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Brings together content, tools, and people interested in plant science, providing foundational content. including plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.  Free access ends 6/30/13.

Oxford dictionaries of biology, ecology, plant sciences, scientists, zoology, and the Oxford Companion to the Body.

Encyclopedias

Over 8500 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology; from McGraw-Hill.

Ongoing global project that makes available fundamental information (including images) on all known plant, animal, and other species.

Lists chemical, common, generic, systematic & CAS® names; trademarks & manufacturers; molecular formulae, weights & composition; toxicity, caution & hazard information; therapeutic & commercial uses; literature references.

Biographical Sources

Full text articles on scientists, from classical antiquity to modern times.

Statistics & Data

Summarizes statistical information from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index(SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS) plus links to some full text websites.