LibGuides: Biology: Start Here

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AccessScience This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and up-to-date articles on the sciences and social sciences, illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies. Search either the Encyclopedia or the Science Dictionary for best results. Try the subject-specific study guides for background on a topic.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in more than 45 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature, identifying the principal contributions in a given field.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS)
From Wiley, over 6,300 specially commissioned peer-reviewed and citable entries spanning across all subjects in Life Sciences from cell biology to ecology.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation search platform for Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Coverage: 1900-present (Sciences and Social Sciences), 1975-present (Arts & Humanities)
PubMed This link opens in a new window
From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PubMed comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.