Hege Library & Learning Technologies

Virtual Reference

Find background information by subject from the following resources.

Reference Works

The following databases will help you find articles.

General Information

Proquest Central
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
Science Database
Applied and general science articles covering topics such as global warming, alternative energy sources, robotic engineering, genetically modified food, and more.

Chemistry Specific

Environmental Science & Medicine

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary
Access to news of current climate events, science and politics and to the electronic archive of Tiempo, the quarterly bulletin on climate and development