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• Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (OmniFile Full Text Mega)
  Provides access to core literature in biology and agriculture, including 90 full-text journals from 1997 to present.
• General Science Full Text
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• PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  Highly-regarded, peer-reviewed weekly journal covering all scientific disciplines. Full text access is available online from 1915 - Present.
• Science Reference Center
  Full-text resource for 640 encyclopedias, reference books and periodicals in biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental sciences, history of science, life sciences, scientists, etc.
• Scirus
  Free online search engine that indexes 450 million scientific items including journal content, scientists' web pages, courseware, patents and science-oriented websites.
• Academic Search Premier
  Multidisciplinary database with nearly 700 biology-related periodicals, most peer-reviewed, some full text.
• Clase and Periodica
  Periodica indexes journals published in Latin America that specialize in science and technology, including biology, exact sciences, geosciences and physics. Citations are from documents published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Full text not included, but may be available through other sources.
• MEDLINE (PubMed)
  Search nearly 17 million records covering medical literature from 1948-Present. Limited full text. Also available from FirstSearch.
• BioMed Central
  Open access collection of 200 full-text, peer-reviewed journals with coverage of the biological and medical sciences. Free registration required.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Over 750,000 downloadable full text dissertations and theses, covering a wide range of graduate research topics, including biology.