Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.
ScienceDirect is a portal for scholarship published in the sciences, engineering, and technology disciplines. Click on "Books" at the top of the screen to search and browse ebooks.
Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions covering topics from the arts to the sciences.
MIT CogNet is a collection of journals, reference works, and books published by MIT Press in the area of brain and cognitive science. The collection also includes conference proceedings.
Online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, with good background information and references to foundational studies about the gene/phenotype discussed. Authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images and animations. From the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
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