Databases & E-Reference Materials

This reference work provides an overview of the current status of and future trends in natural products—a dynamic field at the intersection of chemistry and biology concerned with isolation, identification, structure elucidation, and chemical characteristics of naturally occurring compounds such as pheromones, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and enzymes. Includes more than 1,800 color figures and 40,000 references to the primary literature.

Provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in chemical transformations. This work covers the vast subject of organic synthesis in terms of the introduction and interconversion of all known functional groups.

An online quarterly review journal covering the evolving science of physiology. Comprehensive Physiology also comprises an archive of more than 30,000 pages of content from the American Physiological Society's renowned Handbook of Physiology.

This 14-volume set covers advances in toxicology research. Formatted using a unique organ-systems structure, this work allows the user to explore the toxic effects of various substances on each human system, aiding in providing diagnoses and proving essential in situations where the toxic substance is unknown but its effects on a system are obvious.

Provides the latest information and current trends in high technology; some full text.

This reference work provides a comprehensive introduction to Western philosophy as a whole. Entries cover concepts as well as philosophers.

This reference work provides comprehensive coverage of both classic and contemporary philosophical ideas, schools of thought, and figures. Topics range from abstract objects to wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, ancient Egyptian philosophy to ecological philosophy. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is written with an international and multicultural focus and also includes such entries as modern Islamic philosophy, Marxist thought in Latin America, and Chinese Buddhist thought.

Provides access to relevant sources relating to the composition and structure of Article III Courts, as well as documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization and restructuring of the federal government. Features William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, and also includes Federal Judicial Center publications, links to various scholarly articles, CFR Title 28 (Judicial Administration), and other related works.

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

Provides biographical details on thousands of modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters. Includes current writers, as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century and authors from around the world.