Research Guide: Biology Databases

Note: Only databases with the image are accessible off campus without your SUNY Oneonta username and password.

Academic Search Complete

Provides full text for about 6,100 periodicals including over 5,100 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 10,000 magazines and journals.

AGRICOLA

Available through FirstSearch. From the National Agricultural Library. Indexes about 5000 journals. Subjects covered include food and human nutrition, environmental science, agriculture. Five simultaneous users.

American Chemical Society Web Edition

Access to about 30 peer-reviewed research journals published by the American Chemical Society. The Advanced Search box is located on the left hand upper corner of the page. The ACS Journal of Chemical Education is available on a separate web site.

arXiv.org e-Print archive

From Los Alamos National Lab and Cornell University. Searchable. Includes physics, mathematics and computer science preprint literature. Full text is available is various formats. Covers 1991 to the present.

Bioline International

Provides the full-text of peer-reviewed journals from developing countries such as Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology Digest

Available through FirstSearch. Covers the life sciences, including biology, ecology and health for undergraduates. Includes lengthy abstracts.

BioMed Central | Advanced Search

Provides full-text to about 130 journals in biology and medicine. This database is openly accessible, but individual (free) registration is required.

BioOne

Provides access to the full-text of about 50 bioscience journals. Citations are free to view. Full-text is available at Hartwick College.

Environment Complete

Over 1660 journals in agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, geography, pollution and environmental law.

GeoScience World/GeoRef

GeoScience World provides full text to a selection of core geology journals including American Mineralogist, Economic Geology, Geology, and GSA Bulletin. In addition, it links to a basic search engine for GeoRef.

HighWire Press

Some Full text articles on science, technology, medicine.

JSTOR archive

Provides access to the full text of over 300 scholarly journals across many subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 for all journals. (Due to copyright restrictions, the most recent 3-5 years are unavailable.)