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Compiled by CABI Publishing, CAB Abstracts provides comprehensive international coverage of the significant research and development literature in agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Sources scanned selectively for records are: professional and trade journals (over 9,000), reports, bulletins, conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, scientific texts, technical and popular books, theses, annual reports and a few categories of patents and standards. Major subject areas covered include: agricultural and environmental economics; agricultural engineering; animal production (including general and theoretical genetics, genetic engineering and immunogenetics); biodeterioration, bioremediation and biodegradation (including any organisms involved and their identification through molecular biology techniques); biotechnology in the areas of bioethics, intellectual property issues, genes and their expression, molecular biology techniques, genomics, genetic engineering, cloning, in vitro fertilization and gene therapy; broad coverage of crop protection (including pests, pathogens, natural enemies and control mechanisms for an extensive range of plants); dairy science and technology encompassing physiological, biochemical, immunological, microbiological, chemical and physics aspects; forestry, forest products and agroforestry; human nutrition with coverage extending into physiology, biochemistry and disorders; leisure, recreation, and tourism; all aspects of medical and veterinary parasitological disease which includes diagnosis, immunobiology, physiology, molecular and cell biology; developmental biology and genetics (molecular, population and biochemical); natural resources and environmental issues; plant breeding, crop production and horticulture; soil science, land/water management and fertilizer technology; rural development; veterinary medicine; and miscellaneous subjects (human and animal health, nematology, sugar technology and apiculture). Online coverage extends back to 1973. Print coverage for various subjects is available for earlier years. 1973 - present No
CAB e-books Yes
The CSD is a database of over 500,000 experimentally derived crystal structures for small molecules that have been published in over 700 journals. Structures can be represented in 2D or 3D format. Users can search by substructure, similarity, reduced cell, text/numeric, or simply browse the database. 1923-present No
The Census of Agriculture is the source of consistent, comparable, and detailed agricultural data for every county in America. The census is conducted every 5 years. 1992 - 2002 Yes
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM research. This is a database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. 1978 - present No
See <a href="http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm">http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm</a> for a full summary of features and content for this product. Yes
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SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. 1907 - present Partial
This is a collection of over 280 chemistry and chemistry related e-books. You can search the full text and view complete e-books and chapters in PDF format. You can also browse e-books by category. This resource includes a number of important titles such as: CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts, CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Sensors, Industrial Solvents Handbook, Inorganic Materials Chemistry Desk Reference&and much more Yes
Includes access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as well as a number of other resources with physical and chemical property data, including properties for natural products and drugs. Not only can you search within the CRC Handbook, but you have access to the following sources as well: Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Polymers: A Property Database , and Properties of Organic Compounds Yes
From Vendor Site: "ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 26 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. ChemSpider builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information and links back to original data sources. ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation and to integrate it with users applications." varies No
Provides comprehensive access to research on civil engineering from many worldwide reference sources. This bibliographic database covers 3000 journals and includes 250,000 citations. It includes hundreds of core journals not indexed in other engineering databases. Some conference papers are also included. Citations include abstracts and indexed terms from a controlled vocabulary of 12,500 terms. It has a searchable thesaurus. 1966 - present Partial
"ClimateWire covers in-depth every day the key issues that surround the debate over climate change, including: -Federal agency programs, legislation, policies and funding; -State program development and implementation; -Kyoto implementation; -Post-Kyoto negotiations and nation-state positioning; -International agency activities; -Carbon market development; -Alternative energy research and deployment; -Financial community investment decisions; -Corporate/multi-national response to climate concerns; -Positions and lobbying by stakeholder groups; -Consequences and lessons learned from GHG-reduction efforts; -Science findings; -Effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture; -Trends and effects for traditional and non-traditional fossil fuel resources; -Consequences for electric utilities; -Economic effects; -Costs to consumers; and much, much more." Yes
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interactive source of several hundred reliable, new and classic research techniques in molecular and cellular biology. Fully searchable by keyword and subject, the database covers protocols for the following topics: antibodies, bioinformatics/genomics, cell biology, chromatography, computational biology, DNA delivery/gene transfer, electrophoresis, genetics, high-throughput analysis, imaging/microscopy, immunology, laboratory organisms, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), proteins and proteomics, RNA interference (RNAi)/siRNA, stem cells, and transgenic technology. The database also has an alphabetical listing of all protocol recipes and an alphabetical listing of all protocol cautions. In addition, it provides a mechanism for finding laboratory supplies. 2006- Yes
Ei Compendex provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Over 4500 journals are indexed. 1884-present Partial
Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. 1982 - present Partial
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Corrosion Abstracts provides information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts. 1980 - present No
This resource allows searching and browsing of the numerous tables and data found in the print CRC handbook. Can search by full-text, by chemical substance, or by a number of chemical properties. Interactive tables allow exporting the data to Microsoft Excel. Yes
The Crop Protection Compendium is an interactive database including information on thousands of insect pests, diseases, weeds, invasive plants and natural enemies of worldwide or regional importance. It also has detailed information on over 200 crops and crop production statistics by country and crop. In addition, the database provides identification keys and images, a decision-support tool for pest risk analysis, geographic information software to display global and regional maps, a bibliographic database, interactive glossary, and a library of published research documents. 2005 edition Partial