Plant Sciences
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Finding Articles
Limited to University of Arizona students, faculty, staff and library users.
MAJOR DATABASES
Agriculture, plants, animals, forestry, food and nutrition, natural resources, fisheries, recreation · Some abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, proceedings (See: the free web version directly available from NAL).
International coverage of agriculture, plants, animals, forestry, food and nutrition, natural resources, fisheries, recreation · Abstracts of journal articles, books, reports, proceedings.
Web of Science ( Science Citation Index)
Index to core journal articles and cited references in science and technology. Includes some abstracts.
ADDITIONAL DATABASES
Mostly full-text · Biology and medicine journals
Plants, animals, human biology. · Abstracts of journal articles, books, reports, proceedings.
Turfgrass, turf research, turf culture, management of turf facilities: golf courses, parks, sports fields, lawns, sod farms · Index with abstracts to conference proceedings, trade publications, scientific journals, field day programs, and newsletters.
Geography, earth sciences, ecology, planning, geology and remote sensing from journals, books, proceedings, reports and dissertations.
Covers various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). "America" is defined in the broadest possible sense, encompassing land and marine plants and fungi from Greenland to Antarctica. American territory outside this area, e.g., Hawaii, is not included.
SciFinder Scholar is a software program that provides access to Chemical Abstracts and several other chemical and biomedical databases. To use SciFinder Scholar you must install the program on your own Windows-PC or Macintosh computer after you read and agree to the terms of the User Agreement. Access is limited to a maximum of five concurrent users.
POPULAR ALL-PURPOSE DATABASES
Some full text · All Subjects · Journals articles, newspaper articles.
Academic Search Elite, Alt HealthWatch, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, ATLA Religion, CINAHL, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Econlit, ERIC, Health Business Fulltext Elite, MagillOnLiterature Plus, MedicLatina, MLA International Bibliography, The New Republic Archive, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Salud para todos, SPORTDiscus, The Serials Directory.
Some full text · All Subjects · Journal and magazine articles, newspaper articles and newswires.
Mostly full text · News, business, law, health, biography · Newspapers and news magazines.
Open Access Full-text Journals
This site offers a directory of new journals put on the Web for free. They are scholarly and peer reviewed.
E-JOURNALS