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Annotated Collections

Natural Sciences Resources

CSE Style Guide
Includes information on manuscript preparation and markup, sample correspondence.
  • Has a citation quick guide.
  • Has new recommendations and examples for citing online images and information.

Resources for Specific Disciplines

General Natural Science Resources

Interactive Science
Allows students to visualize things such as molecules, cells, and organs through interactive 3D models.
  • You can browse by Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Anatomy.
    • You can refine the four branches of science mentioned above even further by clicking on “refine by category” underneath each branch.
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
The Munday Library has access to Biology, Chemistry, Immunology & Infection, and Neuroscience videos.
  • You need to create an account using your St. Edwards Email Address.
  • Includes videos of lab techniques, dissections, and more.
  • Also includes educational content (lecture style videos) for the different scientific disciplines.
  • These videos are available in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Korean.
  • Transcripts for the videos are also available.
Nature
Full-text access to the journals published by Nature Research, covering many aspects of the physical and natural sciences.
  • You can search for articles by subject, key word, or author. You also specify if you want to search all the journals in Nature’s database or just a specific one.
  • You can click “view all journals” to get a list of journals that the Nature database has.
    • Some examples of journals include pediatric research, psychiatry, Human Genome Variation, etc.
  • You can also search by publication year, Boolean operators, etc. in the advanced search portion of the search bar.
SciTech Premium Collection
Includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
  • The database automatically opens to the advanced search. If you want to use the basic search tool, you can click “SciTech Premium Collection” and it will pop up.
  • In the basic search you can limit your search to full text articles or peer reviewed articles.
  • If you want to use the advanced search, you can search by publication date, publication company, subject headings, source type (i.e., book, magazine, scholarly journal), and language.
Science Direct
Contains over 25% of the world’s science, technology and medicine full text journals and bibliographic information.
  • You will need to create an account with your St. Edwards Information.
    • Click “sign in” in the upper right corner of the web page.
    • Click “sign in by institution” and enter your St. Edwards email address. Doing this will take you through the steps of registering your ScienceDirect Account.
  • The website homepage breaks the journals into broad categories (i.e., Physical Science, Life Science, Social Science).
    • You can then narrow the broad journal categories into narrower categories (i.e., Biochemistry, immunology, and neuroscience).
  • You can search by keyword, Journal or Book Title, or author(s).
  • In the advanced search tab you can narrow your results by publication year, journal volume number, etc.
Science One File
Has information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines.
  • If you sign in with your St. Edwards email address, you will be able to see search history, which could be helpful if you are doing research projects.
  • Search tools include topic finder, Subject Guide Search, and publication search.
    • In the Topic Finder, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.
    • In the subject guide search you can search by subject as well as narrow your search to publication date, peer reviewed journals, and full text articles.
    • In the publication search section you can search for specific publications as well as narrow your search by date, peer reviewed journals, type of publication, etc.
Science and Technology Collection
Covers relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
  • Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.
  • You can log in with your St. Edwards Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
  • You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options.
  • For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar.
Science In Context
Contains information ranging from earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography.
  • You can browse the A-Z list of topics by clicking on the “browse all topics” button.
  • You can also limit your search to peer reviewed articles in the advanced search option.
Springer Journals
Full access to articles and journals published by Springer.
  • Subjects covered include business, humanities, social sciences, natural and physical science, and technology.
  • You can browse for articles by discipline, or you can search using keywords.
  • You can also browse for a specific journal by selecting “find a journal” on the upper left corner of the page.
  • You can advanced search by clicking on the settings wheel on the right side of the search bar.
Springer EBook Collection
Full text access in HTML and PDF formats to the electronic versions of books published by Springer. Content Areas are Architecture and Design; Behavioral Science; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy; and Professional Computing & Web Design.