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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
BioOneBiological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text coverage of peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences member societies. BioOne Partners
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Ecology & Botany CollectionFull text access to 29 journals in JSTOR's Botany & Plant Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology collections. JSTOR
Environment CompleteOver 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s. Full text for more than 650 journals. EBSCOhost
General Science Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, book reviews, interviews, exhibits, product evaluations, and more. H. W. Wilson
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
MEDLINECitations and abstracts for articles, reports, interviews, conference, trials, and more. Coverage for over 4,800 current biomedical journals. EBSCOhost Web/National Library of Medicine
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Web of ScienceProvides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded Index (1992 to present) for more than 6,400 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals in over 150 disciplines. Offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references. Includes MEDLINE. Updated weekly. Thomson
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

Q - Science (General) QH - Natural History - Biology
QK - Botany QL - Zoology
QM - Human Anatomy QP - Physiology
QR - Microbiology RT - Nursing
RT - Nursing S - Agriculture
SB - Plant Culture, Parks SD - Forestry
SF - Animal Culture SH - Aqua Culture. Fisheries. Angling.

Reference books

BookCall number
A Dictionary of Biology (online book)A Dictionary of Biology
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (online book)A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
A Dictionary of Zoology (online book)A Dictionary of Zoology
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (20 volumes)REF Q121 .M3 2002

Web resources

Audubon's Birds of America
Drug Information Portal
Encyclopedia of Life
Flora of North America
ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
Scirus
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
The Encyclopedia of Earth
Web page for VWC Biology Professor Maynard Schaus