Information+Resources

=Information Resources=

Contact Information:
Valerie Hatten, Librarian ext. 3149 Office: South C Bldg., 1st floor at foot of main staircase

Knowledge Ontario Databases
Looking for articles from research journals, magazines, reference books or newspapers? Start your search with Knowledge Ontario's eResource portal where you will find more than 50 general and specialized databases providing full-text, abstracts or citations -- premium content not available through the open Web. [|http://eresources.knowledgeontario.ca]

Online Journals
The Ontario Science Centre subscribes to online editions of two of the world's leading science journals, //Nature// and //Science.// You can now read full text articles from any OSC computer as soon as they are published online, get exclusive online supplementary information, read advance online publications in //Nature//, latest research papers up to 2 months before print, and archives of back issues -- to 1997 for //Science// and to 2007 for //Nature.//

Nature
[|www.nature.com/nature]

Science
[|www.sciencemag.org/magazine]

Specialized Science Databases and Portals
Try these instead of regular search engines when looking for specialized science information:

Cheminfo
[|http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca] Comprehensive health and safety information on pure chemicals from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety. Username: OSCONCA; Password: SCIENCE

Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology
[|www.intute.ac.uk/sciences] U.K-based online service providing access to educational and research web resources selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.

MSDS
[|http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca] Material Safety Data Sheets from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Username: OSCONCA; Password: SCIENCE

Scirus
[|www.scirus.com] Science-focused journal archives, specialty databases and repositories.

SciCentral
[|http://scicentral.com] "Gateway to the best science research news sources"

Scitopia
[|www.scitopia.org] Database of papers and reports from scholarly scientific and technical societies

OSC Library
A small collection of books and current journals is available on the second floor of South C Building. Access the OSC Library catalogue at [|www.librarything.com/catalog/OSCLib] Search by keyword, author or title in the search box on the top right hand side of the page.

Still haven't found what you're looking for?
The Ontario Science Centre Library has University of Toronto library cards which you can use to borrow books from most libraries on the St. George (downtown) campus. Check the online catalogue at [|www.library.utoronto.ca] for holdings, library locations and hours.

Citing Sources
These free online bibliography compilers will make it easy to prepare correctly formatted bibliographies:

**﻿Son of Citation Machine**
[|**http://citationmachine.net**]

EasyBib
[|www.easybib.com]

**﻿Works Cited 4U**
[|www.workscited4u.com]