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Gale in Context: Science
"Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience."

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05/15/2019

Biology

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Biology in Credo Reference
This research guide covers topics and resources included in the HCC Library Credo Reference database.
Encyclopedia of Life
"What is EOL? - Information and pictures of all species known to science"

JSTOR Global Plants
Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.

PhET: Biology
Interactive simulations in Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Gale in Context: Science
"Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience."

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OpenStax College | Biology

Don't have your HCC textbook yet? These aren't the ones selected by your professors, but they are great study aids and are free pdf downloads. Learn more about Open Educational Resources (OER) here.

Biology
"Biology is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. "
Biology 2e
"Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors."
Concept of Biology
"Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. "