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Description : Provides indexing for over 5 million records in life sciences journals. BIOSIS monitors around 6,000 international journals to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Coverage: 1990 -
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Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.
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Coverage: Current 5 years
- General Sciences Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 168 popular and professional English language science periodicals. Designed specifically for students and non- specialists, the periodicals covered range from very general to highly specialized titles. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, astronomy, conservation, earth science, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, and zoology.
Coverage: 1984 -
- BioOne
Description: BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
Coverage: 2000 -
- Annual Reviews
Description : Annual Reviews is a comprehensive collection of critical reviews written by scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within Biological & Medical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1984 -
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Description : This multidisciplinary database, provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications
Coverage: 1981 -
- Conference Papers Index
Description : Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses.
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- Applied Science and Technology Full Text
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