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The library has digitised its Birds of America plates, along with Audubon's accompanying Ornithological Biography.
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University of Pittsburgh
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Database with over 2 million records including species distribution, taxonomy & nomenclature
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BirdLife Canada
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10 major libraries (incl. Natural History Museum, London) are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections.
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Natural History Museum library contributes
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"…assess ecological health through collaborative research, and to use scientific findings to advance environmental awareness and inform decision makers". Includes newsletters eg Diver & Loon Study Group
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Biodiversity Research Institute (USA)
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Free links to global birding information
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Hosted by Bird Studies Canada & BirdLife International
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European bird names translated into 9 languages
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Royal Belgian Institute of Science
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Search for distribution and status of any of the world’s thousands of bird species
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BirdLife International
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Useful links to journals : on a site hosting pages for the major N. American ornithological societies.
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Ornithological Council, Washington DC
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BOU Register of Avian Thesis Abstracts
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British Ornithologists' Union
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Over 600 sound recordings of wildlife from around the UK. Captured by three British wildlife enthusiasts from the 1960s to the 1990s, most are published here for the first time.
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British Library
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Search across 20,000 journals for free from this site. Full text for purchase.
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British Library
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Collins birdwatching website. Launched March 2010
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Collins
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Links to open access, full text, quality controlled scientific & scholarly journals
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'an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth….' Edward O. Wilson
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Natural History Museum contributes as part of Biodiversity Heritage Library project
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Indexes / abstracts of papers in European birding journals :Alula,Birding World, Birdwatch, British Birds, DOFT, Dutch Birding, Fugle I felten, Fugle og Natur, Ornis Svecica, Ornithos, Var Fagelvarld, World Birdwatch
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Eurobirding
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Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories (including UK repositories which contain theses)
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Indexes the world's ornithological literature, covering articles, reports, dissertations & proceedings. Hosted by the EGI, Oxford.
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OWL is a joint effort between the American Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union and Birds Australia.
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Contains research publications and other research output produced by members of the University of Oxford. Content includes copies of journal articles, conference papers, theses and other types of scholarly research publications.
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Website including downloads of Annual Reports
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Guidance for sea wildlife rescue. Choose EUROPE : 'Tools & Handbooks' for continuously updated manuals etc.
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Sea Alarm Foundation
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Free full text of back issues of several North American ornithological journals.
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University of New Mexico
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A 'work in progress' - towards the most comprehensive database about the birds of the world, both extant, and extinct since 1600.
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A community database of shared bird sounds from the whole world.
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Free full text : 2002, vol.45(1) to current
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Polish Academy of Sciences
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Free full text : 2001, vol.47 to 2008, vol.54. Continued as 'Current Zoology'
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Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Free full text : 1973, no.1 to 1982, no.11; and 2006, no.36 to current
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SAFRING (South African Bird Ringing Unit)
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Free full text : 1953, vol.1 to within 5 years of current
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British Agricultural History Society
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Free full text of Novitates, Papers & Bulletin
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American Museum of Natural History
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Free full text : 2001, vol.24(1) to current
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Natural Science Museum of Barcelona
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Free full text : 1999, no.1 to current
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Arctic Birds Breeding Conditions Survey
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Free full text : 1904, vol.1 to 2003, vol.91(2). Selected free copies from 2003 to current
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Netherlands Ornithologists' Union
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Free full text : 1985, vol.32(1) to within 18 months of current
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Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO)
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Free full text : 1999, vol.1(1) to 2006, vol.8(3)
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Seabird Group
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Free full text of most articles from 1999 to current
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Audubon
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Free full text : 1884, vol.1 - 2001, vol.118
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 2005,Dec, vol.1(1) to current
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Society of Canadian Ornithologists and Bird Studies Canada
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Free full text : 1999, vol.10(1) to within 12 months of current
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ISBE (International Society for Behavioral Ecology)/Oxford Journals
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Bentham Science Publishers Ltd SEE '(The) Open …….'
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Free full text : 1995, vol.4 to 2003, vol.12 (plus suppl. 'Avifauna of Ukraine')'
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Dr. Vitaly Grishchenko
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Free full text : 2004, vol.1 to current
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University of Kansas
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Free full text : 2005, vol.1 to within 12 months of current (older archive only by subscription; some open content in recent issues)
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The Royal Society of London
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Free full text : 2004, no.5 to current
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DPPVN - Society of Bird Research & Nature Conservation
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Free full text : 2008, no.1 to current
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Pensoft Publishers
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Free full text : 1930, vol.1 to 1979, vol.50 (continued as J.Field Orn.)
