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News Articles
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers... [more info]
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Articles (from journals)
BIOSIS Previews (includes Biological Abstracts) (ISI)
Indexes and abstracts journals, patents, conference reports and books in the Life Sciences. [more info]
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Scopus (Elsevier)
Comprehensive science database, including cited reference searching, patents, web resources. [more info]
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Web of Science (ISI)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010. Please begin using other resources, such as Scopus. Multidisciplinary database searchable by cited reference, subject, author, address. [more info]
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CSA Illumina: Natural Sciences
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Reference Information
AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online (McGraw-Hill)
Encylopedia articles, illustrations, definitions, biographies, bibliographies, and learning resources ... [more info]
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley)
Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,200 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles available in PDF and HTML format. Browse by topic or search for articles within this resource... [more info]
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Annual Reviews (Annual Reviews, Inc)
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Grzimek's Animal Encyclopedia (Gale)
Encyclopedia of animals ... [more info]
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Books / Book Chapters
LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
Search JMU Library's online catalog [more info]
Internet
WorldCat Home Page (OCLC)
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Citation Searching
Scopus (Elsevier)
Comprehensive science database, including cited reference searching, patents, web resources. [more info]
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Web of Science (ISI)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010. Please begin using other resources, such as Scopus. Multidisciplinary database searchable by cited reference, subject, author, address. [more info]
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Government Information
Science.gov (U.S. Government)
Gateway to U.S. government scientific information. [more info]
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Images
American Society of Cell Biology: Image and Video Library
This is a collection of peer-reviewed cell images, video clips, and digitized texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life. [more info]
Internet
Interactive Functional Anatomy (Anatomy.tv)
Online interactive 3-d human anatomy. [more info]
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Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) (James Madison University)
A large amount of HIstology slides can be found here. [more info]
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Help / Research Guides
RefWorks
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database of bibliographic citations by importing references from text files or online databases.

Need to export from databases into RefWorks? See the tutorials. [more info]
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Community of Science (Community of Science, Inc.)
Community of Science (COS) is a multifunctional service helping researchers find funding... [more info]
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Journal Citation Reports (ISI)
Provides data that helps with evaluation and comparison of scholarly journals. [more info]
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Department of Biology Homepage
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Biology Librarian's Lists of Resources:
BIO 500
Biology 124
Biology 260
Biology Honors 200
BIOT260 Background
BIOT260 General Databases News
BIOT260 Research Databases
Government Reports
Contact the Biology Librarian:
D. Yvonne Jones