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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering diverse academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles from periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture, including topics such as animal husbandry, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, microbiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, and zoology.
BIOSIS Previews (including Biological Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
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An international database covering the life science disciplines, indexing nearly 7,000 journals. Updated monthly.
MEDLINE Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE Complete provides medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals. Provides full text access to over 1,800 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
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PubMed provides free, worldwide access to MEDLINE. Accessing PubMed through this URL will provide links to online, full-text articles available through Kent State University Libraries subscriptions.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases covering selected journal literature and conference proceedings in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated ...

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Agricola This link opens in a new window
Search bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA 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.
AMS Journal Search This link opens in a new window
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American Meteorological Society Journal Search, online database of AMS journals. Searches all AMS journals and serial publications. Abstracts are available for many years, and citations for the remaining years. Full text is available on campus or using KSU Proxy
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Contains critical reviews of significant primary literature in the areas of biology, biomedicine, chemistry, physics, sociology, and related disciplines. Published yearly, this is the online, full-text version of the printed Annual Review of...series. (1998 - present)
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
Open-access, peer-reviewed repository of full-text, biomedical journals.
BioOne This link opens in a new window
Provides access to significant literature in the biosciences. Full-text access to select titles is available through the BioOne site and also through the Electronic Journal Center.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols This link opens in a new window
An interactive and comprehensive source of step-by-step protocols for research techniques covering the areas of cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
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Environment Complete is the electronic version of Environment Index, and covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains citations for articles from domestic and international journals, monographs and conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index This link opens in a new window
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Provides abstracts and limited full-text for articles from more than 300 core publications covering horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides access to
1. IEEE All-Society Periodicals - the society-sponsored journals and magazines.
2. IEEE Proceedings - all of the current IEEE conferences held around the world.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.
Springer Protocols This link opens in a new window
Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences. Includes protocols from the Humana series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
Zoological Record is the online version of the print publication detailing animal biology, acting as a taxonomic record and unofficial register of animal names. The database lists references for articles where notes about species appear. The print edition goes back to 1864 and is a good companion to this online source for years before 2004.

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