Biological Science Databases
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PubMed
The National Library of Medicine provides indexing and abstracting of periodical literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and preclinical sciences. Over 3900 US biomedical journals and 70 journals from foreign countries are indexed in this database.
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ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences includes over 340,000 full-text articles from 900 journals.
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JSTOR
"The JSTOR database is unique because the complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. New titles and fields are being added regularly."Read more...Journals within the following disciplines are available in JSTOR: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, History of Science, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Hide.
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ASM Journals
ASM (American Society for Microbiology) provides free full-text to all 11 ASM online journals.Read more...This free service includes access "to the online journal's archive (i.e., issues published more than six months previously for the primary-research journals and one year previously for the review journals)." Hide.
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BioMed Central
"BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research Read more...All research articles in BioMed Central's journals receive rapid and thorough peer review. BioMed Central's portfolio of 158 journals include general titles such as Journal of Biology alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines.” Hide.
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Agricola
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.Read more...Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although AGRICOLA does not contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to online full-text documents, with new links being added every day. Hide.
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Academic Search
Academic Search Complete is a "comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Read more...In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc." Hide.
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