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Biology Databases: Find Articles Here
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ScienceDirect This 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.
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Web of Science This 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.)
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Annual Reviews This 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.
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MEDLINE (PubMed) This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's free version of Medline
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BIOSIS Citation Index This 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.
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 10,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
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GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database of resources in a variety of formats that address environmental concerns.
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AccessScience This link opens in a new windowAccess to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology from Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
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Visible Body This link opens in a new windowDescription of this database.
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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.