Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Citation from 1980 - current.
Contains full text journal articles in the fields of engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, and environmental engineering from 1983 to present.
Contains journals from the Association for Computing Machinery and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFinder-n 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.
WKU users must first create an account by clicking here: Click here to register. Once you have established a username and password, you can log in to SciFinder-n (CAS).
A large multi-subject database covering every topic with scholarly journals and popular magazines.
Access provided by KYVL.
Access provided by KYVL. Please contact the Commons @ Cravens for off campus access information.
Google Scholar is a useful way to find research articles, book chapters and more, which can supplement what can be found in the library's databases.
However, Google Scholar does not have as sophisticated search filters and metadata about its search results, unlike library databases that do have search filters and metadata. These capabilities allow for better filtering and curation of search results.
Your STEM Librarian recommends these reasons for using Google Scholar:
Remember to filter by "Review Articles"!
Also, connect your Google Scholar with the WKU Libraries databases! Learn how to connect here.