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Biological Abstracts 1969 - present The Biological Abstracts database indexes over 4,000 journals annually and contains over 5 million records. Subject matter covered includes anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, bioengineerin... Access Database Biological Abstracts

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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) 1982 - present Bacteriology Abstracts is now part of the Agricultural and Environmental Science Database. The database indexes 429 journals studying bacteriology from its pure biochemistry and genetics aspects t... Access Database Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
BioCyc The BioCyc database collection is a set of more than 7,600 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) describing many sequenced genomes. PGDBs describe the entire genome of an organism, as well as its bioche... Access Database BioCyc
Biological Abstracts 1969 - present The Biological Abstracts database indexes over 4,000 journals annually and contains over 5 million records. Subject matter covered includes anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, bioengineerin... Access Database Biological Abstracts
CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary) 1910 - present CAB Abstracts a comprehensive database of the applied life sciences. The subject matter covers agriculture, agricultural economics, animal breeding and disease, biotechnology, dairy science, entomo... Access Database CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary)
FSTA: Food Science & Technology 1969 - current The FSTA database indexes 1,800 journals, books, theses, conference proceedings, reviews, standards, legislation, and patents each year. The subject matter covers beverages, cocoa and chocolate, co... Access Database FSTA: Food Science & Technology
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) 1982 - present Industrial and Applied Microbiology is now part of the Agricultural and Environmental Science Database. This database indexes 460 journals as well as government reports, books, and conference proc... Access Database Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
PubMed 1950 - present PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 journals in ... Access Database PubMed

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Descriptions of Plant Viruses This site provides a central source of information about viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa, with some additional data on related animal viruses. Over 390 individual desc... Access Database Descriptions of Plant Viruses
Prokaryotes The revised Third Edition of The Prokaryotes offers new and updated articles by experts from around the world on taxa of relevance to medicine, ecology and industry. Entries combine phylogenetic an... Access Database Prokaryotes

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AGRICOLA (US National Agricultural Library) 1970 - present AGRICOLA is now part of the Agricultural and Environmental Science Database is a bibliographic database consisting of literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, pat... Access Database AGRICOLA (US National Agricultural Library)
BioOne Complete 2000 - present BioOne provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne contains more than 200 bioscience research titles from leading scientifi... Access Database BioOne Complete
Current Contents Connect 1990 - present Current Contents Connect® is a current awareness database that provides Web access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the recently published is... Access Database Current Contents Connect
Google Scholar Dates Vary 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 researc... Access Database Google Scholar
Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Original, 2010 Microbes both synthesize and exploit a vast range of hydrophobic organics, especially petroleum oil hydrocarbons and industrial pollutants, and the underlying interactions not only have major conse... Access Database Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks) is a platform for specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies. Editors and lecturers are leading world expert... Access Database Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
InCites Essential Science Indicators Ten year rolling file - present Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool that helps you identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. ESI surveys more than 11,000 journals from around the wor... Access Database InCites Essential Science Indicators
IngentaConnect Dates Vary Ingenta provides access to full text articles from many publishers in many disciplines. More than 800 of our electronic journal subscriptions at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries are ... Access Database IngentaConnect
PubAg (United States Department of Agriculture) 1997 - present PubAg is the National Agricultural Library's portal to USDA-authored and other agricultural research. It contains more than 40,000 full-text articles and citations to an additional 340,000 articles... Access Database PubAg (United States Department of Agriculture)
ScienceDirect 1995 - present ScienceDirect is an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. (Updates vary). UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals and ebooks through ScienceDirect. Thi... Access Database ScienceDirect
Scopus Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Access Database Scopus
Springer Protocols 1983 - present Springer Protocols is a database of over 55,000 biomedical and life sciences laboratory protocols. The database contains nearly 40 years of protocols including content from Methods in Molecular Bio... Access Database Springer Protocols
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science
Wiley Online Library The Wiley Online library provides full-text searching across thousands of ebooks and millions of articles from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines... Access Database Wiley Online Library

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