Web of Science
Databases within the Web of Science search tool can be considered a "best bet" for finding articles and research for biology topics.
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Web of Science (ON CAMPUS ACCESS)
Web of Science (OFF CAMPUS ACCESS)
Web of Science indexes over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Additionally, this database allows you to learn who has cited a particular article, and also offers navigation to electronic full-text journal articles.
This major comprehensive science search tool contains different databases that can be search individually or in an All Databases search.
Biology-relevant databases available in Web of Science:
►Web of Science Core Collection (searches a group of available science databases, but excludes the Biology-focussed databases, BIOSIS Previews, and MEDLINE.)
►BIOSIS Previews Focussed on biological sciences journals and information. More information on searching BIOSIS is available on the BIOSIS Previews and Web of Science page of this Guide.
►MEDLINE A key life sciences and biomedical sciences database
►Russian Science Citation Index
►SciELO Citation Index Open access articles published in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and South Africa
Preprint Servers for Biology
Preprint servers for biology research:
A preprint is a version of a scientific manuscript posted on a public server prior to formal peer review. Searching for preprints is a good idea for finding the very latest research on your topic.
- bioRχiv—Preprints of articles in all areas of biology.
- PeerJ Preprints—Biomedical preprints.
- Quantitative Biology—Part of the arXiv preprint server.
- Biological Physics—Recent additions of a biological nature to the Physics section of the arXiv preprint server.
Obtaining a Known Journal Article
If you have enough information (as is found in a bibliographic citation) to identify an article, follow these steps to obtain the full text.
- Often, the article can be found by entering the title in Quick Find, in Simple Search mode.
- In Quick Find, click on e-Journal Titles and enter the title of the journal or the ISBN. If the title of the journal appears, follow the Online access link and then use the article's bibliographic information (year, volume, issue) to find it.
- Look up the journal by title of the journal in Quick Find, in Advanced Search mode. When you do the search, set the Material Type to Journals. If the title of the journal appears, follow the Online access link to access the journal; or, for an older issue, you might see a call number for the print journal. This is the most reliable method of finding an article.
- If the library doesn't have the journal, or doesn't have the issue that you need, you can order the article through Interlibrary Loan.
Other "Best Bet" Databases
A list of non-Web of Science, other "best bet databases" for finding biological sciences articles and research.
- You will notice from this list that there are multiple tools/providers available for searching MEDLINE, a key database for biomedical and life sciences topics
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Medline (OCLC)Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, and nutrition.
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Medline (Ovid)MEDLINE provides access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records and the database is updated daily.
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PubMedAn index to international journals, covering all areas of medicine.
Use this customized PubMed link if you are an URegina student, faculty or staff to see "University of Regina" links to full text on the PubMed interface or set up filters in My NCBI free account. Instructions for NCBI account
Publisher Databases for Biology
Publisher databases to discover biology articles and research:
Publisher databases are databases produced by publishers as a way to deliver their content. They have the advantage that newly-published content appears immediately. They have the disadvantage that they contain only content from a particular publisher.
- Science Direct
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Over 1800 full-text journals from Elsevier Science. Major subject areas: biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, business, economics, engineering, environment, earth sciences, medicine, mathematics, physics, and psychology. The University of Regina Library has a current license to access the full text of over 1800 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from volume 1, issue 1. Selected books are also available.
- Wiley Online Library
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Online Library hosts the multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Includes selected backfiles.
