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Gallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Covers the Middle Ages to the present.

Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, newspapers, dissertations and bulletins, in the core areas of women's studies, men's studies, and sexual diversity issues. Covers 1972-present.

Offers full-text access to scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, government and non-governmental organization reports. Materials focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Provides a historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and changes in gender roles. Covers 1970-present.

Interdisciplinary database that provides abstracts to journal articles, books, conference proceedings and reports. Fields include: physical and human geography, geology and ecology. Covers 1980-present.

Provides citations and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology including journals and other publications representative of the interests of professional geological and earth science societies. Covers North America since 1693 and other areas since 1933.

Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and is inter-operable with GeoRef.

Provides global information on invasive alien species. The focus is on invasive species that threaten biodiversity and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants. Species information includes species' biology, ecology, native and alien range, references, contacts, links, and images.

"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web"--About Google scholar.

Disseminates official information from all three branches of the United States federal government including a comprehensive list of federal resources available online and links to other government agencies.

Scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Includes full-text articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Contains images and provides links to related sites.

Covers all topics related to music, including musical instruments, compositional forms and scientific topics. Biographical entries cover composers, performers and writers. Offers links to related sites including sound archives.

Provides articles and illustrations on animals, their life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and more.