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Articles in Journals/Magazines

AGRICOLA
Index to agricultural literature.

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

American Chemical Society Web Editions
This online archive lets you search the full text of all titles published by ACS in the past five years.

Biology Digest
Digests in biology, ecology, health and medicine.

BioOne
BioOne includes the full-texts of bioscience research journals focused on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Clase/Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

Highwire
Full-text of 332 leading journals in life science.

MDX Health Digest
Digest of medical and health information for consumers.

Medline Plus Health Information
Information on hundreds of diseases, conditions and wellness issues.

Project Muse
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Pubmed (Medline)
Abstracts of articles in all areas of medicine. PubMed Coverage PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as: * The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE. * Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing. * Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.

PubMed Central
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Newspapers

The New York Times Online (1980 – present)
The complete text of articles back to 1980 is provided in text format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.

Web Sites

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Index
Alphabetical list by common and scientific name. Purdue University.

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever published appears on the web.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Primate info net
The best freely available general online resource for links and original content about nonhuman primates.

Scirus
The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.

WildFinder
WildFinder is a GIS tool for researching Earth's animals. The home page offers two approaches to the database. Search by Place allows users to zoom in on an ecoregion and generate a list of species that live there; Search by Species shows geographic distribution and is searchable by scientific or common name. You can also Search by Place.

Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online -- Biological Sciences
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, A Dictionary of Biology, The Oxford Companion to the Body, A Dictionary of Ecology, A Dictionary of Genetics, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Zoology

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Oxford Reference Online -- Science Books
Astromony, Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Genetics, Nursing, Physics, Plant Sciences, Psychology, Science Fiction, Weather, and Zoology Dictionaries.

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full text, online version of EB.

Oxford Reference Online -- Biological Sciences
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, A Dictionary of Biology, The Oxford Companion to the Body, A Dictionary of Ecology, A Dictionary of Genetics, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Zoology

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Government Information

Science.gov

Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results

Primary Sources

Britannica's Original Sources
The site includes original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.