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• NCBI Bookshelf  Free online access to almost 2400 books and reports. The primary focus is areas such as health policy, healthcare, evidence-based medicine, and public health, but it also contains works on cell biology, genetics, microbiology, etc.
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• Oxford Reference Online Life Sciences Reference Collection

• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography