Guides: Biology: Databases & Journals

Electronic Resources

BIOLOGY SPECIFIC DATABASES

Health Source - Nursing/Academic
Scholarly journals covering nursing and allied health topics including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. Includes more than 320 full-text journals and a comprehensive medical dictionary.
Medline
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.
OneFile: Agriculture
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals and Delmar reference titles focused on agriculture and related fields.
Formerly called Agriculture Collection
OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals and Delmar reference titles covering environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Formerly called Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
OneFile: Health and Medicine
More than 2,500 full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries. Includes nursing and allied health journals, as well as personal health information sources.
Formerly called Health Reference Center Academic
OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering nursing and allied health, including specialized care, treatment, and patient management. Includes highlighting and note-taking tools and provides multiple pathways to key information.
Formerly called Nursing and Allied Health Collection
PubMed Central
A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

OTHER DATABASES COVERING BIOLOGY

Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos.
OneFile: Science
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering the latest scientific developments in science, mathematics, computing, and technology. This includes particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, engineering, and hundreds of other areas.
JSTOR
A collection of core scholarly journals, many going back to the first volume. Emphasis is on back issue coverage. JSTOR also has an extensive collection of primary sources.
Oxford Reference Online
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.
APA PsycINFO
World's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it includes more than 4 million bibliographic records and indexing of more than 2,500 journals.
Sage Journals Online
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science
SciFinder-n
Discovery tool for chemical literature, patents, and substances.

Access to SciFinder is granted upon request. Email library@gordon.edu to obtain access to SciFinder.

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