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RECOMMENDED DATABASES by SUBJECT: Biology

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Agricola
1970-present. Journals, books, reports on agriculture, animal science

BasicBIOSIS
1994-present. 375 biology journals in all disciplines

Biological and Agricultural Index
1983-present. 250 journals in biology and agriculture

Biology Digest
1989 - present. 300+ journals in biology and related areas; abstracts written in non-technical language

BioOne
Full text of recent issues of selected scholarly journals in biology

CINAHL
1982-present. Indexing over 1,700 nursing and allied health journals. Includes consumer health information.

Faculty of 1000 Biology
Provides highlights of papers published in the biological sciences, based on recommendations from selected leading researchers Offers ratings of individual papers by author's peers.

General Science Full Text
Coverage dates: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+ Designed specifically for students and non-specialists, General Science Full Text features full text, plus the graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of scientific information.

Marine, Oceanographic & Freshwater Resources
1966-present. 9.5 million records in biomedical literature

Medline or PubMed
1988-present. 17,000 multidisciplinary journals

PLoS Biology (through Directory of Open Access Journals)
Coverage varies. A growing collection of open-access journals in various fields including biology

ScienceDirect

Journals from Elsevier. Browse or search tables of contents, abstracts and full text or articles in all disciplines

Web of Knowledge
1900-present. 6,500 journals, monographs, conferences, etc. All aspects of zoology

Stony Brook University Libraries
Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3300
631.632.7100 (t), 631.632.7116 (fax)

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