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- contains a significant amount of Canadian content
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Academic Search Premier
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to a large multi-disciplinary database of more than 3900 magazines, journals, newspapers and trade publications.
Access Science - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
(McGraw-Hill Technologies) Provides science & technology encyclopaedic entries, including recent research developments, biographies of scientists, and late-breaking science and technology news.
Aerospace and High Technology Canadian content
(CSA) Provides access to citations, abstracts of journal articles covering basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics and space science.
Applied Science and Technology Plus
(H.W.Wilson) Provides comprehensive research, trade and news information in all areas of applied science and technology.
CISTI Journals (Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) Open Access databaseCanadian content
(National Research Council (NRC)) Provides access to journals published by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.
Computer Database
(Gale Group) Provides access to research, reviews and career information pertaining to the telecommunication, electronic, IT and robotic industries.
CRC Environetbase
(CRC Press LLC) A collection of electronic handbooks focusing on environmental sciences and engineering.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
(CRC Press LLC) Provides access to the most frequently used data in science, including the periodic table of the elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data.
Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques
(Wiley Interscience) A compilation of life science laboratory research procedures, protocols, and techniques of use to chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, and bioinformatics students and researchers.
e-CPS - Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties Canadian content
(Canadian Pharmacists Association) e-CPS is the online edition of the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS). It contains information on proprietary and nonproprietary Canadian drugs for both medical specialists and patients. It also provides links to Health Canada advisories.
Environmental Issues and Policy eCollection
(Gale Group) Provides access to comprehensive coverage of environmental topics from the perspective of the scientific community, governmental policy makers and corporate interests.
General Science eCollection
(Gale Group) Provides access to a wide range of articles in science related fields.
GreenFILE
(EBSCO Publishing) Provides access to 295,000+ abstracts and citations of scholarly, government and general interest articles covering environmental issues, with an additional 4600+ Open Source documents.
HighWire Press Open Access database
(Stanford University Libraries) Provides access to a 4,111,711 full text articles from 1014 journals; 1,590,857 articles are freely available.
IEEE (ASPP)
(IEEE) Provides access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
Information Science and Technology eCollection
(Gale Group) Provides access to a collection of articles covering such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures and more.
Knovel Handbooks: Handbook of Critical Tables Open Access database
(Knovel) Provides access to tables of physical (21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, pure substances), solvent (385 solvents), and thermodynamic (have 500 compounds) properties.
Knovel Handbooks: International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology Open Access database
(Knovel) Provides access to 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers.
Knovel Handbooks: Smithsonian Physical Tables Open Access database
(Knovel) Provides access to 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers and physicists.
Merck Index Online
(Merck and Co., Inc and CambridgeSoft) Provides information on chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products.
MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) Plus CHEMINFO (CCINFO Web) Canadian content
(Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety) Provides information on issues pertaining to various chemical substances as well as occupational health and safety.
National Academies Press Digital Library Open Access database
(National Academy Press Publications) Provides access to a multidisciplinary digital library of book length studies and policy reports by leading experts in their fields.
NFPA Codes Online
(National Fire Protection Association) Provides users with electronic access to the complete set of nearly 300 National Fires Codes.
OneFile
(Gale Group) Provides access to a large multidisciplinary collection of more than 6000 books, magazines, journals, newspapers and trade publications.
ProQuest Science Journals
(ProQuest Information and Learning) Provides full-text access to a wide range of science and engineering journals, trade publications and news magazines.
Science Direct
(Elsevier) Provides users with access to a wide range of journal articles in science-related fields such as: agriculture, arts, chemistry, biology, business, health, psychology, materials science, engineering & technology, and more.
USP-NF Online -- In-library access only -- (Seneca@York only. Please contact reference / library staff to obtain access)
(USP) Provides the latest U.S. FDA standards of identity, strength, quality, and purity for prescription and non-prescription drug ingredients and dosage forms, dietary supplements, medical devices and other healthcare products.
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