{"id":2518,"date":"2012-01-05T07:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/?page_id=2518"},"modified":"2017-05-08T05:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:16:43","slug":"reference-databases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/research\/reference-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Databases &amp; Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note regarding the following databases: Those that are broad in their coverage and which may yield successful results on botanical topics are marked below with red asterisks (&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">*<\/span>&#8220;).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:<\/strong> Other useful electronic databases and search engines (some of which may require a fee for access to articles):<\/p>\n<p><strong>AGRICOLA<\/strong> (available through ProQuest):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/agricola-set-c.shtml\">http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/agricola-set-c.shtml<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biological Abstracts (CSA)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csa.com\/factsheets\/biolclust-set-c.php\">http:\/\/www.csa.com\/factsheets\/biolclust-set-c.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biological Abstracts\u2014Journal Search<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ip-science.thomsonreuters.com\/cgi-bin\/jrnlst\/jloptions.cgi?PC=BA\">http:\/\/ip-science.thomsonreuters.com\/cgi-bin\/jrnlst\/jloptions.cgi?PC=BA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biological Abstracts\/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biological_abstracts_rrm\/\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biological_abstracts_rrm\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BioOne<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/\">http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BIOSIS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biosis\/\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biosis\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BIOSIS Citation Index<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wokinfo.com\/products_tools\/specialized\/bci\/\">http:\/\/wokinfo.com\/products_tools\/specialized\/bci\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BIOSIS Previews<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biosis_previews\/\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/biosis_previews\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CISTI<\/strong> (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information &#8211; National Research Council of Canada):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca\/eng\/services\/cisti\/catalogue\/index.html\">http:\/\/cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca\/eng\/services\/cisti\/catalogue\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine<\/strong> (at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/\">National Center for Biotechnology Information<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/gquery\/gquery.fcgi?term=%22Jnophyta%22&amp;itool=sitesearch\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/gquery\/gquery.fcgi?term=%22Jnophyta%22&amp;itool=sitesearch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ERIC<\/strong> (world&#8217;s largest digital library of education literature):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eric.ed.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.eric.ed.gov\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Genamics JournalSeek<\/strong> (the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journalseek.net\/\">http:\/\/journalseek.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Google Books<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong> (provides a search of <em>scholarly<\/em> literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\">http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HerbMed<\/strong> (scientific information resource on herbal medicines provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amfoundation.org\/\">Alternative Medicine Foundation<\/a> with links to many other resources involving herbal medicine):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbmed.org\/\">http:\/\/www.herbmed.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Index to Organism Names (ION)<\/strong> (data from Thomson Reuters):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.organismnames.com\/\">http:\/\/www.organismnames.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>JSTOR<\/strong> (Journal Storage &#8211; scans of print journals, with 10 major math journals):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Native Americans and the Environment<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnie.org\/nae\/usa.html\">http:\/\/www.cnie.org\/nae\/usa.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NCBI<\/strong> (National Center of Biotechnology Information):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PubMed<\/strong> (National Center of Biotechnology Information &#8211; NCBI):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pubget<\/strong> (the search engine for life-science PDFs):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pubget.com\/\">http:\/\/pubget.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SciVerse Science Direct<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scirus<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirus.com\/\">http:\/\/www.scirus.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SpringerLink<\/strong> (the world&#8217;s most complete online collection of STM books, journals &amp; reference works):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/\">http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thomson Reuters\u2014Intellectual Property and Science<\/strong> (includes various scientific and academic products and services):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ip-science.thomsonreuters.com\/\">http:\/\/ip-science.thomsonreuters.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Taxonomicon<\/strong> (Universal Taxonomic Services):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxonomy.nl\/taxonomicon\/\">http:\/\/www.taxonomy.nl\/taxonomicon\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web of Knowledge<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wokinfo.com\/\">http:\/\/wokinfo.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web of Science<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/web_of_science\/\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/web_of_science\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ZooBank<\/strong> (The Prototype Online Registry for Zoological Nomenclature):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zoobank.org\/\">http:\/\/zoobank.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Zoological Record<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/zoological_record\/\">http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/products_services\/science\/science_products\/a-z\/zoological_record\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong> Even more useful electronic databases and search engines (as listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/\"><strong>www.mendeley.com<\/strong><\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/portal.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ACM Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ACS Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">AIP Scitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/prola.aps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">APS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">APA PsycNET<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">arXiv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BioMedCentral<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BioOne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ci.nii.ac.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CiNii<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CiteseerX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CiteULike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/copac.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Copac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatik.uni-trier.de\/%7Eley\/db\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DBLP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">EBSCO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gso.gbv.de\/xslt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GBV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google BookSearch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eprint.iacr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">IACR ePrints<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/Xplore\/guesthome.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">IEEE Xplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Informaworld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">IngentaConnect<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.inist.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">INIST \/ CNRS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/EJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Institute of Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isiknowledge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ISI Web of Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">JSTOR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lancet Journals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myopenarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MyOpenArchive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cdsads.u-strasbg.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA ADS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Nature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">OpticsInfoBase<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ovidsp.ovid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">OvidSP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PLoS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PNAS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PubMed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refdoc.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Refdoc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">RePEc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagepub.com\/home.nav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SAGE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ScienceDirect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ScienceMag<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scirus.com\/srsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scirus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slac.stanford.edu\/spires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Spires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SpringerLink<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SSRN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Wiley Online Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zetoc.mimas.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Zetoc<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note regarding the following databases: Those that are broad in their coverage and which may yield successful results on botanical topics are marked below with red asterisks (&#8220;*&#8220;). 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