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Biology

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) (ProQuest) -This database provides abstracting and indexing resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical for scientists researching the world’s living aquatic resources. Marine, freshwater and brackish water regions and environments are examined, including biology and ecology of aquatic organisms and legal, policy and socioeconomic issues. It includes five ASFA-specific files – ASFA1, ASFA 2, ASFA 3, ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts, ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts – and Oceanic Abstracts. Coverage: 1971 – current

Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) – This collection includes the Biological Sciences, MEDLINE and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. It includes abstracting and indexing resources related to medicine, technology and the environment. Coverage: 1946 – current

BioOne Abstracts – This website provides abstracts and indexing for BioOne’s research journals covering the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)– This web database contains full-text coverage for over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals in all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

GreenFILE (EBSCO) –This database is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Content includes the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments and how to minimize these effects. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

JSTOR Global Plants– This online platform collects global plants content, tools, and people interested in biological and plant science. It has foundational content vital to plant science, including plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials such as letters, maps, paintings, and drawings.

Natural Science Collection (ProQuest) – This source includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, the Biological Science Collection and the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection and provides full-text titles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. It also includes specialized abstracting and indexing resources for literature reviews. Coverage: 1946 – current

PLOS BIOLOGY – This monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covers all aspects of biology. Published by Public Library of Science (PLOS). Coverage: 10/13/2003 – current

SAGE Premier Journals (SAGE Publishing) – This web database provides full-text access to more than 650 peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research and international titles on behalf of over 500 scholarly and professional societies. Search by topic, e-journal title or by the Life & Biomedical Sciences discipline.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) – This full-text database contains peer-reviewed journal titles and ebooks covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. It includes extensive coverage in the physical and biological sciences, engineering and life sciences. Search by topic, browse by book/e-journal title, or browse by the Agricultural and Biological Sciences discipline.

Wiley Online Library (Ejournals) – Click here for the titles subscribed to by the library. Titles include the following, among others:

Annals of Applied Biology
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Fisheries
Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Letters in Applied Microbiology
North American Journal of Aquaculture
North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Transactions of American Fisheries Society

Environmental Science

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest) – This database offers full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. It also includes abstracting and indexing resources, as well as the AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases and content previously available in ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). Coverage: 1960 – current

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) (ProQuest) -This database provides abstracting and indexing resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical for scientists researching the world’s living aquatic resources. Marine, freshwater and brackish water regions and environments are examined, including biology and ecology of aquatic organisms and legal, policy and socioeconomic issues. It includes five ASFA-specific files – ASFA1, ASFA 2, ASFA 3, ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts, ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts – and Oceanic Abstracts. Coverage: 1971 – current

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality (ProQuest) – This subfile is devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and estuaries.

Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) – This collection includes the Biological Sciences, MEDLINE and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. It includes abstracting and indexing resources related to medicine, technology and the environment. Coverage: 1946 – current

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)– This web database contains full-text coverage for over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals in all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Earth, Atmospheric and Aquatic Science Collection(ProQuest)– This collection includes the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database, the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts and Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA). It provides full-text coverage for scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. It also includes abstracting and indexing resources for issues affecting earth’s air, land and water environments. Coverage: 1950 – current

Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) Database (EPA) – This website provides environmental impacts statements filed with the EPA since 1987.

GreenFILE (EBSCO) –This database is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Content includes the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments and how to minimize these effects. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

Natural Science Collection (ProQuest) – This source includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, the Biological Science Collection and the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection and provides full-text titles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. It also includes specialized abstracting and indexing resources for literature reviews. Coverage: 1946 – current

SAGE Premier Journals (SAGE Publishing) – This web database provides full-text access to more than 650 peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research and international titles on behalf of over 500 scholarly and professional societies. Search by topic or browse by e-journal title or by the Life & Biomedical Sciences discipline.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) – This full-text database contains peer-reviewed journal titles and ebooks covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. It includes extensive coverage in the physical and biological sciences, engineering and life sciences. Search by topic, browse by book/e-journal title, or browse by the Environmental Science domain.

