Life Sciences Library

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Access Science (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)

Agropedia (agriculture encyclopedias) includes:

• Encyclopedia of Animal Science
• Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science
• Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, & Biological Engineering
• Encyclopedia of Water Science
• Encyclopedia of Soil Science
• Encyclopedia of Pest Management.

American Men and Women of Science is available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library

Birds of North America detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.

Campus Trees and Shrubs

• 1946
• 1980

Consumer Health/MEDLINEplus (full text health information resources)

Encyclopedia of Forest Science

Encyclopedia of Genetics

Encyclopedia of Microbiology

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Knovel (engineering and science handbooks)

Mammalian Species 

The Prokaryotes (the biology of bacteria)

STAT!Ref (core full-text biomedical and nursing books)

Trees of Penn State  a searchable inventory all of the trees on the University Park campus

Other Online Reference Tools:

Associations Unlimited Directory of associations in all subjects

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) Index to biographical information in all subjects

Community of Science Includes:

• Federally Funded Research in the U.S. (the full grants database of the NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR, and Advanced Technology Program)
• COS Expertise (63,000 profiles of researchers and scholars)
• COS Funding Opportunities (identify funding opportunities). 

Gale Virtual Reference Library for a wide range of encyclopedias in many subjects.

Oxford Reference Online for a wide range of dictionaries in many subjects.

Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary and Thesaurus

Roget's Thesaurus

USPTO Patent Databases