Biomedical Sciences

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
!eb o" Science and Scopus are the most comprehensive sources.
For Biology and related areas general background #eb sources
!orld!ideScience.org provides a good$ #ide%ranging general coverage though
many o" the sources are not peer revie#ed and all need to be vie#ed #ith
caution be"ore re%using material "ound there.
For Biomedical in"ormation
Both &ub'ed and 'edline provide unmatched coverage o" biomedical and
biotechnical in"ormation. (hey share the same data but #hat sets ')D*+,)
apart "rom &ub'ed is the added value o" using the ,*' -,ational *ibrary o"
'edicine$ .SA/ controlled vocabulary$ 'edical Subject 0eadings -'eS0
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inde2 citations. (his can result in a more controlled search o" the available
data.
For )n3ymology in"ormation
(he Science Direct 'ethods in )n3ymology series covers most relevant
material #ith volumes back to 4566.
*i"e sciences protocols -prede7ned #ritten procedural methods in
the design and implementation o" e2periments/
(he Springer &rotocols archive -4584 9 :;4:/ contains :5$;;; searchable
protocols.
!hen scienti7c "ull te2t journal articles are needed in a hurry<
=ournal papers -though only )lsevier publications/ at ScienceDirect