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Biological Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes research on animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, biochemistry, ecology, plant science as well as access to MEDLINE.
Science This link opens in a new window Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
Science Database This link opens in a new window Features over 1,145 titles, with more than 965 available in full text; Covers hundreds of topics including physics, astronomy, biology, earth science, and chemistry.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics.

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Databases with full-text articles on a variety of disciplines. A good place to start for almost any subject.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Includes access to the Arts & Sciences I, Life Sciences, and Religion & Theology collections.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Combines 39 single databases into a large academic research resource with access to millions of full-text articles from thousands of scholarly journals
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window Online reference library with 750+ reference eBooks

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Use keywords or key phrases instead of complete sentences
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Films On Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new window Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Also includes content formerly in the NC LIVE Video Collection.

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AGRICOLA, PubAg, & NALDC Search AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC) together in one place with SEARCH from the USDA National Agricultural Library
Bioline International Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. By providing a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals (currently from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela),
bioRxiv (Preprint articles in Biology) bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution.
BioMedCentral (BMC) Open Access titles in biology, health and medicine from Springer Verlag.
Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals is a collection of free and open access peer reviewed/scholarly journals. All funding comes from donations, including sponsors, members, and publishers. Users are able to search for journals by title, subject, keywords, etc.

ERIC This link opens in a new window Educational Resources Information Center produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Most of the content is available in full text for free.

Europe PMC Europe PMC integrates content from a range of sources such as PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Agricola, and 31 life science preprint servers including biorxiv, Research Square, and Preprints.org.
Medline Plus MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window This free database searches more than 670,000 electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from more than 25 universities worldwide.

OMICS International- Open Access Journals OMICS International Open Access is a scientific organization that provides and promotes open access scientific information and research findings. It also includes conference proceedings.
Public Library of Science Breaking boundaries. Empowering researchers. Opening Science. PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 34 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

SpringerOpen The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, so that we now offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books

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