Library Services

Research Tools

arXiv.org provides open access to 745,983 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. The database is owned and maintained by Cornell University.

ChemSpider is a chemical structure database from the Royal Society of Chemistry. It provides fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Credo Reference provides a complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.  It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotation books, bilingual dictionaries, measurement conversions, and more.

Curriculum and reference resources in the sciences, history, geography, health, and careers. Targeted to students, teachers, and general readers.

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier research collection of open-source resources related to homeland security policy, strategy and organizational management. Documents are collected from federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.

Provides a completely interactive learning platform of practice tests for skills improvement, U.S. citizenship, jobs & careers, as well as job search & workplace skills.  These include civil service tests, praxis tests, law enforcement tests, as well as prepatory exams--GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT. 

lynda.com is available free to all Rowan University students, faculty, staff, and administrators beginning March 2012. This includes 24/7 online access to the entire library of over 1100 courses such as SPSS, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, MS Office, Wordpress, iPad, and much more. New courses are added weekly. The lynda.com Online Training Library® is also available via the free lynda.com iPhone and iPad App.

Lynda.com is provided by Information Resources Training Services.

NGC is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC Includes side-by-side guidelines comparisons; syntheses of guidelines covering similar topics; links to full-text guidelines and annotated bibliographies on guideline development methodology. An AHRQ resource.

The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.  Sue this online source for the latest information as we are no longer updating our print copies.

PubMed

- from the National Library Of Medicine

PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in RAMBI is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Since 1995, Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes
and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources. 
Refdesk has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy
navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed.

Contains information on U.S and Canadian businesses, residential information compiled from white pages of telephone directories and information on U.S. health care providers.  (NJ State Library)

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

First time users will be asked to create an account for RefWorks. If you are attempting to access RefWorks from off campus you will be asked to login in using your campus username and password first. After that you will need to provide your RefWorks username and password.

For more help with RefWorks, see the RefWorks tutorial.

This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. (Ebsco)

Science.gov searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

State Health Facts provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, more than 700 health topics and is made available by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation.

International Directory of Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters.

The largest database of library holdings in the world.