NLST 120 Laboratory Tools (Ross): Science Databases

Films on Demand is a streaming video platform for educational films and videos including titles from PBS, the BBC, CNN, celebrated documentarians, TED Talks, National Geographic, and more. RIT subscribes to a faculty-curated collection.

Website of books in science, engineering, and health topics, many available freely online as whole books or chapters in pdf format.

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. ScienceDirect Help

Full-text database of journals and books published by Springer, covering the sciences, technology, computer science and medicine. SpringerLink Help

Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.

Online Journals from the American Chemical Society. Includes over 55 peer-reviewed journals and magazines. With the ACS Journal Archives, searchable access is provided to 3 million pages pages of original chemistry dating back to 1879. Also includes access to the ACS Style Guide, 3rd edition. Located under ACS eBooks.

CAS SciFinder is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to reference, substance, reaction and supplier content, CAS SciFinder® includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

A basic reference book including terminology, chemical and physical properties, constants, conversion factors, and mathematical tables.

This video collection helps provide a solid foundation in general chemistry by showcasing basic lab techniques, demonstrating commonly used equipment, and exploring the theory behind fundamental methodology in Chemistry. Contains 6 parts: general chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry II, and inorganic chemistry. RIT only subscribes to Organic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry.

Contains full-text of chemistry journals.

Reference work detailing the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry. RIT purchased the 2014 edition without updates. If you are unable to view an article, please click on the “View previous versions” link to see an earlier version of the article (if one exists) within our subscription year range. If we have no access to an article, please request via Interlibrary Loan at: https://ill.rit.edu

The Agricultural & Environmental Science Database is a multi-disciplinary resource of full-text content along with expert indexing of global literature across these fields and related disciplines. It includes Environmental Science and Pollution Management, Environmental Impact Statements & Digests in full text, and AGRICOLA, the world's leading bibliographic database of agricultural science literature. This was formerly known as Environmental Science & Pollution Management.

Articles in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Identifies scholarly and general interest articles, books, and government reports on the effects humans have on the environment.

Free access to peer-reviewed biological/medical research articles

JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is a scientific video journal. JoVE Biology contains over 1,700 video articles on techniques in physical biology, cellular biochemistry, genetics, physiology, systems biology and a combination of eukaryotic and prokaryotic model systems. Contains all fields of cell, molecular, and organismal biology, ranging from new applications of standard techniques to novel approaches aimed at understanding the functions of life and living organisms.