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Class Handouts ~ Bio205/Dr. Wicknick

Databases to Use

 

>  Recommended Starting Points

    Academic Search Premier   
    Expanded Academic ASAP Plus

>  Biology Databases

    AGRICOLA     Index
    Select Article Citation Database
    The most comprehensive database for US agriculture and allied disciplines.  Bibliographic citations  
    compiled by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating libraries include vital agricultural
    information, 1970 to present.

    BioDigest   Index and Abstracts/Links to Full Text
    
Provides citations and abstracts to articles from 1989 to present in  botany, environmental science,
    health, life sciences, medicine, and zoology. 

    Biological and Agricultural   Full Text 
   
Provides citations to articles from popular and professional journals in biology and agriculture. Select
    Biological & Agriculture in the Subject Area.

    BioOne  Full Text 
    
Access to core research in the biosciences with links to articles in biology, ecology and environmental
    sciences.

    Directory of Open Access Journals  Full Text 
   
 This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all
    subjects and languages. There are now 1444 journals in the directory. Currently 358 journals are   
    searchable at the article level.

    Medline   Index and Abstracts
    The U.S. National Library of Medicine's index to medical literature dating back to 1962.

    MedlinePlus  Full Text 
    Health information from NLM for professionals and consumers with over 650 diseases and conditions,
    lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, extensive
    information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
    thousands of clinical trials.
   

    Oxford Journals   Full Text
    
Provides full text of multi-disciplinary articles published by Oxford University Press.

    PubMed Central   Full Text
    The U.S. National Library of Medicine's
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
 

>  Science Databases