Databases by Subject - Biology & Biotechnology

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
AGRICOLA	National Agricultural Library article citation index covers all aspects of agriculture disciplines. Titles Indexed \| Search Tips	16th century-	N
American Society for Microbiology Journals	Search 12 full text titles from American Society for Microbiology - ASM Journals Online. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1916-	Y
BioOne	Aggregation of full-text bioscience journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
ChemID plus	Chemical dictionary file for over 370,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Search Tips	Current	Y
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography	Articles on the professional lives of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and inventors from classical antiquity to modern times.	2007	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 700+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Knovel	Collection of 1600+ science and engineering handbooks, including the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine. Titles Included \| Help Center	Current	Y
Oxford Journals Online	Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
PubMed	From the National Library of Medicine, covers clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition. See also the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Journals Indexed \| Search Tips \| Tutorial	1966-	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
SciFinder Scholar	Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. See How it Works	1907-	Y
SpringerLink	Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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Additional Web Sites

Gray's Anatomy - current edition in Library Reference Collection
Tree of Life - information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Biotechnology | Other biotechnology web sites
U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Biotechnology
U.S. Geological Survey Center for Biological Informatics

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