Academic Search Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Aerospace and High Technology Database | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Aerospace & High Technology Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1962-)
Agricola (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Agricola has over 2.9 million records covering every major agricultural subject. (1970-)
Agricola (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Agricola has over 2.9 million records covering every major agricultural subject. (1970- updated monthly)
Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The journal covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments. Plant genome studies, now the focus of major research initiatives around the world, are examined in detail. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish,Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
Alt Health Watch (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Aluka | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions - Fondren Library has guest access through the end of 2007. Aluka seeks to attract contributed collections about Africa from institutions and individuals around the world. Current collections include a) African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes (including excavation reports, manuscripts, field notes, unpublished documentation, travelogues, maps, site plans, and scholarly research), b) African Plants (specimens of African plants linked to a wide range of related images and data, including photographs, drawings, botanical art, field notes, published flora, and other reference works) and c) Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa (documentation of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, beginning with Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, including archival materials, periodicals, oral histories, books, and photographs).
Aluminum Industry Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, production, applications, and business developments. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1972-)
American Health Line | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; A leading resource in the health care industry, American Health Line provides daily up-to-date news on the health care industry.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Technical Meeting Papers: No account or password necessary.; AIAA publishes approximately 4000 papers, presented at 20 conferences, each year. The online version of the meeting papers allows access to full-text scanned images; browsing by author, title, and conference.
American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; AIP Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. Published proceedings are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature. Proceedings volumes 500+ are available online. (2000-)
ANTE : Abstracs in New Technologies and Engineering | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (formerly Current Technology Database), is an abstracting and indexing service monitoring publications from the U.K. and the U.S. Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subject areas. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1981-)
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides fast, convenient access to seven decades of information from the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field-many of them peer-reviewed journals. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983), offering unique coverage of business and industry up through 1957.
ARIBIB: No account or password necessary.; ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References aims at presenting references to the literature from the remote past until the middle of the year 2000. The database includes the indices: Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts; and Astronomischer Jahresbericht (AJB). (1899-2000)
ASCE Civil Engineering Database: No account or password necessary.; References all publications of the American Society of Civil Engineering since 1975. Coverage includes journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters. (1975-)
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; ASFA 3 is the only abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1990-)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Includes full-text of ASP Conference Proceedings Back to 2002. Please note Fondren has full-text access, no purchase of articles is required.

Bacteriological Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Covers material ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals, the journal provides access to far-reaching clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Bacteriological Abstracts, Japanese, and Korean). (1982- updated monthly)
Beilstein/Gmelin Special software required. Accounts available to Rice University faculty, students and staff.: Guide; No account or password necessary.; The Beilstein organic chemistry database dates from the eighteenth century and consists of over seven million compounds, 10 million chemical reaction references, and 20 million associated chemical, physical, and biological property records. The system also includes some 600,000 abstracts and titles excerpted from the organic chemical literature since 1980. It is updated quarterly. Also included is the Gmelin database, including information on organometallic and inorganic compounds, alloys, glasses, ceramics, and minerals.
Biological Abstracts: No account or password necessary.; Approximately 5,500 international journals are reviewed for inclusion, representing virtually every life science discipline, including: agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, environment, genetics, medicine, microbiology, neurology, and pharmacology. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.) (1924-)
BioOne A&I | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 65 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1998-)

Cambridge Structural Database System Special account requirements. Accounts available to Rice University faculty, students and staff.: No account or password necessary.; The CSD records bibliographic, 2D chemical and 3D structural results from crystallographic analysis of organics, organometallics and metal complexes. Both X-ray and neutron diffraction studies are included for small and medium-sized compounds containing up to ca. 500 atoms (including hydrogens)
Ceramics Abstracts / World Ceramics Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Indexes world literature relating traditional and advanced ceramics, metals, composites, and cements. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1978-)
Chemical Abstracts - Full Edition see SciFinder Scholar: No account or password necessary.
