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Subject Specific Databases

• AGRICOLA (FS)
  Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
• BioOne (Amigos)
  Access to full-text bioscience research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
• JSTOR - Use the Advanced Search to limit to journals on specific subjects, such as aquatic science, biology, botany, ecology, and general science. Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.
• Life Sciences (CSA)
  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' Biological Sciences. Indexes journals in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology.
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Abstracts and selected full text articles in scientific, technical and medical fields. Science Direct help.
  
• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias: Oxford Reference Biological Sciences Collection; The New Penguin Dictionary of Science; The Macquarie Dictionary of Trees & Shrubs; Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology; Andromeda Illustrated Dictionary of Science; Collins Dictionary of Biology; McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology; Philip's Guide to the Oceans.

Subject Related Databases

• CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (Ebsco/iCONN)
  Indexes journals for nursing and other health professions. See also Pre-CINAHL
• Medline (Ebsco)
  Index and abstracting for literature in medicine and related fields.
• Oxford Reference Earth and Environmental Science
• Oxford Reference Medicine
• Oxford Reference Science
• Credo Science
  Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• PsycInfo (Ebsco/iCONN)
  Index and abstracting for journals, book reviews, dissertations and other literature in psychology and related fields
• Web of Science (ISI)
  Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
  
• See also Databases for Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Public Health.

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
  Indexes/abstracts articles in 3000+ scholarly journals in social sciences and humanitites, and general interest magazines and newspapers. Many articles available in full text.
• Article 1st (FS)
  Index of articles from c.12,500 journals.
• CQ Researcher
  Full text of the weekly CQ Researcher, covering multiple viewpoints on current controversial social issues.
• Digital Dissertations
  Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Full text of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/iCONN)
  Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.
• General OneFile (Gale/iCONN)
  For college students. Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.
• Papers First (FS)
  Indexes papers presented at conferences.
• Proceedings (FS)
  Index of conference publications.
• Wilson Select Plus (FS)
  Full text articles in a variety of humanities and social sciences.
• WorldCat (FS)
  Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Subject Guides

• Biology
• Environmental Science