Science Fair: Resources

These databases consist of mostly reference articles and news articles published and some scholarly articles. Access the passwords for these databases* here.

• Britannica School* 
• Gale Ebooks* 
• Gale Environmental Studies* 
• Gale Health & Wellness* 
• Gale Science* 
• Science Buddies - Science project ideas
• Science News
• World Book*

FYI - New York Times and Washington Post science sections come out on Tuesdays and are available via Gale OneFile: News.

These resources should be used in addition to the general and scholarly databases listed above. Access the passwords for these databases* here.

• EBSCO Environment Complete*
• GeoScienceWorld: A geoscience database. We don't have full access, but you can still search and read abstracts. Talk to Dr. Kruckenberg if there is an article you would to read from here. 
• EarthArXiv: A preprint server for geoscience.
• ESSOAr: A community server established to accelerate the open discovery and dissemination of Earth and space science early research outputs, including preprints and posters presented at major scientific meetings.
• Ideas from various geosystems websites:
  • American Geosciences Institute
  • Earth and Science Projects

• American Physical Society Journals - Various physics journals. Available for on-campus access.
• arXiv.org: Open-access archive for scholarly articles in various fields, including physics

These databases contain peer-reviewed articles published by researchers. Check out this Anatomy of a Scholarly Article to understand what a scholarly journal article looks like. Access the passwords for these databases* here.

• DOAJ - Articles from open access journals
• EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection*
• Gale Academic OneFile*
• Gale Environmental Studies*^ 
• Gale Science*^
• Google Scholar - Articles not available may be accessible through another database/repository.
• ​PubMed Central - Free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine 

^Limit your results to only academic journals.

These resources should be used in addition to the general and scholarly databases listed above. 

• Chemistry LibreTexts - Open-access chemistry textbooks
• ChemSpider - Chemical structures and associated property information
• NIST Chemistry WebBook - Chemical, physical and thermodynamic properties of chemical compounds. Use this guide to navigate this database.
• ACS Central Science - Primary reports on research in chemistry and in allied fields, wherein chemical approaches play a key role. It is also the first fully open access journal published by the American Chemical Society