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AGRICOLA
Agricultural& Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
Biological Abstracts
Comprehensive coverage of worldwide journal literature in the life sciences. Nearly 6,000 international journals are monitored for inclusion, representing virtually every life science discipline, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology. (EBSCOhost)
BioOne
Full-text articles from 70 journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Books In Print
Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CINAHL
Provides indexing for over 1200 nursing, allied health and health sciences journals.
Conference Papers Index
CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Includes the following databases:
Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts,
ARTbibliographies Modern,
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality,
ATLA Religion Database,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals,
Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B),
Bibliography of the History of Art,
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes,
Communication Abstracts,
Conference Papers Index,
Criminal Justice Abstracts,
Ecology Abstracts,
EconLit,
EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements,
Environmental Engineering Abstracts,
ERIC,
Health and Safety Science Abstracts,
Human Population & Natural Resource Management,
Index Islamicus,
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A),
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts,
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts,
National Criminal Justice Reference Service,
PAIS International,
Philosopher's Index,
Pollution Abstracts,
Risk Abstracts,
Social Services Abstracts,
Sociological Abstracts,
Sustainability Science Abstracts,
Toxicology Abstracts,
TOXLINE,
Water Resources Abstracts, and
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Dictionary of Natural Products
Includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Simultaneous users: 1.

Dissertations
EBSCO Academic
Ecology Abstracts
GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography and geology. (FirstSearch)
Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
HealthSTAR
Human Population & Natural Resouce Management
Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
Journals@Ovid Full-Text
JSTOR
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)
MEDLINE
Abstracted articles from medical journals.
Minerva
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
Old Medline
Medline citations from 1958 through 1965, that were published in the Cumulated Index Medicus. (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

Ovid
Pollution Abstracts
Project MUSE (mirror site)
Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 275 journals covering
Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and
Social Sciences.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

ProQuest Direct
Science Citation Index
Indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article.
Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

ScienceDirect
Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version.

Toxicology Abstracts
TOXLINE
"This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports on all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens." (CSA)


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