General and reference resources for science

Ljilja Ristic MScChem PGDipLIS MCLIP

Physical Science Librarian

Subject Consultant

The Radcliffe Science Library

Oxford University E-resources

• Oxlip – Oxford Library Information Platform

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/• General & reference resources

All subjects• Subject specific resources –

Sciences

Dictionaries, newspapers …

• Blackwell Reference Online• Oxford English Dictionary• Oxford Reference Online• Oxford Scholarship Online• CREDO• Newspapers

Bibliographies …

• Book Reviews Digest• British National Bibliography• Dictionary of National Biography• Encyclopaedia Britannica• Global Books in Print• Who’s Who • World of Learning

Blackwell Reference Online

• All subjects• Dictionaries• Encyclopaedias• Meta searching• Cross referencing

CREDO reference • Hundreds of reference

books from major publishers (e.g. dictionaries)

• Cross-referencing/

browsing by subject• Science section• Technology section• Visual maps

Oxford Reference Online

• Over 100 Reference books

• English dictionaries• Subject dictionaries• Dictionary of

Quotations• Dictionary of Weight,

Measures and Units• Dictionary of Scientists

Handbooks and e-books • Oxford Scholarship Online• Handbook of Statistics• Handbooks in Economics Series• Handbook of Mathematical Functions• CUP e-books• Taylor & Frances e-books (300 titles mainly humanities)

Subject encyclopaedias and reference e-books

• Encyclopaedia of Materials Science• Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Physics• Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences• Science and Engineering Encyclopediawww.diracdelta.co.uk/

Monographic series and e-books

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science• Lecture Notes in Mathematics• Lecture Notes in Physics (print only)• Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry• Treatise on Geochemistry Access via Oxford University e-journals

http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/oxford/az

E-books

Oxford Scholarship Online• E-books in Economics and Finance, Philosophy,

Political Science, and Religion (links to OLIS)

• NCBI Bookshelf (Biomedical books) Freely available collection of e-books

• Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry

Standards and critical tables

• British Standards Online• IEEE standards • International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technol.

• Knovel Critical Tables• Smithsonian Physical Tables

Dissertations and Proceedings• Dissertations and Theses online (US)• Index to Theses (UK)• Oxford e-Theses (ORA)• ISTP – Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISI)

• Proceedings - FirstSearch (BL proc.)• CSA – Conference Papers index• NASA Technical Reports server (NTRS)

Reference management software

• RefWorks • EndNoteWeb• BibTex – freely available on the Internet

Some Internet resources

• Intute (Internet resources for science)• Energy Citations Database (ECD) – DoE• NIST Physical Reference Data • NTIS – National Technical Information Service

• ScienceResearch

ContactsLjilja Ristic MScChem PGLIS MCLIPPhysical Sciences Librarian Subject ConsultantTel.(01865)272816 risticl@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Radcliffe Science Libraryhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/rsl/RSL Enquiry desk enquiries.rsl@ouls.ox.ac.ukTel.(01865)272800