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Key databases

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

BioOne Full Text
BioOne provides access to peer-reviewed journals in the biological sciences published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

CSIRO Journals Selected Full Text
The CSIRO journals provide access to latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

Includes 194 Biological Sciences journals, 11 Developmental & Cell Biology titles and 53 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology titles

PNAS Selected Full Text
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publish research in the biological, physical, and social sciences.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
PubMed Central is a digital archive of journal literature on the life sciences.

PubMed Selected Full Text
PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the mid-1960s.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
The Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science and a range of other databases, including citation tracking tools.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.

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American Chemical Society (ACS) Archives Selected Full Text
3 million pages of information on every aspect of chemical science. Articles can date back as far as 1879.

Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. ProQuest Help

Cochrane Library Full Text
The Cochrane Library covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
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Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, BioOne, Conference Papers Index, Medline, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 6 databases. Limited full text.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Grzimek’s Animal Life
Grzimek's provides an encyclopedia of animal life including details on more than 4,000 species.

Harrison’s Online Full Text
Harrison's Online includes the complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition. AccessMedicine Help

SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). The database includes scientific literature relevant to agricultural science, biology and the life sciences, engineering, food science, chemistry, geology, material sciences, medical science, physics and polymer science.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Cambridge dictionary of human biology and evolution
Concise dictionary of biomedicine and molecular biology
Dictionary of biomedical sciences
Dictionary of parasitology
Encyclopedia of animal behavior
Encyclopedia of bioethics
Encyclopedia of genetics
Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics
Encyclopedia of mammals
Encyclopedia of microbiology
Encyclopedia of neuroscience
Encyclopedia of virology
Gale encyclopedia of genetic disorders
Lange educational library - includes Basic Science and Clinical Science reference titles.
Oxford Reference Online — Select from 14 Biological Sciences Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Sage eReference— titles include Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society, Encyclopedia of Epidemiology, Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research, Encyclopedia of Global Health, Encyclopedia of Health & Aging
World of microbiology and immunology

Recommended journals

Microbiology Australia
Biology and Life Science Journals from Directory of Open Access Journals
BioMed Central Journals
FASEB Journal
PLoS Biology
PNAS — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

Web sites and Internet resources

General Sites

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) — the aim of ABRS is to provide the underlying taxonomic knowledge necessary for the conservation and sustainable use of Australia’s biodiversity.
Australian Society for Microbiology
AuthorMapper - A free tool visualizing scientific research areas and trends through timeline graphs and bar charts, allowing users to locate other experts in a field of study.
Bioethics Portal — This site links all the key bioethics websites and issues in Australia.
Biological Journals and Abbreviations
BiologyBrowser — search by organism, subject, or geography.
The Biology Project — an online interactive resource for learning biology from the University of Arizona.
Biotechnology Online — balanced and factual information about biotechnology.
ExPASy Proteomics Server — The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures.
General Microbiology Reference Links
Institute for Systems Biology
Open Directory Project - Science — a search portal indexing educational and research resources across the sciences.
ScienceResearch.com - searching across science collections
Scitable - A free science library and personal learning tool currently concentrating on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.
Tree of Life Project — a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world providing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Trove - National Library of Australia - one search to a wealth of Australian information
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Cell and Molecular Biology Online — an informational resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists
Immunology Link
Molecular biology gateway
NetBioChem — covers many topics in Biochemistry.

Multimedia and images

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy — Electron Microscopy Gallery
MicrobeWorld — videos of 'unseen life on earth'
Molecular Visualization Freeware — 5 different molecular visualization tools showing 3-D molecular structures
TV News — includes videos of TV programmes such as Catalyst, Landline, Mythbusters, New Inventors - check the Title List.