Chemical Abstracts - Student Edition (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Chemical Abstracts Service's Student Edition, designed for undergraduate students, indexes and abstracts over 200 of the most widely held chemistry journals, as well as over 200,000 dissertations. (For access to the entire file, see SciFinder Scholar. (1967- updated weekly)
ChemInfom: No account or password necessary.; Provides abstracts of articles in all areas of organic and inorganic chemistry. (Dec 2002-)
Clase and Periodica (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. The combined database indexes over 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. (1975-)
Compendex Downloading to EndNote: No account or password necessary.; The electronic version of Engineering Index, Compendex indexes the engineering literature. (1884-)
Computer Abstracts: Password required; Computer Abstracts provides access to more than 30,000 computer science article abstracts drawn from more than 200 of the top journals in the field. The service provides a library of easy-to-scan abstracts. Account/password: On campus/VPN and proxy users (1993-)
Computer and Information Systems Absracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Computer and Information Systems Abstracts provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world. This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1981)
Computer Physics Communications Program Library: No account or password necessary.; Established in 1969 the CPC Program Library now contains almost 2,000 programs in computational physics and chemistry. Papers describing the programs are published in the Computer Physics Communications Journal and are available online via Science Direct. (1969)
Computer Source (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. (1985 - for fulltext)
Conference Papers Index: No account or password necessary.; Conference Papers Index provides information on presentations given at recent, major conferences and meetings covering the life sciences, environmental sciences and aquatic sciences. Titles, authors, conference sponsors and document ordering information are all provided, and generally well in advance of the publication of full proceedings. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1990-)
Consumer Health Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Includes medical information for the lay person from a variety of sources, including medical reference books, journals, pamphlets and alternative health sources. (A Spanish language interface, Salud en Espanol), provides access to health information in Spanish.)
Copper Data Center Database | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology. The database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1965-)
Corrosion Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides the most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted for information in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventative measures, materials construction and performance. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
CSA Illustrata : Natural Sciences | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CSA employs what it calls “deep indexing” to categorize data, variables and other content represented in tables, maps, photographs and other figures. Usually, article indexing is done at a rather high, general level where only the key concepts of the work are represented, but by going deeper and specifically indexing the content associated with all the individual tables and figures, CSA Illustrata enables the researcher to find information that otherwise would not be retrievable in traditional, article-level indexing systems.
Current Contents via Web of Knowledge | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Current Contents with Abstracts, published by the Institute for Scientific Information, lists the tables of contents from approximately 6,600 scientific and technical journals. Five editions of Current Contents are available online: Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Engineering, Technology & Applied Sciences; Life Sciences; Clinical Medicine; and Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences. The database is updated weekly. The lag time between journal publication and availability on the network is several weeks to a month. (1975-)
Current Index to Statistics: No account or password necessary.; The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. (1974-)
Directory of Graduate Research - American Chemical Society: No account or password necessary.; Provides information on graduate programs from 12 disciplines within the chemical sciences: chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical chemistry, polymer science, food science, toxicology, marine science, forensic science, materials science, and environmental science.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1971-)
Ecology Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants and animals - interact with their environments and other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1974-)
Electronics and Communications Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1981-)
Engineered Materials Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Citations regarding the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of polymers, ceramics and composites are pulled from 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1986-)
Engineering Index see COMPENDEX: No account or password necessary.
EngNetBase | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides online access to the engineering handbooks published by CRC Press.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1990-)
Environmental Impact Statements: Digests: No account or password necessary.; The federal government issues hundreds of environmental impact statements year - and this database provides detailed abstracts of those statements. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1970-)
Environmental Impact Statements: Fulltext & Digests | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead. (Alternate interface languages include French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. (fulltext: 2003- ; digests: 1985-)
Environmental Policy Index: No account or password necessary.; Corresponds to the printed index, Environmental Periodicals Bibliography. Indexes scientific, technical and popular journals covering the range of environmental topics. (1972-)
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Bibliography | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This multidisciplinary database provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1981-)
ETDEWEB | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Includes more than 3,908,000 bibliographic records and more than 187,000 full text documents in the areas of energy R&D; energy policy and planning; basic sciences and materials research; the environmental impact of energy production and use, including climate change; energy conservation; nuclear, coal and fossil fuels; and renewable energy technologies.
