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  • Environment Complete More Info
    This multidisciplinary database provides coverage of environmental sciences, environmental law, public policy, and more. Includes abstracts from over 1,600 domestic and international journals and full text from over 600 journals and 100 monographs.
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    Includes journals in all areas of environmental science, law, policy, etc.
  • Science Direct More Info
    ScienceDirect? is a large electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Subjects covered include physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences & humanities
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    Coverage in many areas of science. Polk subscribes to approx. 1700 full text journals from 2006 - present.
  • GreenFile More Info
    GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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    Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment
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  • BioOne More Info
    BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
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    Full text of 70+ journals in bioscience areas.
  • Toxline More Info
    TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology.
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    Abstracts in the field of toxicology (includes pesticides, mutagens and teratogens).
  • Science Citation Index More Info
    Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.
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    Comprehensive search tool that lets you do a cited reference search.
  • Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide More Info
    Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The database includes over 1.3 million bibliographic records, some with abstracts, and some going back to 1935 and earlier, mostly from Wildlife Review Abstracts. Approximately 18,000 records per year are added on topics such as habitat, individual species, hunting, diseases, economics, zoology, management techniques, and eco-tourism
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    World's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • GEOBASE More Info
    GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation
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    A multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences including environmental studies.
  • Nature Online More Info
    Online access to the monthly and weekly issues of Nature Magazine.
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    Online access to the monthly and weekly issues of Nature magazine.
  • Science Magazine Online More Info
    Online access to Science magazine.
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    Full text access to current and some archival issues.
  • JSTOR More Info
    JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).
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    On the search screen, click on Ecology and/or Botany to search a number of full text journals in those fields.
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  • Academic Search Complete More Info
    Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. The upgrade from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Complete has been partially funded in 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.
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    Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals.
  • Masterfile Premier More Info
    Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.
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    Multi-topic tool includes full text of popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and more.
  • Lexis Nexis Academic Universe More Info
    Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics: news, business, legal, and reference information. In Business, it includes company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, accounting journals & more.
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    Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
  • Credo Reference More Info
    Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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    Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
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