Best Bets
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BioOne (2000+) This link opens in a new windowFull-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, an innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector.
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BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new windowCovers all major areas in the life sciences, with broad coverage in molecular and cell biology, pharmacology, endocrinology, genetics, neurosciences, infectious diseases, ecology and organismal biology
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Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) (1946+) This link opens in a new window"This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment."
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Science Direct (1997+) This link opens in a new windowFull text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier.
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Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new windowProviding researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Entomology
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AGRICOLA (ProQuest) (1970+) This link opens in a new windowAGRICOLA is a bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records.
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Entomology Abstracts (ProQuest) (1981+) This link opens in a new windowFrom the most ancient fossilized forms to newly-discovered species, Entomology Abstracts gathers and summarizes all the latest information on millions of insects and insect-like species, for truly global coverage of the field.
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Florida Entomologist (FCLA) (1917+) This link opens in a new windowthe first long-published, refereed, natural science journal on the Internet.
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FORMIS Ant Bibliography (FCLA) (1533+) This link opens in a new windowa composite of several ant literature databases. It contains citations for a large fraction of the world's ant literature (over 50,000 references).
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Life Sciences Commons (Digital Commons) This link opens in a new window"brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide."
Sub-Disciplines include: Agriculture -- Animal Sciences -- Plant Sciences -- Biology -- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -- Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Structural Biology -- Entomology -- Forest Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics -- Kinesiology -- Immunology & Infectious Disease -- Microbiology -- Food Science -- Physiology -- Cell & Developmental Biology -- Neuroscience & Neurobiology -- Nutrition -- Marine Biology -- Bioinformatics -- Biodiversity -- Pharmacology, Toxicology & Environmental Health -- Biotechnology -- Laboratory & Basic Science Research -- Systems Biology -- Other Life Sciences
Botany
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AGRICOLA (ProQuest) (1970+) This link opens in a new windowAGRICOLA is a bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records.
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BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new windowCovers all major areas in the life sciences, with broad coverage in molecular and cell biology, pharmacology, endocrinology, genetics, neurosciences, infectious diseases, ecology and organismal biology
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Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) (1946+) This link opens in a new window"This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment."
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Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) (1965+) This link opens in a new windowa multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences.
Microbiology
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Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) (ProQuest) (1982+) This link opens in a new windowSignificant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this journal,an indispensable resource for research laboratories and academic libraries.
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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) (ProQuest) (1982+) This link opens in a new windowcovers topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals, the journal provides access to far-reaching clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
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Algology Mycology & Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C) (ProQuest) (1982+) This link opens in a new windowThis journal separates out all the relevant studies in the literature and organizes them in one source for easy reference.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
Other Biology Resources
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Agricultural Science Collection (ProQuest) (1970+) This link opens in a new window"This database includes the ... AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses."
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Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection (ProQuest) (1950+) This link opens in a new window"includes the renowned Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, and Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA). It provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources studying the critical issues affecting Earth’s air, land, and water environments."
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Biochemistry Abstracts 1 (ProQuest) (1981-1993) This link opens in a new windowprovides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
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Biochemistry Abstracts 3 (ProQuest) (1982-1993) This link opens in a new windowprovides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
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BioMed Central (OpenAccess Central) This link opens in a new window"an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 269 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine"
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Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
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Ecology Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+) This link opens in a new windowCurrent ecology research across a wide range of disciplines, reflecting recent advances in light of growing evidence regarding global environmental change and destruction.
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Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest) (1960+) This link opens in a new window"The collection combines specialist topic resources from disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology and biology and features a diverse range of full-text sources including scientific journals, trade journals, new sources, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications."
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Florida Atlas of Lakes This link opens in a new windowLAKEWATCH is now one of the largest lake monitoring programs in the nation with over 1800 trained citizens monitoring 600+ lakes.
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Human Genome Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982-1995) This link opens in a new windowThis interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
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Nucleic Acids Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+) This link opens in a new window"Readers will find detailed perspectives on innovative cloning and sequencing strategies"
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JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new windowCenter for Distributed Learning is providing access to *all* JoVE video content. "10,000+ videos of laboratory methods and science concepts"
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Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest) (1981+) This link opens in a new windowfocuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
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Public Library of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed journals in biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, and neglected tropical diseases.
Grey Literature
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Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI) This link opens in a new windowOn the main search screen for Web of Science Core Collection, change "Editions: All" to "Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science."
"Conference Proceedings Citation Index helps researchers access the published literature from ... conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide." -
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window"brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."
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GreySource Index This link opens in a new window"GreySource provides examples of grey literature to the average net-user and in so doing profiles organizations responsible for its production and/or processing."
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Life Sciences Commons (Digital Commons) This link opens in a new window"brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide."
Sub-Disciplines include: Agriculture -- Animal Sciences -- Plant Sciences -- Biology -- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -- Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Structural Biology -- Entomology -- Forest Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics -- Kinesiology -- Immunology & Infectious Disease -- Microbiology -- Food Science -- Physiology -- Cell & Developmental Biology -- Neuroscience & Neurobiology -- Nutrition -- Marine Biology -- Bioinformatics -- Biodiversity -- Pharmacology, Toxicology & Environmental Health -- Biotechnology -- Laboratory & Basic Science Research -- Systems Biology -- Other Life Sciences -
Open Access Theses & Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new windowOATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 7 million theses and dissertations.
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OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories This link opens in a new windowa growing list of international institutional & subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe.
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OpenGrey: System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe This link opens in a new window"System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents."
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PapersFirst (FirstSearch) (1993+) This link opens in a new windowOCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide; covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowCovers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+) This link opens in a new window"Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses."
For abstracts from 1938-1980 see the print volumes of Dissertation Abstracts International
Databases by content type
See the expanded list of biology databases: