Agriculture, Biology, Ecology


Number of resources: 74
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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AgEcon Search
Full text library of agricultural and applied literature.
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AGRICOLA Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, plant genome studies ,and environmental developments. Audience includes researchers in the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology, agricultural and environmental fields. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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AGRIS Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Strong in agricultural and development economics of developing countries; AGRIS, the International System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology, is an international bibliographic database. It is produced by the AGRIS Coordinating Centre, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, in cooperation with participating countries and international organizations. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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Agris - FAO Databases
Information for international agricultural research.
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Animal Health and Production Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Animal Health and Production.
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AnimalScience.com Authentication Required
Covers all aspects of veterinary science, including parasitology and zoonotic disease, as well as animal nutrition, equine science, animal production and animal genetics, and aquaculture and fisheries.
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Aquaculture Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Aquaculture.
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ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage is devoted to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Essential to researchers studying aquatic environments and marine pollution problems, including biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, environmental engineers and scientists, industrial engineers, waste managers, corporate regulatory affairs managers, and government officials. This database is one component of the ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries database and the comprehensive "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in full ASFA or in ESPM.
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ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Includes comprehensive information on the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms and environments. Subject areas include aquatic organisms, environmental quality, fisheries, limnology, marine environments, oceanography, policy and legislation, and wildlife management. Sponsored by the United Nations, this database includes non-English language journals and institutional reports that are not normally widely distributed. Abstracts are drawn from over 5,000 international serial publications (print and electronic), books, reports, conference proceedings, patents, and computer media. Includes thesaurus and taxonomic term list. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
Compliments the Water Resources Abstracts database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment.
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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Topics range from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals, including clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. Valuable to general microbiologists, bacteriologists, environmentalists, medical and veterinary laboratory staff, agricultural researchers, cell biologists, geneticists, toxicologists, and many others. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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BEAST CD Authentication Required
VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com. AnimalScience.com covers all aspects of veterinary science, including parasitology and zoonotic disease, as well as animal nutrition, equine science, animal production and animal genetics, and aquaculture and fisheries.
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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
The BFV Online is an electronic version of the bibliography volumes published for years 1981-1993
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Biological Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal literature. This database enables researchers and students to retrieve references to vital biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Coverage is international, and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 90% of the records include abstracts. Basic truncation symbols are the dollar sign: $ or the colon: :.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications. [BIOSIS Previews consists of Biological Abstracts (journal articles) and Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews, and meetings).] Basic truncation symbols are the dollar sign: $ or the colon: :.

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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health. It provides bibliographic citations with abstracts in English for records of all languages. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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Crop Protection Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Crop Production.
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Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge"
DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
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Ecology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Focuses on how microbes, plants, and animals interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. Covers habitats and food chains; erosion and land reclamation; resource and ecosystems management; modeling; the impact of climate, water resources, soil, and man; and environmental problems such as depletion, erosion, and pollution. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Includes abstracts of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued by the federal government each year, indexed for easy reference. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Environmental Engineering Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Sources include more than 500 primary journals and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.Full text statements are available from 2003-present and digests (summaries) are available from 1985-present.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Incorporates Pollution Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and other specialized databases.

Areas of coverage include agricultural and environmental biotechnology, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements (U.S.), pollution, toxicology & toxic emissions, and water resource issues.

The ESPM database is comprised of the following component databases:

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/agabstracts
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/asfa3
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/bacabs
Ecology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ecolabs
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eisdigests
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/envengabs
Health and Safety Science Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/healthsafetyabs
Human Population & Natural Resource Management
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/hpnrm
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/indappmicroabs
Pollution Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/pollabs
Risk Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/riskabs
Sustainability Science Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sustabs
Toxicology Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/toxicabs
Water Resources Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/waterabs



