Research Guides: Biology: Databases

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This research guide offers some of the key databases, book catalogs, journals, and more for the broad discipline of Biology. To read the latest published research, check out BrowZine for your favorite journals. To get started searching for primary or secondary research, check out the some of databases listed below such as Web of Science, L ibrary Search, and Google Scholar. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the librarians.

Article Databases

Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index of journal literature in life sciences
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Authoritative citation index of the world's leading scholarly research publications
PubMed Medline This link opens in a new window
Index of worldwide biomedical journal literature back to the 1950s, with some links to full text. Freely accessible digital archive of the U. S. National Library of Medicine, supplemented with indexing by Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) databases including CAPlus, CAS Registry, and CASREACT.

Agricola This link opens in a new window
Resources on agriculture and the environment
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes backfiles (i.e. older issues) of 160 titles in the biological sciences.
Library Search This link opens in a new window
Search the Library's books, articles, videos, and more
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's search engine for scholarly literature; includes SMC library full-text links when available

Publisher Databases

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Annual summaries of research in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences
Nature.com: Nature Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles from the Nature journals, covering a broad array of science topics
Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles from Oxford University Press journals
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text of scientific, technical, and medical research from Elsevier peer-reviewed journals and ebooks
Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to journals and ebooks in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences from Springer publishing
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles and eBooks from Wiley and affliated journals

Dissertations Database

Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Full-text online North American and European dissertations issued from 1997-to the present. Citations for dissertations and master's theses ranging from 1861 to the present