Biological sciences: databases for finding articles
The databases listed below will give you references to journal articles (and some cover other publications). A few contain the full-text articles. These databases will give you good quality articles you can rely on.
Key databases for biological sciences
- BIOSIS Previews - biological abstracts
- CAB Abstracts - agriculture-related database
- Science Citation Index - all subjects
- ScienceDirect - full-text articles
Other useful sources
- ArticleFirst - all subjects
- Bioline International - full-text articles in the life sciences published in developing countries
- FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts)
- GEOBASE - geography database also covering ecology and the environment
- JSTOR - full-text archive of articles in all subjects
- Medline - biomedical sciences
- Oxford Scholarship Online - full-text e-books covering neurosciences
- reaxys - chemical information
- SciFinder - chemical abstracts
- WorldCat - all subjects
- Zetoc - all subjects