Welcome Life Sciences students! This guide is a starting point for your information needs. Find articles, reports, books, and data.
Good for: Researching a wide range of topics in science, social science, arts, and humanities.
Contains: Citations to scholarly journal articles and conference papers.
Dates covered: 1900-present.
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.
Help?
Good for: Researching peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1960-present.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Good for: Finding medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences articles.
Contains: Indexed citations and abstracts to journal articles.
Good for: Identifying and classifying prokaryotic taxa.
Contains: Descriptions of taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology, and other biological properties.
Good for: Finding laboratory protocols in biology, medicine, and biochemistry.
Contains: Laboratory protocols.
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.
Good for: Accessing educational and research videos in science.
Contains: Video articles.
The University Libraries subscribes to the following collections: JoVE Education and JoVE Research