Olin Library Research Guides: Biology: Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
ProQuest Research Library
Articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers, in many different subject areas.
JSTOR
Offers full-text access to articles from leading journals in several fields in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Specialized Databases

These databases are specific to biology or at least to the sciences in general. Here you will find popular articles as well as scholarly, peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics in biology and other scientific disciplines.

American Society for Microbiology
The Society's journals cover microbiology, biomedical research and technology.
GreenFILE
Covers articles examining human impact on the environment. with indexing, abstracts, and some Open Access full text.
JSTOR Plant Science
Collects global plants content, tools, and people interested in biological and plant science.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a collection of full-text e-journals published by Elsevier, covering health & life sciences and social & behavioral sciences.
SciFinder
Chemistry database that does offer biological information on substances.
Web of Science
Provides access to citation indexes for sciences, the arts and humanities, and MEDLINE from 1950 to the present. Also includes Journal Citation Reports (see box below) to assess journal rankings and impact factor.