Electronic Resources

Science at Oxford is a website portal for scientific, medical and health care information, including electronic and printed resources, library services, and details of the Radcliffe Science Library, Health Care Libraries and others serving this sector.

Materials subject portal

Within Science at Oxford there is a subject area specifically for Materials which gives you fast access to some key resources, which will lead to many others.

Some e-resources

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) will search across OLIS, as well as the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) and other catalogues and e-resources collections so that your search results will be more comprehensive. Facets provide many additional links and there are options to email results, save results for bibliographic management packages, save searches and create search alerts. SOLO search results link to OLIS so that when you find the item you want, you will be able to place a stack request or a reservation. SOLO also allows for seamless linking to full-text journal articles.

An "Articles and Databases" tab gives you a quick overview (no more than 30 results per database searched) of journal articles, abstracts or bibliographic references in many subjects. Use this if you just want a sample of search results but go to OxLIP+ if you want to do detailed searching of the 800+ e-resources and databases.

http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
OxLIP+ enables you to look for a resource by title or by subject, as before, but you can also search for a database by a word in its title or description. Selective databases can be cross-searched, thus allowing you to pick and choose databases from Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Medicine for truly interdisciplinary searching. Ask your local librarian for assistance with the many new options on offer.

http://ejournals.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
OU E-Journals, which should already be familiar to most of you, is still available as a separate search service and is your easiest way into a full-text ejournal. Oxford now has over 28,000 titles!

Use Single-Sign-On (SSO) to have access to the full range of resources and services. No more need for VPN or Athens - just logon using your SSO account (which is the same as your Herald email userid & password)!

http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
Web of Knowledge (WoK) provides access to the Institute of Scientific Information's Citation Indexes

  • Web of Science Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. - Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present) - Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
  • ISI Proceedings Examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
  • Journal Citation Reports Journal performance metrics offer a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals.