Databases for Articles

Biological Abstracts http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=n&D=b9az
	Biological Abstracts encompasses all disciplines of the life sciences. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as plant and animal science, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. [more]

Biological Abstracts/Zoological Record Combined http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=main&D=zoor,b9az
	Biological Abstracts indexes and abstracts journal literature in the life sciences. Zoological Record indexes and abstracts zoological literature including journals, conference proceedings and books. See the entries for each individual database for more information. [more]

BioOne http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.bioone.org
	provides full-text access to over 80 bioscience journals published by small societies and noncommercial publishers. [more]

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=columbia&access=columbia8&db=bioone-set-c
	Also Known as: BAIDSearch and link to complete articles for 65 journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. [more]

Birds of North America http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://bna.birds.cornell.edu
	Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. Includes audio, video and extensive references. [more]

BMC Proceedings http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcproc/
	Devoted specifically to conference publications in medicine and biology, BioMed Central aims to provide open access to both abstracts and complete articles presented at conferences. [more]

CABDirect http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://217.154.120.06/CABDIRECT/select-database.nsp

Also Known as: CAB Abstracts; CABIComprehensive international coverage of agriculture and veterinary sciences. Includes all items listed in Index Veterinarius, Animal Breeding Abstracts, Dairy Science Abstracts, Global Health, and 23 other abstracts journals covering all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Links to fulltext are available for some recent articles. NOTE: to search older literature 1900-1972, mark both CAB ABSTRACTS and CAB ABSTRACTS ARCHIVE before beginning to search. [more]

Faculty of 1000 (Biology) http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.f1000biology.com
	An online literature awareness service that highlights and reviews the most interesting published papers in the biological sciences based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading reseachers. After reading the article review, use Findit@MU to locate the original article. To see which papers by Local MU authors have been selected/reviewed, use this link. [more]

Fish and Fisheries Worldwide http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ffw

Provides citations and some abstracts on all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries, and related aspects of aquaculture. Major topics include culture and propagation, limnology and oceanography, genetics and behavior, natural history, parasites, diseases, habitat management, fish processing/marketing, general research, and fisheries management. The database includes, FISHLIT (1985-date), Fisheries Review (1971-date), Fish Subset of Medline (1966-date), Fishing Industry Research Institute (FIRI) Database, Fish Database (1960-date), Castell's Nutrition References (1970-date), AQUACULTURE (1970-1984), Fish Health News (1978-1985). [more]

MEDLINE (Ovid) http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=N&D=mesd
	MEDLINE provides accesss to international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. [more]

Plant Management Network http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org
	Plant Management Network provides access to fact sheets, newsletters, product listings, training resources and related information. [more]

PubMed http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=umochsclib&dr=abstract

The National Library of Medicine's free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus some publisher-supplied and out of scope citations from certain general science and chemistry journals, such as Science and Nature. MU users have enhanced MEDLINE search capabilities available to them in Ovid MEDLINE. MeSH subject indexing is not available for very new citations or for citations older than 1966. To run a cited reference search on an article found in PubMed, copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection provides access to all live journals published by Elsevier; online book series and discontinued journals are not included. The publisher specializes in life science, physical science, and engineering. There are over 1,600 journals included in the trial, of which more than 1,100 are new to this campus. More than 200 of these new journals have impact factors equal to or greater than 2. [more]

SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/scifinder.htm

Also Known as: Chemical AbstractsSciFinder Scholar contains a comprehensive database of chemical and chemical engineering literature including patents (1907 - date, with selected coverage back to 1878) and the CAS Registry with information on 18 million substances. Also useful for biotechnology, toxicology, environmental science, medicine, food science and nuclear science. Installation is required to use the program from other on campus computers. To use from off campus, MU affiliates must set up a VPN Virtual Private Network before installing the software. [more]

Scirus http://www.scirus.com
	A web search engine optimized for scientific content. Target preprints, scientist or company homepages, patents, or conferences. However, subscriptions or credit card payments are required to view much of the journal content. From Elsevier Scientific Publishing. [more]

Scopus http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com

Search 33 million journal articles, cited references, and patents. Cover-to-cover indexing 1996-date for 14,000 (mostly scientific) journals, with some retrospective coverage compiled from cited references and free web sources. Compile a table of citation counts for a given author showing cited references by year. Discover the h-index for a given author. Search for all cited references for a given author, just a combination of selected references, or a single reference, with an option to exclude self-citations. Locate an article to see Findit@Mu links to all its cited references. [more]

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fzh
	Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide indexes literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. All aspects of wildlife and wildlife management are covered. [more]

Zoological Record http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=N&D=zoor
	Also Known as: ZooRecordZoological Record indexes and abstracts worldwide zoological literature. All major areas of zoology are represented, including: behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography. [more]

Zoological Record/Biological Abstracts Combined http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=n&PAGE=main&D=zoor,b8az
	Search articles from over 5000 journals, plus conference proceedings and books covered every aspect of zoology. If you'd like to cover both Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record in one search, use this link. [more]

Journals

Browse Journals on Biological Sciences http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://mulibraries.1cate.com/?category=bio

• Looking for a specific article or journal? Try the Journal/Article Finder
• Need to search for articles by keyword or topic? Try Databases in the Databases tab

Other Resources Online

MU Authors Papers Selected for Faculty of 1000 Biology http://www.facultyof1000.com/search/results.asp?drpField1=[AD]&txtSearch1=missouri columbia&drpPhrase1=and&drpField2=[TI]&txtSearch2=&drpPhrase2=and&drpField3=[AU]&txtSearch3=&drpPhrase3=and&drpField4=[TA]&txtSearch4=&drpPhrase4=exact&chkBMCJournals=&chkT
	See which papers by MU authors have been selected as among the most interesting or significant published in the biological sciences literature in Faculty of 1000 Biology.

National Center for Biotechnology Information ( NCBI ) http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
	Databases produced by NCBI include Entrez , OMIM , Sagemap , GeneMap and Locus Link. Use the Entrez Cross-database Search Page to do a global search across all Entrez resources.

eBooks / Books

• Looking for a specific book? Try the Book Finder
  • The Book Finder first searches in the MERLIN catalog.
  • If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
• Need to search for a book by keyword or topic? Search the MERLIN catalog