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Books related to plant sciences (SB); botany (QK); and biotechnology (TD) are shelved on the 3rd floor of the Shields Library stacks. Below are the Library of Congress call number ranges for our print collections that you may wich to browse:
Call Numbers:
- S - Agriculture
- SB - Plant Culture
- SD - Forestry
- SH - Aquaculture
- QH - Natural History (Ecology)
- QK - Botany
- TD - Environmental Technology
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Understanding Call Numbers
Explains how to read a Library of Congress call number.
Access eBooks online via the databases:
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CAB eBooks This link opens in a new windowThis collection is divided into six core subject collections: Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Human, Food and Nutrition Sciences; Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences; and Leisure and Tourism. [Coverage: 2000-present]
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ScienceDirect eBooksThousands of e-books with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. Subjects include life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. EXCLUSIONS to the Elsevier collection are textbooks, major reference works, some professional and trade titles, and consumer books. NOTE: Green symbol on right indicates if accessible.
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Taylor & Francis eBook CollectionCore collection includes, AGRICULTUREnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, NUTRITIONnetBASE, and VETnetBASE (VetMed). Also included are newer Burleigh Dodds ebooks for agriculture.
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Springer eBooks CollectionThis online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from *Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Earth and Environmental Science. [Coverage: 2005-2020]
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Wageningen Academic Publishers eBooksUC Davis has current years of eBooks licensed from this large university publisher of agriculture-related books. “Wageningen Academic Publishers is an independent STM publisher operating worldwide in the field of Life Sciences. We focus on topics in Animal and Veterinary, Food and Health, Agribusiness and Rural Studies, Agriculture and Environment, publishing around 30 new books per year.”