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EBSCOHost*| ProQuest | Inside Web | Springer LINK
JSTOR | ScienceDirect*| Engineering Village*|
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts*| ISI Web of Science | IEEExplore | EnvironetBase*| #Emerald | PsycINFO | PsycARTICLE | Global Market Information Databases (GMID)*|

NSTP e-media | PALMOILIS*| SIRIMLINK*

LawNet | CD-Net*

 * (Service temporarily not available)

ISI Web of Knowledge (Trial database: Expire on 10 January 2005)
BIOSIS Previews: 1969 - present
CAB ABSTRACTS: 1973 - present
Food Science and Technology Absracts: 1969 - present

EBSCOhost *
Accessible within the Main Campus only.

Academic Search Elite
Provides full text for over 1,700 journals covering 
the social sciences, humanities, general science, 
multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.
ERIC
Provides citation and abstract information from 
over 980 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.
World Magazine Bank
Provides full text for over 270 English language publications from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, U.K., South Africa, U.S.A, and more.
EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the
nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EnvironetBase - Enviromental Sciences Electronic Library from CRC Press

ProQuest

ABI/INFORM Global
Contains abstracts and/or fulltext articles from about 1000 leading journals and publications in business and management  (over 600 of which give full text articles).  Articles in these publications provide in-depth coverage of business trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information,  education in management and a wide variety of other topics.
Applied Science & Tech Plus
Articles in approximately 650 journals (over 400 fulltext) in applied science, technology, computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.
Computing
Articles in approximately 250 top computing journals (over 140 fulltext) on databases design, software development, web-commerce, LANS, WANS, intranets, and the internet.
Education Complete 
Combining abstracts and indexing with thousands of full-text and full-image articles, Education PlusText is an essential resource for any researcher needing information from more than 400 top education journals
Health Module
Articles in approximately 230 journals (over 120 fulltext) on physical and mental health, medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health policy, etc.
Medical Library
Articles in approximately 300 journals (over 200 fulltext) on medcine including nursing, pharmacology, physical therapy, etc.
Telecommunications
Articles in approximately 92 journals (fulltext) on the telecommunication industry.

Inside Web
(Index to articles of journals and conference proceedings in the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC).
Books, reports and doctoral theses are not available from Inside Web, but from OPAC97 which is the OPAC of the British Library
(https://inside.bl.uk/user/secure/logon.do)
Note: For USM Library members, please get the password from Mr. Mohd. Idris Hj. Ali  at interlib
interlib@notes.usm.my or phone 04-6577888 ext. 3710.  Guides

Springer LINK
Access to the fulltext of over 400 journals (life sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering, environmental sciences, and economics.) from the Springer Publishing Group; includes access to the abstracts of their books.

JSTOR.
Access to the Archives of 242 core scholarly journals in 16 subject areas.

ScienceDirect *
Source for scientific, technical and medical (STM) research that offers access to more than 1.700 journals across 21 fields of science, including the social sciences.

EngineeringVillage *
Access to over 5 million abstracts from Compendex, full text research articles, patents, standards and handbooks.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) *
Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials science and engineering, aerospace, social sciences, and humanities. This database providing access to more than 70 databases.
Accessible within USM Campuses only.

ISI Web of Science
Contains Science Citation Index Expanded database - a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. It has no fulltext, only brief information and abstracts and coverage from 1997 onward.
Access is limited to five simultaneous users. Any subsequent attempts to access the database after five  users are logged on will receive a message that the maximum limit of concurrent users is already in effect. For this reason, we strongly recommend that all participants use the LOGOFF button at the end of each search session when they finish reviewing the product. This immediately frees the session for the next user. (The LOGOFF button is also found on the Web of Science Homepage.)

IEEExplore

Emerald

Emerald publishes the world's widest range of management and library & information services journals. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles.

LawNet

1. Law Library -- contains an Authoritative text of Laws of Malaysia i.e. Updated Acts of Parliament, Principal Acts (Original), Amendments Acts, Bills Supplement, Legislative Supplement (A), Legislative Supplement (B), Federal Constitution, Criminal Procedures Code, Penal Code, National land Code and Rules of Court. 

2. E-Gazette -- electronic version of Malaysia Gazette, contains:

(a)  Federal Gazettes - Principal Acts, Amending Acts, Bills Supplement, Legislative Supplement (A), Legislative Supplement (B) and Gazettes Notification.
(b)  State Gazettes -- State Legislations for Selangor, Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Malacca.
3. Istilah Undang-Undang (English & Malay) -- contains more than 30,000 terms & phrases commonly used by legal practioners, lawyers & those who are constantly in touch with the laws.

NSTP e-media
http://www.emedia.com.my
This site provides you with information from The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad [NSTP] group of publications (Newsbase) and information compiled by NSTP research team (Factfiles) on companies, personalities, countries and Malaysian States. For full- text, search will be done by Reference Librarians. Please request this service at the Reference Counter, 2nd. floor.

PALMOILIS *
http://palmoilis.mpob.gov.my
Palm Oil Information Online Service (PALMOILIS) is a database service from PORIM to provide an electronic delivery information service on palm oil to the Industry, Government departments / universities and the general public. The system hosts not only bibliographic and library-related databases but also full-text databases, generated by other R&D Divisions/Units/Research Groups. 
Search will be done by Reference Librarians. Please request this service at the Reference Counter, 2nd. floor.

SIRIMLINK *
http://www.sirim.my/resource/sirimlnk.htm
SIRIMLINK provides access to a huge collection of technical information stored in SIRIM. 
Search will be done by Reference Librarians. Please request this service at the Reference Counter, 2nd. floor.

CD-Net (CD-ROM databases)*
http://www.lib.usm.my/database/cdnet.html
Access the CD-ROM databases individually on the network.
Please click on "CD-NETACCESS 2000 ActiveAppMenu plug-in" for the INSTALLATION.
Accessible  within USM Campuses only.
Click on
List of CD-ROM for more information (CD-ROM databases in various subject areas such as General Literature, Education,Science & Technology, Social Science & Humanities). 

If you have difficulties accessing these databases, 
please contact :-

Main Library - please contact the Librarian at :
Reference Division -  tel: 6577888  ext. 3723; e-mail: rujukan@notes.usm.my

Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan - Mrs. Sofiah Hashim/Mrs. Rogayah Ali, tel. 09-7663422 or 09-7661700 ext. 1478

Engineering Library, Engineering Campus, Nibong Tebal - The Librarian, tel. 04-5937788