A research database is a collection of references--such as citations and abstracts of articles--for a particular subject area. Some research databases also contain the full-text of articles. The following databases are useful for research in Biology, Botany, and Zoology and are available to students, faculty, and staff at Connecticut College. Contact the Reference Desk for research assistance. 

 

Agricola
Produced by the National Agricultural Library. Covers resources in agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, and soil and water resources. Years of coverage are 1970 to the present for books and 1979 to the present for journal articles.

Biological & Agricultural Index
Produced by The H.W. Wilson Company. Covers resources in biology and agriculture. Years of coverage are 1983 to the present. Partial full text.

BioOne
BioOne is an aggregation of the full-text of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Coverage is 1998 forward.

Current Contents Connect
ISI Current Contents Connect is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. Covered areas include agriculture, biology, environmental science, life sciences and earth science.

CSA Life Sciences Collection
Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Covers resources in life sciences disciplines including cell and molecular biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, entomology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, genetics, immunology, and agriculture. Years of coverage are 1982 to the present. Additional databases that can be accessed include Biology Digest, Medline (10 years), Plant Science, Toxline and a Web Resources database.
PubMed
Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Used to access the Medline database. Covers resources in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Years of coverage are 1966 to the present.
ScienceDirect
Produced by Elsevier Science.  Covers resources in chemistry, materials science, engineering and technology, environmental science, pharmacology and toxicology, physics, math and computer science, earth sciences, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, biological sciences, and clinical medicine.  Coverage for Elsevier titles runs from Jan. 1995 forward. Academic Press titles (formerly in the Academic Ideal database) run 1993 forward.  Subscribed titles are available full-text. 
Web of Science
The Science Citation Index  is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, with all cited references captured.  Topics covered include: Agriculture, Biochemistry, Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Plant Sciences, and Zoology. Coverage is 1996 forward.