Guest Databases for Life Sciences

Alphabetical list of databases:
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I-J-K  L  M  N  O-P-Q  R-S  T  U-V  W-X-Y-Z

Databases by subject
Specific database services

Databases marked “IN LIBRARY USE ONLY” can be searched exclusively
from the Public Access computers in the Library.

indicates a TexShare database

Database	Description	Full Text	Service
Academic Search Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields.		EBSCOhost
Agricola (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.		EBSCOhost
Biological Abstracts (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	An index with abstracts to periodicals in biology and the life sciences. Coverage begins in 1996 and continues through the present, and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.		Thomson Reuters
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Provides access to more than 490,000 citations from agricultural and biological literature. This database indexes articles, reports of meetings, review articles, special supplements, and book reviews, dating from 1983 to the present. Subjects covered include animal husbandry, biochemistry, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, forestry, food science, genetics, horticulture, microbiology, nutrition, physiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, zoology and much more.		EBSCOhost
Biology of Reproduction (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	The official journal of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and publishes original research on a broad range of topics in the field of reproductive biology		Biology of Reproduction
BioMed Central	A Science, Technology and Medicine publisher that has pioneered the open access publishing model, BioMed Central has a portfolio of 220 journals including general titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal).		BioMed Central
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	The CDCP provides users with credible, reliable health information on: data and statistics, diseases and conditions, emergencies and disasters, environmental health, healthy living, injury, violence and safety, life stages and populations, travelers’ health, workplace safety, and more.		Gov
Directory of Open Access Journals	Service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it is not be limited to particular languages or subject areas.		TexShare
Dissertations and Theses (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Contains more than 2 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Since 1997, new publications have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through the system for a fee. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Angelo State University faculty, students, and staff have free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available, of all ASU theses published through UMI Dissertation Publishing.		ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses in Texas	Hosted institutional repository service, developed by the the Texas Digital Library, which allows Texas institutions of higher learning to preserve and provide wide online access to their scholarly and pedagogic output.		Texas Digital Library
DOE Information Bridge	Provides free, convenient, and quick access (Department of Energy) DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics		Gov
DTIC Online	A DoD publicly accessible repository and database of releasable technical reports from 1986 to the present (more than 400,000 citations and abstracts); as well as access to the databases of technical reports of NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE).		Gov
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	This compilation of more than 500 different entries encompasses all aspects of biochemistry, as well as the extensions of this subject into the related fields of molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and biophysics.		Elsevier
Entrez	Entrez is a query and retrieval system developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). You can use Entrez to access several linked databases hosted by the NCBI. These databases include: PubMed (biomedical literature) Nucleotide (a sequence database also called GenBank) OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man from John Hopkins University) Genome (complete genome assemblies)		Gov
E-PRINT Network	A vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels. Also a gateway to over 12,000 websites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE.		Gov
Federal R&D Project Summaries	Consortium of federal agencies providing R&D summaries: Dept. of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation		Gov
GeoRef (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966, this database contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.		Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
GreenFILE™	Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.		EBSCOhost/Free
Human Genome Project Information	Offers a wealth of information about U.S. and worldwide Human Genome Projects, as well as general research information on genetics and bioethics		Gov
JSTOR Plant Science	Online environment that provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials, making them widely accessible to the plant science community as well as to researchers in other fields and to the public.		JSTOR/Free
MathSciNet (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Index of publications in mathematics and the sciences		American Mathematical Society
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library - Full-text publications	NCJRS is an online collection of over 7,000 full text publications from the websites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.  Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice including: police, courts, corrections, juvenile justice, community crime prevention, criminal justice system, fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs		Gov
OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)	Discover and use the scientific and technical information resources of the Department of Energy in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas.		Gov
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)	PNAS publishes research reports (describing the results of original research of exceptional importance), commentaries (which call attention to papers of particular note and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), perspectives (presenting a viewpoint on an important area of research and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), and colloquium papers (reports of scientific colloquia held under Academy auspices)  on a broad array of scientific topics.		National Academy Of Sciences
PubMed Central	PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).		Gov
ScienceDirect® (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Provides access to more than 1000 scientific, medical and technical journals published by the world’s leading scientific publishers, many in full text.		Science Direct®
Wiley Online Library® (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Provides full-text access to journal articles in the fields of business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences.		Wiley
Zoological Record (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY)	Comprehensive index to zoological and animal science literature published from 1996 to the present. Approximately 6500 sources are indexed, including journals, newsletters, conference proceedings, and books. All major divisions of zoology are represented, including taxonomy, physiology, morphology, behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, communication, habitat, life cycles and development, nutrition, parasitology, and zoogeography.		Thomson Reuters