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Science
Your Subject Librarian is John Baken. He can be reached at 314-719-8088.
Background Information
- This electronic reference source provides fully searchable full-text content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, definitions, multi-media, illustrations, graphics and biographies.
- Subjects: All sciences, technology, mathematics, medicine, computing, food science, and psychology.
- This electronic reference source contains over 3,000,000 full-text entries from nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, speeches and images.
- Subjects: All areas of academic study.
- This reference source contains full-text entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, and images, including bi-lingual dictionaries.
- Subjects: All areas of academic study.
For Books
Search the Online Catalog for books in the Library.
For Articles
- This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing access to over 12,500 journals (8,500 in full-text).
- Subjects: Numerous areas of academic study including science, ethnic & multicultural studies, mathematics, psychology, religion and women's studies.
- This GALE database contains full-text access to scholarly journal articles, news, and news analysis, video and in-depth topic pages.
- Subjects: Global issues – famine, globalization, world trade, global warming, etc. – in sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights.
Points of View Reference Center
- This EBSCO full-text database provides hundreds of essays, presenting multiple sides of current issues along with thousands of supporting articles.
- Subjects: Topics from Animal Welfare to Women’s Issues and everything in between.
- This database provides the electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources, news magazines, special reports, and world maps. Paid ads are excluded.
- Subjects: Local and regional news, covering companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues.
Multimedia
- The Vega Science Trust has created a broadcast platform for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) communities. Site includes video interviews with scientists, Noble Prize winners, lectures, articles and recent science news.
- Subjects: Science, Women in Science, The Next Big Thing, Arts & Sciences, Issues of Concern, Science Careers.
Global Climate Change (NASA)
- "NASA's eyes on the planet." Includes Eyes on the Earth 3-D, Sea Level Viewer, Climate Time Machine and Global Ice Viewer. Site provides indicators, evidence, causes, uncertainities, solutions and other resources focused on climate change.
- Foundational content vital to plant science - plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature including letters, maps, paintings and drawings. Search by topic, geography, or collection.
- Subjects: Biological and plant science.
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science
- The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the world's top botanical research and conservation institutions. TROPICOS, the world's largest database of plant information, contains fully web-searchable records for over 900,000 plant names and nearly 2 million specimens. Over 50,000 plant images are also linked to their records in TROPICOS.