Research Guides: Biology: Key Article Databases

Key Article Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Covers over 3,000 of the world’s leading biomedical journals and periodicals, providing bibliographic citations and authors’ abstracts relating to all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1947-
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Includes over 1800 full-text journals. Subjects covered include: biology, business, chemistry, medicine, nursing, physics etc.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes index to dissertations and theses and conference proceedings and cited reference searching. Coverage: 1975-

Master Journal List
AccessScience This link opens in a new window
Online resource that contains reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines. It offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations, plus specially designed curriculum maps for teachers.

arXiv.org - Qualitative Biology
Open access to 836,183 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

BioOne This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 127 high impact bioscience journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Coverage: 2000- Includes full text to open access content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 240 full-text biological journals
Scholars Portal Journals This link opens in a new window
A digital repository of over 40 million scholarly articles covering every academic discipline.

Web of Science has additional resources which you can access by clicking on the Additional Resources tab.

Resources include:

Index to Organism Names (ION)
The world’s largest online database of scientific organism names.
ResearcherID.com
ResearcherID provides the global research community with an invaluable index to author information. Each author listed is assigned a unique number, which serves as a fast, easy identifier.
Science Watch®
Weekly tracking of hot or emerging papers and research fronts in this free Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Includes interviews, first-person essays, podcasts, and profiles from scientists, journals, institutions, and nations, selected using Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters.