This guide will help students researching topics in biology to find high-quality information in this field. It provides links to HACC's licensed online databases and helpful websites relevant to the life sciences.

• Find Background Information
  • AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online) High-quality, authoritative online encyclopedia.
  • Today's Science@Facts.com An archive of top science stories, covering significant developments in science and technology since 1992.
  • CQ Researcher Plus Archive Although not a science database, it is known as a source for non-biased analysis of issues in the news, many of which are related to science and technology.
• Find Articles from Journals and Magazines
  • Greenfile -- well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
  • SAGE Journals Online -- Highly technical, full-text articles from scholarly journals in science and engineering.
  • ScienceDirect -- Highly technical, full-text articles from scholarly journals in science and engineering.
  • EBSCOhost -- Articles from a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources in many subjects, many full-text.

  Did you find an article in a database that doesn’t appear in full-text? We can e-mail it to you FREE using our interlibrary loan service.

• Recommended Internet Sites
  • Science.gov is an inter-agency search engine that provides public access to science and technology information from many government web sites
  • National Academy Press was established by the National Academies under a charter granted by the U.S. Congress to publish reports of authoritative research from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.
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  • For environmental science research questions, please contact Celia Fox, HACC Reference/Instruction Librarian at 717-780-2461 (cmfox@hacc.edu).
  • Use your HACC ID as a library card at most college and university libraries in central Pennsylvania.