Springer (Ejournals) – Titles subscribed to by the library include:

TOXLINE (ProQuest) – This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens. TOXLINE can also be searched through the Natural Science Collection link. Coverage: 1999 to the present.

Wiley Online Library (Ejournals) – Click here for the list of titles subscribed to by the library. Titles include, among others:

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Fisheries
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Journal of Aquatic Animal Health

Marine Science

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) (ProQuest) -This database provides abstracting and indexing resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical for scientists researching the world’s living aquatic resources. Marine, freshwater and brackish water regions and environments are examined, including biology and ecology of aquatic organisms and legal, policy and socioeconomic issues. It includes five ASFA-specific files – ASFA1, ASFA 2, ASFA 3, ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts, ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts – and Oceanic Abstracts. Coverage: 1971 – current

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources (ProQuest) – This subfile provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy and socioeconomic issues.

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-living Resources Abstracts (ProQuest) – This subfile covers the wide-ranging field of oceanography, including limnology, ocean engineering, international policy and legislation, and meteorology and climatology.

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Aquaculture Abstracts (ProQuest) – This subfile focuses on aquaculture and the culture of fish and other organisms.

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (ProQuest) – This subfile covers marine biotechnology, molecular biology and molecular genetics as applied specifically to marine and aquatic organisms.

BioOne Abstracts – This website provides abstracts and indexing for BioOne’s research journals covering the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Bulletin of Marine Science (Ejournal) – Please note, publisher link is slow to load.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)– This web database contains full-text coverage for over 15,000 peer-reviewed open access journals in all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

GreenFILE (EBSCO) –This database is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Content includes the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments and how to minimize these effects. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

Natural Science Collection (ProQuest) – This source includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, the Biological Science Collection and the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection and provides full-text titles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. It also includes specialized abstracting and indexing resources for literature reviews. Coverage: 1946 – current

Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest) – This subfile of Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) provides abstracting and indexing resources pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment. It covers topics such as marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, meteorology and geology, and environmental, technological, and legislative issues and policy. Coverage: 1981 – current

SAGE Premier Journals (SAGE Publishing) – This web database provides full-text access to more than 650 peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research and international titles on behalf of over 500 scholarly and professional societies. Search by topic or browse by e-journal.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) – This full-text database contains peer-reviewed journal titles and ebooks covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. It includes extensive coverage in the physical and biological sciences, engineering and life sciences. Search by topic, browse by book/e-journal title, or scroll down to choose a category.

Springer (Ejournals) – Titles the library subscribes to includes:

Wiley Online Library (Ejournals) – Click here for the titles subscribed to by the library. Titles include, among others:

Fisheries
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
North American Journal of Aquaculture
North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

General Databases and Ebooks

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) – This multi-disciplinary database provides information to support most academic disciplines and subjects. Includes full-text for peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Coverage: 1965 – current

ArticleFirst (OCLC) – OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals.

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) – This database is the authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. It represents the works of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. Full-text is available from 1997 to the present. Coverage:1861 – current

Ebook Central (ProQuest) – This database is a collection of thousands of full-text online books on a broad range of subjects in the humanities, natural and physical sciences and the social sciences.

Ebook Collection (EBSCO) – Formerly NetLibrary, this collection of ebooks covers topics chosen by the University of Maryland Libraries.

Ebook Comprehensive Academic Collection (EBSCO) – This multidisciplinary collection includes over 200,000 ebook titles covering a large selection of academic subjects and features ebooks from leading publishers and university presses.

Ebooks(OCLC) – This online catalog contains all the electronic books cataloged by OCLC members.

JSTOR – An electronic archive of journals in in the following areas: Arts & Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies and Life Sciences. Also provides access to primary source collections.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) – This full-text database provides coverage to nearly 2,000 general periodicals, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos and maps.

OAIster (OCLC) – OAIster is a search interface to locate digital resources.

PapersFirst (OCLC) – This index contains papers presented at conferences worldwide. Over 2,380,000 records. Coverage: 1993 – current

ProceedingsFirst (OCLC) – This resource is an index of worldwide conference proceedings with over 74,000 records. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at the conference. Coverage: 1993 – current

WorldCat (OCLC) – WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. Includes books, journals and all other types of media.

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