Databases/Indexes/Journals
A directory of searchable document collections

Finding & Linking to Full-Text Journal Contents
Full-Text Journal Providers
Citation and Abstract Databases
Library Catalogs
Grant & Research Opportunities
Publishing Alliances
Science CD-ROM's
 

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
http://nf2mz4sp4b.search.serialssolutions.com/
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 a Proxy Server account for full-text privileges on off-campus computers.
 

ACM Digital Library
     http://www.acm.org/dl
Search back issues starting with volume 1 of each ACM title, Conference Proceedings going back 15 years, and the SIG Newsletters stored back to 1947.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription -  Full Text for all titles.
 

Acoustical Society of America
          see Online Journal Publishing Service
 

American Chemical Society (ACS)
     http://pubs.acs.org/
A complete list of ACS online titles appears on the ACS "Journals and Magazines" Web page at: http://pubs.acs.org/about.html. Clicking on a title from this list links directly to the "Web Edition" of that particular journal, where a "back issues" button allows scanning previous issues by date. To go directly to an article, use the "search the journals" form which has a link from the ACS homepage and from each journal's opening index page. ACS Web editions now offer Cross Journal Searching for subscribers and Table of Contents Alerts in addition to ASAP Alerts free to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. 
     Location - Any CUNY campus network station.
     Access - CUNY Subscription -  Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.
 

American Physical Society (APS)
     http://www.aps.org/
Links to APS online titles appear on the "APS Research Journals" Web page at: http://publish.aps.org/. These title links connect to each individual journal's home page, and from this page, use the "Recent and Future Issues" search form to locate specific articles. APS has created a separate online archive called PROLA and the Library of Congress has agreed to be the backup archive for the PROLA collection. APS journals are also included in the Online Journal Publishing Service.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription -  - Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.
 

American Institute of Physics (AIP)
          see Online Journal Publishing Service
 

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.
 

arXiv.org e-Print archive
     http://xxx.lanl.gov/
A free archive of research papers, both original works and reprints submitted by the authors, covering physics and related disciplines of mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, computer science, and neuroscience. Contributors and users may communicate with the archives server via the Web, e-mail, or ftp. Automated features allow users to register for e-mail alerts, etc. The Help link displays a table of contents with links to information on how to take full advantage of the site. Established in 1991 with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy. 
     Location - Any computer with Internet access.
     Access - Free Web Resource. 
 
 

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. 
 
 

  Chemistry Preprint Server
     http://www.chemweb.com/preprint
A free, and relatively new, permanent chemistry research-article preprint service. The service is supported and powered by ChemWeb.com. Users must be a ChemWeb.com member, but registration is free and easy. Go to http://preprint.chemweb.com and click on "Join." 
     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.
 

  Institute of Physics Online Journals
      http://www.iop.org/EJ
The IoP's opening page displays the links to all journals to which CUNY's participating campuses have full-text privileges along with a "Content Finder" search box which allows the user to go directly to an issue or an article.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - CUNY consortium Subscription - Full Text for titles listed on the opening page.
 

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.
 

MathSciNet
     http://www.ams.org/mathscinet
This is the American Mathematical Society's online database which provides indexing to 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and to Current Mathematical Publications, 1940 to the present. Citations cover nearly 200 journals and many of these sources link to the journals' websites. An alphabetical list of MathSciNet journals is at  http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/journal-list.html. Through a separate subscription to the JSTOR journal archive, MathSciNet users will find links to the full text of back issues for select titles. 
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - - Full Text for AMS and JSTOR titles.
 

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. 
 

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
     http://www.osti.gov
OSTI operates under the Department of Energy (DOE) and describes itself as the government office which leads electronic initiatives for disseminating information resulting from DOE research and development. OSTI document collections are now searchable through the Science.gov gateway. Listed below are three OSTI services:

DOE Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge
Collection of full-text scientific/technological reports. Free access.

