Subject Guide: Biology

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Subject Specific Databases

PubMed Rightly, this is the go-to resource for many medical professionals. A very large, very comprehensive database that is an excellent starting and finishing point for conducting health science literature research. It searches the MEDLINE database and other life science journals.

Web of Science: Science Citation Index* The premier database for literature searches in many fields.

Academic Search Ultimate* A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is a very good place to start a scholarly literature search.

General/Related Databases

ScienceDirect* Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the major academic publisher Elsevier.

Journals@Ovid* Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals.

EBM Reviews* Evidence-based medicine (EBM) reviews of articles on many health science topics. This resource searches multiple sources simultaneously:

ACP Journal Club
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews*
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)*
Cochrane Methodology Register
Health Technology Assessment
NHS Economic Evaluation Database

AccessMedicine* Medical and other textbooks, including The Big Picture: Gross Anatomy*, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry*, and Histology and Cell Biology*.

WorldCat A huge database of books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide that you can borrow using Interlibrary Loan.