Biology Article Databases

Core Resources

Biological & Agricultural Index (1983-Present ) Full Text Access
Search a variety of popular and professional scientific journals. Research interdisciplinary biological topics. What Is It? Bibliographic database covering topics in agriculture and related fields.

Biosis (1969-Present) Full Text Access
Search the database that provides the most comprehensive coverage of biological literature. Find citations to abstracts of scholarly journal articles. What Is It? Database providing access to the electronic version of Biological Abstracts. Index to literature in all areas of life sciences.

PubMed (1965-Present) Full Text Access
Search literature in the area of medicine, and related fields. Locate a complete journal title from the abbreviation. What Is It? Database, provided by the National Library of Medicine, containing citations to medical literature.

Science Citation Index (1900-Present) Full Text Access
Find authors that cite a particular paper. Track research by moving backward and forward in time through a specified discipline. Search an interdisciplinary topic. Search Tutorial What Is It? One of three databases included in Web of Science that indexes scholarly journal articles. Covers the pure sciences

Additional Resources

Environment Abstracts (1975-Present) Full Text Access What Is It? Environment Abstracts indexes more than 950 journals and other scientific and scholarly material published in the U.S. and abroad, encompassing all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment. As of 1994, the database also provides expanded coverage of energy-related issues.

Why Use It? Find U.S. and international scholarly and scientific material relating to all aspects of the environment, including specific projects, processes and problems.

General Science Abstracts (1984-Present ) Full Text Access What Is It? Abstracts for articles in the areas of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Nutrition and Physics.

Why Use It? Search popular science magazines and professional science journals. Search multidisciplinary scientific topics.

Health Reference Center (1995-Present) Full Text Access What Is It? Electronic collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.

Why Use It? Search for consumer health information.

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