Research Guides: Biology: Databases

Core Databases

If you are not looking for a specific article, you can search for articles in the databases that we subscribe to. Click here to access our tutorial on how to choose a database.

Below, we have compiled a list of databases that are particularly relevant for biology. Please click on the icon for more information about each database.

BioOne
Access titles focusing on biological, ecological and environmental sciences. This collection primarily consists of journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Coverage: varies, 1965 to present. Full text.
Annual Reviews
Explore review articles that summarize the progress in fields including the biomedical sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, public health, economics and social sciences. Search across all subjects or limit by subject area. Coverage: 1932 to present, but varies by series. Some full text.
PubMed
Search for biomedical articles from several National Library of Medicine resources, including MEDLINE, life science journals and ebooks. This special version of PubMed includes Dickinson library's "Get It" links to additional full text. Coverage: late 1700s to present. Some full text.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
Access global research on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Major topic areas covered include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Coverage: 1892 to present. Citations only.

General Science Databases

General Science EBSCO
Search everything from supernovas to marine pollution. This collection is a good starting point for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics. Coverage: 20th century to present. Some full text.
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Access journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities that meet the scholarly communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries. This collection provides a way to assure visibility and accessibility to their scholarly literature. English, Spanish, and Portuguese search interfaces are available. Full text will be in the language of the original publication. Coverage: current and back issues of journals. Mostly full text.
ScienceDirect
Access articles in journals published by Elsevier focusing on science, technology and medicine. Coverage: varies - some 1850 to present. Some full text.
SciFinder-n
First time users must register to search SciFinder, which is available to current Dickinson affiliates only. Contact the Chemistry Liaison Librarian for registration information.

Search for important scientific discoveries as well as organic and inorganic substance information with references from journals and patents. This resource also provides step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, and touch-screen enabled structure drawing. Citations only.
Scopus
Search for abstracts of scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. This tool also enables researchers to discover and analyze the connections between research, locating documents by shared references, authors, and keywords; identifying subject experts; tracking citations over time for a set of authors or documents; and assessing trends in search results. Coverage: 1788 to present. Citations only.

Springer Nature Experiments
Find, evaluate and implement experiments across the life sciences with the new research solution for protocols and methods from Springer Nature. Searches over 50,000 published protocols and methods.