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Current Issues in Biology
Browse these current awareness and news sources for ideas.
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ScienceDailyPopular scientific news source that reviews current primary research studies. Includes citations and links to primary research articles.
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Scientific AmericanLook here for recent news stories of interest.
Background Research
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Access Science This link opens in a new windowAccessScience contains incisively written, high-quality reference material covering all major scientific disciplines.
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National Science Digital Library
NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources and collections for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
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UpToDate This link opens in a new windowUpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 15 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references, and a drug database.
Newspaper Sources
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) Tutorial
- Global Newsstream (ProQuest) Tutorial
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national and international newspapers, selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and full text television and radio news transcripts.
This ProQuest database provides full text of more than 700 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title.
Reference Sources
If you need help finding a topic, try browsing these online encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS)
eLS features over 4,900 peer-reviewed and citable articles in the life sciences. eLS is updated by approximately 400 articles per year, with new articles publishing on a monthly basis.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new windowOpposing Viewpoints in Context (formerly Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center) draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Thomson Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVIC's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets -- and exclusive electronic access to Thomson Gale's Information Plus reference series of statistics, government data, information on legislation and more.
Search Google
Browse the Internet for biology news to find an interesting topic.
News from ScientificAmerican.com
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