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Citation & Full-Text Databases from Smithsonian Libraries

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AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature [Free Access]
Abstracts in Anthropology [Free Access]
AnimalBase: Early Zoological Literature Online [Free Access]
CAMEO: Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online [Free Access]
Catalogue of Life (Species 2000 - ITIS) [Free Access]
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers [Free Access]
Conservation Information Network (BCIN) [Free Access]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online [Free Access]
Dissertations and Theses [Free Access]
EDGAR (Securities and Exchange Commission) [Free Access]
ERIC (Department of Education) [Free Access]
FishBase [Free Access]
In the First Person: an Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories ... [Free Access]
IngentaConnect [Free Access]
International Architecture Database [Free Access]
IOPI Database of Plant Databases [Free Access]
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System [Free Access]
Kew Bibliographic Databases [Free Access]
LibDex (The Library Index) [Free Access]
Library Catalogs (listing from the Library of Congress) [Free Access]
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts [Free Access]
Looksmart FindArticles [Free Access]
Medline (PubMed) [Free Access]
MedlinePlus [Free Access]
Modern Inventors Database [Free Access]
National Library of Medicine's LOCATORplus [Free Access]
Smithsonian Institution Contributions and Studies Series [Free Access]
Smithsonian Photographic Services Image Database [Free Access]
SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive [Free Access]
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers [Free Access]
Tree of Life Web Project [Free Access]
U.S. Geological Survey Library [Free Access]
uBio Project [Free Access]

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