Science Direct

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•Go to www.library.astate.edu•Search Article Data Bases (Blue

Box)•Scroll Down Or Click “S”

•Science Direct is Third on the list!

DATABASE COVERAGE•Science Direct covers over 25% of

the worlds science, technology and medical full text and

bibliographic information. •2,500 Journal Titles•6.75 Million Articles

JOURNALS AND COVERS

•Accident Analysis And Prevention•Parallel Computing

•Safety Science•Science And Justice•Marine Chemistry

•High Energy Density Physics•Many More!

ABOUT THE DATABASE

•Contains almost nine million Full-Text Articles!

•75 million Abstract records!

BASIC SEARCH

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top. This will give you a basic search of the contents. You can search by Field, Author, Volume,

Issue, Page, and title.

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