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 2003/04, vol.7 onwards
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Institute for Bird Populations
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Free full text : 1954, vol.1(1) to within 3 years of current
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Informaworld / British Trust for Ornithology
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Free full text : 2004 to current
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American Birding Association
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Free full text : 2004, vol XIV to current
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Sociedad Antioquena de Ornitologia - SAO (Colombia)
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Freely accessible after 2 years (also see the INDIVIDUAL TITLES)
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Wiley InterScience / British Ecological Society
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Free full text : 1997, vol.4 to current
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Cracid Specialist Group
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Free full text : 1975, vol.11 to 1978, vol.14
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West African Ornithological Society
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Free full text : 1981, vol.1(1) to 2001, vol.18 (then see Revista Catalana d'Ornitologia)
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Revistes Catalanes amb Acces Obert (RACO)
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Free full text : 2004, vol.40(1) to current. Also full text of digital archive 1961, vol.1 to 2003, vol.39
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University of Puerto Rico
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Free full text : 1990, vol.1(1) to within 4 years of current
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Inter-Research Science Centre, Germany
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Free full text : 1899, vol.1 - 2000, vol.102
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 2004, vol.1 to current
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ConservationEvidence.com
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Free full text : 2008, vol.1 to 2010, vol.3
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Wiley InterScience / Society for Conservation Biology
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Free full text : 1997, vol.67 to current
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University Library of Amsterdam
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Abstracts only : 1977, vol.1 to current
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Australian Bird Study Association
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Contents of all & some selected full text papers : 1994, no.1 to 2008, no.30. Free full text : 2009, no.31 on
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Neotropical Bird Club
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Free full text : 2009, vol.55(1) to current. (formerly Acta Zoologica Sinica)
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Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Free full text : 1996, vol.90(1) to current
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Dansk Ornitologisk Forening
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Free full text : 1979, vol.1(1) to 1990, vol.12(3) - pdfs of WHOLE ISSUES to download. [From 1991, contents & summaries only]
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Dutch Birding Association
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Free full text : 1997, vol.1(1) to current
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Resilience Alliance Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Some free content (mostly in older issues) : 1901, vol.1(1) to current
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RAOU - Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union / CSIRO Publishing
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Free full text : 2004/05, vol.1 to current
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Inter-Research Science Center, Germany
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Free full text : 2008, vol.1 to current
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Wiley InterScience
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Middle East Falcon Research Group
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Free full text : 1959, vol.1(1) to 2003, vol.10(4), when ceased publication
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Field Studies Council
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1986, no.1 to 1997, no.12 contents only ; free full text : no.6(1991) & 1998, no.13 to within 2 years of current
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Oriental Bird Club
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Free full text : 2004, vol.1 to current
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BioMed Central
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Free full text : 1997, vol.11(1) to within 2 years of current
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Wiley InterScience/ British Ecological Society
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Free full text of selected papers : 2000, vol.1(1) to current
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CIPAMEX (BirdLife Mexico)
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Free full text : 1996, vol.53(1) to within 12 months of current
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International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
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Free full text : 2005, vol.1(1) to current (some whole issues, some selected papers)
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New Ornis Foundation
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Free full text : 2009 to current
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Free full text : 2005, vol.30 to 2009, vol.33 [Vol.31 in prep.]
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Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra
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(Bulletin of the International Wader Study Group) Free full text : 1970, no.1 to 2002, no.12
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Wiley InterScience / British Ecological Society
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Free full text : 1998, vol.35(1) to within 2 years of current
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Wiley InterScience / British Ecological Society
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Free full text : 1998, vol.86(1) to within 2 years of current
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Wiley InterScience / British Ecological Society
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Free full text : 1988, vol.1(1) to within 2 years of current
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Wiley InterScience
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Full text 1930 - 1999 (entitled Bird Banding 1930-1979)
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 1987, vol.21(1) to 2005, vol.39
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 2009, vol.1(1) to current
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Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society
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Free full text : 1965, vol.1(1) to within 18 months of current
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Wildlife Disease Association
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Free full text : 1979, vol.1(1) to within 5 years of current
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West African Ornithological Society
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Free full text : 1988, vol.16 to current
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Pacific Seabird Group
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University of Alicante
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 1943, vol.1(1) to within 3 years of current
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ)
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Free full text : open access : 1894, vol.1 to 1940/48, vol.42
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
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Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
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Free full text : 2005, vol.82 to current
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BirdLife Finland
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Free full text : 1999, vol.1 to current
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BirdLife Hungary
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Free full text : 2002, 2003, 2005(1) - v. limited coverage
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Eurobirding
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Free full text : 1964, no.3 to 2001, no.52
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text :1997, no.20 to current
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OSNA - Ornithological Societies of North America
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Free full text : 2002, vol.1 to within 12 months of current
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Ornithological Society of Japan
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Free full text : 2003, no.1 to current
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Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología
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Free full text : 1986, vol.1 to current (v.12 to v.15 incomplete)
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IUCN Otter Specialist Group
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 1974, vol.1(2) to current
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Pacific Seabird Group
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Free full text : 1939, vol.1 - 2006, vol.68(1)
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Pdfs from journals in the collection : Research library>Journals Inventory(pdf)
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Peregrine Fund
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Free full text : 2001, vol.256 to within one year of current (some open content in more recent issues; older archive only by subscription)
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The Royal Society of London
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Free full text : 2003, vol.1 to current
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Public Library of Science
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Free full text : 2006, vol.1 to current
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WESCA / Bird Conservation Society of Iran
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Free full text : 1915, vol.1 to within 6 months of current
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National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Free full text : 2001, vol.268 to within one year of current (some open content in more recent issues; older archive only by subscription)
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The Royal Society of London
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Free full text : 1928, vol.1 to current (formerly Bulletin of the Raffles Museum)
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Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
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Free full text of most articles : 1990, vol.1 to within 2 years of current. (vols.1-13(1) entitled 'Ararajuba')
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Sociedade Brasileira de Ornitologia
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Free full text : 2002, no.19 to current. (Catalan Journal of Ornithology)
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Catalan Ornithological Institute
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British Trust for Ornithology
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Free full text : 2004, issue 33 to current
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Ministry of Defence
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Free full text : 1969, no.1 to 1998, no.20
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Seabird Group
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Free full text : 2000, no.1 to current
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ)
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Bird population information to 2000 (online version of Chris's book)
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BirdCare
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Free full text : 1981, no.1 to current (Whole issues as pdfs)
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AWSG - Australasian Wader Studies Group
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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AWSG - Australasian Wader Studies Group
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Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE)
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SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive)
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Free full text : 1950, vol.1 to current
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Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI)
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Free full text : 2000, vol.1 to current (online only)
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European Ecological Federation / Oikos Editorial Office
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Free full text : 2005, vol.1 to current
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Portugese Wildlife Society (editors)
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Free full text : 1889, vol.1 to 1999, vol.111
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Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
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