Databases
See also the main Biotechnology Research Guide for more links to databases, websites, and other library resources.
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PubMedA medical and health database developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that provides access and searching for life science journals.
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ScopusIndexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.
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ScienceDirectIndexes and abstracts with some full text journals from the publisher Elsevier, the majority of which are in science, technology and medicine.
Help with Database Searching
PubMed and Scopus are advanced databases with special search features that you may be unfamiliar with. The resources below contain more information about how to effectively search these databases.
Government Websites
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National Human Genome Research InstituteAn institute of the NIH.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Part of the US Department of Commerce. One of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories.
Search Strategies
Boolean Terms
AND - Searches for both terms in the same record
OR - Searches for records with either term
Not - Excludes records with that search term
Wildcards
* - Searches for words with alternative endings. Ex: behav* = behavior, behave
? - Represents a single character, anywhere in the word: Ex: analy?e
“...” - Searches for records with the exact phrase