Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Description
Provides 3000+ peer-reviewed articles, images, a glossary of terms, news, and some multimedia files on a wide variety of life sciences topics.
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Encyclopedia
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Released 2001, continuously updated, from Grove/Macmillan Publishing
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Current Contents Connect
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ISI Current Contents Connect
CCC
Description
Indexes the table-of-contents pages of scholarly journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of medicine, science, engineering, the arts, social sciences, and humanities. Users can save searches as e-mail alerts.
Type
Article Index
Coverage
1990 -
Tables of contents and records from nearly 7,500 journals and 2,000 books plus links to more than 4,000 evaluated Web sites and 440,000 full-text Web documents. Updated daily.
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Biosis Previews
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Biological Abstracts
Description
Comprehensive index to life sciences research literature. Covers journals (5000+), reports, meetings (1500+), reviews, and books in all areas of biology. Weekly email alerts available.
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Article Index
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1955 - present
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Methods in Enzymology
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Key reference work for protocols, methods & procedures used for chemical, biochemical, cellular, biomedical, & genetic research on enzymes and related molecules.
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E-Book(s)
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1955 -
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PLoS (Public Library of Science)
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Public Library of Science
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Provides open-access peer-reviewed scientific and medical journal articles and journals. UM membership in PLoS provides UM authors discounts on author-paid article fees.
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E-Journal(s)
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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (now ProQuest)
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CSA Illumina
Description
Cross-seachable access to all former CSA databases is now available on the ProQuest platform.
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Search Engine
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Varies by individual database
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NCBI
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Entrez
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Description
Searchable protein and nucleotide databases, "free" from NIH. Includes genetics information from Medline, GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, PIR, SWISS-PROT, PRF, and PDB.
Type
Article Index
Coverage
1992 -
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals
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ACS Journals
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Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published or hosted by the American Chemical Society.
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E-Journal(s)
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varies by title
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BRENDA: Enzyme Information System
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Comprehensive Enzyme Information System
BRENDA: the Comprehensive Enzyme Information System
Enzyme Handbook
Description
Main web collection of enzyme functional data on the web. Includes nomenclature, organism, kinetics, isolation, stability, and reaction data, literature references and links to sequence databases. Related to the print Enzyme Handbook (Springer).
Free for academic, non-profit users.
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Database
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Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals
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Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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E-Journal(s)
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varies by journal title
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