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Web of science

Provider: ISI

Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work.

Biological sciences

Offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of materials including journal articles, books, conference proceedings, technical reports and patents. Fields covered include biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Covers 1982-present.

PubMed

Provider: NCBI

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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NBII's Digital Image Library

A growing library of diverse, well-documented images of nature and the environment. Contributed by photographers and organizations, most images are freely available for use.

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AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill

Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.

Encyclopedia of life sciences

A fully searchable collection of articles by scientists and historians in the fields of biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, science and society.

Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia

Provider: Gale

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

Encyclopedia of ecology

Covers the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. Includes topics such as behavioral ecology, ecological processes, ecological modeling, ecological engineering, ecological indicators, ecological informatics, ecosystems, ecotoxicology, evolutionary ecology, global ecology, human ecology, and system ecology.

Encyclopedia of evolution

Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2002.

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BioOne

Provides full-text access to research journal articles in such fields as the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Covers 2000-present.

BioMed Central

Provides free access to biomedical research publications including biology, medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. Offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology. Coverage varies.

JSTOR

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

ScienceDirect

Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals.

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ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

An interdisciplinary database which has much full-text. Always a good place to start. Covers 1971-present.