Biology / Biochemistry Databases

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Full-text access to all 11 journals of the American Society for Microbiology.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

ASM Journals Online is the browsable and searchable online collection of all journals published by the American Society for Microbiology. The Society's journals "cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology." ASM Journals Online site also includes the Minireview Collection, a collection of ASM minireviews published in the last 12 months.

Article citations and abstracts from about 6,000 sources including journals, patents, conference proceedings, books, and reports covering the subjects of biomedicine, zoology, ecology, biotechnology, veterinary science, and agriculture.
Coverage: 1982 - current

The Biological Sciences Collection combines abstracts and citations from 25 individual databases covering research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Scientific, medical and technical information online from over 1,200 full-text, peer-reviewed journals along with hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
Coverage: 1995 - current

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles containing around 8 million full-text articles. In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.

Full-text access to 35 prestigious journals published by the American Chemical Society in addition to its weekly newsmagazine.
Coverage: 1879 - currrent

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

Abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences.
Coverage: 1989 - current

Biology Digest sciences is primarily intended for an audience at the high school or undergraduate college level. Its purpose is to aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research. Each of over 20,000 records contains an original abstract averaging about 325 words.

Contains over 9 million bibliographic records and abstracts plus references to over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Engineering Village is a combination of several extensive databases:
Compendex contains bibliographic information and abstracts for over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering and applied science.
GEOBASE is multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database covers approximately 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications;
Inspec, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings;
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from the U.S. Department of Commerce;
Referex Engineering contains engineering reference titles in eBook format.

Full-text articles on health and medicine from journals, pamphlets, reference books, and health and fitness magazines.
Coverage: 1980 - current

This database provides access to the full text and images of 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals plus the wide variety of personal health information from medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.

Access 65 full-text journals plus abstracts from hundreds more in nursing, medicine, healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences along with the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database.
Coverage: journals 1996 to the present, HaPI 1985-Present

Access full-text articles from 65 journal covering nursing, medicine, healthcare, psychology and the biological sciences plus the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database. A third option is the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database that provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

One-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
Coverage: 2006, 14th ed.

The Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions. The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected literature references for each substance. Compounds are indexed by Name, Formulae, CAS Registry Number and Therapeutic Category/Biological Activity.

SciFinder Scholar consists of the complete Chemical Abstracts Service database from 1907- and the complete Medline database, from 1950. Click on the link above for usage instructions.

15 databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

TOXNET's web interface is designed as an easy way to search databases of varying formats and content. It can be used to locate toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals as well as to search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. TOXNET offers a variety of ways to display and sort information. Its "Multi-Databases" feature provides an integrated search of any or all of several databases (HSDB, IRIS, CCRIS, GENE-TOX). Its "Search All Databases" feature provides a list of TOXNET databases in which a search term is found, each paired with the retrieval record count and with links to the Search Results page of those databases.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Full-text scientific, technical, medical content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library.
Coverage: 1997 - current

Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors with content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. When the initiative is completed in 2007, it will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.

Explains biological concepts and explores related fields as well as the history of biological science.
Coverage: Publication 2002

Published by Macmillan Reference, the Biology Encyclopedia is a 4 volume collection that discusses critical issues such as embryogenesis and commercial applications of research in biology and addresses ethical issues. It also provides information on careers in biology and contains color illustrations, sidebars, bibliographies, timelines, charts, and a glossary.

Combines over 1,100 essential reference books and databases in the areas of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Knovel Library content covers 18 industrially important Subject Areas from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This data is enhanced with time-saving analytical tools to help analyze and manipulate the data equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'what if' experiments on the data.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Guidance on best resources for Biology research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.