LibGuides: Biology 201 Molecular & Cellular Basis of Life: Article Databases

Off-Campus Access

When you click on a database link on campus, you will go directly to the database. When you click from off-campus, you will be prompted to log in. The login screen for our library looks something like this. (NOTE: this is just an illustration)

Biological Science Databases-General

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of over 8,800 periodicals, including more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals.
ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals
Provides access to 50 ACS journals, with more than 30,000 new articles added every year. The archived backfile (1879-1995) supplements more recent content with its nearly half a million articles.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science and social science through critical authoritative reviews. AU's subscriptions generally cover 1996 to 2009.
BIOSIS Citation Index
Part of Web of Science. BIOSIS Citation Index is the leading abstracting and indexing reference publication for life sciences information. Provides informative abstracts, in English, of current research reported in the biological and medical literature.
PubMed
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 back to the 1950s.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI)
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) provides access to bibliographic information and cited references from more than 6,500 of the world's leading scientific research journals. A component of the Web of Science database platform.

Botany Databases

Agricola
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.

Includes more than 4.8 million citations. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Database encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences. (EBSCOhost). Agricola is included in OneSearch
Garden, Landscape, & Horticulture Index
Indexes and abstracts more than 500 publications of national, international, and regional interest, including titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups.

Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design, ecology, plant and garden conservation, and horticultural therapy. Includes focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. Dates covered: 1964-present. Included in OneSearch

Life Science Databases

Entrez
The National Center for Biotechnology Information has cross-database search engine that includes content from PubMed (MEDLINE), PubMed Central, Human Genome, GenBank, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and other governmental publications.

Environmental Databases

GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.

Environment Complete
Contains full text for 920+ journals and 190+ monographs (including a 3-vol. historical encyclopedia of the environment.

In total includes more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles, some going back as far as 1888. Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, legal matters, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Dates covered: 1970s-present (plus some older content) Included in OneSearch
JoVE Core Biology
Video textbooks for introductory courses that can serve as effective primary or supplementary teaching resources. Key concepts are brought to life through high-impact animations and scientist-in-action videos of experiments conducted in laboratory settings.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of over 8,800 periodicals, including more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
OhioLINK's collection of more than 10,000 academic journals.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides complete electronic backfiles of core journals in a variety of subjects. Full text coverage begins with the first issue of each journal and usually ends about five years before the present.
Web of Science (ISI)
ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

ISI Web of Science Tutorial

Save time. Check out this brief tutorial on doing an advanced search in Web of Science. (6 min. 14 sec.)

Select journals

These are just a few of the electronic journals available through the AU Library.

Use the databases to find articles in these and other journals.

Interlibrary Loan Articles

We offer free interlibrary loan for articles that are not available through our databases or from our print collection of journals. Interlibrary loan articles will be emailed or mailed to you.

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Biology 201 Molecular & Cellular Basis of Life: Article Databases