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AccessScienceThis link opens in a new windowAccess to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology from Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Annual ReviewsThis link opens in a new windowCollection of critical reviews written by leading scientists in 40 disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)This link opens in a new windowOnline peer-reviewed journal devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system, and the publication of biological research in a video format.We have a subscription to JoVE Biology and JoVE Neuroscience, as well as the Chemistry Education section.
JSTORThis link opens in a new windowMore than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources
MEDLINE (ProQuest)This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 4,600 journals in the medical and health sciences. Links to full-text where available.
MEDLINE (PubMed)This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's free version of Medline
Web of ScienceThis link opens in a new windowWeb of Science, a database that provides quick and powerful access to the world's leading citation databases and sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities research content. (Includes: Biosis Citation Index, Currents Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE, SciELO Citation Index, Zoological Record, and the Web of Science Core Collection: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.)
Free to all Drake faculty, staff, and students. If there are books, book chapters, or articles that we don't have access to at Cowles, we can almost always get access to these items via another library. Order your items through Interlibrary Loan.