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 Agricola
Bibliography of the US National Agricultural Library. |
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Agris
FAO bibliography of international agricultural literature. |
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CAB Abstracts
Agriculture and forestry, chemistry, nutrition, food technology and science, medicinal plants and pharmacology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, tourism, etc. |
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EI Compendex Plus
Electronic edition of the Engineering Index: Mechanical engineering, construction, electrical engineering, light and optics, computers, communication, applied physics, biotechnology, aviation and astronautics, etc. |
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Espacenet
Patents: Espacenet, the database of the European Patent Office, contains patent information (original documents including illustrations) from 72 countries and regions. |
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Inspec
Published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE): Physics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology as well as interdisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Geophysics, Biomedical and Material Sciences. |
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Journal Citation Reports
Provides information on academic journals, such as the impact factor, as a measure to assess the significance of a publication. |
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JSTOR Plant Science
Database with information on plants: plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scienctific literature, illustrations, etc. |
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LexisNexis - deutsche Suchoberfläche
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, Washington Post, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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LexisNexis - interface française
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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Medline (CSA)
Database of the National Library of Medicine (USA): clinical medicine, anatomy and physiology, dentistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutics, psychiatry and psychology, healthcare. |
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Medline (OvidSP)
Database of the National Library of Medicine (USA): clinical medicine, anatomy and physiology, dentistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutics, psychiatry and psychology, healthcare. |
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NZZ Online
Archive of the NZZ from 1993 to the present and the NZZ am Sonntag from 2002 to the present. |
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OECDiLibrary
The Swiss Fachhochschulen have a subscription to the OECD Statistics, Books & Periodicals, such as OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Journal. |
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Perinorm
Information on important national and international norms.Please request user name and password in your library. |
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SpringerMaterials - The Landolt-Börnstein Database
Most important source for data in the fields of physics, chemistry and material science. Contains 91'000 documents with 165'000 chemical substances, 3'000 product characteristics and one million bibliographic references from scientific journals. |
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Web of Knowledge
Search interface for Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Under "additional resources" access to: ISI Highly-cited.com, BiologyBrowser, Index to Organism Names, etc. and the search engine "Thomson Scientific WebPlus". |
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Web of Science
Multidispiplinary database including the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index (with economics) and Arts&Humanities Citation Index (with architecture). Cited reference search. |
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Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Pure and applied mathematics (mechanics, physics, economics, biology, chemistry, information technology, communications, operations research, statistics, etc.) |
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| Reference books |
A Dictionary of Biology |
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A Dictionary of Chemistry |
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A Dictionary of Ecology |
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation |
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition |
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A Dictionary of Genetics |
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences |
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A Dictionary of Zoology |
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An A-Z of Food and Drink |
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An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs |
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Brockhaus and Duden
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus Duden. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Internet Dictionary. |
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Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
Information about polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers and polymerization processes. |
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Information on chemical substances:
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Oxford English Dictionary Online |
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Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works for specific subjects, such as sociology, chemistry, statistics. |
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PONS dictionaries
German - English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and vice versa. |
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Publicus
Swiss yearbook of public life. |
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Römpp Online
Chemistry reference (Accessible for HEVs, HEF, BFH, FHNW and ZHAW) |
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Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Reference work of chemistry as well as chemical and life science engineering; 7th edition. |
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Ulrich's
Worldwide directory of available journals, series, yearbooks and newspapers. |
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| Statistics |
Swiss statistical encyclopaedia
Statistical tables and reports on the Swiss population, society, state, economy and environment. |
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Superweb
Contains data of the |
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COMPASS
Communication Portal for Accessing Social Statistics in Switzerland. |
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DARIS
Data and research information services for the social sciences. |
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Eurostat
Statistics of the EU member countries; cooperation with the OECD and UN as well as with Central and Eastern European countries, the former Soviet Union and Mediterranean countries. |
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OECD Statistics
Statistical databases of the OECD. |
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| Further links for «Chemistry and Life Sciences» |
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The Encyclopedia of Life
Website dedicated to documenting all species on earth. |
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Chemistry internet portal
This portal is produced by the German GDCh, TIB Hannover and FIZ Chemie Berlin. |
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Portal for organic chemistry
Overview of news in the field of chemistry, organic reactions and the most important chemicals. |
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Intute: Health and Life Sciences
Internet portal for agriculture, nutrition, forestry. |
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arXiv
Preprint server at Cornell University (previously Los Alamos) with articles in physics, mathematics, IT, quantitative biology, statistics. |
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WorldWideScience.org
Global science gateway: federated searching in national and international scientific databases. |
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