PrePRINT Network
http://www.osti.gov/preprint
Preprint servers of all sizes, including personal directories of scientific writers, are searched through this "gateway" (i.e. users may search more than one server with a single query). Free access.

GrayLit Network
http://www.osti.gov/graylit
Portal to federal technical reports (gray literature) contributed to the collection by DOE, DOD, EPA, and NASA. Free access.


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.
 

Optical Society of America
          see Online Journal Publishing Service (above)
 

PrePRINT Network
          see Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

  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.
 
 

  Project Muse
     http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
Project Muse is an online collection of full-text journal issues published through university presses such as Johns Hopkins University Press. The collection's journals which relate to mathematics and science topics include American Journal of Mathematics, Technology and Culture, Configurations (Society for Literature and Science), and  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for all titles.
 

PubScience
          see Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 
 

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.
 
 

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
     http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/ejs.htm
Journal titles are listed on the Online Journals page. First, use the title link to display the page showing the desired journal. Then, use the CURRENT ISSUE, AVAILABLE ISSUES, or SEARCH buttons on that page to locate specific articles.
     Location - Any HUNTER campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER Subscription - Full Text for negotiated (not all) titles.
 

  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.
 

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
     http://www.siam.org/nnindex.htm
Hunter College users have access to two of the nine SIAM research journals, SIAM Journal on Computing and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
     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

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (ASTA)
Spans chemistry, engineering, computer technology, mathematics, data processing, physics, and energy-related disciplines in scope and covers trade information in the form of interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, new products, conference proceedings, etc.
     Location - Any campus network station.
     Access - CUNY FirstSearch Subscription

 

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
 

GEOBASE
This database brings together all citations from Human Geography Abstracts, Physical Geography Abstracts, Geomechanics Abstracts, Ecological Abstracts, International Development Abstracts, and Geological Abstracts. Over 800,000 records represent journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports from the geosciences. Its subject scope covers geography, geology, ecology, environment, climatology, cartography, and the more specialized areas in the geosciences such as hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, and more.
     Location - Any  campus network station --> Hunter 's Licensed Resources Page.
     Access - HUNTER FirstSearch Subscription

GeoREF
GeoRef is the American Geological Institute's online database. Its bibliographic records represent geoscience publications from North America since 1785 and from other areas of the world since 1933. The database is the equivalent of  these printed indices: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology, plus additional items from special-request resources.
      Location - Any  campus network station.
     Access - HUNTER 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.

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 (Web of Science)
Online version of ISI's printed index, 1981-present.
     Location - Any campus network station
     Access - Hunter Subscription

Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN)
     http://ojps.aip.org/spinweb
Searches the scientific journals and conference proceedings of the American Institute of Physics and its member societies (including the American Physical Society). 
      Location - links through the HUNTER OJPS  Subscription.
     Access - Full Text for Hunter subscription titles only

SLAC SPIRES HEP Database
     http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/
From the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a national laboratory operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy.  It "searches more than 415,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, received by the SLAC and/or DESY [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron] libraries since 1974."
 

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 - Enter library barcode digits (no spaces) from campus I.D. for off-campus login.
 
 

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
      http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm
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. 
 
 

Science CD-ROMs

EarthInfo (numerical data sets)
Contains monthly temperature, precipitation, and sea level pressure data from over 30,000 climate-monitoring stations worldwide. Data categories are WMO Region/Continent, Country, Station Metadata, Parameter/Dataset Index, and Monthly Data.
      Location - Hunter Main, Reference area, CD-ROM station.
     Access - Obtain the CD-ROM disk and instructions for start-up at the Reference desk.

Methods in Enzymology (index to the series)
Use a keyword, title words, or contributor name to search contents from Volumes 1-275 (1955-1996) of the Methods in Enzymology series.
      Location - Hunter Main, Reference area, CD-ROM station.
     Access - Obtain the CD-ROM disk and instructions for start-up at the Reference desk.
 
 

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