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Agriculture and life sciences. Coverage 1970 - present.
See AGRICOLA online, the web version from the National Agricultural Library (NAL).
Includes mostly full text of: BioMed Central open access research journals, Faculty of 1000, images.MD, Genome Biology, Arthritis Research, Breast Cancer Research, Critical Care Forum, NSP Primers in Biology, Current Reports, Meeting Abstracts.
Biological and biomedical information. Coverage: 1926 - Present.
International coverage of agriculture, plants, animals, forestry, food and nutrition, natural resources, fisheries, recreation · Abstracts of journal articles, books, reports, proceedings.
Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science. The database currently contains 33185 records.
Medline is available via three different interfaces:
Medline is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database of international biomedical literature, providing comprehensive information on every aspect of medicine, biomedical research and health care. Coverage: 1950-present.
Comprehensive coverage of the chemical literature, including patents. Includes searchable chemical structures and reactions. See SciFinder Scholar page from Chemical Abstracts Service.
- Chemical Abstracts: 1907 - present
- CASREACT: 1907 - present
- CAS Registry: 1957 - present
TAIR - The Arabidopsis Information Resource
TAIR maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, metabolism, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded)
Multidisciplinary database through cited authors.
Coverage:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1900-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
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Includes mostly full text of: BioMed Central open access research journals, Faculty of 1000, images.MD, Genome Biology, Arthritis Research, Breast Cancer Research, Critical Care Forum, NSP Primers in Biology, Current Reports, and Meeting Abstracts.
Brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
Nursing, allied health, consumer health · Abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, and proceedings.
Contains citations and abstracts to articles in journals, dissertations, and book chapters in all areas of psychology. Includes full-text and indexing of all articles from PscyARTICLES.
Provides access to full-text of Elsevier Science journals subscribed to by one or more of the Arizona university libraries (UA, ASU, or NAU). For other titles, table-of-contents and abstracts of articles are available. Please note that only the full text of "subscribed journals" is available. The IDEAL Library (International Digital Electronic Library) is now incorporated into ScienceDirect.
Indexes over 6,500 international journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books, and reports. All major areas of zoology are represented, including: behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography. No abstracts. Coverage: 1864 - present.
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E-PRINTS
An electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
E-PRINT Network Subject Pathways: Biology and Medcine
A vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels.
E-JOURNALS
UA E-Journal Locator > Health & Biological Sciences
University of Arizona Library Resource
Information and resources to support UK schools microbiology teaching.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service lists free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
PUBLISHERS' COLLECTIONS
American Society for Microbiology Journals Online
Full-text articles from the following ASM titles: Applied and Environmental Microbiology Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology Clinical Microbiology Reviews Journal of Bacteriology Journal of Virology Molecular and Cellular Biology Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 1992 - present.
Full text of journals from Blackwell Science and Munksgaard.
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), provides full-text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Springer Online (Kluwer)
Includes current and some back issues of Springer/Verlag & Birkhauser publications in the fields of biology/biomedicine, chemistry, geosciences, computer sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, and economics. Kluwer is now owned by Springer and access to former Kluwer journals is available from the Springer Web site.
Full-text access to 15 journals from Nature Publishing Group: Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Genetics, Nature Immunology, Nature Materials, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Nature Structural Biology.
Provides access to full-text of Elsevier Science journals subscribed to by one or more of the Arizona university libraries (UA, ASU, or NAU). For other titles, table-of-contents and abstracts of articles are available. Please note that only the full text of "subscribed journals" is available.
Wiley Interscience provides access to electronic editions of approximately 150 journals published by John Wiley and Sons.