Biology: Articles & Databases

Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, this source provides access to millions of citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses and much more, covering all aspects of agriculture.

Online database of over 10,000 global bird species, featuring: written material from Birds of North America, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World; interactive content from the Macaulay Library at Cornell; and hundreds of millions of observations from eBird. Searchable by species, topic, or keyword, or you can browse using the avian taxonomy explorer. Each species account covers life history and behavior; range, abundance, and migration maps; habitat descriptions; and conservation and management guidelines. All information is regularly updated with the latest research findings from leading researchers.

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PDFs: The platform does not feature the ability to download a species account. The species accounts are in a constant state of revision and we provide users the latest science and information. We do, however, retain each version of the species account as a separate DOI. Please go the Revision History page associated with each individual account.

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Articles that accompany videos can be downloaded in PDF form.

Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

Videos cover plasmid purification, the ELISA method, transfection, etc.

Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

Videos cover centrifuge, light microscopy, working in the hood, making solutions, microplate reader, etc.

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Creating playlists and/or clips (Must first create a Kanopy account)

Academic Search Ultimate is an excellent source of scholarly journals in all academic disciplines. More than 13,600 journals are indexed and full text is provided for more than 9,000. Searchable cited references are provided for selected titles

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited
in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).

Indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more. Vendor: EBSCO.

This collection is NOT comprehensive. MTSU master's theses in this collection are mostly from 2013-2015, with a handful published between 1982 and 2012. Dissertations in this collection were published between 1972 and 2015.

Consult the MTSU library catalog for print copies of MTSU graduate papers published through 2011.

The MTSU library catalog also lists MTSU Honors College theses in print published through 2015.

See ProQuest's LibGuide for more information and database help.

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