San
Diego Public Library Databases
Using your library card number and last four digits
of your phone number, you have access to a long
list of databases containing magazine and newspaper
articles, photos, biographies, encyclopedias,
literary criticism - and much more.
Use the "free databases" listed below
if 1) you cannot access the San Diego Public Library
databases for some reason, or 2) one of those
listed below has information beyond what the SDPL
offers.
Free Databases
By "free databases" we mean databases
that Platt Library does not pay for, and which
are freely available, via the Internet, to anyone
in the world. All of them can be accessed from
off campus.
For legal information, local, state and federal,
use the San
Diego County Law Library web page.
For a great business
search engine and directory, go to http://www.business.com/.
To find journal
articles when you cannot use our subscription
databases, check out MagPortal,
FindArticles,
Electronic
Journal Miner, HighWire
(from Stanford University Library's HighWire
Press), BUBL
Journals , or Project
Muse.
Here's a list
of sites that offer books free through the Internet:
1) http://bartleby.com
2) http://www.blackmask.com
3) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
4) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html
5) http://www.bibliomania.com
6) http://www.netlibrary.com/reading_room/index.asp
7) http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/stacks/stacks_main.html
The following
is a list of medical databases, freely
available on the web, which could prove useful
(many offer only citations, not the whole article,
which, in that case, could be ordered through
our interlibrary loan service):
MedScape -
The Web site most widely-used by physicians,
but open to everyone. It
offers the Web's largest collection of free,
full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine
articles. It contains First Databank,
claimed to be the Web's largest drug and disease
database. It also provides easy access
to MEDLINE, AIDSLINE and TOXLINE.
PubMed
- This is the official Web-based MEDLINE provided
by the National Library of
Medicine. Anyone can search MEDLINE's 11 million-plus
citations free, but only authorized participants
may request documents, which are rarely free.
NLM
Gateway - The NLM Gateway allows users to
search in multiple retrieval systems at the
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The
current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE,
LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov,
DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, and HSRProj.
NewsRx.net
- contains health,
science, and medical news prepared by medical
journalists and science editors.
Click on "Search for Articles" in
the left frame. Displays a list of citations
on the topic you chose. You may request
the whole article if you wish - Each
article costs $3.00 and is displayed immediately
after purchasing.
CANCERLIT - For cancer articles.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
- Offers titles, summaries, and availability
information for health resources from the U.S.
National Institutes of Health.
healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal
Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services together with other
Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder®
has been recognized as a key resource for finding
the best government and nonprofit health and
human services information on the Internet.
healthfinder® links to carefully selected information
and Web sites from over 1,800 health-related
organizations.
Ingenta
also offers highly technical medical
citations.
Also, try FreeMedicalJournals.com,
or this
list (created by Grossmont librarians).
Other useful databases, on various topics, include:
1)
Ingenta
- Search
13,787,494 articles
from 27,480 publications.
How it works: you search by your topic, and
you get abstracts of journal articles.
Then you must find the full-text of the articles
elsewhere.
2) AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access)
3) Anthropological
Index Online
4) California
Digital Library's Searchlight (Public Version)
5) Environmental
Information Resources Web Site
6) AskERIC
(education topics)
7) National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
Database
8) TOXNET
(Toxicology Data Network)
9) United
States Census Bureau
10) University
of Law Review Project (for complete articles
from some law journals)
11) Gale
Group's Literary Index
12) Artcyclopedia:
The Fine Art Search Engine
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