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Safari - Books Online (*New & improved! Less waiting. Lots more books.)

Safari is the premier electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. From XML, iPhones, Kindles, .Net, and most programming languages and software packages under the sun, you'll find your answer in Safari. go/safari

Sage Journals Online

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

Science Citation Index

1985-2011. Part of ISI Web of Science. NOTE: Backfile only. No new articles as of January 2012. Cited reference searches will not refer to articles published after the last 2011 update. For current (and older) articles and cited reference searches, use Scopus (shortcut: go/scopus).

note: access through Web of Science

Science.gov

Selective coverage, as far back as 1948. Science.gov is a search engine for government science information from the Departments of Agriculture; Commerce; Defense; Education; Energy; Health and Human Services; and Interior. Also the Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and the US Government Printing Office. Results are authoritative and selective and may include scientific or technical data, publications, databases, documentation, or other forms of information.

Tip: To limit your search to a subset of the database, click on the "Advanced Search" link

ScienceDirect

This is a collection of journals published by Elsevier. The Middlebury College Libraries subscribe to 2,000+ titles published 1995-. (For better coverage, use Scopus instead.) Articles from journals to which we subscribe are marked with a green full-text icon. To find out if we have alternative access to journals not available via ScienceDirect, click on the "360 Link to Fulltext" button or consult our Journals A to Z list. Tip: Use image search to look for terms in tables and figures.

SciFinder Scholar

1908-current. Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar is a comprehensive index to pure and applied chemistry literature including journal articles and structure information. It is accessible to Middlebury users from any on-campus or off-campus computer. Before using SciFinder (Web version) for the first time, you must create an account from an on-campus computer. Access at Middlebury is limited to two searchers at a time. When finished, please log off to allow others to log in.

To create a SciFinder account:

Web version requires a SciFinder account. Please create an account from an on-campus computer before using SciFinder (Web version) for the first time.
Go to SciFinder (Web version).

Help documents for SciFinder (Web version):

Introduction: View the web version of SciFinder! (video)
Guides: SciFinder How-to Guides - Web Version

Scirus

Searches for science-related and primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.

Tips:

To link directly to Middlebury collections, including our online subscriptions, from your Scirus results:
1) Click on "Search Preferences," 2) For Library Partner Links, click "Enable," 3) Click "M" and then select "Middlebury College" from the drop-down list, and 4) Click "Save Preferences."
Enclose phrases in quotes " "
Use an asterisk * to replace multiple characters anywhere in a word

note: Preferences can be set to link directly to articles in Middlebury collections. (See above)

Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature.

Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE.
Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.
Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off-campus)

Shakespeare Online Plays (BBC)

Thirty-seven full-length online videos of Shakespeare plays originally presented by the BBC. Find all of the plays in MIDCAT.

Sharing Vermont History

Vermont Maps provided by the Middlebury College Library. This archive site provides digital images of Middlebury College's historic Vermont map collection.

Shen Bao, Shanghai News 1872–1949

Shen Bao, formerly transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao (申報). Full-text access (1872–1949) covering politics, military, economy, culture and society from the later Qing Dynasty to the Republican Period.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice

A research database from Adam Matthew with original material from 30 libraries and archives including the British Library, Duke University, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL. Close attention has been given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

Small Business Collection

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Small Business Resource Center

Full-text magazine and journal articles, business plans, reference material and more. Covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more.

Smithsonian Global Sound

Audio collection of the world's musical and aural traditions--including spoken words and natural and human-made sounds--from recordings of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other labels.

Social Explorer

Easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Premium edition features over 15,000 interactive data maps and reports from the U.S. census and other sources.

Social Psychology Network

Self-proclaimed "largest social psychology database on the Internet. In these pages, you'll find more than 5,000 links related to psychology."
note: Large Internet Gateway

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences Citation Index

SocINDEX

Sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It features abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals, and extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources.

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Service)

From InfoEd. "Tracks the funding programs (e.g. research grants; fellowships; publication support; sabbatical support; curriculum development; etc.) of over 6,000 government, private, and non-profit funding sources worldwide."

SpringerLink (*expanded with new ebooks)

Over 2,000 journals and 53,000 ebooks in the fields of science, technology, and medicine. (go/springer)

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Eds. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. 3065 pp. 5 vols.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Open access philosophy encyclopedia maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field.

Statista

A quantitative statistics portal with over 60,000 topics on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more. Search in either German or English.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

Now published by ProQuest. Statistical tables on a wide variety of U.S. and some international subjects from 1878 to date. Useful for identifying other sources for more detailed data. Earlier editions also in GovDocs C3.134 or online from 1878 - 2012 as pdf files.

Student Edition Gale Group databases

High school level: choose from menu.

Summon

Summon is our newest and most effective tool for searching many resources at once, so we’ve put it right at the center of the library home page (look for the “Summon” tab in the “Library Quick Search” box). Summon searches most library resources including MIDCAT, full-text newspapers and journals, and most of our library databases. Read more about it in the LIS blog. Watch a video tutorial.