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Articles

Academic OneFile

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Biological Abstracts, 1969+
Complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. 
Note: 10 simultaneous users

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific and scholarly journals which have been peer-reviewed and are free.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
Nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.   Includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.

Index to American Botanical Literature
A searchable database of American botanical literature from late 1995 to present.  Search by subject category (eg. algae, fungi, etc.), author, article title, journal name, publisher, and keywords.  New York Botanical Garden.  Free to the public.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

SciCentral
SciCentral is a science research news current awareness website.  It has todays research news on biosciences, health sciences, physics, chemistry, earth & space, and engineering. 

Scirus
Indexes journal articles,  but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Biographical Information

Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century. Call Number: Reference Q 141 B5285 2000
Biographical information for 2,500 women scientists from antiquity to mid-20th  century ( all are dead).  Give several paragraphs of information for each woman and bibliographic references.

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Biographical information for over 1000 scientists.  Can search by name, gender, minority status, historical period, nationality, and prize winners

Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
This dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.

ISIHighlyCited.com
Lists the most cited researchers in 21 subject categories.  Includes biographical information and a listing of publications.  You can search by name, category, country, and institutional affiliation.

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.Call Number: Reference Q 141 N45 2008

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
An easy-to-use reference source covering the full range of subject areas associated with plant pathology.

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.Call Number: Reference QK 99 A1 R2813 2005

Flora of North America North of Mexico.Call Number: General Collection QK 110 F55 1993

Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences.Call Number: Reference QK 9 D52 2006

Plants Database
Produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, this site is meant to serve as a central location  for plant information presentated in a standardized format.  It includes vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms such as conifers, and flowering plants), mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens.

Steyermark's Flora of Missouri.Call Number: General Collection QK 170 Y38 1999

Toxic Plants of North America.Call Number: Reference QK 100 N6 B87 2001

Field Guides

Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers Eastern Region.Call Number: General Collection QK 112 .N53 1979

Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms.

eNature.com
Searchable database to Audubon animal and plant field guides.

Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America.Call Number: General Collection QK 99 U6 F68 2000

Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada.Call Number: General Collection QK 133 P43 1998

Missouri Wildflowers.Call Number: General Collection QK 170 D45 1998

Mushrooms of North America in Color: a Field Guide Companion to Seldom Illustrated Fungi.Call Number: General Collection QK 617 M84 1995

Poisonous Plants.Call Number: General Collection QK 100 A1 F7613 2005

Wild Edibles of Missouri.Call Number: General Collection QK 98.5 M8 P48 1998

Government Information

Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Deals with the critical area of energy, helps develop mineral resources in an environmentally safe manner, protects Missouri's land, air and water resources and works to preserve the state's historic and natural heritage through state parks and state historic sites.

Missouri Natural Heritage Database
Provides information about the abundance, distribution and conservation needs of both plant and animal species in Missouri.  Produced by the Missouri Departtment of Conservation.

National Biological Information Infrastructure
An electronic gateway to biological data and information maintained by federal, state and local government agencies, private sector organizations and other partners around the nation and the world.

Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Style & Citation Guides

Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

Botany Related WWW Sites
Botanical Society of America site which lists major botany links and resources on the Web. Includes botanical e-journals and newsletters.

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
Has description with picture of the plant; impact, management and reference list.

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The entry-point for each site is a species page suitable for the general public, but with several linked pages aimed at more specialized users.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Missouri Botanical Garden

Tropicos
This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatureal database and associated authority files.