TCTC Learning Commons: Science & Technology: Science And Technology Fields

Biology

Agriculture: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides content covering practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text articles, indexing, and abstracts from essential biology and agricultural research journals. Subjects include agricultural industry, veterinary science, wildlife management and environmental science.
Health and Medicine: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Intended for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. Reliable resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. Contains full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text database providing access to top-tier biomedical and health journals.

Database providing full text access for hundreds of top biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. Many journals are available with current issues available, so doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers can access information as soon as it is published.

MedlinePlus Health Topics
High-quality background materials from encyclopedias, dictionaries, government pamphlets, etc. Enter your topic in the search box at the top of the page.
Paleontology (Access Science)

PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
A full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Science: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides information on today's most significant science topics through reference content, academic journals, experiments, images, etc. Subjects include, but not limited to biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, physics, etc.
Nature (Coverage 1950-2011) This link opens in a new window
Search Primo for coverage 2012-Present. A weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

Health Topics, A-Z
Here the 800+ topics are arranged in a single alphabetical list.

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Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
EPA ECOTOXicology Database
Material Safety Data Sheets (OSHA)
Provides guidance to help workers who handle hazardous chemicals to become familiar with the format and understand the contents of Material Safety Data Sheets.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Thermodynamic data for over 5,000 compounds.
Dynamic Periodic Table of the Elements
PubChem
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of U. S. and Canadian Environmental Issues
Presents easy-to-understand information on 194 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders.

Environmental Studies and Policy: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns from a variety of reliable sources as well as book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science, etc.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming
The Environment (The New York Times Topics)
Environmental News (The Guardian)
Gale Environment
A collection of eReference sources that provides excellent background articles across the environmental fields, including energy, climate change, etc.

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. This collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
Environmental Studies: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues such as energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. The resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including Water Privatization, Ecotourism, Air Pollution, Green Economy, etc.
Nature (Coverage 1950-2011) This link opens in a new window
Search Primo for coverage 2012-Present. A weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.