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Databases for Biology

April 8, 2026 • 11:50 am

Biology – Best Bets

  • Environment Complete
    Full text journal articles on agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, environmental technology, law, and policy, and more. More info
  • Scopus
    Replaces Web of Science. An abstract and citation database focused on social, physical, life, and health sciences, with over 94 million records. More info

Biology – Also Useful

  • ACSESS Digital Library
    The ACSESS Digital Library is a complete collection of all content published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. More info
  • Agricola
    Includes citations for recources relating to all aspecs of agriculture, materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. More info
  • Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)
    Provides full text access to over 1,100 scholarly journals, trade journals, and reports representing all major environmental science topics. More info
  • Biological Science Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to nearly 400 journals, with more than 325 available in full text. More info
  • Gale eBooks
    Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. More info
  • GreenFILE
    Scholarly and general interest journals, as well as government documents and reports covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • PubMed (includes MEDLINE)
    This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by Appalachian State University Libraries. Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. More info
  • ScienceDirect
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • SciFinder Scholar
    You must register. Create an account with your @appstate.edu address. Limited to 8 simultaneous users. Covers all areas of chemistry, including organic, inorganic, biochemistry, applied chemistry, and chemical engineering, including abstracts from more than 10,000 journals and the CAS Registry. More info
  • SpringerLink
    Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines. More info

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Stephanie Bennett
Stephanie Bennett