Electronic Data Bases

The data bases available to you very much depends on where you are and what your library subscribes to. The following are available at Bowling Green. I have used all of them extensively and find them to be most helpful. All can be searched various ways, including by author, title, subject, and by words in the titles and abstract.

  • Applied Science and Technology provides citations and abstracts to articles in 400+ engineering, science, and technology journal and industry publications since 1983. It is updated monthly.

  • Biography Index covers historical and current data from sources published since 1984. 217,367 records.

  • Dissertation Abstracts lists the abstracts of 1,450,570 (Last Update: 30 Nov 1996) dissertations completed in North America since 1861, and many in Europe since 1988. Abstracts are included for dissertations completed after 1980.

  • English Short Title Catalogue contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period (1473-1800). More than 404,000 records.

  • ERIC consists of citations to more than 700,000 records about education. The database has two divisions: Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE).

  • History of Science and Technology (HST) includes references from Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, 1976-present, and Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), 1987-present. Records describe journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, and partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published. Records appear in print annually in the journal "Technology and Culture" as the "Current Bibliography in the History of Technology" or in the "ISIS Current Bibliography."

  • PapersFirst. Complete abstracts for the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases are now available to FirstSearch libraries that purchase access via annual subscription.

  • Periodical Abstracts provides citations and abstracts to articles in over 1600 general reference periodicals including popular magazines and professional journals published since 1986. It is updated monthly. Onsite printing of some articles is available. Mathematics is not mentioned in the topics covered, but computers and science are.

  • ProceedingsFirst covers over 19,000 citations from every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present. Updated monthly.

  • WorldCat is produced by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. It consists of over 35 million records that cite material owned by libraries around the world. Books, magazines, recordings; virtually any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries is included. WorldCat is updated daily.

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    Posted 26 December 1996.