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  • Biological Abstracts
    Includes citations & abstracts from international life sciences journals. Fields covered include: biology, botany, zoology, biotechnology, and environmental studies.
    Coverage: 1980-.
    articles scholarly
  • BioOne
    Biological journals covering biology, ecology, and environment with specific emphasis on systematics, botany, mammalogy, plant science, conservation biology, toxicology, agronomy, ornithology, limnology, and taxonomy.
    Coverage: 2000-.
    articles scholarly

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  • CINAHL Ultimate
    Provides broad content and high volume of full texts for nursing and allied health research. Specialties include ambulatory care, occupational therapy, pediatrics, psychiatry, nuclear medicine, gerontology, and more. Resources include quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules, and research instruments tools.
    articles scholarly
  • ClinicalKey
    Includes clinical information: medical books, journal articles, drug information, patient education materials, etc.
    encyclopedias reference
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    Includes the full text of regularly updated clinical & healthcare systematic reviews provided by the Cochrane Collaboration.
    Coverage: Current issue.
    articles scholarly

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  • JoVE Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology
    Video collection that demonstrates how to execute techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology. While enhancing the understanding of methods, each video is paired with additional video resources to show practical applications of the techniques and complementary skills.
    streaming video
  • JoVE Biology
    Contains general biology research methodologies in all fields of cell, molecular, and organismal biology and includes new applications of standard techniques and approaches aimed at understanding the functions of life and living organisms. Inlcudes techniques in physical & systems biology, cellular biochemistry, genetics, physiology, and a combination of eukaryotic & prokaryotic model systems.
    streaming video
  • JoVE Essentials of Behavioral Science
    This collection is sub-divided on the basis of different aspects of human behavior such as learning, memory, cognition, movement, addiction and behavioral disorders. Videos discuss neurobiology of behavior and concepts behind prominent techniques.
    streaming video
  • JoVE Essentials of Neuroscience
    Videos offer a glimpse of neuroscience at the professional level, through an exploration of five major branches of study: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cell & molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience. The collection describes current and prominent methods in nervous sytem function research.
    streaming video
  • JoVE General Laboratory Techniques
    This video collection exhibits the use of standard pieces of laboratory equipment and basic laboratory functions. Each video is paired with additional resources to show practical applications and complementary skills.
    streaming video
  • JoVE Medicine
    This video collection connects basic research and clinical applications to improve overal patient care & prognosis. Articles may present medical procedures, case studies or clinical trial methodologies. Included studies are often modeled towards predictive, preventative, personalized, and practical approaches to treatment of disease.
    streaming video
  • JoVE Neuroscience
    Multidisciplinary video collection devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented.
    streaming video
  • JSTOR Global Plants
    A growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials from community contributors around the world. This resource also features partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors‚ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs. Selected sub-collections include reference works and books.
    artwork images primary sources

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  • Natural Medicine Therapeutic Research Center
    Provides access to monographs on natural ingredients – vitamins, herbs, minerals, non-herbal supplements, naturally sourced chemical compounds, and foods – health & wellness, sports medicine, commercial products, and tools like charts, advisories, and checkers including those for interactions, nutrient depletions, and effectiveness ratings.
    encyclopedias reference
  • Nursing & Allied Health Database
    Provides healthcare information covering nursing, allied health professions, and alternative & complementary medicine. Includes journal titles in full-text, plus dissertations and other grey literature representing rigorous scholarship.
    articles scholarly

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  • Open Education North Carolina Collection
    Open Education North Carolina Collection is a collection of free textbooks that are part of NC LIVE's Open Education North Carolina (OENC) initiative.
    books e-books
  • New OVID Medline
    Multidisciplinary human and animal health sciences database with advanced searching capabilities and access to MEDLINE covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.
    articles scholarly

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  • Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
    A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences: agriculture, neuroscience, astronomy, oncology, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences, computer science, psychiatry, materials science, surgery, mathematics, veterinary science, medicine, and zoology.
    Coverage: 1945-.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases
  • ScienceDirect
    Coverage includes Biochemistry and Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Medicine & Pharmacology, Neurosciences, Physics, Social Sciences.
    Coverage: varies.
    articles scholarly
  • Scopus
    Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature from scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Areas of focus include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases
  • Sports Medicine & Education Index
    Provides specialized, editorially curated resources from scholarly and trade literature. Topics range from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology.
    Coverage: 1970-.
    articles newspaper magazine articles scholarly
  • Springer Protocols
    Reproducible, step-by-step laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiles protocols from book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks.
    Coverage: 1980-.
    books e-books

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  • TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource
    Genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community.
    data statistics

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  • UpToDate
    An evidence-based knowledge system to help clinicians at the point of care. Content is written, edited, and continually reviewed by a global community of physicians to ensure it is of the highest quality and based on the latest evidence.
    encyclopedias reference

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  • Web of Science
    Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), plus Biological Abstracts, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE (PubMed), and the SciELO Citation Index. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references.
    Coverage: 1945-.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases

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  • Zoological Record
    Contains international journals, proceedings, and books covering zoological topics in animal behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography. The thesaurus allows cross linking of subject, geographic, palaeontologic, and taxonomic vocabularies.
    Coverage: 1978-2007.
    articles scholarly

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