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This website will help you find some of the the best library databases, search tools, and reference sources for Biology.

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Department of Biology at Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/biology

Explore science and mathematics at Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/science

Middlebury College Libraries http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/lib

These are widely-used research databases in biology:

LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature. Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE. Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off campus)
SciFinder Scholar This link opens in a new window 1908-current. Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar is a comprehensive index to pure and applied chemistry literature including journal articles and structure information. It is accessible to Middlebury users from any on-campus or off-campus computer.  Before using SciFinder (Web version) for the first time, you must create an account from an on-campus computer. To create a SciFinder account: Click the blue circled "i" above for more instructions
- Web version requires a SciFinder account. Please create an account from an on-campus computer before using SciFinder (Web version) for the first time.
- Go to SciFinder (Web version).
Help documents for SciFinder (Web version):
- Introduction: View the web version of SciFinder! (video)
- Guides: SciFinder How-to Guides - Web Version
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines.

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