SCIENCE AND SEARCHING SOURCES AT NYU

The science reference center at NYU offers a boggling selection of online science journals. There are also excellent sources for searches. You may need to use your dialup account or an NYU computer so that you will be recognized as part of the NYU network.

This page offers a listing of 1400 science, health and technologyjournals available at the Coles Science Reference Center in NYU's Bobst Library.

Try Science Citation to check the number of articles of a source, and how many times that author has been cited.  The more citations, the more respected and influential your source.

OSTI offers journal sources in science.

Wilson Select offers articles in the humanities and sciences, allows searching for book and article listings, and tells you whether NYU carries a given journal that comes up in your search.

At the NYU medical library you will find online tutorials for searching Medline and PubMed.

You can also sign up for full-text access to 85 journals, including many of the major medical journals, such as JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, via OVID at NYU.  You must have a dialup account to access from home, or use a computer on the NYU network. OVID offers 400 Ovid full text journals and the capability to link to the library's large non-Ovid full text collections; EMBASE: a biomedical database with emphasis on drugs, alternative medicine, psychiatry, forensics and European publications that complements MEDLINE.; Biological Abstracts, a resource for basic science research and conference papers; Multi-database searching; daily updates of MEDLINE. Using OVID is intuitive, but a tutorial is available online.

Another service MdConsult, a for-pay site for physicians which offers access to over 36 medical texts, 46 journals, drug information, and daily medical updates. Register at Ehrman Medical Library, and you will be given a password and immediately be able to access MdConsult with your dialup account from anywhere. For those of you who are interested in health and medicine, take advantage of these services: you won’t have the same privilege once you graduate!

A social sciences database is available here.

Bobst offers searchable databases of newspaper abstracts here, via ProQuest. You’ll find searchable databases of newspaper abstracts (click on “web”), the New York Times, periodical abstracts, Lexis-Nexis and more. I use this frequently.

The Coles Science Center (Ref9) supplies eligible NYU faculty and graduate students (NYU, New School, Parsons) with urgently needed articles that are not available at Bobst Library, the Ehrman Medical Library or at any other NYU or consortium library. You can verify availability by checking the following catalogs: BobCat / BobCatPlus, MedCat and Julius. To request a document, consult with a staff member during reference hours at the Science Reference Desk Bobst 9th floor.

NYU has a page of chemistry resources.

Here is a page of physical science resources and databases.