Biology Literature Databases
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Agricola This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Includes more than 4.8 million citations for journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to volumes published by Annual Reviews. Covers topics in biomedical/life, physical and social sciences.
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Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCollection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
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BioOne This link opens in a new windowFull-text of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Dissertations & Theses: University of Mississippi This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the citations and abstracts, as well as full text when available, for dissertations and theses produced by graduate students at the University of Mississippi.
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Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowOffers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.
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GeoRef This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive geosciences database produced by the American Geological Institute containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowProvides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, and abstracts.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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MarinLit This link opens in a new window
MarinLit is a database of marine natural products literature. MarinLit allows researchers to search over 32,000 compounds across over 34,000 articles.
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MEDLINE (via PubMed) This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's premier database in the life sciences, with a concentration in biomedicine
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National Academies Press This link opens in a new window
Contains free PDF versions of more than 4,000 reports on a variety of topics from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
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PubMed This link opens in a new window
The PubMed database contains more than 34 million citations and abstracts from the biomedical literature. PubMed facilitates searching across three National Library of Medicine resources: MEDLINE (includes Medical Subject Headings: MeSH), PubMed Central, and Bookshelf.
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PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowFree archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Science.Gov This link opens in a new window
Searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Database from Elsevier that provides abstract and full text access to more than 2500 journals from several publishers. It includes more than 9 million full text articles covering a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines.
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowComprehensive abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus supports research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields as well as in the arts and humanities. Scopus does not test or support Mac/IoS Devices. Scopus recommends IE 8 or higher, Chrome or Firefox.
Websites
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RCSB Protein Data BankEnables breakthroughs in science and education by providing access and tools for exploration, visualization, and analysis of:
-Experimentally-determined 3D structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive
-Integrative 3D Structures from the PDB Archive
-Computed Structure Models (CSM) from AlphaFold DB and ModelArchive -
Science.govScience.gov provides access to millions
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Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic TermsThe glossary features nearly 250 terms explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Image Libraries
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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. Contains thousands of freely available images.
Image: Botanical Extracts by Robert John Thornton
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Cell Image LibraryA repository for images and movies of cells from a variety of organisms. It demonstrates cellular architecture and functions with high quality images, videos, and animations.
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National Human Genome Research Institute Image GalleryThe NHGRI Image Gallery provides imagery related to the genomics research, people, and programs of the institute.
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NOAA Digital Library collectionsThe NOAA Digital Library collections reflect NOAA’s broad mission of advancing science “from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the sun.”
Image: Alligator by Commander Grady Tuell
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U.S Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital LibraryThis digital library brings together images, videos, documents, audio, and maps covering a broad spectrum of topics.
Image: Water lily blossom by Brunst, Axel, USFWS-TV
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