Biology
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Recommended databases
Annual Reviews Online Full Text
Provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.
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 
The latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
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JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
Includes 188 Biological Sciences journals and 11 Developmental & Cell Biology titles.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
ProQuest Biology Journals includes 330 journal titles available full text from 1998.
ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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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
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Useful databases
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 Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Note: A password is required to access this resource.
Biology Digest Selected Full Text
Aimed at keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research.
BioOne Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.
Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
Relates to research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and particular aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Gale Databases Full Text
Provides multidisciplinary subject coverage, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
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PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
The US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science.
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TOXLINE
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. The index abstracts journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. CSA's TOXLINE is a 'rolling 5-year' index, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
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High impact journals
These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.
Annual Review of Biochemistry
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell
Nature
Nature Cell Biology
Science
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.
Reference
Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Oxford Reference Online — Select from 12 Biological Sciences Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Sage eReference— titles include Encyclopedia of Epidemiology and Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research
World of Microbiology and Immunology
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
Biodiversity Heritage Library
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.
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.
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Cell and Molecular Biology Online — an informational resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists
Immunology Link
Intute Health and Life Sciences
Microbiology Information Portal
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.
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