Sciences

Sciences: Biology, Chemistry & Physics

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Journal Databases:

Academic OneFile (Gale)
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Academic OneFile is the comprehensive premier source for authoritative, peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines.
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Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
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Academic Search Elite contains full-text for more than 2,100 journals, nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
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Biological Science Database (ProQuest)
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This database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. It provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
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CINAHL Complete (EBSCO)
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CINAHL Complete provides access to literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1937 to present. The database indexes over 5,000 journal in the nursing field and health related fields. It also offers access to full-text and abstracted articles, evidence-based care sheets, and more.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Select from free, quality peer-reviewed full-text scholarly research journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
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Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (ProQuest)
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The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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EBSCOhost
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A large collection of scholarly and popular articles in a broad range of subjects.
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Environmental Science Database (ProQuest)
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The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of literature across this field and related disciplines. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
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Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale Onefile)
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Environmental Studies and Policy provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.
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Gale Learning
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Gale hosts a number of databases that cover a wide array of topics including both scholarly and popular articles.
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GreenFILE (EBSCO)
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GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
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This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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IGI Global Research Collection
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A collection of 4 ebooks on topics such as education and health care.
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MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
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Medline/PubMed
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A collection of citations and abstracts of biomedical literature for health care professionals from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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New York Times
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ProQuest Central
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A large collection of scholarly and popular articles on a broad range on subjects.
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Publicly Available Content Database (ProQuest)
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Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full-text to publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.
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PubMed
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PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Science (Gale Onefile)
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Science provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments. Key subjects covered by the database include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
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Science Database (ProQuest)
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This database is a resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. It features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text.
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SIRS Issues Researcher
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This database offers balanced content selections from more than 2,000 international sources on the analysis, opinions and the pros and cons of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, and political issues.
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eBook Databases

eBooks from EBSCOhost
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Over 4,000 eBooks in science, medicine, technology and liberal arts. In addition to new books, this database contains NetLibrary titles.
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Health Reference Series Online
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Each volume is comprised of a wide variety of articles from authoritative sources to inform and educate readers about a disease or disorder, giving comprehensive information needed to understand a particular medical condition.
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PubMed
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PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Reference Databases

Credo Reference
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An excellent place to begin your research on an unfamiliar topic.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
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This is the online version of the respected Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ImageQuest
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This resource from Encyclopedia Britannica provides access to thousands of free images that can be inserted into academic assignments. Note: for educational use only.
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Khan Academy
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Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include: art, history, math, biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, computer science and more.

You can create an account to keep all your courses together and track your progress.
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Medline/PubMed
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A collection of citations and abstracts of biomedical literature for health care professionals from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Salem Press Reference Books Online
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Salem Press offers a number of great reference books online in Health, History, Science and Literary Criticism.

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Video Databases

Films on Demand
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A database that hosts documentaries, educational and skill videos. Subjects include: Hospitality, Nursing, Imaging, Anatomy, Human Resources, Theban Plays (Sophocles)
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Kanopy
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Films from PBS, Nevco, Criterion Collection, BBC, Medcom and more.
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Subject Librarian

Cindy Seitz, MLS

Contact info
Phone: (716) 827-2434
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