Select Databases for Biology
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides a multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly information, including podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN, and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full-text scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and book reviews in virtually every discipline.
- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.
- Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new windowOffers full-text articles, indexing, and abstracts from essential biology and agricultural research journals.
- Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides abstracts and bibliographic references to topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials This link opens in a new windowIt contains references to randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials from PubMed, Embase, Cinahl, WHO's International Clinical Trial Registry, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Only summaries of the articles.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new windowIt contains full-text articles and protocols on healthcare. Sources are evidence-based and peer-reviewed to minimize bias. Data is often statistical meta-analysis.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citations dating back to 1637.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowReferences to journal articles and books in all areas related to the environment such as urbanism, waste, energy, pollution, science and technology, law, and more.
- JoVE This link opens in a new windowA video library for teaching the practice and theory of scientific experiments. Subjects include biology, chemistry, engineering, clinical skills, physics, psychology, and environmental sciences.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly articles in a wide range of subject areas. See the Life Sciences collection for articles in the biological sciences.
- MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides a selected collection of citations for articles published in journals approved by the National Library of Medicine. This database is a subset of PubMed.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowAccess to PubMed Central is free and open to the public, and contains full text access to biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed Central houses over 500,000 full text articles, most of which have a corresponding citation in PubMed.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowIt provides scholarly, full-text, and bibliographic information covering all aspects of science, technology, and medicine.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is an abstract and citation database that includes 75 million records and nearly 25,000 titles in health sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and life sciences.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowWiley Online Library includes more than 1,400 journals with coverage from 1997-present. Access is provided for all Wiley Online Library journals; e-book access is not included.
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