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Most relevant Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 11,000 full-text periodicals.
Nature This link opens in a new window An international journal, published weekly, with original, groundbreaking research spanning all of the scientific disciplines. KU's subscription includes full-text access to the archive back to 2008, indexing back to 1869.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window The ScienceDirect College Edition offers access to high-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles. The library subscribes to three ScienceDirect journal collections: Social and Behavioral Science Journals Collection containing 360 full-text peer reviewed journals, Health & Life Sciences Journals Collection containing 900 full-text peer reviewed journals and Physical Sciences Journals Collection containing 600 full-text peer reviewed journals. Coverage 2001 - Current
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America This link opens in a new window Reports that describe the results of original, theoretical or experimental research of exceptional importance and broad interest to diverse groups of scientists.

Other Databases

ArXiv.org e-Print archive This link opens in a new window arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for over 1,7 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on the site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Institute of Physics This link opens in a new window Provides full text access to the journals published by the Institute of Physics. Updated weekly. Coverage 1874 to the present.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology with 2,600 active Research Library sources-- over 1,700 are available in full text. Over 1,600, in full image. Coverage 1971 to the present.
Science This link opens in a new window International weekly science journal, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Coverage: 1990 - current
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Provides access to the Science citation index expanded from 1975 to the present , Social sciences citation index from 1975 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the present. Continually updated. 1900 - Current

Periodical	Database
Icarus	ScienceDirect (1995-present)
Nature	Nature (2009-present), Proquest (1 yr. embargo), Academic Search Ultimate (1997-2015)
New Scientist	Academic Search Ultimate (2002-present), ScienceDirect (2006-present)
PNAS	PNAS (2015-present)
Science	Academic Search Ultimate (1990-present), Science (1880-present)
Scientific American	Academic Search Ultimate (2007-present)
Sky and Telescope	Academic Search Ultimate (1994-present)