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This page provides starting points for research by displaying the most important and useful databases, journals, books, and other reference tools, both print and electronic, in the field of Biology and Life Sciences. Please keep in mind that this page is not comprehensive. Additional information may be found in the Life Sciences Library.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 47 databases | 1098 e-journals )

• Biological abstracts

  
  

  Coverage:

  1926-
  Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.

• BioOne

  
  
  Aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.

• Complete work of Charles Darwin online

  
  
  Contains Darwin's complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts, including thousands of images, with Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue. Also includes reviews, obituaries and descriptions of the Beagle specimens.

• Entrez

  
  
  Life sciences search engine produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

• MEDLINE (EBSCO)

  
  
  MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

• SCIRUS

  
  
  A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.

• Web of science

  
  

  Coverage:

  1900-
  "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.More about Web of Science

Other Biology and Life Sciences Resources

Formats: Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Proceedings

Research tools: Abbreviations · Alerting services · Dictionaries · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Handbooks and manuals · Indexes and abstracts

E-Journal Collections: Academic Press · ACS (Amer. Chemical Soc.) · AIP (Amer. Inst. of Physics) · American Society for Microbiology · Annual Reviews · BioMed Central · BioOne · Blackwell Synergy · Brill Academic Publishers · Cambridge University Press · HighWire Press · IEEE Xplore · IngentaConnect · IOP (Institute of Physics) · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · MIT Press · Nature · Open Access Journals · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Routledge · Royal Society (London) · Royal Society of Chemistry · ScienceDirect · Scitation · Springer LINK · Taylor & Francis · Univ. of California Press · University of Chicago Press · University of Hawaii Press · Walter DeGruyter · Wiley InterScience

Genres: Collected works