Library Resource Guide for: BIOLOGY

Individual Databases for Biology

Biological Abstracts  
1969-present; international coverage of research in the life sciences.

PubMED  
1947-present; PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. [This resource is publicly available.] The Library also has access to MEDLINE via Web of Knowledge.

Science Citation Index Expanded  
1973-present; source for information in all major scientific disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.

Zoological Record  
1995-present; comprehensive coverage of the zoological literature.

AGRICOLA
1970-present; articles, book chapters on agriculture, animal sciences, plant sciences, nutrition. [This resource is publicly available.]

ScienceDirect    
Current; source for scientific, technical and medical research that provides access to 2,000 journals across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

Proteome BioKnowledge® Library    
Six protein information volumes make up the Proteome BioKnowledge® Library. Each volume focuses on a specific research organism or set of organisms. Proteome's team of scientific curators and editors gather publicly available translated cDNA sequences and manually comb the published scientific literature to collect and organize information on characterized proteins. This information is compiled into a comprehensive database containing all published proteins in the target species. A protein report, containing tabulated data and a compendium of research results gathered from the scientific literature, is central to all BioKnowledge Library databases. A protein report exists for each protein in the database.

Faculty of 1000-Biology    
Current; Faculty of 1000 is an online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers. This service provides scientists with a continuously updated insider's guide to the most important papers within any given field of research, highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear, offers the researcher a consensus of recommendations from well over 1000 leading scientists, and systematically organizes and evaluates the mass of information within scientific literature. Faculty of 1000 provides an immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, and an important complement to the indirect assessment provided by the journal impact factor.

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database    
2000-present; the BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 65 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers. Subject coverage includes: economic botany, entomology, environmental science, evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, photobiology, veterinary science and zoology.

Journal Citation Reports Online    
2008 edition. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

Most frequently cited journals in a field.
Highest impact journals in a field.
Largest number of journals in a field.

Knovel Library    
Current; Knovel's "flagship" books are the Plastics Design Library Series, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, ChemEssentials, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, and a host of titles in mechanics & mechanical engineering featuring Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers along with the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel codes. Knovel's toxicology offerings are quite comprehensive with 21 books. Popular books being the Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, and, Patty's Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene. Knovel has recently partnered with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to make available the many important books in the Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines Series. Lastly, Knovel has many of the important DoD Military Handbooks, including a fully interactive version of MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures.