water Science; Wastewater Management; Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds; and American Indian Environmental Office.

Farmland Information Center -- a clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust.

Fish and wildlife news - is the quarterly (formerly bi-monthly) newsletter of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is written by, for and about Fish and Wildlife Service employees in offices around the nation.

Kalispel resident fish project - Annual report.

National Agricultural Statistics Service - Provides statistical data by crop, state, or county.

National air quality and emissions trends report - Trends Reports are EPA's "report card" on the status of air quality and air pollutant emissions.

National Biological Information Infrastructure -- A broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.

National Invasive Species Information Center - a service of the National Agricultural Library.

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: A key objective of GISS research is prediction of atmospheric and climate changes in the 21st century. The research combines analysis of comprehensive global datasets, derived mainly from spacecraft observations, with global models of atmospheric, land surface, and oceanic processes.  Website sections include News, Research, Data & Images, Publications, Software Tools, and Education.

NatureServe Explorer - Provides an online encyclopedia on 65,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of U.S. and Canada.  Provided by NatureServe, a nonprofit conservation organization.

Providing safe drinking water in America : national public water system annual compliance report and update on implementation of the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments.

State energy data - price and expenditure data.

Western Water Digital Library - Water-related resources regarding the Trans-Mississippi region of North America. The currently available resources include classic water literature, government reports, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and audio/video materials associated with the major river basins of the Western United States.  A collaborative regional project of the Greater Western Library Alliance, with initial funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

 

Other Life Science Websites:

Biology Browser - Produced by BIOSIS, BiologyBrowser is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community, including the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology.

Encyclopedia of Life - Classifies and provides information about living organisms.  Supported by Harvard University, the Smithsonian, Field Museum, Marine Biological Laboratory, Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, Missouri Botanical Garden, and the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations.

Genome.gov - Supplies information about consumer health and counseling information for genetic disorders, as well as in-depth information for medical and scientific professionals.  From the National Human Genome Research Institute.

National Center for Health Statistics - From the Centers for Disease Control.

National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference -- A service of the Department of Agriculture.

Profiles in Science  -- Makes available the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and others who have advanced the scientific enterprise, including Rosalind Franklin and Linus Pauling.  Provided by the National Library of Medicine.

 

For Teachers:

BioEd Online : Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine -- Includes Biology News, Hot topics in Biology, Ready-to-Go Lessons, and PowerPoint slide sets. 

EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, video clips, and podcasts from the San Francisco Eploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception.  Select from the categories : Everyday Science, History of Science, Popular Culture, Popular Science, and Science in Action.

Teacher's Domain : Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development - Provided by WGBH, the PBS station in Boston.  Most materials are for science subjects.  User needs to register (for free).

 

Government:

 

USA.gov - A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.  Another good source of statistics.

Science.gov - A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

 

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.

 

Federal Digital System - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, including Congressional bills and hearings.  Provided by the Government Printing Office. 

Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.

 

     I-Docs - An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.

Idaho state fact sheet - facts that include but are not limited to population, income, education, and employment.

 

Standardized Tests:

 

Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.

 

 

Citations:

 

APA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

 

APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.

 

 

MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

 

MLA Citation Style - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.

 

Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style.  Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography.  A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.

Son of Citation Machine -- An "interactive Web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties" (from the Website).

 

Research Paper Help:

Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.

Online Resources for Writers - Links to useful information from colleges and universities, covering all phases of writing academic essays.  Provided by the Amherst Writing Center.

Idea Generator - organized by general subject areas.  A service of the Library at Old Dominion University.   You can use these simple keywords to help you generate ideas of your own for focused research paper topics.

Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper.  It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc.  It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you.  But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.

Wikipedia : Researching with Wikipedia - A page on the Wikipedia site that describes the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of information.  It includes this statement:  "In all academic institutions, Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper."