Content: An online collection of approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities.
Purpose: Good starting point for background or in-depth research in the humanities.
Content: Reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.
Purpose: Indexes and tracks over 550 journals so researchers can easily find literature in the mathematical sciences fields.
Special Features: Search by Mathematics Subject Classification, author, title, or topic.
Content: Includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Purpose: Provides comprehensive coverage of research in the fields of science and technology.
Special Features: For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovering relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
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