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Article Databases
Biological and Medical Sciences - Some full text
Collection of databases including AIDS and Cancer Research, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Microbiology, MEDLINE, Plant Science, and TOXLINE.

BioOne - Full text
55 research journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences, as well as other content.

MEDLINE - Some full text
Health and medical citations and abstracts (1990-present).

PubMed - Some full text
Health & medical information primarily from MEDLINE

Earth / Environmental Science - Some full text
Collection of databases including Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Abstracts.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE has scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering human impact on the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, and recycling. It indexes and abstracts over 290,000 records, and provides Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

GeoBase - Some full text
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.

Academic Search Premier - Some full text
General interest and scholarly articles on a variety of topics (dates vary; some journals back to 1975 or earlier).

Expanded Academic ASAP (Academic OneFile) - Some full text
Articles in a variety of subject areas from scholarly journals and general periodicals.

Aquatic Sciences - Some full text
Collection of databases including Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts, and Water Resources Abstracts.

AGRICOLA - Some full text
References to books, media, reports, and articles in agriculture and related disciplines.

Scientific Publishers/Collections
ScienceDirect: Elsevier Journals - Full text
Full-text of over 600 Elsevier journals in science, business, engineering and medicine (1995 - present)

Kluwer Online (SpringerLink) - Full text
Complete contents of about 700 Kluwer journals in subjects including science, technology, humanities and law.

American Chemical Society Publications - Full text
Author, title and publication access to 30 journals from the American Chemical Society (1996-present).

BioMed Central - Full text
An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Users must register with a free login or use ours.
Login: askemail@loyola.edu
Password: loyoland

BasicBIOSIS - Full text
Basic information in the biological sciences.

Science Resource Center
Includes magazine and journal articles, topic overviews, experiments, biographies, illustrations and additional science-related information.

Oxford Journals Online - Full text
Online access to 159 Oxford journals on a range of topics from 1998-present.

JSTOR - Full text
Scholarly journal articles in the social, general, and life sciences.


Highly Cited
Science Citation Index Expanded - Some full text
Article citations, author abstracts, and cited references from 5,800 science and technical journals (1980-present).

Journal Citation Reports (available through ISI Web of Knowledge).
Journal citation data including most frequently cited, highest impact and largest journals in a field from JCR Web Science Edition 2004 and JCR Web Social Sciences Edition 2005

BioMedExperts
Professional networking application for researchers in the biological and medical sciences.
Tutorial

General
PLoS Biology Archive (http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-archive)
A peer-reviewed open-access journal published monthly by the Public Library of Science.

NCBI Taxonomy Browser (http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html)
The National Center for Biotechnology Information provides this quick and easy tool for finding the complete lineage for any species. The database allows searches by common name as well as scientific name.

American Institute of Biological Sciences (http://www.aibs.org/index.html)
An umbrella organization for professional scientific societies and organizations, AIBS provides services, support, and a voice for a variety of disciplines that are united by their dedication to research and education in biology.

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMB/site.nsf?Open)

American Society for Microbiology (http://www.asm.org/)
The Society's purpose is to advance the science of biochemistry and molecular biology through publication of scientific and educational journals, organization of scientific meetings and much more.The society also promotes the microbiological sciences and their applications for the common good.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (http://www.faseb.org)
Founded in 1912 by three societies, FASEB provides educational meetings and publications to disseminate biological research results.

Virtual Library: Biosciences (http://www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html)
This is a good starting point for general life sciences information.

Human Biology
Genome Database - John Hopkins University (http://gdbwww.gdb.org/)
This website is the official central repository for genomic mapping data resulting from the Human Genome Initiative.

Human Genome Project (http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis)
The U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.

Dictionary of Cell Biology (http://on.to/cellbiology)
This online dictionary contains over 6500 terms.

American Society of Human Genetics (http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/ashgmenu.htm)
ASHG provides venues to bring investigators opportunities to share their research findings, informs health professionals, legislators, and others about human genetics, and facilitates interactions between geneticists and other communities.

Bioethics.Net (http://www.bioethics.net)
The American Journal of Bioethics online.

Cell and Molecular Biology Online (http://www.cellbio.com)
This site is an informational resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists.

Cells Alive (http://www.cellsalive.com/)
High-resolution electron microscopy and animation demonstrate the mechanics of HIV infection, allergy, mite interactions and much more.

Botany, Ecology and Zoology
Flora of North America (http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA)
FNA presents information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.

International Plant Names Index (http://www.ipni.org)
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.

Introduction to the Metazoa (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/phyla.html)
This is a good site that discusses the evolution of animal life. Includes information on the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology of each class.

National Library for the Environment (http://www.cnie.org/nle)
This database provides single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise.

American Society of Plant Biologists (http://www.aspb.org)

Animal Behavior Society (http://www.animalbehavior.org)

Botanical Society of America (http://www.botany.org)

Botany.com: the Encyclopedia of Plants (http://www.botany.com)

Center for Conservation Biology Network (http://conbio.net/)
An international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity.

Ecological Society of America (http://www.esa.org/)

Nearctica (http://www.nearctica.com/)
Plants, animals, and the physical environment of North America are found here.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (http://www.fws.gov)

Biochemistry/Biotechnology
Please see the Web Sites list in the Chemistry Subject Guide.