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  • Safari Books Online  
    Books on all aspects of computers, programming and the Web from such publishers as O'Reilly, Sams, New Riders, Adobe.
  • Safety Science and Risk  
    Search for publications of all kinds on public health, safety, and industrial hygiene, including asbestos risk, aviation safety, disaster preparedness, risk management, insurance, and ergonomics.
  • Salud en Espanol  
    Evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness including first aid, infant/child care and illnesses, alternative medicine, aging and wellness.
  • Science Citation Index - 1970-present  
    Part of Web of Knowledge/Web of Science. Daily updates make it a good source for very recent information. Citations include number of times the article has been cited.
  • ScienceDirect  
    Full text of articles from most journals and some book series published by Elsevier Science.
  • Science.Gov  
    Scientific information of all kinds issued by US government agencies.
  • ScienceResearch.com  
    Search many public science Web sites and a large selection of journals for topics in the natural, physical and social sciences.
  • SciFinder Scholar  
    Provides access to Chemical Abstracts, including the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database. Note: special software is required.
  • Scirus  
    A science-specific search engine covering science and engineering journal and conference articles, web pages, dissertations, patents, preprints and technical documents.
  • Scitation  
    Physics and engineering journals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and other publishers.
  • Scitopia.org  
    Search all publications from a group of leading science and technology societies
  • Shakespeare - Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare  
    Including The Shakespeare First Folio and various other editions and adaptations of Shakespeare; includes 2,272 color digital facsimiles.
  • Si ku quan shu (Wen yuan ge edition)- 四庫全書  
    Compiled 1773-1782 by edict from Emperor Qianlong, the collection contains 3,460 Chinese works in 36,000 volumes, including history, astronomy, geography, politics, economics, and more. Fully-searchable full-text. Login ID: siku@uva
  • SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics  
    Journals on applied mathematics, mathematics, systems, and control. Electronic editions are published well ahead of the print versions. Includes book reviews.
  • Smithsonian Global Sound  
    World music from Smithsonian Folkways and other labels and from African and South Asian ethnomusicological collections. Part of Music Online.
  • Social Explorer  
    Interactive Maps and Reports provide easy access to demographic information about the United States. Data comes from the Census beginning in 1940 and from the Religious Congregations and Membership Study beginning in 1980.
  • Social Sciences  
    Search for journal articles in many social science areas including world and US politics, sociology, economics, education, government and social policy, law enforcement.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index - 1981-present  
    Part of Web of Knowledge/Web of Science. Daily updates make it a good source for very recent information. Citations include number of times the article has been cited.
  • Social Services Abstracts  
    Search for journal articles on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: SIAM  
    Journals on applied mathematics, mathematics, systems, and control. Electronic editions are published well ahead of the print versions. Includes book reviews.
  • Sociological Abstracts - 1963-present  
    Sociology and related fields. All languages. 2600 scholarly journals. Includes book, book chapter, and conference paper abstracts and book reviews. Updated quarterly.
  • Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts  
    Search for publications of all kinds on all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices along with high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology.
  • SourceOECD  
    Full text (in PDF format) of all books, reports, periodicals, and statistical databases published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  • SPORT Discus with Full Text - 1975-present  
    International database covering sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, coaching, recreation, and more. Includes book reviews.
  • SPORT Discus with Full Text Mobile  
  • SpringerLink  
    Searchable full-text of journals published by Springer and its subsidiaries such as Physica and Birkhäuser in chemistry, geosciences, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, law, and economics.
  • Springer Protocols  
    Reproducible, laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences from sources such as Methods in Molecular Biology and from journals and laboratory handbooks. Create an account to save your favorites and take notes, or simply download full text.
  • STAT-USA  
    Includes National Trade Data Bank, Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities, and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information. Ask at a reference desk for login information.
  • Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts - 1995-present  
    Descriptive abstracts of journal articles and books on a wide range of topics related to women and gender studies.
  • Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 – 1978  
    Over 240,000 U.S. Supreme Court documents from the final years of the court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the early years of the court’s 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger.
  • Safari Books Online Mobile  
 
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