Biology: Journal articles
Databases
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowThe free version of Medline, the main resource for biomedical literature.
- Worldcat (Free version) This link opens in a new windowA free version of Worldcat - connecting you to the collections of over 10,000 Libraries across the world, contains over 2 billion records.
- Worldcat This link opens in a new windowAvailable via OCLC First Search. OCLCs catalogue of books available in Libraries worldwide.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFree database consisting of references to multidisciplinary articles, theses, books and abstracts. See https://libanswers.st-andrews.ac.uk/faq/93370 for information on how to set up your preferences to link to library journal holdings.
- Library search This link opens in a new windowa single access point to many of the Library's e-resources - databases, e-journals, e-books and print books.
- Biosis Citation Index (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowIncludes cited references to primary journal literature on biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms. It covers original research reports and reviews in botany, zoology, and microbiology, and related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology, and interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. Available with up to 18 million records from 1926.
- BIOSIS Previews (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowindex of journals, meetings, patents, and books in the life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Freely available in perpetuity to all UK HE
- Birds of the World This link opens in a new windowNew resource merging Birds of North America & Handbook of the birds of the world alive. Birds of the World will be a living, scholarly publication that integrates content from several renowned ornithological resources, including Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, Bird Families of the World, and the Internet Bird Collection. Integrated with millions of data points from eBird and rich media resources from the Macaulay Library, Birds of the World will be the definitive resource for pursuing questions about birds. Birds of the World will provide scientists, students, conservationists, and birders with the sharpest picture yet of the biology of the world’s birdlife, fostering understanding and protection of one of the earth’s most precious natural resources.
- Zoological Record (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowThe world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology.
- Agcensus - See Digimap Collections This link opens in a new window
- APA PsycNET This link opens in a new windowaccess to resources provided by the American Psychological Association (APA). Includes PsycARTICLES (full-text of journals published by APA), PsycINFO (abstracts from scholarly journals on all aspects of psychology) and a selection of e-books published by APA.
- arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowarchive of over 855,000 open access e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
- ClasePeriodica This link opens in a new windowindex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Over 600,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
1975 - to present; updated every 3 months. Select ClasePeriodica from the database list. - Digimap Collections This link opens in a new windowcomprehensive UK maps and geospatial data. Allows viewing, printing and annotation of maps. Includes Ordnance Survey, Historic, Geology, Marine, Environment, Aerial and Lidar Collections. Initial registration required.
- Encyclopedia of life sciences This link opens in a new windoweLS features over 4,800 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles in the life sciences. Articles are reviewed by a distinguished international scientific advisory team
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowindex of articles on all aspects of human impact on the environment - global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc. Includes some Open Access full text. Part of EBSCOhost
- Landmap This link opens in a new windowspacial download service with high quality imagery in five different collections: Optical & Thermal Collection; Radar Collection; Elevation Collection; Feature Collection; and the UKMap Collection. Initial Registration required
- Reaxys This link opens in a new windoworganic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry database.It is based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases, and covers over 3,800 journals and patents from 1771 to date
- SciELO (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary scholarly literature published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowFormerly SciFinder Scholar. SciFinder-n is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemical engineering. It has the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. It provides integrated access to CAPlus, CAS registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCATS, which are produced by Chemical Abstracts Service; and to MEDLINE, which is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.. Requires registration - click on more...below
- Statista This link opens in a new windowaccess to market and consumer data from 170 industries and over 150 countries. Includes reports on digital trends, markets and companies, politics and society and countries and regions
- Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education; Users can record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels and an extensive archive of tv and radio broadcasts. You can create and share playlists and clips. NB: BoB is NOT AVAILABLE outside the UK.
- British Library Sounds This link opens in a new windowOver 50,000 unique sound recordings from all over the world, covering the entire range of recorded sound - music, drama and literature, oral history, accents and dialects, sound recording history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Smaller subset of sounds is available without logging in at http://sounds.bl.uk
- ImageQuest This link opens in a new windowMillions of rights-cleared images that can be used by University students and staff for educational purposes. (Please credit photos with Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest and the date retrieved.)
- Instant Anatomy Online This link opens in a new windowAn anatomy database which includes diagrams, tutorials and presentations.
Web of Science Guide
More information about the Web of Science platform, including specialist databases can be found on the Web of Science Group Libguide