Biology
Databases
Looking for articles? Try these databases!
- Biological Abstracts (EBSCO)
Produced by the Web of Science Group, this database covers biology and life sciences, including biological and biomedical research, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Contains specialized indexing including BIOSIS and MeSH terms.
Contents: Citations and abstracts.
Note: Access is limited to 10 users at a time.
- ScienceDirect
Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, environmental science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, nursing, physics, education, and psychology.
Contents: Abstracts and full-text articles from scientific, technological, and medical scholarly journals and reference books published by Elsevier.
- JSTOR
Includes archival journal collections in the Arts & Sciences and Life Sciences covering language and literature, history, economics, political science, and health sciences.
Contents: Full-text articles and books.
- BioMed Central (BMC) (Springer Nature)
Contains full-text, open access articles from peer-reviewed journals in biology, technology, and medicine.
Contents: Full-text articles.
- PubMed
Developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Contents: Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles, biomedical literature, and books.
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- AGRICOLA (SEARCH from USDA National Agricultural Library)
Index of agricultural and plant science journals, USDA documents, and publications related to all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines, including veterinary science, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, farming systems, and environmental sciences.
Note: In Addition to AGRICOLA, SEARCH from the USDA National Agricultural Library allows users to search content from PubAg and NAL Digital Collections (NALDC).
Contents: Abstracts for journal articles, citations for books.
- PLoS ONE: Public Library of ScienceAn international, peer-reviewed, open-access online publication for all scientific disciplines. Associated scientific content available at this site include PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Computational Biology.
- Google Scholar
This search engine includes peer-reviewed online academic journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, technical reports, court opinions, and other scholarly literature.
Contents: Citations and some full-text.
Note: Few results in Google Scholar link directly to full-text.
Search Engines
- Science.govResearch portal that allows searching across 38 scientific databases from the US government.
- WorldWideScience.orgAn online global gateway to science information from 28 national databases.
