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Life and Health/Biological Sciences

For more information about Life and Health/Biological Sciences resources, contact Mary Boulanger.

Contents: Databases | Guides | Web Sites

Library Databases (For Finding Articles) UWM only

Academic Search
1984-present; indexes over 3,400 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in the areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, and multi-cultural studies. Full-text is available for 2,000 journals starting with January 1985. Guide
AGRICOLA FREE ACCESS
1970-present; citations to journal articles, books (15th century to present), and audiovisuals about food, nutrition, and most aspects of the agricultural sciences.
AIDSLINE FREE ACCESS
The journal article citations from AIDSLINE are now included in the PubMed version of Medline. Click on the link above to access Medline.
Alt-HealthWatch
1990-present; full-text database of more than 140 periodicals, journals, professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Animal Behavior Abstracts
One year ago-current; indexes journals and significant papers in animal behavior and related fields. Guide
Annual Reviews
1984-present; indexes biomedical, physical, and social sciences review literature. Full text. Note that the library does not pay for access to all titles. Guide
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
1971-present; Basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. Abstracts cover laboratory studies of aquatic organisms as well as research in the field. Guide
Biological Abstracts [BIOSIS]
1990-present; citations with abstracts to over 5000 journals world wide in the life sciences. Thesaurus with detailed subject indexing available from 1993 to date. Guide | Tutorial
Biological and Agricultural Index
1983-present; citations to articles in the life sciences from over 300 journals. Guide
BioMed Central FREE ACCESS
1999 - present (varies); provides a collection of free, open access, mostly peer reviewed research articles from over 100 biomedical, medicine, health, biology and biotechnology related online journals. (Note: For a few journals, only the research content is free.)
BioOne
2000-present; provides access to full-text articles from 72 bioscience research journals. Covers biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature] Tutorial
Dates vary; CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. Guide
ClinicalTrials.gov FREE ACCESS
Originated in 2000; provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to regularly updated information on thousands of federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM), has developed this site in collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Dates vary; Index of articles in communication and mass media, communication sciences and disorders. Includes some full text.
DIRLINE - Directory of [Health] Information Resources Online FREE ACCESS
Dates vary; National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information on over 8,000 information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine.
General Science Full Text
1984-present; more than 280 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, medicine, and health. Full-text is available for 61 journals starting with January 1995. Guide
Health Source: Consumer Edition
1984-present; searchable full text for about 300 journals covering health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 300 general health, nutrition, and professional health care publications. Guide
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
1975-present; 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. Guide
HealthSTAR FREE ACCESS
The journal article citations from HealthSTAR (Health Services Technology, Administration and Research) are now included in the PubMed version of Medline. Click on the link above to access Medline. The citations for books, book chapters, technical reports, and conference papers previously found in HealthStar are included in the National Library of Medicine's online catalog, LOCATORplus.
HighWire Press FREE ACCESS
1948-present; indexing and selected full text to over 800 journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical and social sciences. Guide
IngentaConnect [Formerly Carl Uncover] FREE ACCESS
Current; free abstracting service covering over 29,000 scholarly journals in many academic fields including engineering, library science, medicine, science, and technology. Full-text of selected journal articles is available to signed in UWM users. Individual users can order articles for a fee. Free e-mail alert service is also available. Guide
JSTOR
Back to 1800; does not include recent years; full text, searchable backfiles of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References
Dates vary; a collection of over 600 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet. Field Guide | Guide
LexisNexis Academic [Formerly Academic Universe]
Dates vary; full-text of over 4,000 current events/news publications, legal and government information, and business news and corporate information. Guide
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information FREE ACCESS
Dates vary; includes databases, research and current general information about substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment policies, programs, and practices. Also includes the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive.
MEDLINE via PubMed FREE ACCESS
MEDLINE via EBSCOHost
1950-present; indexes over 4,800 journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the preclinical sciences. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 14 million citations in MEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. Guide | Tutorial
MedlinePlus FREE ACCESS
Originated in 1998; National Library of Medicine's selective list of authoritative health information sources from the National Institutes of Health and other government and professional organizations in the U.S. Updated nightly, it has over 4,000 articles on various diseases, symptoms, drugs and procedures, as well as interactive health tutorials, research news, local resources, directories of hospitals and physicians, clinical trials and links to MEDLINE for journal citations.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Burros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. Provides descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the Mental Measurements Yearbook, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. Coverage is from Vol. 9 of The Mental Measurements Yearbook forward and content is updated monthly. Print volumes available from 1940-2007 Ref Z5814.P8 R93. Guide
MD Consult
Dates vary; includes over 50 medical textbooks, articles from more than 70 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 5,000 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates. Guide
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic
Dates vary; Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. All full text titles are indexed in CINAHL.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
Dates vary; Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Nearly all full text titles included are indexed in CINAHL.
Nursing Consult
Dates vary; Designed for the clinical nurse, nurse administrators, nursing faculty and students. It contains drug information, patient handouts, full text of some nursing and medical journals (back to 2001), health reference books, nursing news, evidence-based content, clinical updates and more. Tour
Physical Education Index
1970-present. Physical education and related subjects, including sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport psychology, health education, and physical therapy. Covers peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Guide
PILOTS
1871-present, Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES [formerly PsychLIT, aka Psychological Abstracts]
1887-present (selected full text via PsycARTICLES 1987-present); provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, technical reports, dissertations, and other documents in the field of psychology and related disciplines, such as linguistics, law, business, and anthropology. PsycINFO covers the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology. It includes over one million citations and summaries,and is updated monthly. Many articles found in PsycINFO are available online via the PsycARTICLES companion service. Look for the "Linked Full Text" option. Guide
Science Direct
Dates vary; Indexes over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals and hundreds of book series from Elsevier in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences and humanities. For more information about recent changes to Science Direct access, see Science Direct Web Editions Discontinued.
Web of Knowledge - Tutorial
1987-present; includes three databases within the Web of Science platform: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Also includes ISIHighlyCited.com, which lists the most influential scientific authors, and EndNote Web, an online bibliographic citation manager. Guide

Research Guides

For more information on available online resources, see the Health Related Internet Resources library guide.

To find books and other materials in the library, use PantherCat, the online library catalog (guide).

Selected Life and Health/Biological Sciences Web Sites FREE ACCESS