Science and Technology

• Gateway to the Internet > Science and technology -  a large number of specially selected web sites on science and technology. See both the general section and the specific subject sections

• Reference books online - search for science and technology topics in specialist reference books as well as in many general encyclopaedias and dictionaries

See the list of specialist books in Credo Reference's sections on, for example, science  and technology and medicine and food and beverage. At Credo Reference you will also find conversion tables, in the 'Gadgets' section

See the list of specialist titles in Oxford Reference Online's sections on, for example, biological sciences and computing and earth and environmental sciences and mathematics and  medicine and science. Results in Oxford Reference Online also give you links to recommended web sites

• Encyclopaedia Britannica online - articles and web links on science and technology topics

You can look up an individual topic by clicking 'The index' or 'A-Z browse'. Alternatively, if you would like to read through related topics in a structured way, click 'By subject' and follow the links from there

• Magazines and journals online - including 'Astronomy', full articles; 'Popular science', full articles; 'British journal of psychology', full articles; 'Annual review of psychology', full articles; 'Science', citations for one year then full articles or abstracts after one year; 'New scientist', citations for six months then full articles; 'Scientific American', short abstracts only; 'Ecologist', short abstracts or citations and full text articles for early 2001
• For medical journals, see Health and care
• Read up on science and technology news stories at newspapers online or go to the newspapers web sites at Gateway to the Internet > Newspapers

Further information

• Library catalogue
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