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Biology - Try These First |
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| Biological abstracts | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1926-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - comprehensive coverage of life sciences research: botany, zoology, microbiology, biochemistry, clinical & experimental medicine, biophysics, and more - comprises 12+ million bibliographic records describing articles from over 4,200 scholarly journals - search by topic, author, source publication, publication year, address, taxonomic data, major concepts, concept codes, or other identifying codes. | |
| ProQuest Central | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1665 to present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - international coverage for 175 subject areas, featuring scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, videos & more - aggregated full-text database comprising thousands journals + 2,000 newspapers, 100,000 theses, 455,000 working papers, millions of up-to-date company reports, market & industry reports, and country profiles. | |
| Scopus | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1995-present; selective coverage from 1880 available online: |
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| Index, abstracts – Records for academic journals, books, and conference proceedings published worldwide. Covers science, engineering, medicine, social science, social work, arts, and humanities. Includes Scopus AI. | |
| Web of science core collection | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1900-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts – Records for academic journals, books, and conference proceedings published worldwide. Covers sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool. | |
Biology - More Specifically |
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| Academic search complete | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1887-present: |
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| Index, full-text - a multi-disciplinary database providing access to millions of articles from thousands of scholarly journals and other authoritative sources. | |
| ADA: Arctic Discovery and Access | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1960-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Records describing peer-reviewed publications, government and industry reports, conference proceedings, posters, news articles, photos, maps, field journals, films, and descriptions of field research projects related to northern Canada and the circumpolar Arctic. Subjects include marine, biological and health sciences, engineering, technology, politics, economics, social conditions, land use, Indigenous peoples, traditional knowledge, archaeology, history, art, and literature. Also searches the Arctic Institute of North America's archives, special collections, and artwork, which includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, artefacts, and faunal materials. | |
| Agricultural & environmental science collection | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1660-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - cross-disciplinary resource indexing the global literature of environmental sciences & agricultural research - covers academic & trade journal articles, conference proceedings, government publications, technical reports, working papers, magazines, newspapers, wire feeds & other resources - full text is provided for much of AESD's content. | |
| Arctic & Antarctic regions | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1800-present available online: |
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| Index - Over 1 million records - describing articles, reports and books on cold regions. Covers temperate latitudes with cold winters, to the Himalayas and the poles. | |
| ArXiv.org | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1991-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Open access to 1,258,750+ e-prints in physics & related disciplines, mathematics, statistics, computer science (from the Computing Research Repository), quantitative biology & quantitative finance - provides links to bibliographic references & citations via the INSPIRE and the ADS databases. | |
| ASFA : aquatic sciences and fisheries abstracts | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1971-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Covers fisheries, aquaculture, aquatic organisms, aquatic pollution, conservation & environmental quality, brackish & marine environments, marine biotechnology, oceanography, limnology & freshwater environments, maritime policy & legislation - over 1 million records describing journal articles, technical / government reports, books, conference publications. | |
| BELIT : bioethics literature database | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1960-present available online: |
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| Index - extensive bibliographic directory covering world literature on bioethics - comprises 550,00+ records describing journal articles, books / chapters, legal documents, grey literature, newspaper articles & more -- records created at ethics research centres in Germany, France & the USA. | |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1450-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - digital library providing open access to 48,300,000+ pages / 104,000+ titles of natural history, botany, biodiversity & taxonomic literature - the BHL is a consortium of major natural history, botanical & research libraries that have digitized resources housed in each participating institution, providing free access to the legacy literature that underpins the work of the natural science community - the BHL serves as the literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life. | |
| Biological science collection | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1809-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - monitors articles from 8,000+ scholarly, trade & popular journals, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs / books / chapters, government documents & patents - interdisciplinary database comprising 40 million records: animal behaviour, bacteriology & virology, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, molecular biology, plant science & mycology, aquatic organisms & marine biology, microbiology, entomology, zoology & ecology + aspects of agriculture & veterinary science + health, risk & safety sciences. | |
| bird : Base inventory of research databases | |
Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| bird is a new resource from Paratext, developed in partnership with Compendium Library Services, providing a comprehensive guide to 7,500+ commercial and Open Access research databases. bird reveals the spectrum of scholarly applications, for researchers and collection specialists alike. | |
| Birds of the world | |
Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| Welcome to Birds of the World, a powerful new resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology—Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds (originally published by the Cornell Lab) with Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive and Bird Families of the World (originally published by Lynx Edicions)—into one rich and colorful hub where you can find comprehensive, authoritative information on birds. With the integration of millions of bird observations from eBird and images from the Macaulay Library, Birds of the World is the most powerful ornithological resource ever created. | |
| Canadian business & current affairs database | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1971-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Covers Canadian academic, trade & popular journals of interest to the humanities, education, social sciences, sciences & professions + news / current events - Includes 4.5 million records describing articles from 1,665 periodicals which focus on Canada - full-text for 540+ periodicals & daily news sources, 1985-present. | |
| Digital Commons network | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| Index, full-text – open access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. | |
| Encyclopedia of life support systems | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 2004-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - compendium of twenty multi-volume encyclopedias covering trans-disciplinary relationships between nature & human society - disciplinary & interdisciplinary articles cover environmental & health aspects of the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering & technology ; discuss effective approaches for managing natural resources like renewable & non-renewable energy, biodiversity, ecology, hydrology, health, agriculture & more. | |
| GreenFILE | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1910-present: |
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| Index, abstracts - Over 538,000+ records describing well-researched scholarly articles, government & industry reports, & general-interest publications concerning human impacts on the environment - Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, environmental education, law, health &technology - Includes Open Access full text for more than 5,800 items. | |
| Index to American botanical literature | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1995-present available online: |
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| Index - Includes articles, books, and reports covering aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi - Includes systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany - Geographical area covered encompasses land and marine plants and fungi from Greenland to Antarctica. | |
| Invasive species compendium | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: Unspecified coverage available online: |
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| Index, abstracts, full-text - over 1500 full datasheets on invasive species and animal diseases have been developed for inclusion in the ISC - includes full text articles, a bibliographic database with links to over 75,000 abstracts and a glossary of over 780 terms and definitions. | |
| Kew bibliographic databases : KBD | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1971-present available online: |
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| Index - Over 320,000 records describing articles on botany - Covers three databases: KR (Kew record of taxonomic literature); PMBD (Plant micromorphological bibliographic database) and EBBD (Economic botany bibliographic database). | |
| NRC Research Press journals | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1929-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - 30+ current/ceased Canadian scholarly science/technology journals; most available in full-text - covers a broad range of biological & physical science, engineering & applied sciences disciplines - most articles from NRC Research Press journals (1951-2010) are freely available to all Canadians. | |
| ProQuest ebook central | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1960-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - comprises 36,600+ ebooks, most from Cambridge University Press, Oxford UP, Springer and Taylor & Francis - covers all academic subjects. | |
| Science.gov : USA.gov for science | |
| Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1900-present available online: |
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| Search engine, full-text - Federated search of 45+ databases and 2000+ websites from 14 U.S. federal agencies - Covers journal articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings & other published materials - Subjects: agriculture, applied sciences, astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, communication, earth & ocean sciences, energy, environment, medicine, mathematics, physics. | |
| SciFinder | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1907-present available online: |
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| Index, Full Text Links - Over 10,000 journals and patents from more than 61 patent authorities - Searches Chemical Abstracts and other databases, including Medline - Covers many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more - Also includes organic and inorganic substance information. | |
| Zoological record plus | |
| Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1864- available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Covers world zoological & animal science literature: conservation & environmental science, evolution, biochemistry, genetics, biogeography, fossil record, marine & freshwater biology, parasitology & disease, reproduction, taxonomy & systematics, veterinary studies - comprises 2.5 million records describing journal articles, books/chapters, conference papers, reviews - Unofficial register of taxonomic names & systematics -- Thesaurus + Latin Names of Organisms Vocabulary. | |
Biology - Also to Consider |
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| Academic video online | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: |
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| Index, streaming video – Videos in all fields of study and research. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy & Peabody winners. & Peabody winners. | |
| American doctoral dissertations | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1902-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - Record of dissertations accepted by American universities during the 20th century, many with links to full-text. | |
| Annual reviews | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1932-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - comprises thousands of useful, intelligent syntheses covering significant primary research literature from 45 disciplines in the biological, medical, physical & social sciences - comprehensive, timely critical reviews that identify the principal contributions of any field and help researchers maintain current awareness in their field. | |
| BASE : Bielefeld academic search engine | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1200-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text – Millions of records describing open access documents in thousands of institutional repositories, selected websites, and local data collections. | |
| Catalog of U.S. government publications | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1789-present available online: |
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| Index, selected full-text - Records for current and historical publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government, with links to many online publications. The database is updated daily and offers optional searches of records in the Congressional Serial Set Catalog, U.S. government serials, and the USGPO Historical shelf-list [1805-1992]. | |
| DART-Europe E-theses portal | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1602-present available online |
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| Index, full-text - Research theses held in European repositories, with link to full-text of every thesis listed. | |
