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Subject Description: This subject covers: the study of living things and their vital processes. The field deals with all the physicochemical aspects of life. (From Britannica Online)

Abstracts and Indexes     Academic Indexes and Electronic Journal Collections   Academic Search Premier          1975 - current Index to over 8,000 titles, with full text for nearly 4,600. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. Tutorial available   Agricola        1970 - present Index to articles and other publications on agriculture and related fields. You can also use the AgNIC subject headings.   BIOSIS Previews    Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.   Current Contents        1998 - current A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals.   JSTOR        Coverage varies by journal Provides electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Tutorial available   PubMed (MEDLINE)     1950 - current Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. HINT: Use the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for best results. Also, The NLM provides an online self-paced PubMed Tutorial that can help you make the best use of the database.   ScienceDirect         1967 - present Provides access to more than 600 journals published by Elsevier Science. Disciplines include biology, chemistry, language and linguistics, economics, computer science, education, and many others.   Web of Knowledge    The premier index to scholarly articles. Includes Web of Science, Current Contents, MEDLINE, and BIOSIS.   Web of Science        1995 - present Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Search for articles that cite other articles and books. Catalogs and Bibliographies     Catalogs   MnPALS Library Catalog Catalog of the College of Saint Benedict, Saint John's University, and Saint John's Preparatory School.   University of Minnesota - MNCAT The catalog of the University of Minnesota libraries (all campuses).   WorldCat    The world's largest shared library catalog, containing over 60 million titles. See also: WorldCat Local or WorldCat.org General Reference Sources     Biographical Sources   A Dictionary of scientists     Dictionary of Scientific Biography Location: Clemens and Alcuin Reference Q 141 .D5     Dictionaries   A Dictionary of animal behaviour     A Dictionary of biology     A Dictionary of ecology     A Dictionary of genetics     A Dictionary of plant sciences     A Dictionary of zoology     CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names Location: Alcuin Reference QK 13 .Q38 2000   Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Location: Alcuin Reference QH 540.4 .L56 1998     Encyclopedias   AccessScience    The online version of the McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science technology   Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Location: Alcuin Reference QH 541.5 .B56 E53 2001   Encyclopedia of Evolution     Encyclopedia of Genetics Location: Alcuin Reference QH 427 .E54 2001   New encyclopedia of birds       Field Guides   CSH Protocols (Cold Spring Harbor)    Database containing research techniques for molecular and cellular biology research.     Handbooks and Manuals   American Insects: A handbook of the insects of North America north of Mexico Location: Alcuin Reference QL 474 .A76 2000     Internet Gateways   Biology Browser Free site by Thomson Reuters covering Biology-related web sites. Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions     Electronic Journal Collections   BioOne    High quality biology journals from smaller societies and non-commercial publishers. Browse journal archives or search for articles with BioOne Search or Illumina.     Electronic Journal Titles   Nature    One of the premier weekly journals covering the sciences. Also features news@nature which is available in 7 different rss feeds. We have access from 1997 to the present.   Science Magazine    One of the premier weekly journals covering the sciences. Statistics and Data     Data Resources   Index to Organism Names (ION) ION will ultimately contain all the organism names related data found within the Thomson Reuters life science literature databases. Style Manuals and Writing Guides     Research Guides   Using the biological literature: a practical guide Location: Alcuin Reference QH 303.6 .D38 2002     Style Manuals   Scientific style and format: the CBE style manual for authors, editors, and publishers A brief version of this guide is available online. Location: Clemens and Alcuin Reference T 11 .S3846 1996 Web Tools     Bibliography Software   RefWorks   A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows one to create a personal database by importing references from online databases or manually adding records. One may insert these references into papers using Word and the Write-N-Cite plugin and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds using a wide variety of styles. This resource is available to all current CSB/SJU students, faculty, and staff. Library Information Primary Subject Location(s) Clemens and Alcuin Libraries Collections in this subject are available on both campuses. Main URL: http://www.csbsju.edu/library/ Reference URL: http://www.csbsju.edu/library/services/ref.htm Hours URL: http://www.csbsju.edu/library/about/calendar.htm

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