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Please note that print publications specifically about the UC Davis Arboretum are all located in the QK (Botany) call number range as noted from this catalog search link:
QK 480 .U52 C3 through QK 480 .U52 D455
Note that many publications about the Arboretum may only be held in the University Archives in the Shields Library department of Archives and Special Collections. You may ask for specific items to be pulled so that you may review them by using the Aeon request system.
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The UC Davis Library selectively buy materials on writing in the life and health sciences. Browsable subject headings that bring up these types of publications include:
- Biology — Authorship
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- Life sciences — Authorship
- Medical writing
- Proposal writing in biology
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- Proposal writing for medicine
- Proposal writing for research
- Report writing
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Ebook collections
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull-text searching across the ebooks, journals, and major reference works published by Elsevier on the ScienceDirect platform. Subjects include life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
NOTE: We don't license everything from Elsevier, but we may have a print copy. If the article or chapter does not have a green box next to it, check the library catalog, or request from another library. EXCLUSIONS to the Elsevier collection are textbooks, some major reference works, some professional and trade titles, consumer books, and many health sciences titles.
[Coverage: dates vary]
- Taylor & Francis eBooksFull-text searching across the ebooks and major reference works published by Taylor & Francis and its imprints: CRC Press, Routledge, Garland and Psychology Press. Browse list of titles available. Disciplinary scope and coverage vary. Former CRCnetBASE collections incorporated in this collection include: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE, CHEMnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE, MATHnetBASE, NUTRITIONnetBASE, STATSnetBASE and VETnetBASE (VetMed). Also included are newer Burleigh Dodds ebooks for agriculture.
- Wiley eBooks CollectionFull-text searching and access to more than 22,000 ebooks from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines.
Coverage: 1790 - present