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Federated Search

(search multiple databases simultaneously)

• Easy Search
• Engineering Village
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Abstracts
• Science.gov  
• Web of Knowledge

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier
• Conference Papers Index 
• Dissertations and Theses   
• EBSCO Academic Search Premier
• Google Scholar
• Scopus   
• Web of Science 

Subject Specific Databases

• AGRICOLA 
• AGRIS
• Anthropology Plus 
• AnthroSource 
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts   
• Biodiversity Heritage Library 
• Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) 
• BioOne Abstracts & Indexes   
• BIOSIS Citation Index
• CAB Abstracts 
• Compendex, see Engineering Village 
• Ecology Abstracts 
  (also included in Environmental Science and Pollution Management Abstracts)
• eHRAF Archaeology 
• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements 
  (also included in Environmental Science and Pollution Management Abstracts)
• Engineering Village (Compendex, INSPEC, National Technical Information Service, Patents, GEOBASE, GeoRef 
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Abstracts 
• Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide 
• Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index 
• GEOBASE, see Engineering Village 
• GeoRef, see Engineering Village 
• Inspec, see Engineering Village 
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS), see Engineering Village
  also see, NTIS Technical Reports Search
• PsycINFO 
• PubMed
• SciFinder (American Chemical Society), free registration required
• Sustainability Science Abstracts, included in Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management 
• Synthesis of the North American Flora 1.0 (on CD-ROM in the Prairie Research Institute Library)
• Taxonomic Literature 2   
• Toxicology Abstracts 
• TOXLINE 
• TOXNET 
• Treesearch
• Water Resources Abstracts 
• Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide 
• WorldCat 
  also see, WorldCat.org
• Zoological Record 

Databases of Local Interest (maintained by the Institute)

• Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP) Bibliography
• Illinois Flora  
• Illinois Natural History Survey Staff Bibliography
• Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Reports
• Illinois State Archaeological Survey Staff Bibliography
• Illinois State Geological Survey Publications Catalog  
• Illinois State Geological Survey Staff Bibliography
• Illinois State Water Survey Publications Search
• Illinois State Water Survey Staff Bibliography
• Illinois Sustainable Technology Center Staff Bibliography

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Last modified by: Susan Braxton on 2/9/13