Faculty of 1000 Biology: No account or password necessary.; Faculty of 1000 Biology is an online research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2300 selected leading researchers.
Federal Research in Progress | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Federal Research In Progress (FEDRIP) Database provides access to important information about ongoing federally funded projects in the physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. Project descriptions generally include: project title, keywords, start date, estimated completion date, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organizations, summary, and progress report. Record content varies depending on the source agency.
FirstSearch (Assistance in choosing a database) FirstSearch (Listing all available databases) (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; FirstSearch is a tool which provides access to a variety of databases, including: WorldCat, a combined catalog for over 15,000 libraries in over 45 countries. In addition, FirstSearch includes subject and special format indices. The information is updated daily.

GeoRef | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Contains references and selected abstracts to literature in geology, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. Corresponds to the publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and Bibliography and Index of Geology. (1785-)
Health and Safety Science Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, the journal provides a comprehensive survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1974-)
Health Source: Consumer Edition (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. (1975-)
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The definitive bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine. HST describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in these and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, plus partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07. (1976-)
Human Population and Natural Resource Management | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; This database explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1995-)

Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this journal. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1982- updated monthly)
INIS: International Nuclear Information System | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The International Nuclear Information System, INIS, is the leading information source for scientific and technical literature published worldwide on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. Currently contains over 2.8 million references with English abstracts from 1970 to the present.
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: No account or password necessary.; Searchable by author, citation, element, compound and a variety of other measures.
INSPEC Downloading to EndNote: Select Database from menu at upper left; Inspec provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. Sources include more than 3,500 journals and more than 1,500 conference proceedings, books and reports. (1898-)
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. (1980s-)
IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series Database | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; There are over 67,500 solubility measurements, compiled from 18 volumes of the IUPAC Solubility Data Series. There are about 1800 chemical substances in the database and 5200 systems, of which 473 have been critically evaluated. The database has over 1800 references.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Jane's provides exhaustive technical detail on over 950 civil and military aircraft currently being produced or under development by more than 550 companies. Each entry is omplete with photographs and line drawings to aid recognition and comparison.
Jane's Defense Magazines Library | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Jane's Defence Magazines Library brings together 10 Jane's products covering defence and security news and analysis. Titles include Defence Industry, Defence Weekly, Foreign Report, Intelligence Digest, Intelligence Review, International Defence Review, Islamic Affairs Analyst, Missiles and Rockets, Navy International, Terrorism and Security Monitor.
Journal Citation Reports: Guide; No account or password necessary.; Journal Citation Reports is published annually in two editions and allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. Searchable by subject category, publisher, country or specific journal title. Note, this resource does not have a humanities edition.
JSTOR | includes Full Text: Source List; No account or password necessary.; JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)
Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei -- Soviet Periodical Index: No account or password necessary.; "Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei [is] a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in publication since 1926, covers more than 1,700 journals, series, and continuing publications of academies, universities, and research institutes in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, and the social sciences, and it also covers the popular periodical literature. Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei provides access to the periodical literature of an essential time in modern Russian history, beginning with the period of the Khrushchev "Thaw" following the 20th CPSU Congress and continuing through the first half of the so-called Brezhnev "Period of Stagnation". Virtually any student or scholar studying Russian political science, literature, or history between 1956-1975 will find Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei to be an invaluable resource."
LexisNexis Environmental | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Includes environmental abstracts and selected full text, federal and state codes, case law, and waste site data.

Materials Business File | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1982-)
MathSciNet: No account or password necessary.; MathSciNet is based on the data in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Both bibliographic data and review texts are available from 1980-present. Bibliographic data is also available from 1940-1979. (1940-)
Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international engineering literature as well as numerous non-serial publications. Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author?s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1966-)
MedicLatina (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Medline (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Medline covers more than 4000 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Medline is prepared by the National Library of Medicine. (1985- updated monthly)
Medline with MESH (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals (1985- updated monthly)
METADEX | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys; their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Information from over 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings and books are indexed. METADEX is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index, and Alloys Index. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1966-)
Minabs: No account or password necessary.; Welcome to the online abstracts service from the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland. This service provides a research tool for those researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics.
