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Key Electronic Resources

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Biological and Agricultural Sciences
*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources
*covers agriculture, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, food science, and more
*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science)
Biological and Life Sciences
*covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science
*indexes over 4,200 journals from 100 countries and includes over 11.3 million records
*covers items published from 1926-present
BioOne Complete
Full-text journal articles in biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
BioOne Complete is BioOne's online database of 200 high quality, full-text, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Nearly 1,500 academic libraries, research institutions, governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations and corporations around the world subscribe to BioOne Complete. BioOne complete Includes:

*Full-text for 200 titles from more than 149 publishers
*151 ISI-ranked titles
*67 titles available online only in BioOne Complete
*Over 150,000 full-text articles, and growing daily
*HTML, PDF, and mobile access
*contains citations and abstracts from scholarly journals
*covers biological, ecological and environmental sciences
* Also contains selected full-text for the specific titles listed at http://libguides.apsu.edu/c.php?g=36164&p=859729
Global Plants (JSTOR Plant Science)
Global plant research
*Provides access to foundational content vital to plant science - plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.

*By 2013, there will be over 2.2 million type specimens available

*Materials are global in scope representing over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents
PubMed
Medicine, nursing, dentistry
*Lists citations and summaries of journal articles

*Covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and preclinical sciences

*Covers items published from 1966

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Annual Reviews (Current Editions & Electronic Back Volume Collection)
Bio-medical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including Economics)
*content spans the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including economics)

*Recent editions of Annual Reviews (2009-2019) are provided as well as editions from the Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection (EBVC).

*Content dates range from 1932-2019
ArXiv
Research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles

Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.

Users can retrieve papers from arXiv via the web interface. Registered authors may use our web interface to submit their articles to arXiv

Open access to 580,043 e-prints
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Biological and Agricultural Sciences
*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources
*covers agriculture, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, food science, and more
*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science)
Biological and Life Sciences
*covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science
*indexes over 4,200 journals from 100 countries and includes over 11.3 million records
*covers items published from 1926-present
BioMed Central
Biological and medical sciences
*an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research
*includes a portfolio of over 130 journals
*research articles can be browsed and viewed without registering, but if you wish to search the BioMed Central site, you do need to register
BioOne Complete
Full-text journal articles in biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
BioOne Complete is BioOne's online database of 200 high quality, full-text, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Nearly 1,500 academic libraries, research institutions, governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations and corporations around the world subscribe to BioOne Complete. BioOne complete Includes:

*Full-text for 200 titles from more than 149 publishers
*151 ISI-ranked titles
*67 titles available online only in BioOne Complete
*Over 150,000 full-text articles, and growing daily
*HTML, PDF, and mobile access
*contains citations and abstracts from scholarly journals
*covers biological, ecological and environmental sciences
* Also contains selected full-text for the specific titles listed at http://libguides.apsu.edu/c.php?g=36164&p=859729
Cabells Journal Directories (Journalytics and Predatory Reports)
Database of scholarly journals with publication information, submission experience data, and peer review indicators. Also included is Predatory Reports, the only searchable database of predatory journals with detailed summaries of deceptive behaviors.
Cabells Journalytics, our searchable database of information and insightful metrics for verified, reputable journals, covers 18 academic disciplines and provides intelligence on more than 11,000 international scholarly publications.

Cabells Predatory Reports, the only searchable database of predatory journals with detailed summaries of deceptive behaviors, currently lists more than 13,000 deceitful publications. Through continued partnerships with major academic publishers, journal editors, scholarly societies, accreditation agencies, and other independent databases,

Cabells provides accurate, up-to-date information about academic journals to more than 750 universities worldwide.
Coronavirus Research Database
Health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.

The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis

The database aggregates open content from ProQuest with content made freely availableby members of the International Association of STM Publishers. Notable publishers contributing to the Coronavirus Research Database include Public Library of Science, BioMed Central, MDPI AG, Springer Nature Publisher Group, Taylor & Francis and The BMJ. Preprint servers include arXiv.org and BioRxiv.
Dissertations and Theses: Global
Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses in full-text from universities in 88 countries
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.

More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
Encyclopedia of Life
Biological species, ecology
*Ultimately, the Encyclopedia of Life will provide an online database for all 1.8 million species now known to live on Earth.

