Biology

Best Database Choices for Biology

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All Biology Databases

Agricola   1970-present

AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database consisting of literature citations for journal articles, monographs, and more--pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. This extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture and related fields.

Biological Abstracts   1985-present

One of the premier life science databases that provides international coverage in areas such as genetics, botany, ecology, biomedicine, zoology, microbiology, and biochemistry.

BioOne   1985-present

provides full-text access to over 70 journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

BioscienceNetBase   1985-present

Searchable full-text of over 180 reference handbooks in the biosciences.

Birds of North America Online

Information on bird species that nest in the U.S. and Canada, including image and video galleries and recordings of bird songs.

CAB Direct   1973-present

Comprised of CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases, it contains over 4 million records in the fields of plant and animal science, human health, biotechnology, forestry, and management and conservation of natural resources. Includes citations to journal articles, books, technical reports, and conference proceedings.

CSA   1973-present

An interdisciplinary resource that includes approximately 30 databases related to the life sciences and biomedicine, such as Ecology Abstracts, Plant Science, Human Genome Abstracts, Neurosciences Abstracts, AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts, BioEngineering Abstracts, and Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols   

Database of protocols in all areas of biomedicine such as genetics, computational biology, cell biology, imaging/microscopy, and more. New protocols published continuously. RSS feeds and alerts are available.

Current Protocols in Cell Biology   

Online protocols published by Wiley and updated quarterly.

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology   

Online protocols published by Wiley and updated quarterly.

Current Protocols in Protein Science   

Online protocols published by Wiley and updated quarterly.

Digital Dissertations    1861-present

Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

Entrez   

The Life Sciences Search Engine: Searches across databases provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), including GenBank, PubMed, OMIM, and many others.

ENVIROnetBASE   

Handbooks and other reference books from CRC Press dealing with all areas of the environment.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

Medline (OVID) or Medline (EBSCO)   1966-present

Citations from over 4,800 journals in biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities as they relate to medicine and health care. The content for the OVID and EBSCO versions are the same.

ScienceDirect

Full text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.

Web of Knowledege / Web of Science   1981-present

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.

Zoological Record   2006-present

Find citations to articles, conference proceedings, books, etc. on all aspects of zoology including biochemistry, behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, taxonomy, and more.