Biology Resources  Tags: biology life_sciences  

If you see this icon next to the record for a journal article in one of our databases, click on it to see if the full-text is available online through the library. If there is no full-text available, SULinks will also allow you to check the catalog for print holdings, or request your article through interlibrary loan.

Google Scholar misses a lot of important publications, and retrieves a lot of irrelevant and redundant material, but it's great for a quick and dirty search for something very specific

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• Web of Science
  Interdisciplinary coverage of peer-reviewed journals. Comprehensive coverage of the biological sciences from 1985, with citation links for all records. For biomedical topics, select "All Databases" to search Web of Science and Medline simultaneously

• Scopus
  The world's largest interdisciplinary literature database. Comprehensive coverage of the biological sciences from 1960, with citation links for records from 1996. Includes the complete contents of Medline
  
  

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  Other important research databases for the life sciences:
  
  
• Biological Sciences
  Literature in all areas of the life sciences. Coverage from 1982
  
  
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
  Full-text access to nearly one million dissertations published from 1997. Abstracts only for earlier dissertations and for masters theses
  
  
• Medline
  The life sciences database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coverage from 1950
  
  
• SciFinder
  The most comprehensive index to the chemistry literature, including biochemistry. Coverage from 1907
  
  

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  Databases for non-scholarly coverage of life sciences topics:
  
  
• Biology Digest
  Indexes scholarly literature, but provides lengthier abstracts written for a general audience. Coverage from 1989
  
  
• General Science Full Text
  This database provides good coverage of science magazines (limit your search to "Non-Peer Reviewed".) Coverage from 1984
  
  
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Indexes articles from medical, health, and general interest journals, as well as medical reference materials