National Inventors Month: Databases (August)
How was electricity invented? What is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Why did web 2.0 come about? Will there be a Third Life? Where’s the cure for cancer? Reflect on these and other questions as we usher in August as National Inventors Month and feature resources that promote understanding of innovation in science, technology, health, and medicine.
Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc. Try searching under “inventions” and “education” and you’ll uncover a smorgasbord of entries, including those that reflect on education as a multidimensional technology or production system.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles. Full Text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Subjects include: acoustics, aeronautics, applied mathematics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric sciences, automatic control, automotive engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, communication and information technology, computer databases and software, construction, electrical and electronic engineering, engineering and biomedical materials, energy resources and research, environmental engineering, fire and fire prevention, food and food industry, geology, industrial engineering, machine learning, machinery, marine technology, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mineralogy, mining engineering, neural networks, nuclear engineering, oceanography, optical and neural computing, petroleum and gas, physics, plastics, robotics, solid state technology, space science, textile industry and fabrics, transportation, waste management, other industrial and mechanical arts, with full text from 1997 onwards.
ERIC is the database of the Educational Resources Information Center is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature through two main parts: Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs from 1966 to the present, with full text ERIC documents available online from 1993 and up. Tip: search under “inventor” or “inventors” to see classroom applications and across all subject areas.
General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. General Science Full Text covers such subjects as astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
JStor offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. With 112 titles, JStor Arts and Sciences Collection (IV) provides a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration.
JStor Health and General Science Collection features important historical scientific journals and seminal publications in the health sciences, and it offers published scientific research from as far back as 1665. The collection includes publications of the Royal Society of London, which extend back to the seventeenth century, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which dates from the early twentieth century. A cluster of titles in nursing and epidemiology is also available through the Health and General Sciences Collection today.
Medline provides the latest scholarly articles on innovations in medicine. It is a database produced by the National Library of Medicine that indexes biomedical literature from 1966 to the present. Areas covered include microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, environmental health anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care.
Proquest offers full text articles from several thousand magazines, journals, newspapers and other sources covering many subjects, including accounting, business, education, multidisciplinary, news, psychology, and the social sciences. An aggregated database like Academic Search Premier, it contains interesting information about invention and innovation from a variety of perspectives.
