Biological sciences
BioMed Central
| Access information: | Free access on and off-campus from wFree access on and off-campus from www.biomedcentral.com |
| Description: | An independent publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. The University of Edinburgh is a member. |
| Coverage: | Portfolio of 205 journals. |
agcensus
| Access information: | Available on and off-campus from EDINA (Choose Login via UK federation). |
| Description: | Agricultural Census data for England, Scotland and Wales downloadable or visualised as grid square estimates at 2km, 5km and 10km level of resolution. |
| Coverage: | 1969 to present. |
Some useful resources for Biological Sciences are listed below.
Key Resource
BIOSIS Previews
| Access information: | On and off campus access via Web of Knowledge, select BIOSIS tab. Not working? - try clearing your cookies or use Alternative login. |
| Description: | The electronic version of Biological Abstracts , the largest printed reference publication for life sciences information, and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), the companion printed reference to books, meetings and research reviews. Approximately 6,500 life science journals, and over 2,000 international meetings, as well as review articles, books and monographs are monitored for inclusion. |
| Coverage: | 1926 to present. |
Key Resource
CAB Abstracts
| Access information: | Access (on and off-campus). |
| Description: | CAB Abstracts is the world's leading agricultural database. Find journals, books, conferences and reports. It covers significant research and development literature in the fields of animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry, veterinary medicine, aspects of human health, human nutrition, rural development, leisure and tourism and the management and conservation of natural resources. |
| Coverage: | 1910-present. |
Digimap
| Access information: | Available from EDINA (Choose Login via UK federation) Users are required to register with Digimap the first time of use. Follow instructions provided. |
| Description: | Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers Ordnance Survey Map Data to UK Higher Education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Digimap allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales. |
Early English Books Online
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Fully searchable and full text available. |
| Coverage: | 1473-1700. |
Economic Botany Bibliography Database
| Access information: | Access on and off campus |
| Description: | 33,000 references to publications relating to the uses by humans of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns. Entries date from the late nineteenth century to 2003, when data entry stopped. Subjects covered include the ethnobotany of plant use in traditional societies, medical and industrial uses of plants, and their domestication and history. Coverage focuses on wild plants and minor crop plants. About half of the citations on EBBD derive from recent data entry and are accurate, and consistently keyworded. Other citations derive from an older dataset and contain obvious spelling errors and inaccuracies. |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Contains 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, covering a range of subjects including history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science. The full text of the collection is searchable, from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements. |
| Coverage: | 18th Century. |
EMBASE
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | The Excerpta Medica database, a major pharmacological and biomedical literature database covering about 3,300 journals from110 countries. Covers mainly journal literature (plus some book reviews and conference proceedings) with strong coverage of European journals. |
| Coverage: | From 1980 to date. |
Additional information
NHS Staff and other authorised users:
Geology Digimap
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Choose Login via UK federation. |
| Description: | Part of the Digimap Collection of online mapping and data delivery facilities. Geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey. View maps, save them for printing and download the geological map data (scales ranging from 1:625,000 to 1:50,000) for use in geographical information systems. Complete coverage of Great Britain is available except for a few areas of Wales at the most detailed level. There is also access to the Lexicon of Named Rock Units which has details for many of the rocks found on the map. Guides and demonstrations are available. |
Global Health (CABI)
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Covers human health and disease, including communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology, nutrition, community and public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants., from more than 16,000 journals as well as books and grey literature (dissertations, conferences, patents, standards, annual reports, etc.) from more than 130 countries. |
| Coverage: | 1910 to present. |
Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of over 550 seminar style talks by leading world experts. All of the seminars have been specially commissioned from leading scientists and are presented in a user-friendly format of animated slides with synchronized narration. |
Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Over 200,000 publications relating to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns, published from 1971 up to the end of 2007, when data entry ceased. Publications entered will remain available. The Plant Micromorphology and Economic Botony bibliographies continue to be updated. |
Maps and mapping
Medline
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Also available from FirstSearch - Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | National Library of Medicine database, covering worldwide medical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues and health care services. Corresponds to three printed indexes - Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. Covers 3,200 journals published in the USA and about 70 other countries. |
| Coverage: | From 1966 to date. |
Additional Information
Help with Medline: For user guides applicable to all Ovid databases click on the Help icon in the 'Choose a database' screen. For more detailed descriptions of all searchable fields in Medline, along with sample searches, click on the Information icon next to Medline in the Choose a database screen.
NHS staff and other authorised users:
Plant Micromorphology Bibliography
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | 90,000 references to publications on plant anatomy and pollen/spore morphology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is regularly updated with new literature. All aspects of angiosperm and gymnosperm plant structure are covered, together with vegetative anatomy of pteridophytes. Maintained by the Kew Micromorphology Group. |
Reaxys
| Access information: | Personal registration required. May require VPN from off-campus. |
| Description: | Chemical reaction, structure and property data for organic and inorganic compounds. Also bibliographic data. Search by chemical structures and reactions as well as text. Contains the information from Gmelin and Beilstein. |
| Coverage: | 1771 to date. |
Scopus
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Covers 19,500 journals from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. |
| Coverage: | For some subject areas, from the 1820s onwards. |
Key Resource
SciFinder
| Access information: | Requires personal registration. Off-campus, you must be accessing the University network via the VPN service. |
| After 20 minutes of inactivity sessions will be closed automatically. |
| Description: | Bibliographic information and abstracts of articles published from more than 10,000 journals. Covers chemistry (all aspects), chemical structures and patents, chemical engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics. Information on more than 50 million chemical substances. |
| Search by chemical structure or text. Full reaction searching allows you to specify reaction sites and map atoms in the reactants. Also, information on patents, chemical suppliers and regulations. Cited reference searching is possible. |
| Coverage: | From 1800s onwards |
Additional information
Key Resource
Web of Knowledge
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
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| Description: | Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Web of Science section has the ISI Citation Indexes and Cited Reference Search. Email alerts available. |
| Journal impact factors from Journal Citation report section. |
| Coverage (see separate entries for details): | Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 2,300 journals; 1975 onwards. |
| BIOSIS Previews - 3,700 journals, 2,000 meetings; 1926 onwards. |
| Science Citation Index - 8,300 journals; 1900 onwards. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index - 2,700 journals; 1900 onwards. |
| Conference Proceedings Citation Index - 1990 onwards. |
| Journal Citation Reports |
Additional information
A number of sources of help are available with Web of Knowledge:
Finding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):
Journal Citation Reports:
This article was published on Dec 7, 2012