National Information Standards Organization | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Provides indexing to, and fulltext PDF downloads of, NISO standards and technical reports. The site also provides access to standards in development, standards out for review, and NISO white papers.
National Science Digital Library | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; A web-based library of topical collections organized in support of science education and resource discovery at all levels. Formed in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Natural & Alternative Treatments (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Natural and Alternative Treatments database was originally created in 1997 to satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health. Subsequently, the database has been expanded, refined and updated. It currently consists of over 550 articles as follows: 219 on Herbs and Supplements, 185 on Conditions, 100 on Drug Interaction, 29 on Alternative Therapies and 33 on Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added as they appear.
Nature Precedings | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Nature Precedings is a free online service that enables researchers to rapidly share, discuss, and cite their early findings.
netLibrary (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Contains reference books, scholarly monographs, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. Rice University's private collection (emphasizing computing "how to" manuals, employment resources, and general reference titles) are available full text - as are thousands of titles purchased by the state library consortia, Texshare. In addition, fulltext access is available to hundreds of classic academic texts that are n the public (copyright) domain. See Webcat for specific titles (keyword="netlibrary").
New York Review of Books | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The electronic edition of the NYRB includes nearly every piece ever published in the Review, from the very first issue in 1963 to the most recent one. (1963 to date)
NTIS [National Technical Information Service]: No account or password necessary.; This database provides full descriptive summaries of more than 750,000 documents and other materials NTIS has received from U.S. Government agencies. It offers unparalleled bibliographic coverage of U.S. government and worldwide government-sponsored research. (1990-)

Pollution Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Covering broad scientific research pertaining to all forms of pollution including air, water, waste, radioactive material and toxic emissions, as well as land and noise. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean). (1990-)
Popline | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID). (1970-)
Proquest Science Journals | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; ProQuest Science Journals provides researchers with an impressive collection of scientific journals in full text and image formats. Publications included in the database cover a wide range of topics from both the physical and life science disciplines. Subjects covered include chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, transportation, astronomy, biology, earth science, and more. (1992-)
Proteome BioKnowledge Library First time users must register: No account or password necessary.; Incyte's BioKnowledge® Library is a collection of six database volumes, each containing fundamental biological information about proteins in different organisms, so scientists can quickly access information about proteins of interest. This information is hand-curated from the scientific literature and edited by experts in relevant biological disciplines.
PubMed | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources including the PubMed Central digital archive.
Recent Ornithological Literature Online: No account or password necessary.; Recent Ornithological Literature (ROL) is a serial compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to birds and the science of ornithology. The ROL deals chiefly with periodicals, but also announces new and renamed journals and provides abstracts of conference proceedings, reports, doctoral dissertations, and other serial publications.
Referex | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Referex Engineering is a specialized electronic reference product that draws upon hundreds of engineering book titles.
Risk Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Risk AbstractsJapanese and Korean). (1990-)

Safari Books (Selected Titles) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Safari Books Online, the premier e-reference library for programmers and IT professionals. Our subscription includes access to 130 titles, and 2 simultaneous users - *PLEASE REMEMBER TO LOG OUT*. Includes books from O'Reilly, Que, Adobe Press
Science and Technology Collection (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.
Science Citation Index see Web of Knowledge: No account or password necessary.
Science of Synthesis: No account or password necessary.; Science of Synthesis is an the new edition of the classic Houben–Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, which has been the first point of reference for organic and organometallic synthetic strategies since 1909.
Science's Next Wave: No account or password necessary.; Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The system provides access to a databases for jobs, grants, and salary info.
