Databases for Biology

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Bibliographic citations with abstracts derived from over 5,000 life sciences research journals published worldwide.

1926-present
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Contains full text for more than 900 journals and covers the areas of agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, pollution and waste management, envi

1940s-present
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The ACSESS Digital Library is a complete collection of all content published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.

1921-present
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Provides full text access to over 1,100 scholarly journals, trade journals, and reports.

1960-present
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Biological Science Database provides access to nearly 400 journals, with more than 325 available in full text.

1986-present
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Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library.

2004
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(formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.

2000-present
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Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports.

1970s-present
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JoVE provides science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education, publishing peer-reviewed scientific video protocols to accelerate biological, medical, chemical and

2006 - present
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JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 2,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. 

Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago.
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PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and

1950-present
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Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, indexing for 1,300 more.

1960s-present
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Covers all areas of chemistry, including organic, inorganic, biochemistry, applied chemistry, and chemical engineering. SciFinder Scholar provides citations with abstracts from more than

1840's-present
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Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines.

1990s-present
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The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology. 

1864-present
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