Natural Science

The links identified in this section support research in courses that begin with SCI.

Earth Science | Biology | Botany | Environmental Science

Licensed Databases for Granite State College Use Only

Business Source Premier® - Password protected. Database provides abstracts, citations and full text articles.

Academic Search Premier^TM - Password protected. The social science database provides abstracts, citations and full-text articles.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Password protected. Provides access to scholarly articles in many aspects of the medical discipline.

Earth Observatory (NASA) - Provides new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet

Earth Science World Image Bank - Designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community

Earth Science and Map Library (U.C. Berkeley) - Provides a comprehensive list of links to support all facets of earth science

Geology.com - Find several satellite views of the earth as well as basic geological data

U.S. Geological Survey - Provides a multi-disciplinary focus on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water

Nutrition.gov - Site serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals

Food and Nutrition Information Center - Sponsored by the USDA, the mission of FNIC is to collect and disseminate information about food and human nutrition.

Virtual Library of Genetics - This Virtual Library of Genetics is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

Anatomy - Medline Plus - MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

Virtual Library of Botany/Plant Biology - Find a comprehensive selection of related links

American Journal of Botany - Find full-text of articles in current and past issues of this journal

Annals of Botany - Search the full-text of articles in the current issue of this journal

United Nations Environment Program - Provides access to UN initiatives with an environmental focus

Global Change Master Directory - Provides the GCMD database which holds more than 16,000 descriptions of Earth science data sets covering all aspects of Earth and environmental sciences

Water Environment Federation - Find fact sheets and other updated information about water quality

Environmental Agency - United Kingdom - Check out the British view of the environment

Ecosystem Valuation - Site discusses purpose and context of an ecosystem valuation

Resources for the Future - Provides pdf files of reports and testimony before Congress on environmental issues.

National Environmental Data Index - Find full-text articles on the environment

Endangered Species Program (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) - Provides information on specific endangered species

Global Warming Site - (EPA) - Find specific information on global warming available here

U.S. Global Change Research Program - Site is loaded with facts about global change