SciFinder Scholar Special software requirements. Accounts available for Rice University faculty, students and staff.: No account or password necessary.; SciFinder Scholar indexes the literature of chemistry, including journal articles, patents, substance data, chemical reactions, chemical regulatory data, and chemical suppliers. (1907-)
Scirus: No account or password necessary.; A freely accessible search engine, specializing in the science and engineering fields. Sponsored by Elsevier, the index covers a wide range of commercial and open-access journal publishers; technical reports; patents; archives of preprints and other materials; and educational, corporate, non-profit and government websites. (For help in identifying which journals are available online to Rice users, enter Search Preferences, select "Rice University" and click on "Enable" - you will see "Article available online?" next to citations in your search results. This will search the Fondren Ejournal Portal for availability.)
Scopus | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Indexes over 15,000 journals, as well as several million web pages and U.S. and international patents. Database include article citations from 1996, and permits citation tracking, and (both) saving searches and email or RSS alerts of new material. The system will export records into major citation managers and prepare a bibliography according to major formats. (1966 (pre-1966 for selected major publishers))
Selected RAND Abstracts: No account or password necessary.; RAND is a nonprofit public policy research institution providing analysis and research reports on such issues as national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies. For earlier materials, use the Index of Selected Publications of the RAND Corporation, 1946-1962 (Reference AS 36 .R33) (1963-)
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts provides global coverage on all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices - as well as the new high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology, now highlighted in every issue. Some of the topics covered are phase, crystal, and mechanical properties of solids, optical and dielectric properties, conductive and magnetic properties, exotic electronic structure and energy gaps, SQUIDs, impurity effects, flux structures and critical current, ceramics, twinning phenomena, and more. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). (1981-)
Sustainability Science Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Sustainability database explores the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base. This involves the maintenance of species diversity & genetic diversity within the species and protection of the habitat/ecosystem they rely upon. The economy also is an important aspect of Sustainability. (Alternative interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1995-)
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. The library and its lectures are organized by series. The Synthesis platform provides the user with access to content in PDF with live links to references and sophisticated search and personalization functions. (2005-)
ThomasNet: No account or password necessary.; ThomasNet contains thousands of client websites that incorporate online catalogs, CAD drawings and e-commerce capabilities. Leading resource for industrial buyers, to find the exact product, service or supplier they need.
Toxicology Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Toxicology Abstracts covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. Topics of current concern such as the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, and much more are extensively examined. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances are also covered. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean). (1981- updated monthly)
TOXLINE | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1991-)
Virtual Journal of Nanotechnology Environment, Health and Safety: No account or password necessary.; The Virtual Journal of Nanotechnology Environment, Health & Safety is a monthly journal that contains citations and links to articles that have appeared in a variety of traditional journals and that are related to the environment and health impacts of nanotechnology, with a particular emphasis on nanomaterials. (1969-)

Water Resources Abstracts | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Comprehensive coverage of water resources issues. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1981-)
Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))
WELDASEARCH | includes Full Text: No account or password necessary.; Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics. Every aspect of welding and allied processes is covered including design, metallurgy, fatigue and fracture mechanics, equipment for joining and cutting processes, corrosion, surfacing, micro joining, quality control, nondestructive testing, safety, commercial applications, market statistics and news of the industry. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1967-)
WorldCat (courtesy of Texshare) (via FirstSearch): No account or password necessary.; WorldCat is a combined catalog for over 18,000 libraries worldwide. The information is updated daily. [See also Worldcat.org which presents the same data with an interface similar to familiar search engines, and which is freely available to any internet user.]
WorldWideScience.org: No account or password necessary.; A prototype for a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. Developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy, it accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.
Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB): No account or password necessary.; ZDB is the largest database of periodicals and serials in the world. It contains over 1,2 million titles in all languages, published from 1500 to the present day. Electronic editions of periodicals are also included. In addition, ZDB lists over 6 million holdings of these titles in 4,300 German libraries.
Zentralblatt Math: No account or password necessary.; Zentralblatt MATH - Database Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The MATH Database contains more than 1.8 million entries drawn from more than 3000 serials and journals. The entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme (MSC).