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“Physics Letters B, … has announced that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published. The papers ‘Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC‘ and ‘Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC‘ are freely available online on ScienceDirect. –Knowledgespeak.com

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The Life Sciences Package is a collection of related ejournals. Here is a title list:

• Advances in Agronomy
• Advances in Applied Microbiology
• Advances in Botanical Research
• Advances in Cancer Research
• Advances in Clinical Chemistry
• Advances in Ecological Research
• Advances in Food and Nutrition Research
• Advances in Genetics
• Advances in Immunology
• Advances in Insect Physiology
• Advances in Marine Biology
• Advances in Microbial Physiology
• Advances in Parasitology
• Advances in Pharmacology
• Advances in Protein Chemistry & Structural Biology
• Advances in Virus Research
• Current Topics in Developmental Biology
• Current Topics in Membranes
• The Enzymes
• Fish Physiology
• International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
• International Review of Neurobiology
• Methods in Cell Biology
• Methods in Microbiology
• New Comprehensive Biochemistry
• Progress in Brain Research
• Progress in Medicinal Chemistry
• Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology
• Side Effects of Drugs Annual (SEDA)
• Vitamins & Hormones

To access these titles, go to the “Search Collection / Journals” Library webpage and search the titles in the “Search for Online Journals Only” search box on the right.

Links labeled “ScienceDirect Life Sciences Book Series” are for this new collection.