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Depending on your specific topic, you may find
resources listed on the subject pages for:
Medicine, Chemistry, and
Gardening, Horticulture, Agriculture to be
useful in addition to the resources listed below.
The following databases/indexes are designed to provide links to
online resources. To find books, you will need to consult the
Hiram College Library
Catalog and, perhaps, the
OhioLINK catalog.
1. Databases/indexes to find
periodical articles - These databases are designed to
help you identify relevant periodical articles through keyword or
subject searches. In most cases there will be links to either
the online version of the article or a listing of the library's
holdings. If you are not sure, you may check the library's
periodical
holdings list and/or its
list of
online journals. These databases are listed in the order
in which the library recommends them.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Biological Abstracts |
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| Science Citation Index |
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| Medline |
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| PrimateLit |
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| Academic Search Complete |
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| GeoRef |
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| PsycINFO |
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| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Agricola |
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| GPO Monthly Catalog |
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| History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
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2.
Databases/indexes of e-journals - These databases store
runs of complete periodical titles. In most cases the
databases listed above will link to the full-text in these databases
and you do not need to search them, too. If, however, you need
only a couple of good, scholarly articles on a topic, you should
consider searching these databases.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Electronic Journal Center (EJC) |
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| JSTOR |
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| Annual Reviews |
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3. Databases
of e-books - These databases provide the full-text of
selected online books. These books are also available in
print. Since many more books are in print than online, you may
also wish to search the
Hiram College Library Catalog and/or the
OhioLINK catalog.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| National Academies Press |
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| OhioLINK Electronic Book Center |
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4. Databases
of reference e-books - These specialized reference
materials (encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, etc) are
designed to give you background information, an overview of a topic,
or quick facts.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Oxford Reference, Biological Sciences |
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| Oxford Reference, Medicine |
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5. Other
databases - for any other category appropriate for your
topic, e.g., audiovisual materials.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Digital Animal Sounds |
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| Digital Video Collection |
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| Dolphin Embryo Digitized Slides |
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| Reproductive Physiology Animations |
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6. Web Sites of Interest
| WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences |
| Scholarly Societies Project: Biology - Directory of society web pages |
| Government Documents Resources Online - From the Hiram College Library |
| National Biological Information Infrastructure - Multi-agency government portal |
| PLANTS Database - From the Natural Resources Conservation Service |
| International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature |
| WWW Virtual Library: Drosophila |
| The Cephalopod Page |
| BirdNet - From the Ornithological Council |
| Resources in Protistology - From the University of Montreal |
| DOEgenomes.org - From the U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Tree of Life - Information on the diversity of life |