DIGITAL COLLECTION
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Fast
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Book Databases
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Journal
Article Databases
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Journal
Information Databases
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Numerical
Databases (or other data)
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Electronic Journals
and Journal Archives
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Document Suppliers
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Annual Reviews
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Dissertations
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Conference Papers
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Electronic Books
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Online
Encyclopedias
AGRICOLA CABDirect AGRIS
Biological Abstracts ASFA BBA ESPM Chemoreception Abstracts Plant Information Online PLANTS
Database Wildlife Worldwide
Web of Science PubMed
TOXLINE Toxicology
Abstracts
GeoRef SciFinder Scholar Dissertation Abstracts Conference
Papers Index Annual
Reviews Current
Protocols in Molecular Biology
ScienceDirect
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For digital library collections, see the
UNH Digital Collections
Project.
For other UNH Library
e-resources, see the
UNH Library Home Page.
For remote (off-campus)
access,
follow these instructions.
By request, here is a direct
link to UNH's
online
InterLibrary Loan forms. (Use this link to request photocopies
or pdf files of articles or to review the status of a request.
To borrow books from another library, you can also use the WorldCat
link below.) Faculty and graduate students may wish to use INFOTRIEVE .
Here is a list of online and
other tutorials
and user aids for the following online databases.
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Online
Databases:
use for books
To search other library
catalogs combined, use WorldCat
(last 4,000 years, over 72 million records from 9,000 member
institutions
worldwide, over 1 billion holdings, lists libraries that own item, ILL
button links to
UNH InterLibrary Loan).
Or use Books
In Print or websites for commercial booksellers such as Amazon or search for rare or out of
print books using BookFinder.
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Online Databases: use
primarily for journal articles (UNH Library
subscriptions)
- AGRICOLA (1970+, updated monthly,
new interface (Nov., 2004), "Locate Document" link
automatically searches UNH Library online catalog, links to electronic
full text if available)
- CABDirect (1973+, updated quarterly?,
combines E-CD, Forestry
Abstracts, Soils & Fertilizers, Nutrition Abstracts, Veterinary
Bulletin, and many others into one database, for subject coverage click
here)
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AGRIS
International agriculture from UN FAO (1975+,
click on
"Databases", multilingual, free to all) ]
- Biological Abstracts (1985+,
updated quarterly, covers
about 7000 sources, long abstracts, particularly good for searching by
systematic category or scientific name)
- ASFA Aquatic Sciences and
Fisheries Abstracts (1971+, updated monthly, new interface (Nov., 2004), includes
aquaculture, "Locate
Document" link automatically searches UNH Library online catalog, links
to electronic full text if available, see also Oceanic
Abstracts )
- BBA Biotechnology and
Bioengineering Abstracts (1982+, updated
monthly, new interface (Nov., 2004), includes Genetics Abstracts
and Industrial and Applied
Microbiology Abstracts, "Locate Document" link automatically searches
UNH Library online catalog, links to electronic full text if available)
- ESPM Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management (1967+,
updated monthly, new interface (Nov., 2004), includes Water Resources
Abstracts, "Locate Document"
link automatically searches UNH Library online catalog, links to
electronic full text if available)
- Water Resources Abstracts (1967+,
updated monthly)
- included in ESPM above (for other ESPM
subfiles, click "Search subfiles")
- Chemoreception Abstracts (1982+, index with abstracts
for over 150 journals on
chemoreception research and applications)
- Plant Information Online
(indexes 1000 nursery catalogs and 150 horticultural magazines, for
Username and Password: send email to dml2@cisunix.unh.edu)
- PLANTS
Database (from USDA,
provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses,
liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It
includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species
abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop
information, and automated tools)
- Wildlife Worldwide
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
(1935+, updated monthly)
- Web of Science (1975+, updated daily, combines
Science Citation Index with
Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences,
associated with Journal Citation Reports below, works well with ENDNOTE (both built-in Endnote Web
and desktop version) since the same company,
ISI, produces both)
- [ PubMed (MEDLINE,
1966+, free to all, links to electronic full text if
available, another version (1993+) is available here)
also PubMed
Central free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature]
- [ TOXLINE (1965+,
free to all, another version (1999+) is available here)
] also
- Toxicology
Abstracts (covers issues from
social poisons and substance abuse to natural
toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental
issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial
and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and
myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning
the in vivo effects of toxic substances. Topics of current concern such
as the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies,
nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, and much more are
extensively examined. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical
procedures for toxic substances are also covered)
- GeoRef (1785+, Bibliography
and Index of Geology online, use for hydrology and related subjects)
- SciFinder Scholar (Chemical
Abstracts online, 1907+, can be searched for literature,
substances,
and reactions, limited to 3
concurrent users,
requires special software (two
separate files), link leads to instructions for downloading software)
For other
life sciences
databases, see the master list
of all
UNH databases .