*Series of websites that unites mammal, bird, bug, plant, bacteria, etc. in one location, providing in-depth, scientifically valid information

*Students and educators will be provided with a wide variety of tools for using the information on the species pages as well as for feeding their own information back into the system
Environmental Studies (Gale in Context)
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides detailed information on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint.

From climate change to automobile emissions, today’s environmental issues determine the destiny of tomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides users with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more.

Integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more, Environmental Studies is updated daily with relevant information. The resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including Water Privatization, Ecotourism, Air Pollution, Green Economy, and more.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Infotrac Journals and eBooks on Environmental Studies
Focuses on environmental issues and policies with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.
F1000 Research
Open Research publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent refereeing and the inclusion of all source data
F1000Research publishes articles and other research outputs (e.g. posters and slides) reporting basic scientific, translational and clinical research within the life sciences and medicine. F1000Research is a scholarly publication platform set up for the scientific research community; each article has at least one author who is a qualified researcher or clinician actively working in the life sciences and who has made a key contribution to the article.

Articles must be original (not duplications). All research is suitable irrespective of the perceived level of interest or novelty; we welcome confirmatory and negative results, as well as null studies. F1000Research publishes different type of research, including clinical trials, systematic reviews, software tools, method articles, and many others. Reviews and Opinion articles providing a balanced and comprehensive overview of the latest discoveries in a particular field, or presenting a personal perspective on recent developments, are also welcome.

F1000Research is an Open Science platform: all articles are published open access; the publishing and peer review processes are fully transparent; and authors are asked to include detailed descriptions of methods and to provide full and easy access to source data underlying the results to improve reproducibility.

F1000 Faculty Reviews are commissioned from members of the prestigious F1000 Faculty. Peer review is fully transparent (the referees are listed on the article), but it takes place before publication and only the final version is published.

F1000Research also publishes other research outputs, collectively called documents, such as policies, guidelines, workflows and others, that vary in formats and often differ from traditional scholarly publications. They are always linked to a specific collection (see below) and published by researchers associated with a collection as a service to the wider research community.

Posters, slides and documents are not peer reviewed and do not appear in bibliographic databases such as PubMed.
General Science Full Text
Sciences
*lists citations, summaries, and full-text of journal articles and books

*covers science topics including biology, physics, and environment

*covers items published from 1984, summaries since 1984, and full-text since 1994
Global Plants (JSTOR Plant Science)
Global plant research
*Provides access to foundational content vital to plant science - plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.

*By 2013, there will be over 2.2 million type specimens available

*Materials are global in scope representing over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents
GreenFILE
All aspects of human impact to the environment
*includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more

*provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records

*The ability to "search for full-text" at Woodward Library is enabled
JSTOR
Multiple Subjects including history, literature, biology, political science, communication, business, and African-American studies
*Contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals

*Articles published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.

Austin Peay State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Collection(s):
Biological Sciences Collection
Life Sciences Collection
Arts & Sciences I Collection
Arts & Sciences II Collection
Arts & Sciences III Collection
Arts & Sciences IV Collection
Arts & Sciences V Collection
Arts & Sciences VI Collection
Arts & Sciences VII Collection
Arts & Sciences VIII Collection
Arts & Sciences IX Collection
Arts & Sciences X Collection
Arts & Sciences XI Collection
Arts & Sciences XII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIV Collection
Arts & Sciences XV Collection

Austin Peay State University also subscribes to the following individual journal(s):
19th-Century Music
The American Biology Teacher
The American Mathematical Monthly
The College Mathematics Journal
Ethnomusicology
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Magazine
The Mathematics Teacher
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Social Problems
Teaching Children Mathematics
PubMed
Medicine, nursing, dentistry
*Lists citations and summaries of journal articles

*Covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and preclinical sciences

*Covers items published from 1966

"Search for Full-Text @ APSU" option is available from the abstract view of each citation
SAGE Premier
Electronic access to over 900 peer-reviewed, full-text journals on a variety of topics, with content dating back to 1999.
*High-quality, interdisciplinary content – almost two thirds of the content in the SAGE Premier package is ranked in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

*15 journals received their first Impact Factor with the 2011 report and 7 journals increased their Impact Factors.

*SAGE is market leader (by number of ranked titles) in 6 key disciplines including Criminology & Penology; Education, Special; Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology and Urban Studies.

*9 journals ranked #1 in their categories.
Science (Gale OneFile)
Large collection of scientific journals
*With the General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas.

*More than 200 journals are covered.

*Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles
Science Direct College Edition Journal Collections
Collection of journals covering Social Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Physical Science, and Engineering
*Contains over 1800 full text, peer reviewed journals

*Provides articles from journals in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering

*Dates available include issues from the current year back to 1995 for most titles
Science Topics
Get background information on your topic.
Use this database for quick definitions and overviews of different terms. It is a cross between an encyclopedia and a dictionary. You will see snippets from related ScienceDirect books (but APSU does not own access to the full-text chapters for most of these titles).
These pages provide concept definitions and subject overviews for researchers who want to expand their knowledge about scholarly and technical terms.

Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field.

These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books.
SciFinder-n (SciFinder Web)
Contains a wide variety of content from journal articles to information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions
SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure).
New Users: Register for a SciFinder Account
You must use an apsu.edu e-mail address and create a username and password. Your account will not be activated until you click on a confirmation link that is sent to your e-mail.
What's in Scifinder?
- Chemical Substances (CAS REGISTRY)
- References (CAplus)
- Reactions (CASREACT)
- Chemical Suppliers (CHEMCATS)
- Regulated Chemicals (CHEMLIST)
- Markush (MARPAT; Substances in patents)
- use the Structure Drawing Editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions
- Created by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society)
- Serves as an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing references from more than 9500 journals
- Contains patents from over 50 patent-issuing organizations
- Contains the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
The new SciFinder-n interface provides the following features:
- A brand new streamlined interface providing easier navigation and time savings
- Improved reference searching with new relevancy ranking and autosuggest
- Multi-tab browsing and automatic User Login recognition
- Simultaneously explore both text and structure in a single search
- Automatically saves and stores all search history for quick and easy recall
- Includes MethodsNow providing access to step by step synthetic procedures, extracted and summarized
- Includes PatentPak providing access straight to full-text patents and hard-to-find-substances with a single click
- Citation mapping that quickly identifies important research and graphically displaying references
- Updated retrosynthesis planning capabilities
Helpful links for using SciFinder-n:
- Access the SciFinder-n quick start guide for a step-by-step journey into the product
- Watch our video collection of SciFinder-n How-To videos
- Migrate your current saved answers and alerts from the previous interface (SciFinder Web)
Alumni do not qualify for SciFinder access. Any use of SciFinder for commercial purposes under your institution's license is prohibited. Please remember to logout from SciFinder Scholar as soon as you have finished with your research.
Springer Nature Online Journals (LYRASIS Collection)
Peer-reviewed journals from science related fields, philosophy, and business
The Springer eJournal collection includes over 2500 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, and the social sciences.
APSU is one of the 120 institutions the are participating in the transformative agreement between Springer Nature and Lyrasis. This means means that authors affiliated with APSU are eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered in hybrid journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. See the list of APSU transformative agreements for more information.
Sustainability (JSTOR)
Research on environmental stresses and their impact on society
JSTOR Sustainability is a collection of journals, e-books, and research reports that provide multiple perspectives on environmental issues. The collection covers over 20 disciplines, including the Biological Sciences, Business & Economics, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Public Health, and Urban Studies.

The Sustainability collection on JSTOR is a growing and highly interdisciplinary set of content. The collection includes:

More than 140 journals in the core disciplines of environmental studies, business & economics, law, environmental science, aquatic and biological sciences, ecology, and urban studies and the built environment.

5,000 research reports from a minimum of 40 leading think tanks around the world (2,000 available now, more coming later in 2017-2018). The often hard-to-find research reports will include policy briefs, technical papers, white papers, and discussion papers from government agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, policy institutions, and academic centers.

10 open access journals (two available in early 2017, more coming soon)

More than 350 scholarly ebooks spanning the wide ranges of disciplines in the collection.
Wiley Online Library
Science, technology, and medicine
*Lists citations for millions of articles and full-text from over 200 periodicals

*Covers science, technology, medicine, and humanities

*Contains articles from 1996 to date

General Resources for Research on All Subjects

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General Article Databases (All Subjects)
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