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Biology

AccessScience

Full search of the encyclopedia plus science news, definitions, biographies, illustrations, animations and more.

Annual Reviews

Access from Volume 1 to the present for the following Annual Review titles:


  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biophysics
  • Cell & Developmental Biology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Ecology, Evolution & Systematics
  • Entomology
  • Genetics
  • Genomics & Human Genetics
  • Immunology
  • Law & Social Science
  • Medicine
  • Microbiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Nutrition
  • Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Physiology
  • Phytopathology
  • Plant Biology
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Access from Volume 1 to five years ago for all other Annual Review titles.

Biological Abstracts - EBSCO

Collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. Links to some full text where available.

BioMed Central

BioMed Central provides full-text access to about 100 bio-medical journals online.  Browsing by journal title or searching by keyword is possible.  Access is free to Drake students, but one needs to register for membership on the website.

CREDO Reference

CREDO Reference contains a variety of reference sources in subjects ranging from Art to History to Law to Technology and almost everything in between. It is a portal to a multitude of highly regarded reference sources, drawing on 244 titles by 55 publishers and providing access to tens of thousands of images and audio clips. At a loss for a paper topic? Search the Concept Map for ideas.

GreenFILE - EBSCO

A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

HighWire Press Free Journals

Full-text of more than 80 journals in the medical and life sciences.

MEDLINE - EBSCO version

Indexes over 4,600 journals in the medical and health sciences. Links to some full-text where available.

New England Journal of Medicine

Full text of The New England Journal of Medicine
 

Science Online

  • Science: 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles
    (Note: research papers in Science Express become available under this subscription after publication in the print version of the journal.)
  • ScienceNOW
  • All Free Content on the site:
    • Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, SAGE KE Table of Contents of current issues and back issues
    • Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, SAGE KE, abstracts and summaries
    • Science Supporting Online Material
    • Science Technical Comments
    • ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet
    • ScienceNOW stories published within the past four weeks
    • Searching

ScienceDirect

Indexing to over 1,800 journals in the biological, chemical, & pharmacological sciences.  Links to full-text for 52+ titles.

Document Delivery is available for most titles.

Scientific American Archive

Full-text access to Scientific American, a monthly magazine.

SCOPUS

Scopus indexes over 14,000 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social science literature (from over 4,000 international publishers). Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. 100% coverage of Medline. A unique feature of this databaae is the "Cited By" feature, which offers the ability to determine (and track) the number of times a particular article/author has been cited and by whom.

 

Links to full-text when subscribed to by the Library; otherwise, offers citation information for Interlibrary Loan purposes.

 

How to use SCOPUS

Wiley InterScience

Access to the full-text of 300+ journals in business, chemistry, education, life sciences, and more. Wiley also contains all the journals previously published by Blackwell.