Finding & Linking to Full-Text Journal Contents 
The majority of Hunter's science, mathematics, statistics, and computing journals are renewed as ONLINE ONLY subscriptions. Wherever possible, Hunter purchases online access to journals as aggregated collections through providers such as Elsevier's ScienceDirect or Wiley's Interscience or through scientific societies such as the American Chemical Society or the American Society for Microbiology. The key index to Hunter's full-text journal titles is:

Electronic Journals Available at Hunter
A complete listing of full-text journal titles available to Hunter users.

Full-Text Journal Providers

All Hunter's full-text articles are currently provided through the Web. Unless otherwise specified, users need to have a Hunter email account for full-text privileges on off-campus computers. A proxy account is no longer needed for access.
  

American Society for Microbiology 
     http://journals.asm.org/
Hunter's subscription is limited to these four titles: Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Virology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. Backfile coverage to January 1992.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.

BioMed Central
     http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an independent journal publishing enterprise with a portfolio of over 100 journals ranging from highly selective, general interest journals to a range of specialist online-only journals. Its journal list links to full-text copies of articles.
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource. 
 

    EBSCO Online
     http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/Reader.asp
The EBSCO Online service provides over 500 journal title links, but only a portion of these links connect to full-text articles. Some full-text options for science society journals (e.g. RSC) are available directly from the society and through EBSCO Online. In these cases, access to back issues is greater through the individual society's Web site.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.
 

EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier
    http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web
"EBSCOHost" is a suite of databases that share EBSCO's common search system. Academic Search Premier is the cross-disciplinary database containing links to many full-text magazine and journal articles. To check for full-text, first retrieve the article using the search form, then look for the full-text link. Download, E-mail, and PDF options available. NOTE: Certain publishers impose embargoes upon the most recent year or years' worth of journal issues. This creates online access lags to EBSCO subscribers.
     Location - Any  campus network station.
     Access - CUNY's EBSCO Subscription - Full Text for many (not all) titles.

  High Wire Press
     http://highwire.stanford.edu
This is a free search service, but full-text article retrieval is mostly limited to back issues or to trial offers. A titles table is available at http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl. Subscription services are available (Hunter is *not* a subscriber). Hosted by Stanford University. 
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Index.  Full-text articles available to journals that are Hunter subscriptions or that are made available by permission of the publisher.
 

JSTOR
     http://www.jstor.org
JSTOR is an independent electronic archives service that stores backfiles for journals, transactions, and proceedings from a wide range of subjects including math, statistics, and general science. Caveat emptor: Journals in JSTOR are mostly 3 years behind the most current issue. For complete coverage information on General Science JSTOR titles, see http://www.jstor.org/about/gscontent.html. Any CUNY systems user may search the JSTOR files directly. In addition, Hunter users will find links to JSTOR files inside MathSciNet citations. Back issues of Science (Vols.1-270, 1895-1995) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vols. 1-95, 1915-1998) may be found in these archives.

Faculty take note: A Citation Linking Tool is now available for JSTOR articles. This allows for creating links from an online syllabus or coursepack to the articles. Directions are found at http://makealink.jstor.org/public/linking.individual.html.
     Location - Any CUNY campus network station.
     Access - CUNY consortium Subscription.
 

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
     http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Free and unrestricted access to journals, conference proceedings, and books in astronomy and astrophysics. Documents can be located through search query screens (by entering journal, volume, and page number), through the table of contents service, or using the abstract service. Users may set viewing and printing preferences as PDF, etc. and may download documents. Links to other related archives are an added feature.
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource. 
 

  Nature
     http://www.nature.com/nature/
Full text articles may be viewed as HTML or PDF files.  The current issue is a link from the homepage, and a "Search" form allows keyword, author, title, abstract, or volume/issue searches. Backfile coverage to June 1997. This subscription *does not* include access to Nature Neuroscience or the other Nature Publishing Group journals.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription.
 

NIST Virtual Library: Electronic Journals
      http://nvl.nist.gov/nvl3.cfm?dynamic=database&typeid=3&s_id=112
Free journals, some with back issues, categorized into these subjects: Biosciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Government, Library and Information Science, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics, Science (General), and Technology. 
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource. 
 

Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS)
     http://ojps.aip.org/
This searchable publisher's site pulls together into one continuous alphabetical listing journals from the American Institute of Physics, the American Physics Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Optical Society of America. The American Institute of Physics maintains a separate depository for multimedia files called Electronic Physics Auxiliary Publication Service (EPAPS). This service may be used by AIP contributors who wish to send files such as movie files, audio files, animated gifs, or 3D rendering files to accompany the text of their articles and by AIP readers who wish to retrieve these files. Prominent links to EPAPS/Multimedia are displayed in the list of references within the AIP's online journal articles.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for any title from one of the four Society's above.


  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
     http://www.pnas.org/
Backfile coverage to this title minus current 3 years is available through JSTOR; free coverage from 2003 to 6 months from current issue available from PubMed Central. Direct online full-text subscription will continue as of 2005.
   

PubMed Central
      http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. The journals in the archive are a mixture of open access titles (back issues and immediate current issues are completely free) while other publishers place restrictions on their free access. All BioMed Central publications are included.
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource.
   

  Science Online
     http://www.sciencemag.org/
Full text articles may be viewed as HTML or PDF files.  The current issue is a link from the homepage, and a "Search" tab  leads to a  search form (which also displays a "Browse" tab). Issues prior to October 1995 do not have have tables of contents only. Older issues are available through JSTOR.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription.
 

ScienceDirect
     http://www.sciencedirect.com
A long list of journals from Elsevier. Always use the group-wide login page as the entry point to the collection. 
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - CUNY consortium Subscription - Full Text for titles displaying the green "document" icon.
 

