Research Guides: Chemistry: Databases/Articles

Science Databases

Science in Context (Gale)
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Covering a wide range of science, math, health, and technology topics, this database contains full text articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines and reference books as well as experiments, images, videos, and audio files.
SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
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The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Science and Technology Collection (EBSCO)
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The Science & Technology Collection contains full text journals covering topics such as: aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition (Elsevier)
ScienceDirect College Edition provides online full text access back to 1995 for over 1000 journal titles in the Health and Life Sciences subject areas.
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
GreenFILE offers a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
AGRICOLA (EBSCO)
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AGRICOLA contains the records of the National Agricultural Library through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This database has over 5 million records related to agricultural topics.

Search for Articles with Google Scholar

You can customize Google Scholar to link to full text articles from MCC Library collections....

Go to https://scholar.google.com/
Click the horizontal lines in the left corner next to the Google Scholar logo (Chrome browser) or next to My profile.
Click Settings and then Library links
Type MCC Library and hit enter
Deselect any other libraries and check the box next to MCC Library - Full-Text @ MCC Library
Click Save
Enter your article search

Click the Full-Text @ MCC Library beside the article to access it. For search results where there is no link for the MCC Library, you may get some free full text from the publisher or be asked to purchase the article.

News and Newspaper Databases

ProQuest Global Newsstream (formerly ProQuest Newsstand)
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
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Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts.
NewsBank Full Text Texas Newspapers
The full-text electronic editions of record for major Texas newspapers - single titles or all titles can be searched at once. The database includes the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Biography Databases

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson/EBSCO)
Biography database has 500,000 combined the in-depth, original profiles including: full-text articles, page images, and abstracts.

Database Help

Database Help Guide
Having trouble searching the databases or finding scholarly (peer reviewed) articles? The database help page will give you video tutorials, search tips and answer common questions about database problems.
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