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Biology Research Databases

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AccessScience

AccessScience is based upon the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th edition and its corresponding annual yearbooks, the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th edition. AccessScience contains 8,000 articles written by the leading figures in their fields, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, over 2000 science biographies and 13,000 high-quality illustrations, news stories from Science News, and McGraw-Hill science editors’ selected websites for further research capabilities. In addition, AccessScience is updated daily with new articles, research updates and current events.

Agricola

Indexes resources in agriculture, chemistry, the life sciences representing the holdings of the National Agricultural Library. 1970 to present.

Biology Digest

Covers botany, environmental science, life science etc... Particularly strong in medicine and health. Abstracts written in non-technical style for students. 1989 - present.

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

Research authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more with MEDLINE®.

BioOne

Provides full-text access to many important journals in the biological sciences, mostly those which are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Examples of journal titles indexed here in HTML and PDF full-text include American Zoologist, The Auk, Wetlands, and Journal of Paleontology.

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes (See Dan Bowell to use this database.)

BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers. Some journals are covered back to 1998, with the majority being covered from 2000.

BIOSIS Previews® (See Dan Bowell to use this database.)

This source provides comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences published in the English language. Subjects covered include biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, genetic engineering, genetics, microbiology, and more. Includes retrospective citations.

Highwire Press

HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 750,000 free, full-text articles online.

JSTOR

JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals for the following disciplines: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. PLoS includes subjects in biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, and pathogens. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online, are deposited in the free public archive PubMed Central, and can be redistributed and reused according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License .

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Last revised August 04, 2009 - 10:54 PM