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Biological Abstracts

A leading reference database in the life sciences, providing abstracts to over 4,000 journals. Biological Abstracts covers the following fields and more: botany, microbiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, evolutionary ecology, neurology and toxicology.

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Coverage dates: Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, select Full Text 1994+
OmniFile is a collection of full-text databases that provides select full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources (full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Full Text.

Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the cornerstone of the PlanetaSaber product, is a comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia. It features 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia, images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials specifically designed for younger learners.

Indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Comprehensive statistics on every nation of the world (from Britannica Online). Perform statistical comparisons between countries or explore changes over time. Results can be placed in charts or graphs or exported to a spreadsheet.