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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
The ORE of Environmental Science is a dynamic, scholarly, and up-to-date reference work. Articles go beyond science for an interdisciplinary perspective on the environment including social science, ethics, history, and more.

Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science
Authoritative research guides, including annotated bibliographies and encyclopedia entries

eLS : Citable Reviews in the Life Sciences
"eLS features over 5,000 commissioned, peer-reviewed, citable articles, written by leaders in the life sciences.
eLS is updated by approximately 400 articles per year, with new articles publishing on a monthly basis."(ELS: Citable Reviews)

Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology
Authoritative research guides, including annotated bibliographies and encyclopedia entries

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
The ORE of Climate Science is a dynamic, scholarly, and up-to-date reference work. It covers physical sciences, social sciences, and policy approaches to the study of climate.

Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology
Authoritative research guides, including annotated bibliographies and encyclopedia entries

Recent Research on Climate Change: CA focus
A bibliography with emphasis on California that was compiled by the CA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Covers 2009 - 2023.
Climate Policy Database
Collects information on currently implemented policies related to climate change mitigation from countries worldwide. The downloadable and browseable database, drawn from more than a dozen sources, includes policies from nearly every country in the world and lists the policies’ names, jurisdictions, years of enactment, general objectives, and more.

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Crop Protection Compendium
Compiles and presents scientific information on all aspects of global crop protection by integrating text, images, maps, and databases in an encyclopedic portal.

CPC contains thousands of datasheets on crop pests, diseases, weeds, invasive plants, and natural enemies. CPC also includes a glossary, full text of relevant articles and reports, and abstracts of many additional articles, conference papers, and reports.

Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria
Search around 2000 descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria. Includes plant pathogens, animal pathogens, human pathogens, and more.

Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
Video lectures by leading experts on subjects including biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, genetics & epigenetics, infectious diseases, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience and more.

Additional topics include agriculture & environmental sciences, clinical medicine, immunology, methods, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and reproduction & development. Lecture slides and full text transcripts are available.
JSTOR Global Plants
A community-contributed database of high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world. (JSTOR Plant Science)

Global Plants is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies. Through Global Plants, herbaria can share specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations. Primary source content highlights include Carl Linneaus's annotated editions of Species Naturae and correspondence from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and foundational reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, Flowering Plants of South Africa, and illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Horticulture Compendium
Reference work that compiles knowledge on horticulture crops worldwide, including fruits, vegetables, and commodity crops.

Contains over 250 detailed datasheets on major and minor crops describing the crop lifecycle from growth stages to postharvest and consumption. Also includes information on crop pests, a multilingual glossary, more than 1000 images, and country datasheets containing statistics on agricultural production.
Invasive Species Compendium
Reference work covering recognition, biology, distribution, impact and management of the world's invasive plants and animals.

Contents include detailed datasheets on over 2,000 invasive species, downloadable distribution data in KML format and CSV format, and a glossary of key terms.
Forestry Compendium
Reference work containing detailed datasheets on trees and forest pests, full-text of selected articles and reports, a multilingual glossary of forest terms, species distribution maps, and images.

Jepson Flora Project
This site brings together the floristic references and data of the Jepson Herbarium, including eFloras.

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