Bibliographic Databases for Medical & life sciences

Bibliographic descriptions of biomedical and life sciences literature with links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites. Coverage: More than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Elsevier’s Scopus offers more coverage of scientific, technical, medical and social science literature than any other database. Also indexes Patents and Websites. Coverage: abstracts back to 1966.

Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, with over 1 billion searchable, cited references, uses global citation navigation, to deliver the most relevant and complete search results. Embedded analysis tools help you further refine your results, make new discoveries and connections across disciplines and regions, and understand the worldwide impact of the sources and authors you uncover. Identify top authors, institutions, and publishers in a given field. Discover related articles quickly. Trace citations backward or forward in time to see prior influences and later developments.

The Academic Family Tree is a nonprofit, user content-driven web database that aims to accurately document and publicly share the academic genealogy of current and historical researchers across all fields of academia. As a modern web application, The Academic Family Tree leverages the knowledge of thousands of individual users into a single, self-correcting database. Access to Tree sites is free, and users are able to contribute content directly.

Microsoft Academic Search generates web pages with ranked objects for academic world. Users can use this page to discover influential papers, authors, conferences, journals, keywords, and organizations within their field.
Search results are sorted based on two factors: their relevance to the query and their global importance, which is calculated by its relationships with other objects.

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
BASE collects and indexes the metadata of web documents, provided via the OAI-PMH protocol. BASE provides more than 90 million documents from more than 4,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

BIOBASE offers comprehensive solutions to life science researchers. Our databases contain unique, manually-curated data from peer-reviewed literature which our analysis tools leverage in order to bring meaning to, and generate maximum value from, your experimental data.

bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

Extensive high quality reference sites based on the expertise of the consortium’s members. This resource would be a more diverse product than could be provided by any one institution. In 2009, this project came to fruition with the creation of the Biosciences Information Sources Consortium (NISC) eReference Collection..

Search Cancer Literature in PubMed

CSHL Author Publications database provides access to all articles published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists (1892 – current).

Catalog of current and historical books, ebooks, and collections within the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library & Archives.

Entrez is NCBI’s primary text search and retrieval system that integrates the PubMed database of biomedical literature with 38 other literature and molecular databases including DNA and protein sequence, structure, gene, genome, genetic variation and gene expression.

A guide to published and unpublished sources on education. ERIC includes some full-text documents at no charge. Covers over 1,000 periodicals and nearly 1.3 million documents. Fulltext documents since 1993. Initiative of the U.S. Department of Education.

F1000 Prime is composed of 5,000 Faculty Members — senior scientists and leading experts in all areas of biology and medicine — plus their associates.
The Faculty recommends the most important articles, rating them and providing short explanations for their selections.

OCLC: Online Computer Library Center. 13 Databases. Includes extensive Biomedical content, WorldCat, world-wide library catalog of books and other materials. ArticlesFirst, ClasePeriodica,Ebooks,Eco, ERIC, GPO, LILCat, MEDLINE, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldCat, WorldCatDissertations.

Search of News, Magazines, Academic Journals, Books, Video Collections. Access provided through HRC/NYSL Long Island.

GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42). GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration , which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at NCBI. These three organizations exchange data on a daily basis.

Search scholarly papers with Google.

Henry Stewart Talks is a leading provider of specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, and seminar-style talks. The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection’s editors and lecturers are leading world experts and practitioners, including Nobel Laureates, drawn from academia, research institutes, commerce, industry, the professions and government. The collections are continuously expanded and updated and may be easily embedded in online learning environments such as Moodle and Blackboard.

A Journal Citation Reports™ subscription gives you a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading scientific and scholarly journals.
By analyzing citation references, Journal Citation Reports measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Continue to explore the impact and influence of the world’s leading scholarly journals by performing direct comparisons report of titles using either quartile or trend analyses.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico.

Engineering and Materials Databases Search. A collection of over 600 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet.

Search NLM Collections using LocatorPlus by keyword, author, title, journal title, MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings), call number, and other specific fields using simple and advanced search menus.
LocatorPlus provides direct access through its “Other Databases” menu to additional free resources: NLM databases, including MEDLINE/PubMed, Consumer health information and MedlinePlus, History of Medicine databases, NLM Catalog, PubMed Central, TOXNET and toxicology databases, Health services research and HSTAT, Catalogs of other U.S. medical and consumer health libraries

PubMed, PubMedCentral, Journals, OMIM, Books, Citation Matcher.

Biomedical citations and abstracts from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Additional citations, approximately 1% of the database, are from other sources.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Electronic access to journals published by Elsevier Science and Academic Press Coverage: varies; includes current subscriptions and some back files

Thousands of libraries are represented and searchable in this one catalog.

All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members

WormBase is an international consortium of biologists and computer scientists dedicated to providing the research community with accurate, current, accessible information concerning the genetics, genomics and biology of C. elegans and related nematodes.