Biology Resource Guide: Library Databases

Our best general research database, this online resource covers a wide range of academic areas including chemistry, physics, biology, pharmaceutical and medical sciences. Full-text access for over 6,300 peer-reviewed titles is available with coverage for many titles dating back to 1990. Indexing and abstracting coverage begins generally from the mid-1980's. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

Like Academic Search Complete, Academic OneFile is an excellent multi-disciplinary database containing 7,300 peer-reviewed journals and more than 5,000 in full-text. Coverage in most cases from 1980.

To access this database you will need to register for a username and password while on campus. Check your email within 48 hours of registering to complete the process.

This web search interface provides access to the CAS databases, Chemical Abstracts and Registry. Contents include: patent and journal references, substance information, chemical reactions, regulated chemicals information, and commercially available substances. A limited number of links to full-text journal articles are available. Users must create a username and password of their own making to access the online version of SciFinder Scholar. For assistance using the database, contact the Chemistry Department.

Provides access to the 36 major journals of the American Chemical Society including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biochemistry and Environmental Science & Technology. In 2010, we added the "Legacy Archives," adding deep backfile to the current coverage back to 1996. ACS Publications now provides full text searching and instant access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the ACS from 1879 to the present.

This database is a collection of academic e-journals with full text, most back to 1995, published by Elsevier. Life sciences journals in this collection cover subjects in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, environmental science, immunology and microbiology, and neuroscience.

The publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. produces this database consisting of its own scientific, technical, and medical full-text journals and more than 850 scholarly journals from the Blackwell Synergy database which merged with Wiley Interscience in 2008. The life sciences journals in this database address subjects such as anatomy, bioinformatics, biology, genetics, genomics, molecular cell biology, and neuroscience.

Springer, a major publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals, provides indexing and full-text for about 750 journals in this database. Includes approximately 200 biological sciences and medical journals.

Indexing and some full-text of over 350 physical, biological, social and medical sciences journals published by Stanford University's High Wire Press. Includes citation searching.

Premier medical database from the National Library of Medicine, with access to over 11 million references and abstracts. Some linked full-text.

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. The Sawyer Library access starts in 1997. Use Firefox rather than Internet Explorer to view this database.

"...the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal."

Online encyclopedia produced by McGraw-Hill. Browse by topic or alphabetically or search by word or phrase. Includes data, tables, tools, study guides, bibliographies, a dictionary, biographies, and news articles.