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ProQuest Biology Journals -  ProQuest CSA                    1990s-                         Updated Daily
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics from 286 journal titles, with more than 250 journals available in full text.  Coverage for many journals extends back to the 1990s.

MEDLINE  - (Ebsco version) National Library of Medicine   1966-  Updated Monthly
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals and to link to full text for articles contained within the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic database.  It includes the entire MEDLINE collection and uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature. This database is updated monthly on EBSCOhost. WWW Search Guide     See also the PUBMED version from the National Library of Medicine.

PubMed - U. S. National Library of Medicine           1966 -       Updated Monthly.
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Indexes over  3,500 journals (most with abstracts). Now includes a backfile covering 1966?1984,  increasing the coverage to 196-present.  WWW Search Guide  Journals List

BasicBIOSIS (formerly BIOSIS/FS) - BIOSIS      Current Three Years.    Updated  Weekly.
A subset by journal title and year, of BIOSIS Previews, designed specifically for undergraduate students taking introductory biology courses. A four-year rolling file, the database provides information on recent developments in virtually every life science discipline.  Now includes an expanded journal list covering approximately 375 basic life science journals found in college and university libraries, and new indexing information that facilitates searching  and accurate record retrieval.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

HighWire Press Journals - Stanford University        Current File
HighWire Press currently provides more than 1.8 million free full-text articles from the Web versions of 311 important journals in biomedicine and other science disciplines.  You can search all of the journals simultaneously and get result lists that include for-fee articles, or you can search the free journals independently.
 Journals List.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Wiley InterScience    Current File     Updated Monthly
Provides more than 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles that integrate current theory, practice, and understanding of all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences. Includes Introductory Level articles, Secondary Level articles, and Special Essays.

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic   - Ebsco               1985-                    Updated Monthly
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for
over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.  Search Guide

PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences   PNAS   1915-                 Updated Weekly
Provides searchable access to the entire full text backfiles of PNAS - one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, PNAS continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

Biology Digest - Plexus Publishing                     1989 -                 Updated Monthly.
Covers all of the life sciences with comprehensive abstracts of articles from over 180 journals. Provides easy access to new scientific developments.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

Scirus.com – Elsevier                                         Current File    Updated Weekly
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, it searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages plus more than 30 million citations, abstracts, full text peer-reviewed articles, and patents.  Links to some free full text articles.

ScienceResearch.com -   Deep Web Technologies, LLC            Current File   Updated Monthly
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal that searches thousands of high-quality journals and databases and ranks results by relevance on a single results page. Some full text is available but most citations include only a brief abstract. Subject areas covered include Astronomy, Biology ? Nature, Chemistry, Computers ? Technology, Earth ? Environmental Sciences, Engineering, General Science,  Health ? Medicine,  Materials Science,  Mathematics,  Physics, and Social Sciences.

National Biological Information Infrastructure - Center for Biological Informatics, U.S. Geological Survey.
Provides links to more than 140 electronic journals available on the Web. Some journals provide full content online, while others offer only abstracts and/or tables of content.

Biological Textbooks - Center for Biological Informatics, U.S. Geological Survey
Full-text editions of eight college textbooks and classic works from the life sciences.

PrimateLit Database      - Univ. of Wisconsin                        1940 -                      Updated Twice Monthly
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).

OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)   Current File
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI.. The database contains textual information and references, numerous links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.

Aluka  -     Aluka        Current File            Additions Regularly
Aluka is an international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions working together to build a growing online digital library of scholarly materials from and about Africa.  The digital library currently represents approximately 275,000 objects with associated data addressing three broad themes of African content:
African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes; African Plants; and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.

Academic Search Elite    Ebsco            1990-          Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education, multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000 journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals; Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. WWW.  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW  Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP – Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

Health Reference Center Academic - Gale        1980-     Updated Monthly
A multi-source database for health and wellness research. Rich with full-text documents, this database includes medical and consumer periodicals (approximately 887 fully indexed with 675 providing full text), health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets. Designed especially for lay researchers to provide information in terms that the nonmedical professional can understand.  WWW Search Guide

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Ebsco    1980-                            Updated Daily
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines with strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for 855 journals plus the full text of the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.  WWW.   Search Guide

Health Source: Consumer Edition - Ebsco                 1990-                            Updated Daily
Covers the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Coverage includes: searchable full text for over 190 journals plus abstracts and indexing for over 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Also contains 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) WWW. Search Guide

PsycINFO  - American Psychological Association             1806-            Updated Monthly
Coverage has been expanded back to 1806. PsycINFO provide abstracts from dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and approximately 2,000 journals on psychology published in 50 countries. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present; however, there is a substantial number of records covering books published earlier. WWW Search Guide

EurekaAlert!  - American Association for the Advancement of Science      Current File     Updated Daily
EurekAlert!, a comprehensive Web site about the latest research advances in science, medicine, health, and  technology. The site includes news releases, an archive, and links to web sites. EurekAlert! is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with technical support  provided by Stanford University. WWW

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