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Faculty of 1000 - Biology Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Current literature awareness service which highlights the "most interesting papers" in biology, based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading scientists.
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Fish & Fisheries Worldwide Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
A working biologist's index to all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries and aquaculture, including fish management, natural history, and fish health, plus environmental, habitat, and commercial information. Indexes about 1200 journals, plus books, government documents and "grey literature". Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
Print version published as Sport Fishery Abstracts 1955-1985; Fisheries Review 1986 - 1995.
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Forestry Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers all aspects of forest management, tree biology and forest ecology, including silviculture, provenance studies, inventories, economics, agroforestry, husbandry of non-wood forest products, tree anatomy and physiology, climate, soils, forest ecology, tree breeding, fire, forest pests and protection, forest conservation and arboriculture. This resource is fully contained and accessible only through CAB Abstracts (1973-present) and CAB Archive (1939-1972).
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Forestry Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Forestry.
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FPI: Flowering Plant Index Authentication Required
Part of the Plant Information Online database. Click on: Citations to Plant Information and Illustrations. Searches over 150 periodicals and selected monographs. Accesses illustrations and concomitant information on approximately 100,000 different plants.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index Authentication Required
A resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 430 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
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Global Health Authentication Required
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the Global Health database, to produce approximately 25,000 new entries per year. Nearly all records have informative English abstracts prepared by scientists and linguists.
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GreenFILE Authentication Required
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health and Safety Science Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health and biological sciences database. Provides a number of powerful features not included in PubMed (e.g., direct export of citations to your RefWorks account), and retains many advanced functionalities of PubMed (e.g., ability to use PubMed's syntax to refine your searches).
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Human Population and Natural Resource Management Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This database explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals, material from conference proceedings, and hard-to-find gray literature. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Illustrata - Natural Sciences Authentication Required
Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Search results – the objects – can be viewed in full, in either (thumbnail or enhanced format) along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper.
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Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Includes significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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IngentaConnect Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications. Full text of articles is sometimes available for subscribed journals.
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LexisNexis Academic (Classic) FOR OFF-CAMPUS, WIRELESS, & ON CAMPUS USE Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. (Classical interface)
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LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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LexisNexis Government Periodicals Authentication Required
Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles. Check periodical title in MNCAT to locate copies in the Libraries.
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MasterFile Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975.
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MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
MEDLINE includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

