Biology Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Excellent basic index to articles in key peer-reviewed journals and selected popular magazines (1984 - present)
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• General Science Full Text
  Abstracts (descriptions) of articles from leading science journals published (1984 to the present)

Most Comprehensive:

• Biological Abstracts
  Citations to over 7 million articles published in 4,000 life science and biomedical journals (1969 - present)

Other Useful Databases:

• Annual Reviews in the Biomedical Sciences
  Includes full-text (1996 - present) and tables of contents (1984-1995) of articles in the annual reviews of the biomedical sciences, including Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Plant Biology.
• JSTOR Biological Sciences Journals
  Full-text of older (pre-2005) articles published in over 150 biology journals via JSTOR
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• MEDLINE
  Abstracts of articles from more than 9,000 sources, including most medical journals published in the U.S. and many published abroad.
• ScienceDirect
  Full-text access to over 900 journals in the fields of science and social science, with coverage from 1998-present.
• Wiley InterScience
  Full-text access to over 300 journals published by John Wiley & Sons. The journals focus mainly on the field of science, and the coverage is from 1997-current.

See Also:

• Chemistry databases
• Medicine and Nursing databases
• Physical Sciences databases
• Selected Academic Biology Journals Online
• Print Journals in Biology
• Biology Subject Guide