Biology

Finding Scholarly Articles on Biology Topics

The databases and journals listed below are good resources for research topics in biology. If you would like help with searching in a specific database or journal, or help with databases in general, please do not hesitate to ask a librarian.

Recommended Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching. (Does not support Internet Explorer as a browser)
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Index to articles covering all aspects of medicine. Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Having trouble accessing the full text of an article? Read below.
Not all search results in PubMed will lead you to the full text of an article (PDF or html) or publication to which we subscribe or have access. After searching, click the red "Find It" button to the right on your search results screen to search for that article against our library's holdings. If you do not see a red "Find It" button, add the following to the end of the URL you are viewing:
/?otool=iusomlib
If that does not work, contact tech support.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, popular, and trade articles from 1975-present in all fields. (Partially paid for by INSPIRE: Indiana's Virtual Library.)
BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, etc. Coverage 1969-present.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
Access to taxonomic reference and database of animal biology. A database in Web of Knowledge.
National Agricultural Library (AGRICOLA) This link opens in a new window
Index to agriculture articles and books, including animal welfare topics from the National Agricultural Library.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Literature reviews in the biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
BioCyc This link opens in a new window
Collection of 10980 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for understanding their data.

To access BioCyc, click on BioCyc in the blue bar.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc. Access provided by INSPIRE: Indiana’s Virtual Library.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Full-text scientific database of articles and book chapters Note: The library does not have access to all content. Also, ScienceDirect ceased support of Internet Explorer 8 on Jan 1, 2016.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index primarily for the sciences and social sciences. Useful for forward citation searching. Need to export searches? Click "more..." below
Elsevier requires that you have an account in order to export from this database. If you do not have an account, you can create a free Elsevier account by going to https://www.mendeley.com and clicking on “Create Account.” Once you have created this account, it will work for other Elsevier products as well.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
This is a new version of the original SciFinder. It covers primary literature of all areas of chemistry, medicine, and other areas.
- Users who have created an account with the original SciFinder can use those credentials with SciFinder-n.
- First-time users must register for an account from an on-campus connection (not remote) using their university email address via this registration page.

Journals Carried by IUPUC

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