Alphabetical List of Databases - S

This collection of eBooks is geared toward programming and technology departments. Entire books are searchable. The collection covers more than 20 technical categories and new books are added each month. Safari Tech Books Online is a joint venture of O'Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group. Other major publishers covered are: Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, Prentice Hall PTR, and others.

The web version of the Chronicle provides the full text of the current issue, as well as archives going back to 1995. The archives are limited to staff written material.

Web version provides full-text from 1985-present.

Presented by the Santa Clara City Library, this service provides information about City government and community organizations.

Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. 1993-present. Updated weekly.

SCU receives 400+ ScienceDirect online journals from the publisher Elsevier. SCU's ScienceDirect journals are marked by green icons. Most are full-text. Dates covered: 1995-present. Elsevier journals focus on science, technology, medicine, and business, and include high impact-factor journals such as the Trends and Current Opinion series.

SciFinder provides access to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and MedLine databases including:

• CAPlus: over 30 million documents dating back to 1907. Updated daily.
• MedLine: over 17 million references. Updated 5 times per week.
• Over 43 million organic and inorganic substances; over 60 million sequences. Updated daily.
• Over 16 million single- and multi-step reactions.
• Commercial availability, regulatory and patent information on chemicals.

View SciFinder tutorials. For more information or help, please contact Michal Strutin, science librarian.

As a result of Rule 11Ac1-5, market centers that trade national market system securities must make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis. June 2001-present.

Links to 39 local business journals including the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

A streaming music service containing more than 41,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Containing the complete recordings released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other ethnomusicological collections, it contains a wide array of American ethnic and folk music, as well as traditional music from around the world. Also included are music from American history (from the Revolution through the Civil Rights era), an extensive collection of children's songs, and many speeches, readings of poetry and drama, and sounds from the natural world. Updated continuously.

Index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully covers over 1,400 journals spanning 50 disciplines. Coverage also includes items relevant to the social sciences selected from 7,000 other journals. 1994-present. Updated weekly.

Indexes and abstracts articles at least one column in length from over 544 different English language periodicals in the social sciences, which includes anthropology, psychology, sociology, ethnic studies, political science, economics, geography, urban studies, and more. Fulltext of articles are available from about 175 of these periodicals. Indexing goes back to 1983. Abstracts began with January 1994. Fulltext availability varies title to title, but may go back to 1995. Updated daily. For indexing of articles appearing prior to 1983, use Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective.

Bibliographic coverage of current research focusing on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. 1980-present. Updated monthly.

This database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. 1963-present. Updated monthly.

Provides company profiles, involvement reports, shareholder actions, and corporate governance. Company profiles provide detailed data on the social and environmental records of companies on the Russell 3000 Index and KLD's Domini 400 Social Index. Involvement reports track companies in the global publicly traded universe; including alcohol, contraceptives, firearms, gambling, military, nuclear power, and tobacco. Queries allows sophisticated searches on the 660+ companies in the Socrates database. Portfolio functionality allows the creation of selected lists of companies. Shareholder actions offers shareholder resolutions for companies globally publicly traded. Corporate governance allows the viewing and export of corporate governance data provided by The Corporate Library (TCL) covering the Russell 1000 universe.

The SPIN database contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies since 1975, as well as selected articles from other scientific journals. Can also browse tables of contents and abstracts, full text is available for subscribed journals.

A library of 50- to 100-page eBooks which provides a 'synthesis' of important research or development topics authored by well-known contributors to their fields. SCU has purchased Collections 1, 3, and 4 (the collection currently in publication). A list of titles grouped by subject is also available.