| Dialnet | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: Varying dates available online: |
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| Index - Over 2 million records in over 5,000 periodicals - Contains Spanish academic journals, theses and books in all fields of study - Limited full text and theses are available. | |
| Federal Science Library | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1600-present available online: |
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| Catalogue - search library records from Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Environment & Climate Change Canada, Fisheries & Oceans Canada [WAVES], Health Canada, National Research Council Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada - covers books & e-books, journals & e-journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, standards … on environmental, physical & life sciences, fisheries & aquaculture, food & agriculture, earth sciences, forestry, geology, engineering & applied sciences, ocean & nautical sciences, technology, medicine & health sciences, business. | |
| Google scholar | |
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Coverage: Varying dates available online: |
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| Search engine – Coverage of scholarly literature in all disciplines, from academic publishers and organizations. Current Memorial students, faculty, and staff can set up full-text links in Google Scholar settings. In the Library Links box, search for Memorial University of Newfoundland – Get it @ Memorial. | |
| IsisCB explore | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1974-2014 available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - comprises several hundred thousand citations describing works in the history of science - core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science - covers all fields of science, mathematics & engineering. | |
| Journal citation reports | |
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Coverage: 1997-present available online: |
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| The Journal Citation Reports module within InCites allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries/territories. | |
| JSTOR : the scholarly journal archive | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: Varies by journal available online: |
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| Full Text - Over 1,700 titles - Includes coverage of selected scholarly journals in the following areas: Arts and Humanities; Language and Literature; Social Sciences; Business; Education; Ecology and Botany; Health Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics - Time lag between the most current issue published and JSTOR's content varies between zero to ten years. | |
| Monthly catalog of U.S. Government publications, 1895-1976 | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1895-1976 available online: |
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| Index – Records describing reports, fact sheets, maps, handbooks, conference proceedings, etc. published by US Federal government agencies. Covers agriculture, earth sciences, defense, economics, education, energy, food, health, law, natural resources, public policy, science, technology, transportation, infrastructure, and more. | |
| National Academies Press | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1930-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - 9,000 full-text books & technical reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine - authoritative information on important matters in the social, biological, physical & applied sciences, engineering, medicine, business & education. | |
| Paperity | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1850-present available online: |
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| Index, full-text - multi-disciplinary aggregator of open access journals & papers: both gold & hybrid - access more than 1.2 million articles in 4,200+ journals from hundreds of disciplines: sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities & the arts. | |
| ProQuest dissertations & theses global | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1637-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts, full-text - comprises 4.6 million detailed records describing dissertations & theses from around the world - comprehensive historic & ongoing coverage for North American works + significant international coverage - full-text for 2.1 million graduate works added since 1997 + strong retrospective full-text coverage - abstracts available: dissertations 1980- ; master's theses 1988- ; simple bibliographic citations from 1637 + 24-page dissertation / thesis previews when available. | |
| PubMed | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1948-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts - Covers medicine, biomedicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Includes links to databases and related resources from NCBI. | |
| SPRILIB : a polar and glaciological bibliographic database | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1602-present available online: |
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| Index and Abstracts - Over 120,000 records - Covers literature relating to the Arctic, Antarctic, and snow and ice throughout the world - Includes articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, government documents, and other reports - Comprises three databases: SPRILIB Antarctica, SPRILIB Ice and Snow, and SPRILIB Russian North. | |
| Web of science. KCI-Korean journal database | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1980-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts – Indexes South Korean scholarly journals, both open-access & subscription titles. Covers: engineering, science, technology, general internal medicine, sports sciences, business, economics, public administration, history, arts and humanities. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool. | |
| Web of science. SciELO citation index | |
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Internet access available to MUN users only. Coverage: 1997-present available online: |
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| Index, abstracts – Cited references from hundreds of open access journals covering research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. Subjects: agricultural sciences; applied social science; biological sciences; engineering; exact and earth sciences; health sciences; linguistics, letters and arts; mathematics; physics; and social sciences. Includes Research Assistant, an AI tool. | |
| WorldCat | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: B.C.E.-present available online: |
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| Catalogue - World's largest library catalogue comprising millions of bibliographic records describing materials in libraries world-wide. Locate books, music, videos, maps, audio-books, photographs, primary documents, digital versions of rare items, and which libraries own them. Items not held by Memorial Libraries can be requested via Document Delivery. | |
| WorldWideScience.org | |
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Internet access unrestricted. Coverage: 1930-present coverage available online: |
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| Index, abstracts -- Global science gateway cross-searching 100+ U.S. & international scientific databases from over 70 countries - Covers fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment & basic sciences - links to full-text when available. | |