Life Sciences

Covid-19 Operations

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Description	Search open scholarly sources using artificial intelligence: narrow down your search with suggested search terms, see overviews of research on specific topics, and see connections between studies.

Description	A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content.

Description	From the vendor site: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, this database includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works."

Description	This database includes natural science content from searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature by employing ?deep indexing?. Search results 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.

Description	Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Description	Biological & Agricultural Index Plus offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.

Description	Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Readers' Guide Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text; Wilson Business Full Text Note: Indexing and abstracting for all articles in journals covered by these six databases, whether or not they include full text, is included in OmniFile.

Description	Content geared toward students and non-specialists subjects covered include: Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.

Description	Peer-reviewed journals provided by Springer Publishing covering the following subject areas: Behavioral Science, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering Collection, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Clinical Medicine, Physics and Astronomy Collection

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Description	GreenFILE 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 global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Description	Access to over 2,500 science journals and almost 20,000 books online.

Description	Search for peer-reviewed academic papers across many disciplines found in many different sources.

Description	Millions of records for books and other materials worldwide. Identify resources not available in the Alaska Library Catalog consortium in WorldCat and order through interlibrary loan.

Description	Contains abstracts of federal government environmental impact statements including the following subject areas: air transportation, defense programs, energy, hazardous substances, land use, parks-refuges-and-forests, research and development, roads and railroads, urban and social programs, water.

Description	Formerly known as 'Databases for Alaskans', the Digital Pipeline is a grouping of databases for Alaskan citizens to search for information from articles and selected reference sources. Look under the subject categories, or click the link to 'List of resources by name'.

Description	for the U.S. and territories

Description	Alaska's Virtual Library and Digital Archives.

Description	PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains citations and summaries of articles from over 9,900 sources (journals, plus books, chapters, dissertations, and technical reports) in psychology and related fields, published worldwide from 1887-present. If FULL TEXT is available, you will be linked to the full text of articles found in PsycARTICLES, or other EBSCO databases. PsycINFO gives you the broadest searching power for publications in psychology.

Description	Information on 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. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.

Description	Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Over 250 primary research journals are scanned by specialized scientific editors to add approximately 23,000 titles to the database each year. From July 1996 onwards, informative abstracts have been added when available.

Description	Focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Areas of coverage include marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

Description	An archive of entire runs of 19th and 20th century scholarly journals. Disciplines of journals include African American Studies, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, Education, History, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Statistics. Page images of journal contents may be viewed, printed, and downloaded.

Description	The collection contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). ESPM provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Description	The collection contains biological science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Biological Sciences database. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, Biological Sciences provides access to literature from serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Description	The collection contains aquatic science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA). ASFA is the premier database in the field of aquatic science research.

Description	Large multidisciplinary database providing full text access to almost 4,700 scholarly publications including nearly 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage includes, but is not limited to, social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

Description	From the vendor site: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."

Recommended Databases for Life Sciences
	Aquatic Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	Biological Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	JSTOR	JSTOR	Details
	Natural Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	ScienceDirect	Elsevier	Details
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	Academic Search Premier	EBSCOhost	Details
	Agricola	EBSCOhost	Details
	Annual Reviews Online	Annual Reviews Online	Details
	Aquatic Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	Biological & Agricultural Index Plus	EBSCOhost	Details
	Biological Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	Digital Pipeline	SLED - Databases for Alaskans	Details
	Dissertations and Theses Global	ProQuest	Details
	EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements	ProQuest	Details
	Environmental Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	General Science Full Text (Wilson)	EBSCOhost	Details
	Google Scholar		Details
	GreenFILE	EBSCOhost	Details
	JSTOR	JSTOR	Details
	Natural Science Collection	ProQuest	Details
	Oceanic Abstracts	ProQuest	Details
	Omnifile Full Text Mega (Wilson)	EBSCOhost	Details
	Plant Science	ProQuest	Details
	Plants Database- for the U.S. and territories	United States Dept. of Agriculture	Details
	ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global	ProQuest	Details
	PsycINFO (APA)	EBSCOhost	Details
	ScienceDirect	Elsevier	Details
	Science Reference Center	EBSCOhost	Details
	Semantic Scholar	AI2	Details
	SLED - Statewide Library Electronic Doorway	Alaska State Library and the University of Alaska Libraries	Details
	SpringerLink Journals		Details
	TOXLINE	ProQuest	Details
	WorldCat FirstSearch	OCLC FirstSearch	Details

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