LibGuides: Biological Sciences: Getting Started

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Welcome Life Sciences Students! This guide is a starting point for your life sciences information needs. Find articles, reports, books, and data.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is an index to peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
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PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. It also includes additional selected life sciences journals not found in MEDLINE.

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Laboratory protocols (procedures and techniques) in biology, medicine and biochemistry.
Update frequency: Annually
Scope: International
Springer Protocols is a searchable database of laboratory protocols. Links to lists of protocols within discipline areas--like bioinformatics or plant sciences--are also available.
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Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE) publishes peer reviewed videos of research protocols.
The University Libraries subscribes to the following collections: Biology, Medicine, Immunology and Infection and the Developmental Biology collection.