MathSciNet, the comprehensive database covering the world’s mathematical literature from the American Mathematical Society, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.  The database includes reviews, abstracts, and citations for much of the mathematical sciences literature, with over 100,000 new items added every year.  Coverage goes back to the early 1800s.

Try Compendex!

Compendex is the most comprehensive database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all aspects of engineering disciplines. It includes millions of citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings from 80 countries, and covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.

Browse indexes are available for searching by author, author affiliation, source, publisher, and subject terms.

… can be found in Zoological Record.  Even though the printed index, and eventually the online database, has been around since 1864, UAA just started a subscription this year when the Library upgraded its Web of Science package.  As the oldest continuing database of animal biology and the world’s leading taxonomic reference, it acts as the world’s unofficial register of animal names.  The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.

Find Zoological Record under Z in the list of Databases, or select it from the the list in Web of Science — All Databases.

Can your building handle an earthquake?  Need to know the specs for designing structures in earthquake-prone areas like Alaska?  Find out in one of the Consortium Library’s many full text eBooks available in EngNetBase (CRC), Access Engineering (McGraw-Hill), or Earth & Environmental Science (Springer).  Or try QuickSearch and limit to Books/eBooks to find them all.

… especially if you are trying to describe or teach someone how to do a scientific experiment.  No worries.  JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, can help.

Begun in 2006, JoVE is the world’s first peer reviewed scientific video journal dedicated to publishing scientific research in a visual format.  Thousands of video articles from top research institutions worldwide have been published in JoVE.

You’ll find JoVE in the list of journals available through the Consortium Library.  Have a look!