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MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed. Covered are basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health and pre-clinical sciences as well as life sciences that are important to practitioners and researchers - biology, environmental science, biophysics, chemistry and plant & animal science. Ovid, a software company specializing in text retrieval applications and search interfaces, provides an easy to use interface for searching MEDLINE.
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NTIS National Technical Information Service Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related publications with over 2.0 million bibliographic records since 1964. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video and audio. See the NTIS Website for an overview of subject coverage and document delivery services.
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Oceanic Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Focus includes marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. See also ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries.
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Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology. OWL covers much of the 'grey' literature not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index. OWL is a joint effort between the American Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union and Birds Australia.
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PAPERCHEM Authentication Required
Indexes publications relating to pulp, paper and allied technologies.
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Plant Information Online
Includes current sources in North American nurseries for over 70,000 plants; over 200,000 citations to current plant science literature, listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images.
This resource is free and open to the public.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. Includes material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents, along with information from primary journals in the field. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)" database. To identify additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Public STINET
Public STINET provides access to citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) Technical Reports Collection since December 1974 as well as some full text reports for those citations.
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PubMed - Public Version
Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles. Includes Medline and Pre-Medline (articles more recent than found in Medline).
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PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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Risk Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Experts define risk as a combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects. Recently, increasing scientific attention has centered on the identification and alleviation of risk in today's world. And Risk Abstracts provides a comprehensive source for interdisciplinary perspectives in this evolving field. Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The database includes occasional articles on topics of significant interest. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Professionals involved in risk research studies, environmental science, engineering and design, or any type of industry will find in Risk Abstracts essential information that can help them identify, measure, evaluate, and manage risks of all kinds. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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SciFinder Scholar Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics; Access it online, download software to use it on your home or office computer, access it from public computers in Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath Libraries by clicking on the SciFinder desktop icon (note: access contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff). SciFinder Scholar includes journal and patent literature with references as far back as 1907 as well as information on chemical regulatory data, suppliers, reactions, and substances. You will need to download and log in to VPN before you can access SciFinder from off-campus.
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Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences Authentication Required
Proceedings from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada.
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Social Sciences in Forestry
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents. Database produced by the U of Minn Forestry Library.
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Sustainability Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Explores the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals, material from conference proceedings, and hard-to-find gray literature. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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Textile Technology Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
The Textile Technology Digest (TTD) database contains bibliographic citations, with abstracts, and provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects. Selected articles summarize the technological advancements and applications of science and research to the textile industry. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile production and processing, and the automation and management systems of these operations. Coverage also includes many of the major resources of the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.
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Toxicology Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers social poisons and substance abuse, natural toxins, legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues; toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and other substances, and the in vivo effects of toxic substances; the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials; and toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM.
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TOXLINE
TOXLINE includes citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, and meeting abstracts, papers and reports on Toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals
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Trail Planning Construction and Maintenance
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents. Database produced by the U of Minn Forestry Library.
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Treesearch
Treesearch is an online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the US Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research monographs published by the agency as well as papers written by Forest Service scientists but published by other organizations in their journals, conference proceedings, or books. Research results behind these publications have been peer reviewed to ensure the best quality science.
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TROPAG & RURAL Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
The two databases contain references with abstracts to the worldwide literature on agriculture and economic and social development in tropical and subtropical regions. TROPAG covers food crops and industrial crops, animal husbandry, forage and pastures, aquculture, forestry, agroforestry, postharvest operations, farming systems and environmental management of tropical regions. RURAL abstracts literature on economic and social development in developing countries including development strategies, international cooperation, health, income generation, education, women and development, and environmental issues.

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Tropical Forest Conservation and Development
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents. Database produced by the U of Minn Forestry Library.
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Turfgrass Information File Authentication Required
The Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related to turfgrass culture. TGIF was established in 1983 by the United States Golf Association (USGA) Turfgrass Research Committee and the Michigan State University Libraries, and is now maintained by the Turfgrass Information Center, a division of MSU Libraries. The ultimate goal of TGIF is to provide access to all published materials reporting on aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition Authentication Required
A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Additional congresses are added each month.
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Urban Forestry
Indexes publications relating to the history of urban forestry; urban forest legislation; the benefits of urban forests; selection and planting of trees; maintenance of the urban forest; planning and management; and urban forestry programs. Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents. Database produced by the U of Minn Forestry Library.
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VET CD Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com. AnimalScience.com covers all aspects of veterinary science, including parasitology and zoonotic disease, as well as animal nutrition, equine science, animal production and animal genetics, and aquaculture and fisheries.
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Water Resources Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Includes water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM. NOTE: Until 1994, this database was produced by the United States Geological Survey, when it was generally known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Since 1994, Water Resources Abstracts has been produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, which broadened the scope by including more material published outside the U.S.A. This database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment, complements the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts database, ASFA, where there is greater coverage of the marine environment and biological material.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
A working biologists index to world literature on mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds; includes studies on all aspects of their life cycles and behaviors, including hunting and management research - Indexes about 1300 journals, plus books, government documents and "grey literature" - Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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Yeast Proteome Database Authentication Required
A comprehensive knowledge resource for the proteins of S. cerevisiae.
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Zoological Record Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
The premiere index for the zoological sciences, this is a comprehensive index to the world's zoological literature from approximately 6000 journals. It covers all animal taxa from protozoa to the primates, and all aspects of their life cycles, behaviors, taxonomy, ecology and evolution. The online version includes information not available in the printed index, such as taxonomic summaries of each animal discussed in an article, geographical headings and additional subject approaches. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
Printed index, 1864 - date, issued annually.
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