Biology: Getting Started

PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature.

Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching

Indexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.

The topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, entomology, farm management, feed science, fertilizers, food and nutrition, forestry, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, microbiology, nutrition, pesticides, physiology, plant science, pollution, soil science, water quality, and zoology.

The principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and policy literatures on the environment.

This database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human health; human nutrition; animal health; and resource management and conservation.

is a database, multidisciplinary in scope, which indexes bibliographic information and abstracts for the Geographical, Earth, and Ecological sciences, published by Engineering Information, a subsidiary of Elsevier. The broad subject coverage includes earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, physical geography, social geography and oceanography. Development studies are also included in this database.