Biology
Recommended Databases
- Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
Description : Provides indexing for over 5 million records in life sciences journals. BIOSIS monitors around 6,000 international journals to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Coverage: 1990 -
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Description : This multidisciplinary database, provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications
Coverage: 1981 -
- Science Citation Index
Description: Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.
Coverage: 1987 - present
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- Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Description : Provides indexing to over 250 journals in the core literature of biology and agriculture. Subject matter includes agricultural, animal sciences, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environmental science, fishery sciences, forestry, genetics, horticulture, marine biology, microbiology, nutrition, paleontology, physiology, plant pathology, veterinary medicine, wildlife management, and zoology.
Coverage: 1983 -
- BioOne
Description: BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
Coverage: 2000 -
- JSTOR
Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.
- AGRICOLA
Description : Compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture this database indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
Coverage: 1970 -
- Environmental Issues and Policy Index
Description : Environmental Policy Index provides researchers with abstract/index information to over 1000 titles covering Environmental policy and studies. There is ongoing coverage for over 500 of those titles. An Environment Thesaurus is available to assist with advanced searching.
- General Sciences Fulltext
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 168 popular and professional English language science periodicals. Designed specifically for students and non- specialists, the periodicals covered range from very general to highly specialized titles. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, astronomy, conservation, earth science, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, and zoology.
Coverage: 1984 -
- TOXLINE
Description: TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
Coverage: Current 5 years
- Applied Science and Technology Full Text
Description : Provides indexing and abstracting for 411 core English language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management.
Coverage: 1983 - present
- Conference Papers Index
Description : Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses.
Coverage: 1982 -
- Annual Reviews
Description : Annual Reviews is a comprehensive collection of critical reviews written by scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within Biological & Medical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1984 -
- Birds of North America
Description: The Birds of North America (BNA) is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. In additon to frequent contributions to the web site, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of bird's songs and calls.
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