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Articles
Biological Abstracts (Web of Knowledge)
- Now on the Web of Knowledge platform - unlimited concurrent user access!
- Provides citations and abstracts from over 4,000 biology and life science journals published worldwide.
- Covers 1969 to present.
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- Full text for many articles in over 1,200 scientific and medical peer-reviewed journals.
- Coverage varies according to title.
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- Provides the full text of over 60 journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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- Indexes and abstracts articles from more that 3200 medical, health, and nutrition journals. UNCG offers several versions of this database.
- Years of coverage vary; PubMed covers 1966-present and is updated daily.
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- Covering geology, geography, and ecology literature.
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- Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
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- Free version provided by the National Agriculture Library
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
- Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.
- Focuses primarily on inherited, or heritable, genetic diseases.
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Citation Index
Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited
- Indexes over 8,100 peer-reviewed science journals cover-to-cover.
- Guide to when, where, and how often articles have been cited
- WoS includes Science Citation Index AND Social Science Citation Index
- Covers 1955-present.
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Dissertations
- Indexes dissertations and some masters theses
- 1861-present, primarily U.S.
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- Online full text of UNCG dissertations and theses published after 1996.
- Abstracts available for earlier years.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Database of over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles in the biological sciences
- Updated monthly.
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- Also includes Oxford dictionaries for ecology, plant sciences, and zoology.
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (2nd ed)
- Evolution, physical characteristics, habitat, life history, and more on members of the animal kingdom
- Searchable by common name or by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, or species
- Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
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- Short descriptions include diet, distribution, and brief life history of familiar animals.
- Searchable by common name or by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, or species
- For fuller treatment of animals and more images, search Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
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- Full text. Diagrams and descriptive and numeric data on chemical substances.
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- Full text of reference books in many scholarly disciplines.
- Features several science titles including Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the print encyclopedia plus more up-to-date articles not yet available in the printed version. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of WWW links selected by Britannica editors.
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