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Visible BodyThis link opens in a new window3D interactive anatomy, physiology, and pathology visualizations and animations. Note: Requires registration with your Drake email address.
Biology Databases: Find Articles Here
ScienceDirectThis link opens in a new windowScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Drake University provides access to all of the book titles and a majority of the journal titles hosted on this platform, from 1995-present.
Web of ScienceThis link opens in a new windowWeb of Science, a database that provides quick and powerful access to the world's leading citation databases and sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities research content. (Includes: Biosis Citation Index, Currents Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE, SciELO Citation Index, Zoological Record, and the Web of Science Core Collection: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.)
Annual ReviewsThis link opens in a new windowCollection of critical reviews written by leading scientists in 40 disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
MEDLINE (PubMed)This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's free version of Medline
BIOSIS Citation IndexThis link opens in a new windowContains citations to items in journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports, in all areas of the life sciences and biology. Encompasses over 5,300 journal titles and 22 million records with coverage back to 1926.
Academic Search UltimateThis link opens in a new windowScholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 10,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
GreenFILEThis link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database of resources in a variety of formats that address environmental concerns.
AccessScienceThis link opens in a new windowAccess to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology from Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Visible BodyThis link opens in a new window3D interactive anatomy, physiology, and pathology visualizations and animations. Note: Requires registration with your Drake email address.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)This link opens in a new windowOnline peer-reviewed journal devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system, and the publication of biological research in a video format.We have a subscription to JoVE Biology and JoVE Neuroscience, as well as the Chemistry Education section.
Web of Science Research GuideWebpage which provides further information on the depth and types of resources available in the Web of Science.
Journals
arXivOpen access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
JournalsDirect access to Cowles Library's journal collection. Search by title or browse by subject. Electronic journals are available through this link.
Nature: News@NatureAt News@nature.com you will find breaking news, extended features and analysis, acclaimed columnists, plus blogs and multimedia specials. News@nature.com also hosts news stories from Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, and BioEntrepreneur, along with science careers news from NatureJobs. These articles appear on news@nature.com up to several weeks before they’re published in the print editions of these journals.
PLoS BiologyPLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal featuring research articles of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems.
PLoS Computational BiologyPLoS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods. It is the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology.
PLoS ONEPLoS ONE is "an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research."