LibGuides: Biology: Library Resources

Electronic Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
General Academic Database
Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
"Contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties - acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more."
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
"Indexes & abstracts international journals in the life sciences. Topics include agriculture, biochemistry, ecology, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, toxicology and much more. This product uses pop-ups. You must configure your pop-up blocker to allow this site."
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
"Provides full text of articles from over 100 journals dating back to 1997, as well as indexing and abstracts of more than 380 publications. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology, microbiology, physics and much more."
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
The BioOne collection provides access to the full text of 60+ peer-reviewed, high-impact bioscience research journals. You may search the other collections, but you will only have access to the abstracts.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
"Provides full text from more than 100 periodicals dating as far back as 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 periodicals back to 1984. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more."
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation This link opens in a new window
Peer Reviewed
Available online starting with v.36, issue 1.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Provides complete coverage to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Coverages information from 1809-present
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by healthcare professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers. MEDLINE contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. The majority of journals selected for MEDLINE are based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee.
Nature This link opens in a new window
Online version of the International Weekly Journal of science. Contains full text of archived content. To see the full selection of Nature's other journal titles, go to the Publications A-Z index.
International Weekly Journal of Science
Nature Communicatons This link opens in a new window
An online-only, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.
New England Journal of Medicine This link opens in a new window
"A weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas including allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology, pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious diseases."

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
OMIM is an online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, containing textual information, pictures, and reference information. Also includes links to the National center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
Includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article. Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Full text 2008-2011 only
SAGE publishes over 470 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
Browse Journals by Discipline or A to Z
Science Online Magazine This link opens in a new window
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Web of Science Citation Databases This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded,Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities CitationIndex. Together they index over 8,000 scholarly journals and can be searchedby author, topic or citation.

General Electronic Databases

Reference Librarian

Natalie Long

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UW-Platteville
Karrmann Library
Room 213

608-342-1355

Biology at UW-Platteville

The Biology Office is located in 249 Gardner. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call 608.342.1793.

Natalie Long is the Elton S. Karrmann Library's liaison to the Biology program. Contact Natalie at 608.342.1355 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in biology. Her E-mail address is longnat@uwplatt.edu.