Biological Sciences

This database contains records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, primarily covering the subjects of agriculture, plant and animal sciences, entomology, and nutrition.

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

Coverage: 1946-present

Index to international biomedical literature, 1950-present.

Provides access to the full-text of articles in journals published by Elsevier Science. UI journal subscriptions are indicated by a green icon in the journal listing.

Fish, Fisheries and Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide combines databases on all facets of ichthyology, fisheries, aquaculture and aquatic biology.

Largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

Provides detailed scientific information for over 700 species of birds breeding in the USA and Canada.

Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world, together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Provides full-text of recent news articles.

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more that 3,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more that 2,700 peer-reviewed journals.

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