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Biology Research
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BioOne - A substantial collection of full-text bioscience research journals. This database is focused on biological, ecological and environmental science.
ScienceDirect. - database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available throught the Internet. Contains abstracts and articles from the core journals in major scientific disciplines. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation.
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Biology Journals and Online Journals
MEDLINE (EBSCOHost) - biology, chemistry and biochemistry as it is studied and applied in medicine, with an easy to use search interface and lets you search other science and medicine databases at the same time.
- The National Institute of Health provides creates and provides free access to MEDLINE and other life sciences databases:
- PubMed seaches the MEDLINE database and and life science journals. If offers some special features, such as the ability to search find and search Medical Subject Headings.
- PubChem - Chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data.
Sage journals online A full text database of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine journals.
Blackwell Synergy - Search a collection of peer reviewed scholarly journals covering: social science, life sciences, physical sciences, medicine, business, economics, accounting, math and statistics.
Web of science (Science Citation Index)- The most complete search of science literature available. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching: 1- Trace how an idea has been confirmed, applied, extended or corrected in later work. 2- Identify authors who cite a particular article (yourown or someone else's). 3 - Identify highly cited authors in a field of study. 4- Observe the progress of an author's research. 5 - Evaluate the impact of an author's work in a particular field. 6 - Conduct multidisciplinary searches.
BasicBIOSIS - Easy-to-understand information from core life-science journals. Abstracts only. No full text.
American Chemical Society Web Editions - Search journals covering all areas of chemistry.
Academic Search Premier - can be a good choice for biology articles. Be careful how you search it though. It is a huge database with many newspapers and popular magazines. Using the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed limiter is highly recommended.
JSTOR. - Journal articles available from initial date of publication (many from the 1800's) until 3 to 5 years ago. Exact replication of the original journal article.
Learn more about an author's credentials, expertise, and biases.
Biography reference bank -Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Web of Science - Provides the author's address and contact information in addition to the article citation and abstract. Learn more about the author at his or her institution's web site as well.