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BioOne Full Text
BioOne provides access to peer-reviewed journals in the biological sciences published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.

CSIRO Journals Selected Full Text
The CSIRO journals provide access to latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.

Australian full text journals including the Australian Journal of Botany, Functional Plant Biology and Australian Systematic Botany.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

There are 42 botany and plant science journals including top titles such as Botanical Review and International Journal of Plant Sciences.

JSTOR Plant Science
JSTOR Plant Science provides access to plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.

Plant Science
Plant Science covers all aspects of plant science: pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics and biotechnology.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

Easy to use interface with many full text journal articles on all aspects of plant science.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

Included are 16 full text journals and 14 full text books covering subjects such as agronomy and crop science, plant science, horticulture and forestry.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

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Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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AANRO Selected Full Text
Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online is a collection of free databases covering agriculture and natural resource management.

AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA indexes materials in on agriculture and related sciences acquired by the US National Agricultural Library (NAL).

Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
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Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, BioOne, Conference Papers Index, Plant Science, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 6 databases. Limited full text.

ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Informit Indexes
ANR-I, ANR-I Archive, ANR-Research and ANR-Research Archive. These cover research in agriculture and natural resource management in Australia.

Select from the Informit Indexes - AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography, ENDANGER - Threatened Species in Australia: A Select Bibliography, EVA - Environmental Abstracts, STREAMLINE - Australia's Natural Resources Database