Welcome! The purpose of this guide is to help you find and access information about Biology. If you have any questions or comments about this guide, then please feel free to email me directly.
Start your research and find articles with these key Biology databases.
MEDLINE® is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine NLM). The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM. Extending back to 1946, annual input now exceeds 700,000 citations. From ProQuest.
Web of Science Core Collection contains over 21,100 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in over 250 sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities disciplines dating back to 1900.
Find the complete list of biology related databases at the Biology subject link in our database list.
If you need help getting started with these databases, then check out our tutorials:
Don't forget to actively seek out diversity of voices in your research. It does take extra effort to find research from a diversity of authors and regions of the world. Review our finding diverse research sources page for strategies to find these authors and sources.
Not sure where to start? Found an article, but not sure how to access the full text of it? Need a book that we don't have at Oxy? Reach out to a librarian, we're happy to help! We can help you track down that article, walk you through the research process, help you find and evaluate useful sources, and more!
