Find citations and selective electronic full text to articles in scholarly journals and magazines, as well as web resources, with the databases and indexes listed below.
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Primary Databases & Indexes for the Biological Sciences
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
ISI Web of Knowledge
Includes access to Science Citation Index
Biological Abstracts (Ovid Online)
Index to journal articles 1969 to 2006
Faculty of 1000 Biology
“Literature awareness tool … that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2300 selected leading researchers.”
Faculty of 1000 Medicine
“Literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine. Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians, it systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine.”
Google Scholar
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Additional Databases & Indexes for the Biological Sciences
AGRICOLA (USDA National Agricultural Library)
Index to journal articles and catalog to other publications on all aspects agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences
Bibliography of Systematic Mycology (CABI)
A survey of the literature encompassing the biodiversity, classification, distribution, evolution, identification, nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of fungi (including yeasts, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms), searchable by cited generic names or author names
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes (CSA)
Indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization; provides a unique aggregation of over 65 bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers.
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
A general periodical index with selective access to full-text articles
Access to all databases from U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Search multiple U.S. federal government sites
Fungi Online (Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, ARS, USDA)
Searchable databases, including
Specimens in the U.S. National Fungus Collections, Fungus-Host Distributions, Literature Guide for the Identification of Plant Pathogenic Fungi, Nomenclature,
Index to Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum, and
International Mycological Institute's Index of Fungi
Google Directory for Biology
Web resources organized by topic
GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
“A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.”
Index to American Botanical Literature
Intute: Health & Life Sciences
Formerly BIOME, provides access to web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists (based at the University of Nottingham, UK). There are over 31,000 resource descriptions listed that are freely accessible for keyword searching or browsing by subject. RSS feeds available.
Medline (see: PubMed)
PAN Pesticides Database
Toxicity and regulatory information from
Pesticide Action Network
PrimateLit
Provides citations to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).
PsycINFO (Ovid)
Contains references to journals, documents, books, and book chapters in the areas of psychology, behavioral sciences, and neurosciences.
Science Citation Index (see: ISI Web of Knowledge)
Scirus
A science-specific Internet search engine. Searching can be restricted to specific disciplines and resource types in advanced search. A search will lead to full-text journal articles in e-journals the library subscribes to, as well as free resources on the Web.
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
U.S. Patents Index (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Patents Search (Google interface to USPTO)
Vadlo
A search engine for all branches of life sciences which allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software
Databases/Indexes Beyond the Biological Sciences