To keep this list unique and manageable, I decided to include databases that produce a list of citations to scientific literature. I was familiar with several free databases, i.e., UnCover, Agricola, Medline, etc. I discovered other databases using the search engine at the California Digital Library and limited my search to databases available to the general public. I found more databases from the web site, Librarians Resource Centre , produced by the Toronto chapter of the Special Libraries Association. Closer to home, I perused the description of databases available at the University of California, Santa Barbara and discovered that electronic journal publishers are now allowing anyone to search their journal collections and get actual citations to articles.
Accounts are available free of charge to any individual.
You do not need to register to browse the library using the Table of Contents. You do need an account to search, use binders, and retrieve full-text articles. Citations to the literature of agriculture and allied disciplines from the U.S. National Agriculture Library. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Citations and abstracts to the alcohol abuse literature from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.