Biology Resources

General Research Indexes:

• Academic Search Complete
  Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study
• EJC - Electronic Journal Center
  Full text of 6000+ research journals
• Films on Demand
  Over 8200 full-length streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• Image Quick View (searches Academic Search Complete)
• ISI Web of Knowledge
  Portal to Web of Science, providing high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities
• JSTOR
  Full text scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Business, Language and Literature
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information
• OhioLINK Digital Videos
  Education and Instructional Videos
• Scopus
  With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers a to support research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, in the arts and humanities
• VAST: Academic Video Online
  A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video which will include access to 20,000 videos in 2013.

Biology Research Indexes:

• ACS Journals
  ACS Journals provides abstracts and full text for journals and magazines from the American Chemical Society. This site is the source for older ACS journals, known as the ACS Journal Archives. Current ACS journals are available both through this site and through the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
• ACS Publications
  Archive of pre-1996 journals from the American Chemical Society
• AccessMedicine
  Online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions; AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions
• AccessScience
  Encyclopedia of science and technology; contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news and technology
• ACToR
  ACToR is EPA's online warehouse of all publicly available chemical toxicity data and can be used to find all publicly available data about potential chemical risks to human health and the environment. ACToR aggregates data from over 500 public sources on over 500,000 environmental chemicals searchable by chemical name, other identifiers and by chemical structure.

• A.D.A.M. (Instructor)
• A.D.A.M. (Student)

• AGRICOLA
• AHFS Consumer Medication Information
  A database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The database consists of over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications
• Alt HealthWatch
  Index, abstracts, and full text covering complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
• Annual Reviews
  Biomedical Sciences and Physical Sciences; Full text 1996 - present, Tables of Contents only 1984-1995
• Biosis Previews 1969 - present
• Biomed Central
  open access journals in biology and medicine
• CINAHL Plus w/ Full Text
• DOE Green Energy
  Green energy-related research and development
• DRC: Digital Resource Commons
• Energy Citations Database
  Free access to over 2.4 million science research citations; over 276,000 electronic documents from 1943 forward
• Environment Complete
  Index, abstracts and full text of articles on environmental studies
• Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
• GreenFILE
  A bibliographic database about environmental concerns from scholarly and general interest publications as well as government documents and reports
• GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
• Gross Anatomy Dissector
  Online Guided Gross Anatomy Dissector provides the anatomy as a first-year medical student would encounter and use it in an online teaching and learning environment. PLEASE GO TO THE SECTION “SITE LICENSE ACCESS FOR UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION” TO FIND THE LINK FOR ACCESS TO THE DATABASE
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Medical and health journals, reference books, pamphlets, web links
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
  Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health; Includes or has links to full text
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines; Includes or has links to full text
• HERO Database - EPA
  "Key studies EPA uses to develop environmental risk assessments for the public"
• Information Bridge
  266,000 (and growing) full-text technical reports from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• IRIS, Integrated Risk Information System - EPA
  "A human health assessment program that evaluates quantitative and qualitative risk information on effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants"
• JSTOR Plant Science
• MedicLatina
  Medical research and investigative journal articles in Spanish
• Medline Complete
• MEDLINE w/ Full Text
  Some full text available
• MEDLINEplus
  From National LIbrary of Medicine and NIH - Health Topics, Drugs & Supplements, Medical Encyclopedia, News and Directories
• Natural & Alternative Treatments
  Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories
• NLMplus
  NLMplus is a search engine which provides access to the 60 databases maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Using this search engine you can search all databases simultaneously and be provided with results in categories including Health Topics, Drugs, News, Images, Videos, PubMed Reviews.
• PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s
• Public Health Reports
• Science Online
  From cells to anatomy, from evolution to genetics, explore the classification, characteristics, and processes of life and how they change over time.
• Science.gov
  Science.gov searches over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results
• Springer Protocols
• U.S.Energy Information Administration
• WorldWideScience.org
  61 databases or portals from 56 countries and international organizations; Science.gov is the U.S. contribution to this international database