Science.gov
      http://www.science.gov/
A gateway to government information from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the Interior; plus literature maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Users may locate information in this network (of federal web sites, reports, citations, and fact sheets) by entering search words or by browsing through categorized lists.
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource.
 

Scirus
     http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/vdent/orsem/voiladevelopment/test.html
A science search engine that scans millions of Web pages, pre-print servers, and "controlled" (scubscription-only) journal collections. Underwritten by Elsevier.
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Index.  Full-text articles available to journals that are Hunter subscriptions or that are made available by permission of the publisher.
 

Society for General Microbiology
     http://www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/publicat.htm
The Society publishes three distinguished journals of international repute and Hunter College users have access to two of these publications, Microbiology (full-text, January 1997 onwards) and Journal of General Virology (archived issues back to 1967, full-text articles from 1999 to current).
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.

 Wiley Interscience
     http://www.interscience.wiley.com/
Journals from Wiley, many in the sciences, are part of this online library.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - CUNY consortium Subscription -  Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.
 
 

Citation and Abstract Databases

ArticleFirst
An index (no abstracts) of articles by title, taken from the contents pages of  a variety of journals in the sciences and social sciences, medicine, technology, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
     Location - Any  campus network station
     Access - HUNTER FirstSearch Subscription.


General Science Abstracts/Full Text
The GS Abstracts database, 1984 - present, contains bibliographic references from astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology periodicals.
The GS Full Text subset includes fewer journals, but covers the same range of subjects. A list of the GS full-text titles (and their start dates) appears on the H.W. Wilson search site at http://www.hwwilson.com/journals/fgsi.HTM.
     Location - Any  campus network station.
     Access - CUNY WilsonWeb Subscription
   

MEDLINE, full coverage

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ 
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s free access to the MEDLINE database which indexes more than 10 million articles from more than 4000 biomedical journals dating back to1966.  Inside PubMed records, the links  to the full-text articles will connect without a password ONLY if Hunter or CUNY hold electronic subscriptions to that journal, and off-campus users need a Hunter email account to open those full-text files.
Location - Any computer with Internet access.
Access - Free Web Resource - uses NCBI's Entrez search system.

EBSCO's MEDLINE
Scope and coverage is identical to what PubMed offers, but searchers must follow the EBSCO search system's rules. This version contains easy-to-locate download and e-mail features.
Location - Any computer with Internet access.
Access - CUNY EBSCO Subscription.
Enter library barcode digits (no spaces) from campus I.D. for off-campus login. Proxy server account needed to view subscriptions such as Hunter-only (e.g. Project Muse or RSC journals) or CUNY-consortium subscriptions to aggregates (e.g. JSTOR, Wiley Interscience, ScienceDirect).

PapersFirst
This index contains citations only (no abstracts) for subjects covered at professional meetings.
     Location - Any  campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER FirstSearch Subscription. 
 

Physics Abstracts
Science Abstracts Series A, published by The Institute of Electrical Engineers.
     Location - Wexler Library
     Access - Print issues, 1948-2001; For information on online physics literature searching, contact the Hunter College Science Librarian.
 

Proceedings
This index contains citations only (no abstracts) taken from conferences, congresses, symposia, exhibitions, meetings, and workshops.
    Location - Any  campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER FirstSearch Subscription.
 

  Science Citation Index
Online version of ISI's printed index.
     Location - Wexler Library
     Access - Print issues, 1955-1991; To request a mediated search on the online version of SCI, contact the Hunter College Science Librarian.

Library Catalogs

CUNYPlus
Use this catalog to check Hunter and all CUNY campus libraries' holdings. 

National Library of Medicine's LOCATORplus
Use this catalog to check for books, journals, and audiovisuals in the National Library of Medicine collection.

New York Public Library's Research Catalog
Use this catalog to check the holdings for all NYPL's research libraries. NYPL's Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) subscribes to a large number of science journals.

New York Academy of Medicine's Catalog
Use this catalog to check the holdings for the Academy's biomedical journal collection.

WorldCat
This international catalog of library catalogs helps locate works not owned by CUNY, supplying full bibliographic information and names of owning libraries.
     Location - Any CUNY campus network station.
     Access - CUNY consortium FirstSearch Subscription
 
 

Grant & Research Opportunities

FYI Online
     http://rgp.ufl.edu/fyi/
University of Florida's research and graduate opportunities alert pages which contain links to funding agencies and free access to UF's bi-monthly publication, FYI Digest Newsletter.
 

National Science Foundation Overview of Grants and Awards
The starting page with links to grant opportunities, proposal forms/preparation guidelines, publications, etc. Search and Site Map pages help scientists find specific information.
 

For technology and education related opportunities:

AT&T Foundation
      http://www.att.com/foundation
 

Carnegie Corporation of New York
      http://www.carnegie.org/
 

The Grantsmanship Center
      http://www.tgci.com/

 

Publishing Alliances

BioMed Central
     http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Access to the research published in BioMed Central's journals is free and indexed in MEDLINE. View the BMC list at http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/ or at the National Institute of Health's electronic depository of full text articles http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov.
 

Project Euclid
     http://projecteuclid.org
A collaborative partnership between Cornell University and SPARC that allows campus-based publishers of mathematical journals to join forces. Like SPARC, participants are committed to maintaining intellectual and economic independence and low subscription rates.
 

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
     http://www.arl.org/sparc
An alliance of universities and research libraries formed to encourage and support publishing initiatives and partnerships, especially in the science, technical, and medical (STM) fields where journal prices are highest and competition is needed most. SPARC members come from approximately 200 institutions, library consortia, and affiliated organizations in North America, the U.K., continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. 
 
 

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