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Overview

Article Indexes

BIOSIS Previews Comprehensive index with abstracts to periodical articles, reviews, and meetings in all the biological sciences disciplines. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.

RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "BIOSIS". Particularly relevant for whole organism and ecological/evolutionary perspectives.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Multidisciplinary index with abstracts of journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in the environmental sciences. Coverage: 1967- present. Updated monthly.
RefWorks Info: Imports checked citations directly into RefWorks.

Medline (FirstSearch) The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily. Provides a simple search environment for Medline. Access via Library subscription.

PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Provides free citations and abstracts, but limited full text. Coverage: 1966 - present. Updated weekly.
Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.

SciFinder Scholar Online access to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. This extensive chemistry index supplies abstracts of journal articles, conferences, dissertations, technical reports, patent references, substance records, substructure, formula and reaction searching. Covers all aspects of chemistry including chemical engineering, environmental science, pharmacology, medicine, and food science. Coverage from 1907-date. Updated daily. Personal access requires client download restricted to WMU community. Also available via terminals in Science Reference, Waldo Library. REU students can use this in the library or via loaded computers in labs.

Scopus
Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

Web of Science Web of Science from the ISI Web of Knowledge contains three major databases covering all areas of knowledge: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). The literature can be searched by subject, author, journal title, and author's address. Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".
See the Web of Science Tutorial for search tips.

Selected Journals

Electronic Journals Search for online availability of particular journals at WMU.

ACS Web Editions Searchable collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society.

BioOne A searchable and interlinked collection of over 200 high-impact, peer-reviewed full-text journals, focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Includes The Arabidopsis Book. Most of BioOne's titles are published by societies and non-profit scholarly publishers. Coverage, 2000-date. Continuously updated.

Nature Online coverage (6/1997- )
Publishes groundbreaking original scientific research, reports, review articles.

Science
One of the leading peer reviewed journals of original scientific research, news, and commentary. Coverage is from 1997 to present.

Science Direct Database for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.

Books

WestCat/Library Catalog
WestCat is one of the historic names for WMU's official online library catalog. This catalog is  used to identify books (including online books), government documents, journals, videos, sound recordings, slides and other items that the University Libraries has in its collections. WestCat can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.

Call numbers WMU Libraries uses the Library of Congress call numbering system. Call number locations.

Encyclopedias

AccessMedicine McGraw-Hill provides this set of online medical books that are both searchable and browsable for students and professionals.

AccessScience The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, online.

Credo Reference (Formerly Xreferplus) Full text online from about 240 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books all cross-referenced. Search a topic, build a concept map or browse information sources organized by subject. Find text, images, sound files, sortable data tables and more.

Tutorials & Guides

Finding a Book How to locate books (print and electronic) at WMU and elsewhere.

Finding Journals Search for online and print journals by title at WMU.

Labyrinth A tutorial designed for FYE 2100 and University 1010 students. However, this tutorial will help you learn about the libraries and how to perform basic searches, whether or not you are in these classes.

PubMed Tutorial Tips for accessing Medline through PubMed.

Web of Science Tutorial Online guide to using Web of Science.

Library Services

Interlibrary Loan
Set up a username & password here to submit automated requests from online indexes. Allow up to 2 weeks for materials to arrive.

Library Building Hours

Ask A Librarian

Barbara J. Cockrell, E-mail: barbara.cockrell@wmich.edu
Phone: 269-387-5143
Last updated: June 2008

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