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Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Covers articles in 1,800 food science journals and other scholarly material on all aspects of food science, nutrition, and processing, 1969-present.

Agricola
Indexes articles in "applied biology" including veterinary and animal sciences, wildlife management & conservation, extension & education. From the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. 1970-present.
A free version of this database is available through the USDA site, but will not give you links to the full text of the articles.

CAB Abstracts
Similar subject coverage to Agricola but produced by the British Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. Longer date coverage: 1910-present

PubMed
U.S. National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles with links to UMass Amherst-subscribed full text, 1966-present.
This database is free to the public through this link, but this will not give you access to the full text of the articles.

Engineering Village
Indexes engineering journal articles, conference papers, and web sites, 1884-present.

Web of Science
Indexes selected peer-reviewed journals. Sciences covered from 1900-present. Special feature: Extensive cross-indexing of cited references in all articles.

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