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American Men and Women of Science Online. New York: Bowker, 1989-.
An electronic database providing biographical information about living scientists. This database, searchable by name or discipline, provides profiles of more than 119,000 scientists and engineers in 10 disciplines and 190 subdisciplines. This work is also available in a print version, American Men and Women of Science, a publication that began in 1906 as American Men of Science.
General Science Index. New York: Wilson, 1984-.
An electronic index designed for the nonspecialist and covering about 190 major research publications and popular science magazines. The index offers bibliographic citations. To access descriptive abstracts, see the General Science Abstracts database; for the full texts of selected publications, see the General Science Full Text database (both databases are also published by Wilson). The General Science Index is also available in print, with coverage beginning in 1978.
The Web of Science. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1961-.
An interdisciplinary index to more than 8,000 scholarly journals. The index, updated weekly, provides bibliographic citations and descriptive abstracts (no full-text articles). It allows users to find out who has cited a particular work (in the bibliographies of other publications), an efficient way to trace the importance of a piece of research. This index is available in print as the Science Citation Index, with coverage beginning in 1961.
EurekAlert.A regularly updated source for information about research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology. The site includes links to other science sites, access to databases, and a searchable archive of news releases. Content for the site is screened by an advisory committee of journalists and public information specialists. The site is maintained by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general science organization.
http://www.eurekalert.org
Breakthroughs: A Chronology of Great Achievements in Science and Mathematics, 1200-1930. By Claire L. Parkinson. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
Organized by year, a handy guide to the historical period and context of major discoveries in science and mathematics.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 14 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1970-2000. With supplements.
Profiles scientists from early to modern times, considering both their lives and technical aspects of their work. Each biography is followed by a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. 8th ed. 20 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Offers concise, up-to-date definitions of technical terms beyond those found in a standard dictionary.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
A specialized encyclopedia covering scientific topics in detail. Technical discussions are fully illustrated with charts, diagrams, and photographs. This work is available in electronic format as The McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, release 2.0.
