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Web of Science (ISI)
Provides indexing and citation analysis for over 20,000 journals from a wide range of disciplines
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Environment Complete
Full text journal articles on agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, environmental technology, law, and policy, and more.
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Biological Abstracts
Citations with abstracts derived from over 5,000 life sciences research journals published worldwide.
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ACSESS Digital Library
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.
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Agricola
Includes citations for recources relating to all aspecs of agriculture, materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions.
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Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)
Provides full text access to over 1,100 scholarly journals, trade journals, and reports representing all major environmental science topics.
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Biological Science Database (ProQuest)
Provides access to nearly 400 journals, with more than 325 available in full text.
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Gale eBooks
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.
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Formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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GreenFILE
Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
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JSTOR
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
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PubMed
Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences
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This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by the Appalachian State University Library.
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ScienceDirect
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, indexing for 1,300 more
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SciFinder Scholar
Covers all areas of chemistry, including organic, inorganic, biochemistry, applied chemistry, and chemical engineering
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You must register. Create an account with your @appstate.edu address. Limited to 8 simultaneous users.
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SpringerLink
Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines
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Zoological Record
The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology
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