JSTOR Life Sciences Collection
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The Life Sciences Collection is JSTOR's largest collection, with over
5.5 million pages available today and scheduled to grow to more than
7 million. At its completion, it will comprise a minimum of 160 titles
spanning disciplines in the biological, health, and general sciences.
In the Life Sciences Collection, researchers can trace the origins of
many scientific sub-disciplines through more than 25 journals that commenced
publication over one hundred years ago. Through the multidisciplinary
Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society, PNAS, Science, Science
News, and BioScience, the collection features scholarship and news from
across the sciences. The collection also includes a number of the most
highly cited journals in the fields of biology, botany & plant sciences,
ecology & evolutionary biology, immunology, ornithology, and zoology.
The Life Sciences Collection includes all the titles available in the
Ecology & Botany, Biological Sciences, and Health & General Sciences
collections.
Ecology & Botany
The Ecology & Botany Collection contains twenty-nine titles in the biological sciences. Founded with the assistance of the Ecological Society of America, it includes this society's premier research journals alongside a range of titles broadly focused on ecosystems. Topics covered by the ecology journals are wide-ranging, from biodiversity and climate change to conservation and experimental biology. The botany titles—including the oldest botanical journal in the Americas—encompass a range of subjects such as plant biology, systematic botany, and taxonomy.
Biological Sciences
The Biological Sciences Collection will include over 130 titles when completed. Coverage in this collection offers depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, plant science, and zoology.
Health & General Sciences
The Health & General Sciences Collection features important historical scientific journals and top publications in the health sciences, offering published scientific research dating as far back as 1665. The collection includes publications of the Royal Society of London, which extend back to the seventeenth century, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which dates from the early twentieth century. A cluster of titles in nursing and epidemiology is also available.