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Britannica Online Academic Edition  
Has content that specifically addresses the needs of college and university libraries.
Credo Reference  
This is a general reference resource. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from many publishers of reference.
Global Plants 
Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.  
Science.gov
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S Government agencies, including research and development results.
Science Reference Center  
A comprehensive research database that provides full-text access to science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. 

Academic Search Premier 
A multi-disciplinary database that includes titles in fields such as: arts & literature, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, ethnic studies, language & linguistics, medical sciences, and physics.
Expanded Academic ASAP  
A database for arts, humanities, social science, science and technology research, it includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers.
General Science Collection  
A well-rounded science collection of in-depth information for scientific research needs. This consists of over 200 journal references encompassing the most popular scientific titles.
GreenFILE 
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
PLoS
PLoS (Public Library of Science) is a non-profit publisher of Open Access materials in the scientific arena.

Avibase
Information about 10,000 species of birds including distribution, taxonomy and synonyms.
Exploring Life's Origins
The goal of this project is to use molecular illustration and animation to help describe origins of life research and theories to broad audiences. This website is part of a multimedia exhibit at the Museum of Science.
Forest History Society
The Forest History Society is a nonprofit library and archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating forest and conservation history for all to use.
Human Anatomy Online
An inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links.
Microbial Life
This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology. 
Plants Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
ScienceDirect
Mixed citation and full-text database containing articles in the areas of life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Thousands of open text and open archive resources are available.
Science Daily
Science Daily publishes news briefs describing new research articles. The site is updated daily and works with academic institutions to gather news briefs.
Science Research
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available deep web search engine.
Understanding Evolution
This site helps people understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.

Films on Demand - Biology
This is a collection of arts, humanities, sciences, and technical education videos and video clips.
Feature Films for Education 
The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. The Collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more. NOTE: This Collection is limited to classroom use and personal use. This Collection cannot be used for Campus Screening (Not for Public Events) NOTE: If you have issues playing a film, clean all your browse history, cache, and cookies.
Video Lectures
VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.