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Biological Sciences - Databases
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- Biological Abstracts
(via Web of Knowledge)
- 1969 - Present (Print: 1926-1968)
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- 1969 - Present (Print: 1926-1968)
- PubMed
- 1950s - present
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- SciFinder Scholar
- 1 user; requires software installation
1907 - present
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- 1 user; requires software installation
- Web of Science
- Zoological Record (via Web of Knowledge)
- 1978 - present
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Agricola
Agricola is the most comprehensive database to citations of journal articles, theses, patents, software and technical reports on all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, and food and nutrition. Good for soil chemistry, plant cell biochemistry and plant genetics. Useful for fisheries & aquaculture.
1979 - present
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Amphibian Information Web
Database of bibliographic citations, references, contacts, and web sites related to amphibian conservation. (USGS)
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
Via Randall Library's subscription to the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts suite of databases. ASFA is a premier reference database for citations and abstracts of the world's literature dealing with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments and organisms. This source combines three major files that cover the biological sciences and living resources; ocean technology, policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Two specialized files are also included, which are aquaculture and marine biotechnology. (more information)
BioOne
bibliographic database from the BioOne organization. BioOne was developed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the University of Kansas , the Greater Western Library Alliance, and Allen Press. The organization is committed to a non-profit objective of disseminating important, scholarly information focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences by recovering costs while ensuring sustainability. 2000 - present
Birds of North America
Search this well-respected, comprehensive reference covering the life histories of over 700 species of North American birds. Produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, it includes detailed scientific information on behaviors, habitat, distribution, migration, systematics, food habits, conservation and management, and measurements among others. Also included are video and image galleries along with recordings of songs and calls from the collection at Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. (more information)
Cold Regions Bibliography
Information on cold regions science and technology.
Conference Papers Index
Citations to papers and poster sessions at major scientific meetings.
1982 - present
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Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
1861 - present; Abstracts: 1980 - present; Thesis abstracts: 1988 - present
E-PRINT Network
Department of Energy's gateway to preprints in scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE including physics, materials, and chemistry, biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine.
EBSCO Animals
consists of full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
1984 - present
Ecology Abstracts
Environmental sciences and pollution. Subfile of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Multidisciplinary database that covers all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as basic science areas of bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources. Also includes abstracts of environmental impact statements (1985 - present) issued by the US government. Each entry includes a description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.
1967 - present
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GEOBASE
Multidisciplinary database indexing geography and geology, including cartography, hydrology, climatology, meteorology, energy, paleontology, ecology, environment, petrology,
geochemistry, photogrammetry, geomorphology, sedimentology, geophysics and
volcanology from 1980 to the present. The database contains over 600K references with abstracts from journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.
GeoRef
Established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database contains over 2.6 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and dissertations/theses along with references to all publications of the US Geological Survey.
Government Periodicals
Index of approximately 250 magazines and newsletters from U.S. government agencies. Covers the arts, economics, justice and the sciences.
GrayLit Network
Full-text access to unpublished technical reports of research funded by U.S. Depts. of Energy & Defense, EPA and NASA
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JSTOR
Online archive of scholarly journals covering anthropology, history, literature, ecology, economics, and more.
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National Sea Grant Library Database
This database includes 36,000 bibliographic records to various Sea Grant funded publications. Subjects include, oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law.
Print Version: 1986 - present
NOAA Library Catalog
An online catalog containing the holdings of NOAA libraries around the country. Collections consist of reports, special data files and datasets, documents, articles, and audiovisual resources related to ocean science and atmospheric sciences.
Oceanic Abstracts
Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, and has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans.
1981 - present
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Plant Biology Tutor
CD of 14 tutorials in ecology, growth and development, reproduction, and systematics and evolution. See see the library's Reference Desk to use these materials.
PLANTS Database
Single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information. Also includes States PLANTS list.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
A nonprofit organization publishing peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals. All PLoS activities are guided by core principles.
PubMedCentral
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
SciELO is a multinational effort to provide open access to scientific research journals produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.
1990s - present
ScienceDirect
Full-text database covering biology, chemistry, geology, marine science, mathematics, medicine and physics, but numerous other disciplines are represented, including business, child development, computer science, economics, history, hospitality, industrial technology, library and information science and tourism. Offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection.
1995 - present
Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA)
The SORA project is an open access electronic journal archive providing access to an extensive ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. 1884 - 2002
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SpringerLink
SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics ... Online access to over 500 fully peer reviewed journals.
State Academies of Science Abstracts
Covers all of the major science disciplines and serves as an authoritative reference on research specific to your state and region.
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Toxicology Abstracts
Covers pharmaceuticals, agro chemicals, natural toxins, industrial chemicals. Subfile of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
1981 - present
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TOXLINE
Citations to articles, technical reports, theses on toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
1999 - present
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U.S. Government Periodicals Index
Citations to articles from periodicals published by the U.S. Government.
Wiley InterScience
Searchable database of science journals.
WorldCat
A combined catalog of thousands of libraries, including Randall Library. Search WorldCat if you want to search the largest universe of book and other cataloged items.
Not all databases listed above will provide the full-text of the article. In these cases, you will need to do a Journal Title Search search in the library's catalog to see if we subscribe to that particular journal.
Last Update: January 11, 2007