Biological Science Database (ProQuest)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Provides access to research articles, journals, and reports in biology and life sciences, including biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology.
Academic Search Ultimate
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Provides access to a wide range of scholarly journals and peer-reviewed articles, as well as videos and other content, across nearly every discipline.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Why search here? This directory contains free, full text, academic sources that cover a wide range of subjects and languages. These articles are peer reviewed and come from reputable journals.
ProQuest Central
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A good place to start your research because it covers a broad range of topics. You'll find many source types here like articles, news, videos, and more.
bioRxiv
Search and access biology preprint papers.
To speed up the communication of new findings, researchers can share their manuscripts before submitting them to a journal by posting them on preprint servers. Preprint is the term for a manuscript or paper that hasn't gone through the peer review process. Preprint servers can be run by professional societies, universities, publishers, or funders.
Agriculture Science Database (ProQuest)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers articles from leading scholarly journals, as well as data and research on farming and agriculture.
PubMed Central
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A free collection of full-text articles and research papers on medicine and life sciences from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Used by medical practitioners.
Multidisciplinary eBook databases:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Why search here? This is a comprehensive collection of ebooks covering a wide range of subjects including business, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and more.
Ebook Central (ProQuest)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? These ebooks cover a wide range of subjects including business, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and more.
Films On Demand (Biology)
Videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields. This link goes to the Biology subset.
Alexander Street: Academic Video Online
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Provides access to thousands of educational videos, documentaries, and interviews across disciplines.
ImageQuest (Britannica)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? This is a collection of free to use images from a wide range of organizations.
Credo Reference
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books across subjects, helping students start research, understand key concepts, and find reliable background information for papers and projects.
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Credo Reference
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books across subjects, helping students start research, understand key concepts, and find reliable background information for papers and projects.
Britannica Academic
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers reliable, up-to-date encyclopedia articles, images, maps, and videos across subjects, helping students start research, understand key topics, and find trusted information for assignments and projects.
Gale eBooks
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A collection of encyclopedias and reference materials that covers multiple subject areas.
iBiology
This free, open-access website is comprised of three sections: seminars, magazine, and education. Developed to bring the best biology to people throughout the world for free.
Science.gov
Contains government science information and searches over 45 databases from 14 federal agencies.
Visionlearning
"Contains peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish."
Society for Developmental Biology
Purpose is “to further the study of development in all organisms and at all levels, to represent and promote communication among students of development, and to promote the field of developmental biology.”
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB)
“Aims to integrate the many fields of specialization which occur in the broad field of biology. The SICB is organized around disciplinary divisions, each relevant to a major segment of biology. The Society is dedicated to promoting the pursuit and public dissemination of important information relating to biology.”
This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of Biology resources available to you. The Biology Research Databases box lists recommended databases in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.
