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Link to Library Home Page
Forms for Requesting Materials
Frequently Asked Questions
Information Literacy Modules (for a refresher)
TAKE THE QUIZZES! (Log-in to WebCT, then choose "Information Literacy" from your list of WebCT classes)
GENERAL SCIENCE INDEXES:
Expanded Academic ASAP - Covers humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. A Thomson Gale database.
Custom Newspapers (full-text articles from newspapers, including those from Boise, Portland, Seattle, and Spokane)
InfoTrac General Science - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to science.
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.Google Scholar - A new product from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.
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.
ProQuest Newstand (full-text articles from major newspapers, including the New York Times)
LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTH INDEXES:
Agricola - The National Agricultural Library Catalog (AGRICOLA) provides citations to agricultural literature (books and articles).
BasicBIOSIS - Covers life sciences, environmental sciences, and other related disciplines. Provides citations to 350 core life sciences journals, as well as meeting papers, reviews, and newspapers.
CINAHL - (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature). Provides citations to over 1600 nursing and allied health journals dating back to 1982.
CINAHL with Full-Text - A database trial. We don't yet have a contract for this database, but the company is allowing us to try it out. Please send comments on this database to Lynne Bidwell at LBidwell@lcsc.edu.
Health Reference Center Academic (A Thomson Gale database) - Provides articles from 750 sources, plus citations from an additional 2200 journals in medicine, health, nursing and allied health areas.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (A Thomson Gale database) - General, less academic health information than found in Health Reference Center Academic. It includes full-text of articles, newletters, videos, and pamphlets, as well as reference works such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
InfoTrac Agriculture Collection - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to agriculture and food production.
InfoTrac Environmental Issues & Policy - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to environmental policy.
InfoTrac Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to sports medicine.
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.
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.
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information which includes MEDLINE as well as:
The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE. Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing. Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
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.
InfoTrac Educators - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to education.
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:
Beacham’s guide to the endangered species of North America: edited by Walton Beacham, Frank V. Castronova, Suzanne Sessine.
Biology / Richard Robinson, editor in chief.
The Gale encyclopedia of medicine / Jacqueline L. Longe, editor ; Deirdre S. Blanchfield, associate editor.
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!
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.
Ecology & Environment Websites:
Crude oil watch - the latest information on crude oil prices.
Federal and state endangered and threatened species expenditures - Reports compiled by Federal and State governments.
Forest health highlights in Oregon and in Washington- Information by region on the health of the forests.
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 air quality and emissions trends report - Trends Reports are EPA's "report card" on the status of air quality and air pollutant emissions.
National Invasive Species Information Center - a service of the National Agricultural Library.
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.
For Teachers:
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.
GPO Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. 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:
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.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
Bibliographies : MLA Format - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
For more websites, see the complete list.
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: August 3, 2007
