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  • Location: Life Sciences Library, Jordan Hall A304 IUB
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Biology

Pertains to the study of organisms. Includes a wide range of biological sciences including ecosystems to nanobiology, cell biology, molecular biology, systems biology, microbiology and biological informatics. Also related to zoology, botany, biochemistry and medical sciences anatomy and physiology.



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- about - Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
  • Coverage: Varies by title

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- about - This encyclopedia includes over 7100 articles in 81 major areas of science and technology.
  • Coverage: 9th edition (2002) onwards

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=153

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AGRICOLA - about - Bibliographic database of articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.
  • Coverage: 15th century to present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1217394

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Analytical Abstracts - THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009 - about - Covers the current worldwide analytical literature. Serach by keyword including analyte and/or technique.
  • Coverage: 1980 to present
  • Alternate Title: Analytical WebBase - THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3975364

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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic - about - Indexes journals covering topics in medicine including clinical medicine, nursing dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Offers some full-text.
  • Coverage: 1985-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2610770

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- about - A collection of full-text journals, mostly from small societies and non-commercial publishers , focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2219450

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- about - Covers journal articles, conference papers, and other document types in the fields of biology, biochemistry, biophysics, botany, clinical and experimental medicine, microbiology, and zoology.
  • Coverage: 1969-present
  • Alternate Title: Biological Abstracts

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1758953

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Birds of North America - about - Accounts of 716 or more birds species from North America. Information includes vocalization, range, systematics, life history, and bibliographic references.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854918

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Blackwell Synergy - about - A database of online journal articles from Blackwell Publishing, some full-text.
  • Coverage: NA

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3312745

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- about - Full-text of key medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts.
  • Coverage: Varies
  • Alternate Title: OVID

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1307911

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CASSI (Science Journal Title Verification) IN LIBRARY USE ONLY - ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 12/31/2009 - about - Abbreviations of over 130,000 journal and other serial titles in the chemical, biological, engineering, and physical science fields are linked to their full titles.
  • Coverage: 1907-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=46

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Chicago Manual of Style Online - about - The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2384486

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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - about - physical constants for over 12,000 of the most common chemical substances and many facts about the physical sciences, including conversion factors, health and safety information.
  • Coverage: 81st ed., 2000/2001 - 84th ed., 2003/2004

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=62

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CSH Protocols - about - Contains new and classic research techniques covering cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.
  • Alternate Title: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2982067

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Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - about - An online encyclopedia that corresponds to the 5-volume print edition published by Marcel Dekker in 2004.
  • Coverage: 2004
  • Alternate Title: Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854920

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EcoSal - about - Web resource based on the ASM Press publication Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology.
  • Alternate Title: Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology (online)

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1805956

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- about - Over 3,000 articles in the life sciences broadly defined with a glossary containing over 7,000 terms.
  • Alternate Title: ELS

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854916

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- about - Abstracts and citations drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
  • Coverage: 1981

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=90

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Faculty of 1000 -- Biology - about - Literature awareness tool that highlights and reviews the most interesting biology papers on the basis of their scientific merit not journal in which they appear.
  • Coverage: mostly 1998 to date

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=500441

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GreenFILE - about - Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4433162

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Henry Stewart Talks Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection - about - Audio-visual presentations by experts in biomedicine and life sciences.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5218261

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International Plant Names Index - about - Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
  • Alternate Title: Index Kewensis

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3240513

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- about - The Indiana University online catalog.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38591

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Journal Citation Reports. Science Edition (JCR) - about - Citation analysis for journals in the sciences
  • Coverage: 1998-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=138

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Journals@Ovid Full Text - about - Journals@OVID Full Text contains the full text of at least 82 journal titles. They are also linked through MEDLINE (OVID).
  • Coverage: Most titles are available from 1995 to the present; some titles go back to 1993.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=140

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- about - Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
  • Coverage: From the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=141

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- about - Provides in-depth articles with extensive bibliographies about applied chemistry, industrial products, chemical substances either as single substance or group, materials science, and chemical fundamentals.
  • Coverage: parts of 4th and 5th editions
  • Alternate Title: Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1954629

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- about - Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
  • Coverage: varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=145

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LexisNexis Environmental - about - Search abstracts and full text through Environment Abstracts; access federal and state codes, agency regulations; case law, agency decisions; waste site data, hazardous materials.
  • Coverage: 1975 to present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59568

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- about - The EBSCO interface to Medline, the primary source of world-wide literature on biomedicine and health care.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2219464

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- about - The ISI interface to Medline, the primary source of world-wide literature on biomedicine and health care.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2219465

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MedLine (Ovid) - about - The OVID interface to Medline, the primary source of world-wide literature on biomedicine and health care.
  • Alternate Title: OVID Medline

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3824629

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MIT CogNet - about - Full-text browsing and searching of online core reference works in Psychology. Full-text of MIT Press psychology journals and abstract searching of other publishers.
  • Alternate Title: CogNet

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1954630

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Nineteenth Century Masterfile - about - Indexes to British and American periodicals in the nineteenth century and to British and American official publications, including Hansard and Cobbett's debates
  • Coverage: Nineteenth Century

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38596

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Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews. Series A, Human and Experimental - about - a fully searchable abstract database related to food and health – from food composition and safety to obesity, parenteral nutrition and allergies.
  • Coverage: 1990 to present
  • Alternate Title: CABI Database Subsets: Human Nutrition

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5380630

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Oxford Journals Online Archives - Science - about - Backfiles of Oxford University Press science journals.
  • Coverage: Varies; first journal issue to the present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2918979

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- about - Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government
  • Coverage: 1972-present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=168

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Prokaryotes - about - An electronic edition that revises, updates, and expands the second print edition of The prokaryotes that Springer-Verlag published in 1992.
  • Coverage: 1999-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=174

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - about - Comprehensive source for information on doctoral dissertations from universities in the United States and Canada. It also indexes a small number of master's theses.
  • Coverage: Citations only from 1861- present; from 1980 to present, 350-word abstracts are included on dissertations; from 1988 to present, 150-word abstracts are included on Master's theses; full text is available from 1997 to the present.
  • Alternate Title: Dissertations and Theses

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=73

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- about - Online database containing more than 27,500 searchable full-text articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988+.
  • Coverage: 1988 - present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59574

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- about - Indexes journal articles, books, dissertations and technical reports from the world literature on psychology and related fields.
  • Coverage: 1887-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=175

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- about - Biomedical citations and abstracts (MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE) from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Additional citations, approximately 1% of the database, are from other sources.
  • Coverage: 1950-
  • Alternate Title: Medline

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1577183

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Science Citation Index - about - The most important scientific journal literature is covered, with abstracts for the most recent articles; includes citation searching.
  • Coverage: 1955-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=183

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Science Express - about - Electronic publication of papers appearing in the journal Science.
  • Coverage: 2004 to current

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4356379

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Science Signaling - about - A knowledge environment devoted to the study of how cells control their own and each others' behaviors through chemical signals.
  • Coverage: 1997-
  • Alternate Title: STKE

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2731499

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Science's Next Wave - about - A career development magazine, updated weekly on the Web, that has been published since 1995 by the research journal Science.
  • Coverage: current
  • Alternate Title: Next Wave

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59586

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- about - Electronic access to journals published by Elsevier Science and Academic Press.
  • Coverage: varies; includes current subscriptions and some backfiles
  • Alternate Title: Elsevier ScienceDirect

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59577

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SciFinder Scholar - about - Covers the primary literature of all areas of chemistry, medicine, and other areas, including material in journals, dissertations, technical reports, patents, and conference proceedings.
  • Coverage: 1907-
  • Alternate Title: Chemical Abstracts

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=184

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SpringerLink - about - Full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers
  • Coverage: Varies by journal

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4356378

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- about - Bibliographic citations and abstracts from all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.
  • Coverage: 1994-2000

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=197

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- about - An interface that allows cross-searching of Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, Medline, Zoological Record, and JCR. Not all fields from individual databases are included.
  • Coverage: 1955-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=203

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- about - Comprehensive coverage of the zoological literature from around 1978. The sources are journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books and reports.
  • Coverage: c. 1978-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1758955