Biology, Genetics & Life Sciences
ACS Journal Search
Retrieve citations and abstracts for articles in journals published by the American Chemical Society.
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AmphibiaWeb
Search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology and conservation.
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Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals
Contains information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals.
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APIRS Online Database
Includes annotated citations for more than 65,000 research articles, books and reports about plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.
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Bentham Open Access
Includes more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines.
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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
BFV contains over 130,000 references to published literature of vertebrate paleontology, evolutionary paleoecology, and related subjects.
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Bibliography on Computational Gene Recognition
Provides searching to a collection of publications on computational gene recognition, mainly based on statistical differences of coding and non-coding sequences.
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Bioethics Literature Database
BELIT provides access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering bioethics.
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Biological and Agricultural Index Plus 
Cites articles from a wide range of over 365 popular and professional (peer-reviewed) journals about biology and agriculture published in the United States and internationally.
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BiologyBrowser
Browse for information in the life sciences by geography, organisms, and subject.
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BioMagResBank
BMRB is a database for NMR spectroscopy information on biomolecules.
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BioMed Central
Digital full text archive of over 100 life sciences journals managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the United States National Library of Medicine.
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Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.
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Catalogue of Life
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is is a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.
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Complete works of Charles Darwin online
Contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts, a detailed bibliography and manuscript catalogue.
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Conference Papers Index
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
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Credo Reference : Science & Technology
Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries covering a variety of scientific disciplines.
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Databases on Medicine and Molecular Biology
Links to publicly available resources in: Chemistry; Ethics; Genomics; Health Care; Laboratory Medicine; Microbiology; Oncology; Patents; Pharmacology; Proteomics; Toxicology; and Veterinary Medicine.
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Digital Dissertations
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.
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Digital Library of the Commons
DLC is a gateway to the international literature on the commons, which focuses on the relation between the physical resource and human institutions.
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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
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E-Journals in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.
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eMolecules
Formerly Chmoogle, eMolecules is an open-access chemistry search engine designed to discover, curate, and index public chemical information.
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Encyclopedia of Earth
Searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts covering the environment of the Earth, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth.
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Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Encyclopedia of Life aims to provide information on over one million species of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
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Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science
Covers classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science.
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FishBase : A Global Information System on Fishes
Database containing information on thousands of species, over 70,000 synonyms, over 25,000 pictures, and over 20,000 references.
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Flora of North America
FNA presents information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
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FORMIS : A Master Bibliography Of Ant Literature
FORMIS contains all known ant taxonomic literature and is the only database which covers ant literature before the 1970s.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
GLHI contains articles about plants, horticulture, gardens and landscape design and history.
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General Science Full Text
Wilson General Science Abstracts indexes over 160 leading science journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.
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Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Searchable, browseable online glossary containing about 3000 terms.
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Glossary of Terms Used in Physical Organic Chemistry
IUPAC recommended definitions for common terms in physical and organic chemistry.
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Gramene : A Comparative Mapping Resource for Grains
Gramene is a data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses.
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Herplit Database
The Herplit Database consists of approximately 50,000 citations dating from 1586 to the present on reptiles and amphibians.
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Index Herbariorum
Index Herbariorum is a detailed directory of 3000+ public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff and plant specialists associated with them.
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Index to American Botanical Literature
The Index contains entries dealing with 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.
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Insect and Spider Collections of the World
This web site is the clearing house of information on the insect and spider collections of the world.
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International Field Guides
Index to field guides used for visual identification of both plants and animals.
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Internet Resources in Science and Technology
Links to public internet sites in the areas of: General Resources
in Science & Technolgy; Biography; Botany; Gardening; Chemistry;
Climate and Weather; Engineering; Environment; Geology; Health and
Medical Information; Inventions; Oceanography; Physics; Resources
for Teachers; Science Fair Projects; and Zoology.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
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Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator
J-STAGE contains the full text of scientific and technical journals and bulletins of academic societies published in Japan.
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Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature is a database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns.
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Knovel Library
Contains the full text of over 700 leading science and engineering reference handbooks, technical data and reports, textbooks, and conference proceedings.
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LITDB : PRF Protein / Peptide Literature Database
LITDB is a database containing over 450,000 entries on the molecular aspects of proteins from about 1000 journals.
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Medline
MEDLINE indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
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Merck Veterinary Manual
Provides clinical information for the veterinary practitioner and other animal health professionals.
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Molecular Biology Database Collection
The Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection contains links to over 700 freely available databases.
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MyiLibrary eBooks
A collection of over 400 ebooks covering science and the social sciences.
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National Academies Press
Search for the full text to more than 3,000 NAP texts from the Joseph Henry Press, covering a wide variety of subjects (arts, humanities, and social and applied sciences) are available free online.
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National Technical Information Service
NTIS contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
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NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gateway provides access to over 80 of the NIST scientific and technical databases.
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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
ONIM is a catalog of essays reviewing human genetic traits that follow classical Mendelian inheritance patterns.
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Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & Science
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
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PapersFirst
Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Pathway Interaction Database
A database of pathway interactions, assembled by The Center for Bioinformatics of the National Cancer Institute ( NCICB ) from publicly available sources of information.
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PharmGKB
PharmGKB database is designed to aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals contributes to differences in reactions to drugs.
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PLANTS database
The PLANTS Database maintained by the USDA provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.
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PrimateLit Database
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
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Protein Data Bank
PDB is a searchable repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
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PubChem Chemical Structure Database
PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
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PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Provides access to nearly 100 years of citations from more than 500 leading popular periodicals and magazines.
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Reefbase
Online information system on coral reefs containing data and information on the location, status, threats, monitoring, legislation, and management of coral reefs in 131 countries.
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Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia
RFE is a compilation of data in several formats that assists with the accurate identification of fish species.
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Royal Society Online Journals
Search and display the full text of journals in biology, engineering, mathematics and physics.
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Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary
Contains over 65,000 main and sub-entries compiled from over 50 major veterinary texts and journals.
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Science Journals via ProQuest
Search full text and images for the over 300 journals in science and technology, with over 160 titles available in full text.
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Science.gov
Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.
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SCIRUS
Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.
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STINET MultiSearch
Provides access to the DOD Scientific and Technical Information Center (DTIC) databases containing citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.
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Swiss-Prot / TrEMBL Protein Sequence Database
Curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotation, such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.
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TAIR
The Arabidopsis Information Resource database provides a comprehensive resource for those working with Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant.
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Taxonomy Browser
Contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the NCBI genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.
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UK PubMed Central
A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
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Whole Brain Atlas
An atlas of color images of the brain, including brain injuries and diseases, such as cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative (Alzheimer's disease), and inflammatory or infectious diseases.
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Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection
Indexes journal articles and books in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Development and Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Materials Science.
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Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database
WIND is a bibliographic database covering the effects of energy development (including towers, power lines, and other wires) on birds.
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Zoological Record
Provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
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