Biology
| This is a guide to finding selected Biology resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. |  | Subject Specialist: Carol DeBiak email: debiak@iit.edu phone: 312.567.3372 |
Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
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Academic Search Premier
Considered the world's largest multi-discipline full-text database of scholarly knowledge, this database is a good place to start searching for information on almost any topic. Covering all areas of academic study, this database contains indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 magazines and journals, of which more than 3,600 are full-text peer-reviewed publications.
Biological Abstracts
"Biological Abstracts is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database provides users with easy access to the latest information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. Most of the records include informative abstracts written by the author. It is produced by Thomson Scientific."
Biological Sciences
"This 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. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents."
Blackwell Synergy
Journals published by Blackwell Synergy.
Note: Journals published by Blackwell are now only accessible through Wiley InterScience.
MEDLINE
Contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Coverage is from 1993-present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE.
PubMed
PubMed is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
ScienceDirect
Online access to journals published by Elsevier, mainly in the fields of science, technology, and medicine. Use the "Browse" links to search for journals by subject area or title.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, you can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to your research. The citation index allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article. This is a good database to use if you have an article of interest and want to expand your search to related documents. Links to related articles are provided.
Note: Limited to three (3) concurrent users
Wiley InterScience
Electronic access to over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books online.
