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BioOne Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.

CSIRO Journals
The latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
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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 of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

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

Plant Science
Index of scientific literature on all aspects of plant science. Includes pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics and biotechnology.
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ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

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

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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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.

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

AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library
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 Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed 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

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
Concise Encyclopedia of Temperate Tree Fruit
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Plant Breeding and Related Subjects
Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences
Encyclopedia of Grain Science
Guide to Standard Floras of the World
Handbook of Reference Methods for Plant Analysis

High impact journals

These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.

Annual Review of Phytopathology
Annual Review of Plant Biology
The Plant Cell
The Plant Journal
Plant Physiology