Biology Databases:
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Complete is an enormous collection of valuable peer-reviewed full text journals. PDF backfiles dating back to 1965 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts)
BIOSIS Previews, a leading source of life science information, collects abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature. BIOSIS Previews contains references to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Approximately 5,500 life science journals, 1,500 international meetings, as well as review articles, books, and monographs are monitored for inclusion, representing virtually every life science discipline. Over 96% of the records include informative abstracts.
BIOSIS Previews encompasses both Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings).
Note: Find It allows you to see if the University of Cincinnati has this title. Some records in this database are linked to the full text of the article. Coverage is from 1969 to the present.
PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, and PubMed covers fields related to medicine, such as nursing and other allied health disciplines. It also provides very full coverage of the related biomedical sciences, such as biochemistry and cell biology. It is provided by the National Library of Medicine. The database contains citations from1950 to the present, with some older material. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
There is a PubMed Tutorial, which is a Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed.
Scopus
Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
The Web of Science is a science database of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.
Cited Reference Searching lets you use a given work as if it were a subject term to identify more recent articles on the same topic. For example, you can find all works that reference articles published by A. Williamson in 1995 in the Journal of Neurophysiology (J Neurophysiol). This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.