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Glickman Library - Portland Branch

Biology

Indexes & Databases

    • Academic Search Premier
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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    • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
    Coverage: From 1971
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope. Updated quarterly.

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    • BasicBIOSIS
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Not Available
    Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors.

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    • BasicBIOSIS
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Not Available
    Provides detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists. Conveys solid, factual information useful to life scientists exploring areas outside their specialties.

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    • BioMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Original research articles from over 100 BMC journals are freely available, though other content from some BMC journals is available only by subscription.

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    • Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.

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    • BIOSIS Previews
    Coverage: 1990 +
    Licensed Number of Users: 5
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Worldwide in scope, BIOSIS Previews, the premier database in the biological sciences, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. Subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 5,500 serial publications as well as books, proceedings and meeting abstracts, technical reports, review papers, and patents are indexed. There are 58 separate data fields that can be searched including author, title, publication source, organism, concepts, super taxa, publication type, author affiliation, and abstract keyword. Searches can be limited to review articles. Updated weekly

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    • Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (University of Maine)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1970-present
    This database focuses on ecology, economics, and growth and management of Maine forests. Contains the full-text of University of Maine's Cooperative Forestry Research Unit's (CFRU) reports as well as other publications resulting from research by CFRU staff and associates. Searchable by subject category such as hardwood management, harvesting, and thinning. The database can be browsed by author, subject, and title.

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    • EBSCO Animals
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

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    • GrayLIT Network
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides searchable access to over 100,000 full-text technical documents which report the results of federally funded research and projects. Includes reports from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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    • IngentaConnect
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: Coverage from 1988.
    Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals. Covers all disciplines. Updated daily. NOTE: Full text access available ONLY with subscriptions to individual titles. Check your library for holdings.

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    • MEDLINE
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-present
    Index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, dentistry and health administration. Updated weekly.

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    • National Sea Grant Library Database
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1965
    A searchable database of over 30,000 publications resulting from Sea Grant funded research. Subjects covered include aquaculture, coastal zone management, marine education, and oceanography. Over 11,000 of the documents are available fulltext.

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    • Oceanic Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1981
    Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports covering the marine and brackish-water environment. Topics covered include biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, ecology, geochemistry, geophysics, marine biology, and marine geology. Indexes over 500 journals. Updated monthly.

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    • PubMed
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1966-
    Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.

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    • PubMed Central
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1970-
    PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

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    • Science Citation Index, Expanded
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 2000
    Comprehensive multidisciplinary coverage of approximately 5,800 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching multi-disciplines to uncover information relative to their research.

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    • TOXNET
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes TOXLINE, Hazardous Substances Data Bank, ChemIDplus chemical information database, and other resources.

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    • Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1935
    Includes over 345,000 citations to the literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found in journals, conference proceedings, monographs, theses and dissertations, and government reports. Database includes Wildlife Review Abstracts, which was published through 1995 by the National Biological Service. Searching is by keyword, subject, and author as well as by taxonomic and geographic identifiers. Abstracts are available for publications added to the database since September 1996. 8,000 records added annually. Updated quarterly. This database subscription is funded, in part, by the Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine. (UMaine students, faculty and staff only.)

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    • Wiley Interscience
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Wiley Interscience provides web-based access to publications from John Wiley and Sons. Provided is full text access to 350+ journals across a broad spectrum of subject areas including Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology and Social Sciences.

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Sheila Johnson
Library Liaison

Phone: 780-4690
E-mail: sheilaj@usm.maine.edu
Glickman Library, Portland

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Biological Sciences

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