Biology Databases Guide

Accessed via the Find research papers and other research materials
tab at http://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/biology
For Biology and related areas research papers>>
Web o !cience and !copus are the "ost co"prehensive sources.
For Biology and related areas general background #eb sources >>
WorldWide!cience.org provides a good$ #ide%ranging general coverage though
"any o the sources are not peer revie#ed and all need to be vie#ed #ith
caution beore re%using "aterial ound there.
For Bio"edical inor"ation >>
Both &ub'ed and 'edline provide un"atched coverage o bio"edical and
biotechnical inor"ation. (hey share the sa"e data but #hat sets ')D*+,)
apart ro" &ub'ed is the added value o using the ,*' -,ational *ibrary o
'edicine$ .!A/ controlled vocabulary$ 'edical !ubject 0eadings -'e!0
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inde2 citations. (his can result in a "ore controlled search o the available
data.
For )n3y"ology inor"ation >>
(he !cience Direct 'ethods in )n3y"ology series covers "ost relevant
"aterial #ith volu"es back to 4566.
*ie sciences protocols -prede7ned #ritten procedural "ethods in
the design and i"ple"entation o e2peri"ents/ >>
(he !pringer &rotocols archive -4584 9 :;4:/ contains :5$;;; searchable
protocols.
When scienti7c ull te2t journal articles are needed in a hurry< >>
=ournal papers -though only )lsevier publications/ at !cienceDirect