Major Databases

• It was not truly effective at being either basic or comprehensive (based on user comments).
• It was extremely expensive (> 4 times the cost of its replacement).
• The complete version of Biosis is available back to 1969.
• Use Biological & Agricultural Index Plus instead.

• Coverage: selected core literature in biology and agriculture.
• Content: Records cover 360 journals, 200 of which are indexed back to 1983. The libraries subscribe to half these titles in Fulltext* (± 1997-current).
• Level: Basic (ideal for introductory courses or information).
• Indexing: Good. Use ‘Thesaurus’ to collect terms, add keyword search for more specifics, then combine in search history
• Unique features: Core focus
• Tip: use   get this item buttons instead of Limit to full text for access to 3 times more fulltext! (Only 1/3 of our fulltext is searched when you use this limit.)

• Provides access to over 30 databases that can be searched simultaneously for scholarly citations and abstracts to articles, technical reports, conference proceedings, selected books and patents in the biological sciences.
• 1982-present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Great for finding scholarly citations to the literature in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary medicine.

• Provides access to scholarly citations for articles in publications in biology and related fields.
• 1969-Present
• Updated Weekly
• Available to students at the Claremont Colleges by appointment only. Contact Jason Price (x18437)
• Comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.

• Provides detailed life history information for the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.
• The print version of BNA (18 volumes in 18,000 pages) was completed in 2002, a joint 10 year project of the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
• Online contents will be updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors.
• Will build image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more.
• Each online species account will contain recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

• Provides access to over 11 million citations in medicine and biology
• National Library of Medicine's search engine for Medline, PreMedline and related databases
• 1966-Present
• Updated daily
• Publicly available to anyone using the internet
• Great for finding scholarly articles in biomedicine and related fields of research
• Contains links to many full-text articles in journals to which we subscribe electronically

• Provides access to scholarly science and social science journal article citations, with "Get this item" links to fulltext.
• Sciences citation index: 1955-present
• Social sciences citation index: 1956-present
• Great for finding the most important (heavily cited) articles in the sciences and social sciences. Can also be used to find articles citing a known important work on your topic, or related to it based on shared citations.
• Help using this database is available.

Other Databases

• Provides access to citations for articles on every major agricultural subject, plus some life sciences and related applied biology topics.
• 1970-Present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• Great for finding articles on applied life sciences topics. Academic biology is also covered here, some of which is not covered in Biosis.

• Provides access to scholarly citations for all publications in the aquatic sciences worldwide.
• 1978-Present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool
• Great for finding citations to all the literature in the aquatic sciences.

• Provides access to citations for articles and new patents on biotechnology and bioengineering.
• 1982-present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Great for finding the latest scholarly articles, reports, regulations and patents in all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.

• Provides a gateway to over 15 databases that can be searched simultaneously for scholarly citations and abstracts to articles, technical reports, conference proceedings, books and government publications in the environmental sciences.
• 1981-present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Great for finding scholarly citations to the literature in environmental studies.

• Provides access to citations to articles and reviews published in General Science journals. Covers Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Botany, Computers, Earth Sciences, Environment, Health, Physics, Food, and Zoology. Abstracts included.
• 1984 - present
• Updated monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• Great for undergraduate research on General Science topics.

• Contains many helpful navigation tools; articles can be browsed by an alphabetically organized subject list, or by the database’s search feature. Also contains a handy acronym finder.
• Articles are full text.
• Subjects include, but are not limited to, Analytical Techniques, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Chemical Reactions, Energy, Environmental Protection, Inorganic Chemicals, Materials, Organic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Processes and Process Engineering, and Renewable Resources.

• Provides access to citations for articles on all areas of medicine.
• 1965-Present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• Great for finding articles in medical literature (3500 journals). Includes some regular biology not necessarily covered in Biosis.
• See also PubMed.

• Provides access to citations for scholarly articles in plant pathology, symbiosis, genetics, etc.
• 1994-Present
• Updated Monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Great for finding research articles in plant pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry and genetics.

• Provides access to bibliographic citations to the scientific literature in the field of primatology, relating to research, conservation, and veterinary care of nonhuman primates.
• 1940-present.
• Includes all types of publications and many subject areas including behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography.
• Over 200,000 citations.
• Produced by the Wisconsin Primate Research Center.