Articles: Journals or Newspapers (13)

• Biological Abstracts

  Includes citations and abstracts from over 6500 international life sciences journals. Fields covered include: biology, botany, zoology, biotechnology, and environmental studies. Coverage: 1980-.

• BioOne

  A collection of biological journals. Broad topics covered are biology, ecology, and environment with more specific emphasis on systematics, botany, mammalogy, plant science, conservation biology, toxicology, agronomy, ornithology, limnology and taxonomy. Coverage: 2000-.

• BioOne Abstracts and Indexes

  Indexing and Abstracting for the BioOne full text database. Coverage: 2000-.

• Embase

  Embase is a multipurpose and up-to-date biomedical database. It covers international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree.

• Environment Complete

  Provides coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, urban planning, and more. Coverage: 1901-.

• JSTOR

  A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund. Coverage: Varies.

• ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Database

  Full-text articles covering all aspects of environmental science, including ecology, sustainability, pollution, water management, and other areas. Coverage: 1988-.

• ProQuest Biological Science Database

  Includes over 300 full-text journals, covering a wide range of biology topics. Coverage: 1998-.

• ProQuest Science Database

  This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s. Coverage: 1986-.

• PubMed

  PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, a database of citations covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Other services within PubMed include the Journal Browser, MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) Browser, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries. A user-friendly online tutorial is available at the site. PubMed also provides access to molecular biology databases in the National Center for Biotechnology Information s (NCBI) Entrez retrieval system with components for searching DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes. Coverage: 1946-.

• Science Citation Index (Web of Science)

  A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. Some of the disciplines covered include: agriculture, neuroscience, astronomy, oncology, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences, computer science, psychiatry, materials science, surgery, mathematics, veterinary science, medicine, and zoology. Coverage: 1945-.

• Scopus

  Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Areas of focus include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

• Zoological Record

  "Zoological Record indexes 6,500 international journals, proceedings, and books covering zoological topics in animal behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography. The thesaurus allows cross linking of subject, geographic, palaeontologic, and taxonomic vocabularies." Coverage: 1978-2007.

Books, E-books (1)

• Springer Protocols

  Springer Protocols is a database of reproducible, step-by-step laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiles protocols from book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks. Coverage: 1980-.

Encyclopedias & Reference (3)

• AccessMedicine

  A comprehensive online medical education resource. Includes reference tools, images, a diagnostic tool, drug information, and patient information. Also includes medical textbooks, cases, videos, and self-assessment for medical students.

• ClinicalKey

  Database of clinical information, including medical books, journal articles, drug information, patient education materials, etc.

• Science (Gale in Context)

  Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Reference content is merged with full-text journal and news articles, experiments, images, videos, and links to vetted websites, organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Multimedia (6)

• JoVE Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology

  JoVE Science Education. This video collection demonstrates how to execute basic techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology. To enhance understanding of the methods, each video is paired with additional video resources to show practical applications of the techniques and other complementary skills.

• JoVE Biology

  JoVE Biology welcomes all general biology research methodologies. Content in this section canvases all fields of cell, molecular, and organismal biology, ranging from new applications of standard techniques to novel approaches aimed at understanding the functions of life and living organisms. This diverse section includes, but is not limited to, techniques in physical biology, cellular biochemistry, genetics, physiology, systems biology and a combination of eukaryotic and prokaryotic model systems.

• JoVE Essentials of Behavioral Science

  This collection is sub-divided on the basis of different aspects of human behavior such as learning, memory, cognition, movement, addiction and behavioral disorders. The videos briefly explain the neurobiology of behavior, discuss concepts behind prominent techniques, introduce important questions being asked by scientists and provide protocols to run behavioral experiments.

• JoVE Essentials of Neuroscience

  These videos offer a glimpse of neuroscience at the professional level, through an exploration of five major branches of study: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cell and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience. In addition to presenting the key questions asked by scientists from these subfields, the collection describes some prominent methods used by today’s most brainy researchers, while making exciting discoveries regarding nervous system function.

• JoVE General Laboratory Techniques

  JoVE Science Education. This video collection exhibits how to use standard pieces of laboratory equipment and how to perform basic laboratory functions. Each video is paired with additional resources to show practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

• JoVE Neuroscience

  JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented in this section.

Statistics & Data (1)

• TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource

  Genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community.