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  • Full text access to many journals in all areas of the sciences, social sciences, and math/computer science.
  • Green rectangles indicate we have full text.
  • For best results
    •  Use Use advanced search (you have to hunt for it--look for tiny print all the way to the right link at the top of the page .on the right)
    • Click into Journal search for more features (and to turn off the Books feature--we don't get any exclude Books.  Drew does not subscribe to books through this vendor).
    • Use the dropdown to specify that search terms must appear in Abstract, Title, Keywords to focus the search

 
 

  •  Register Register to save searches, preferences, and RSS alerts.
  • Related documents articles are determined by the number of times search words are repeated in those documents.

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You can search All Databases or choose databases to search separately:

  • Web of Science (ISI Citation Indexes)
    • Includes  Science Citation Index,  Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science,  and Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities
    • Topic searching searches title, abstract. To limit further, try limiting to title.
    • Within searches you can limit within topic (determined by journal title), author, affiliation, year.
    • Can analyze results (for example, to find authors who are the experts in an area of study), get related (articles with citations in common with the source article).
    • Free registration for preferences, alerts, saving search histories, or to use EndNote Web (see below) to prepare bibliographies.
  • Biological Abstracts
    • See the Quick Reference Card with instructions and screen shots specific to Biological Abstracts from Thomson Reuters.
    • Topic searching searches title, abstract. To limit further, try limiting to title.
    • Within searches you can limit within topic (determined by journal title), author, subject area, concept code, super taxa.
    • Indexed by subject area, concept code, super taxa; examine these features to determine whether they can augment your search capability.
    • Can access EndNote Web from this database.
  • Derwent Innovations Index
    • Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index® as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index®

    NOTES:

  • If an item of interest appears in both ISI Science Citation Index and Biological Abstracts, you can toggle back and forth between the two databases, giving you the advantage of both citation indexing and subject indexing.
  • Web of KnowledgeTipsheet
  • Biological Abstracts Tipsheet

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