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ProQuest Science Journals: Agenda

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Database Overview

• Full-text aggregated journal collection• Over 1,500 Titles• 350+ Publishers represented• 1,250+ Full-text titles included• 100+ Science subjects covered• Available on the ProQuest platform

Subject Selection

• ACCOUSTICS• AERONAUTICS• ANTHROPOLOGY• ARCHITECTURE• ASTRONOMY• BIOLOGY • BUILDING AND

CONSTRUCTION• CHEMISTRY• COMMUNICATION• COMPUTERS• CONSERVATION• CRIMINOLOGY • DRUG ABUSE

Subject Selection• EARTH SCIENCES • ELECTRONICS• ENERGY• ENGINEERING

-- CHEMICAL --CIVIL --COMPUTER APPLICATIONS --ELECTRICAL --MATERIALS--MECHANICS --HYDRAULIC --INDUSTRIAL --MECHANICAL

• ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Subject Selection

• FOOD AND FOOD INDUSTRIES

• FORESTS AND FORESTRY• GARDENING AND

HORTICULTURE • GEOGRAPHY • GERONTOLOGY AND

GERIATRICS• HEATING, PLUMBING AND

REFRIGERATION • HOUSING AND URBAN

PLANNING• INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND

SAFETY

Subject Selection

• INSTRUMENTS • LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES • MACHINERY • MATHEMATICS • MEDICAL SCIENCES • METALLURGY • METEOROLOGY • METROLOGY• MILITARY • MINES AND MINING • INDUSTRY • INDUSTRY • NUTRITION AND DIETETICS • PACKAGING PAINTS AND PROTECTIVE COATINGS

Subject Selection

• PAPER AND PULP • PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND

OCCULTISM• PETROLEUM AND GAS • PHYSICAL FITNESS AND

HYGIENE• PHYSICS• PLASTICS • PSYCHOLOGY• SOUND RECORDING AND

REPRODUCTION • STATISTICS • TEXTILE INDUSTRIES AND

FABRICS • TRANSPORTATION • VETERINARY SCIENCE • WATER RESOURCES

For Researchers: Hard Sciences

• Chemistry - 19 full-text titles– Adhesives Age, American Journal of Science, Canadian

Journal of Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, Chemicals & Chemistry, Chemicals & Chemistry Business, Chemistry in Australia, Clinical Chemistry, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Hydrocarbon Processing, International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials: INFORM, JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, LC GC North America, Nature Chemical Biology and Rubber Chemistry and Technology

For Researchers: Hard Sciences

• Computers/Computing – 59 full-text titles– Key titles include ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions

on Computer Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery: Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Graphics World (Pennwell Publishing), and Discrete & Computational Geometry (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.).

For Researchers: Hard Sciences

• Engineering - 95 current full-text titles (including Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering)– Important Engineering content includes titles from Penwell

Publishing Company (Electric Light and Power; SMT; Solid State Techology), BNP Media (Assembly), Illuminating Engineering Society (Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Lighting Design + Application), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. (Acta Mechanica, Granular Matter, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment) and Manchester University Press (International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education).

For Researchers: Hard Sciences

• Mathematics - 57 current full-text titles– Titles include Springer-Verlag New York, Inc: Aequationes

Mathematicae, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Archive for Mathematical Logic, Calcolo, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Graphs and Combinatorics, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems; MCSS, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Hodder Arnold: Statistical Modelling.

• Physics - 15 current full-text titles– Content includes Few - Body Systems, Magma, Theoretical and

Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Pennwell Publishing Company: Laser Focus World.

Trade & Professional Publications

• ProQuest Science Journals also includes trade and professional publications. – Highlights include Dr Dobbs Journal, the popular computing

magazine from CMP and Computer Graphics World. – IEEE Software and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

from the IEEE.

Vocational Colleges & Undergraduate Teaching

• ProQuest Science Journals includes a collection of popular science and consumer magazines– Astronomy, E : the Environmental Magazine, The Ecologist, Natural

History, Popular Science, Science News, Skeptic, Sky and Telescope, Technology Review, Weatherwise and World Watch.

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ProQuest Science Journals: Summary

• Comprehensive subject coverage

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• Many key titles, high impact factors

• Embargoes kept to a minimum

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