BIOSIS Previews (1969- ) covers the biological literature.
BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology and ecology. Interdiscplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology are also included. Nearly 5,500 serials are monitored for inclusion. In addition, the database covers content summaries, books and meeting abstracts, papers and posters. Content summaries include notes and letters, technical data reports, reviews, U.S. patents from 1986 to 1989 and from 1999, meeting reports from 1980 to present, bibliographies, nomenclature rules, and taxonomic keys. ####BIOSIS Previews (ISI Web of Knowledge)replaces BIOSIS Previews via OVID.
Good old JSTOR. A growing archive of journals (and now many books) in several languages. Includes some of the important journals that produce articles on our period (Journal of Roman History, Historia, Speculum, Past & Present, American Historical Review, English Historical Review, Church History, French Historical Studies, Annales, Historische Zeitschrift, Revue historique, and others).
Includes all titles in the JSTOR collection, excluding recent issues. JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
PubMed with full text (1947- ) offer sources on medical evidence and paleopathology. You can limit to English by choosing Show Additional Filters, on the left.
Web of Science is a very wide ranging index that includes scientific articles back to m1900. It allows citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it. More information.
Finding More
These indexes and bibliographies represent a small number of options available through the library for finding scientific evidence.
To find more, search in HOLLIS or contact Fred (History Library Liaison)
