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Indexes by Specific Subject

Indexes that primarily cover the subject "Biotechnology"

AGRICOLA Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly.
Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology.
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Biological Abstracts Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1980-2003
Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal literature.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated monthly.
Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications.
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Business Source Premier Enhanced Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
This enhanced interface of Business Source Premier provides easy access to specialized reports such as company profiles, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports.
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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1910 - present
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1967 - present
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.
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Google Scholar Authentication Required 
Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you.
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HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health and biological sciences database.
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INSPEC ® Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1896 - present, updated monthly
Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control, and information technology.
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MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1966 - present, updated weekly.
MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time.
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PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1950 to present
Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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SciFinder Scholar Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1907-present
SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics - you need to download special software to use it from your home or office computer (PC 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS 10.3/10.4) or you can access it from a public computer in the Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath libraries by clicking on the SciFinder icon on the desktop (note: access is contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff).
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1975-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1975-present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Other Indexes that may include resources for "Biotechnology"

Academic Search Premier Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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Factiva Authentication Required 
Full text source of global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images.
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Health and Medicine in the News
Coverage: May 1994 - present.
Lists citations to health-related articles reported in the Star Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities [Minneapolis Edition].
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LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required 
Coverage: Varies by title.
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.
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Patents (United States)
Coverage: 1790 - present, updated weekly
The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date. Publisher/Producer is the U.S.
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