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Online Databases:
use for journal information / abbreviations
- Ulrichsweb (250,000
titles worldwide, provides publisher information,
links to web pages, subject searching)
- Journal Citation Reports
(JCR, covers 8500 titles, ranks
journals in specific subject areas)
- Journal
Abbreviation Sources
(JAS, registry
of web
resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal
abbreviations.)
Other online lists of
journals are given here.
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Online
Databases:
use for numerical or other data
- FAOSTAT (numerical
database of international food and agriculture
statistics, multilingual, access provided by Complex Systems Research Center)
- Proteome Bioknowledge
Library (1994+, a
collection of
databases focused on the compilation of available protein information.
All databases contain Protein Reports. Each report contains tabulated
data and a compendium of research results gathered from the scientific
literature. Currently, the databases contain more than 640,000
annotations to 50,000 literature references. You must register on the
website for a username/password in order to access this resource.
Copyright: Incyte Genomics Inc.)
- Current
Protocols in Molecular Biology
(2004+, lab
manual containing basic methods for DNA preparation and isolation,
library screening, and sequencing along with more advanced procedures
detailing DNA-protein interactions, yeast manipulation, and
phosphorylation analyses, partially
funded by the Philip J.
Sawyer Fund)
Electronic
Journals (UNH
Library subscriptions and open
access titles: full
text, tables, and
figures)
For free online full text
articles from HighWire
Press including Science, see this list.
See also PubMed
Central (free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature) as
well as the Public
Library of Science and BioMed
Central.
Don't forget the Directory of
Open Access Journals (over 1700 titles) and related issues.
For other titles, see Electronic
Journals in Biology (maintained by Harvard Bio Labs Library) or
other similar
lists.
Online
Journal Archives
(UNH Library subscription: searchable images of pages)
From JSTOR
( click on "Browse" on the first screen to
start, use JPRINT or high resolution Adobe pdf file for printing):
- General Science
- History of Science and Technology
- Botany
- Ecology
Document
Suppliers
To obtain
articles found in
the databases above,
use InterLibrary
Loan (ILLiad). Interlibrary Loan service takes about a week on
average.
For
faster service or Tables
of Contents alerts,
use our new document delivery service provided by INFOTRIEVE (available to
faculty and
graduate students). The Library will subsidize orders for articles up
to a set limit.
Or try
these other commercial services:
For a list of other document
suppliers, try this website .
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Annual
Reviews (UNH
Library subscription)
- Annual
Reviews (28
titles: Annual Review of Biochemistry, etc., full text 1996+, including
future articles)
Dissertation
Abstracts
(UNH Library
subscription, click on
blue 'Enter' button to start)
Conference
Papers Index
- Conference
Papers Index (1982+,
provides
citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific
meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the
life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while
older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and
published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses).
Electronic
Books (UNH Library
subscriptions)
- netLibrary (some recent texts)
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Current
Protocols in Molecular Biology
(2004+, lab
manual containing basic methods for DNA preparation and isolation,
library screening, and sequencing along with more advanced procedures
detailing DNA-protein interactions, yeast manipulation, and
phosphorylation analyses, partially
funded by the Philip J.
Sawyer Fund)
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For other titles, see list of
20,000 free titles (maintained by University of Pennsylvania
Library).
Online
Encyclopedias (UNH
Library subscriptions)
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A service of the Biological
Sciences Library,
Kendall Hall,
University of New Hampshire.
Comments, suggestions, and
questions should be
sent via email
to dml2@cisunix.unh.edu
Last updated 18 January 2006.
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