Science Writing for the Lay Reader (Taylor)

Library Catalog

Use NUcat the online catalog) to identify books that the library has, as well as journal titles, microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material. NUcat will also tell you whether material is in the main library or in another Northwestern University library.

General datbases covering all areas

This large database is a great place to begin research on almost any topic including the sciences. Including citations and abstracts for nearly 8035 scholarly journals (3630 peer-reviewed), as well as over 4515 full-text titles, Academic Search Premier covers a broad spectrum of resources that will assist you in your research.

This is another large databases covering a wide variety of resources on almost all academic topics. Citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles in more than one thousand periodicals covering the social sciences, the humanities, the sciences, and current affairs.

Lexis Nexis contains the full text of articles from several thousand news and business publications.

This index provides citations and abstracts for over 300 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.

JSTOR is an archive of complete runs of core journals in various academic disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue of the journal and continues up thorugh 3 to 5 years a go.

Science databases

Provides citations and abstracts to articles from 140 journals general science journals including those covering Biology, Botany, Conservation, Environment, Medicine, and Zoology.

Provides citations and abstracts to journal articles in the areas of botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Covers the years 1969 through 2005. For more recent material see Web of Science.

Georef provides citations to journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, theses, maps and government publications covering the geology of North America from 1785 and that of the rest of the world from 1933.

Combined access to the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Encyclopedias

More than 7100 articles covering numerous areas of science and engineering. Many topics are illustrated using animation, interactive charts and maps and audio files.

The complete text of the on-line version of Encyclopedia Britannica. The paper version of Britannica is available in the reference collection at call # 032 E56 2005.

Science and Engineering Library

For more science resources visit the Science and Engineering Library (SEL).

Web Sites

Public Library of Science

Librarians' Internet Index (LII)

Pub Med Central

Science.gov

GPO Catalog

Resources for Writing

NU: The Writing Place

The Writing Place also has a detailed page on avoiding plagiarism.
Northwestern outlines its definition of and policies concerning plagiarism at http://www.northwestern.edu/uacc/plagiar.html.

Academic Integrity at Northwestern

Citation Style Guides

Reference Help

Geoff Morse
Reference Department
gmorse@northwestern.edu
Office phone: 847.467.1866
Reference desk phone: 847.491.7656