AccessScience: McGraw Hill Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Access to over 7,100 full text articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, biographies and Research Updates in science and technology. Updated daily.

ACS Publications     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Basic research journals in the field of chemistry, also includes some technoeconomic titles such as Chemical and Engineering News.

Algology Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Focus is on indexing the literature pertaining to algae, fungi, protozoa, lichens; covers reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics and infection/immunity.

All About Birds     [Indexes and Abstracts]

All About Birds is created by the staff of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They aim to make this site the Web's best and most comprehensive resource for North American birds, bird watching, and bird conservation. The Cornell Lab's mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.

Altweb     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site, was created to serve as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and resources on the Internet and beyond.

AnimalBase     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Database with searching capabilities of animal taxonomic names with access to old zoological literature including all zoological taxa described between 1757 and 1764. Links to the digital editions of taxonomic literature including various editions of Linnaeus. The project has various collaborators that may add information to the database.

Annual Reviews     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Search full text of Annual Reviews covering the biomedical, physical and social sciences, and economics.

arXiv.org     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. Owned, operated and funded by Cornell University.

Avibase  2003   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 2 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Offers online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture - much of it from peer-reviewed journals - plus full text.

BioMed Central     [Indexes and Abstracts]

BioOne     [Electronic Journals Collection]

An aggregation of research journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences published by small societies, and non commercial publishers.

BIOSIS Previews  1926 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Comprehensive coverage of nearly 5,500 life science journals and 1,500 items from international meetings, review articles, books, and unique additional references from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM. BIOSIS Previews covers the life sciences, from agriculture to biomedical sciences and from molecular genetics to zoology.

Books@Ovid     [e-book]

This collection of clinical textbooks can be browsed by clicking on the book jacket or searched using natural language or Boolean logic. It includes atlases, compendia of diagnostic tests, drugs and evidence-based treatment reviews, as well as works on biochemistry, cardiology, dentistry, endocrinology, internal medicine, neurology, nutrition, oncology, psychiatry, public health, and pulmonology.

Brill Online Books and Journals     [Database]

Brill Online Books and Journals provides full text of e-books and journals covering the Humanities, International Law and Biology.

CAB Abstracts  1910 -   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

CAB Abstracts covers the fields of applied life sciences, agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Subjects indexed include molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance.

CAB Abstracts Archive  1910 -   1972 [Indexes and Abstracts]

CAB Abstracts Archive covers the fields of applied life sciences, agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Subjects indexed include molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance.

Cambridge Core     [Database]

Cambridge Core, the platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content, contains over 1 million journal articles and 30,000+ books in Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Science.

Canadian poisonous plants information system     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Presents data on plants that cause poisoning in livestock, pets, and humans. The plants include native, introduced, and cultivated outdoor plants as well as indoor plants that are found in Canada. Some food and herbal plants are also included that may cause potential poisoning problems.

Canine inherited disorders database     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides information about inherited disorders in dogs to owners and breeders, to facilitate the best management possible of these conditions.

Compendex     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Compendex is the online version of Engineering Index. It covers all of the literature in engineering, but is particularly good for civil, mechanical, and chemical engineering. For standard service a password is not required.For enhanced service providing personalization, alerting, and search history, you will need to create an account with a password.

Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II  1982 -   [e-book]

Surveys developments in co-ordination chemistry since 1982, including new trends in biology and materials science.

Current protocols in neuroscience     [e-book]

Dictionary of Zoology  Second edition, 2003   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

This dictionary covers all topics relevant to zoology such as animal behavior, genetics, evolutionary studies, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, Earth history, and zoogeography.

EcoSal     [Web Sites]

A comprehensive, coherent archive of the entire corpus of knowledge on the enteric bacterial cell.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

A dynamic reference work integrating current theory and practice of all basic and applied aspects of the life sciences, with an emphasis on cell and molecular biology.

Engineering Village  1884 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

The premier index for the engineering literature, EV provides citations for articles, conference proceedings, selected patents, and other materials dating back to the 1880s. Comprises Compendex and Inspec and includes Knovel-driven Equations and links to related Scopus records.

Essential Science Indicators     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Citation rankings for scientists, institutions & journals; listings of highly cited and hot papers

Faculty Opinions (formerly F1000Prime)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Faculty of 1000 Prime is an alerting service and index with full-text links that reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of over 1400 leading researchers, including many from Tufts.

GBIF: global biodiversity information facility     [Indexes and Abstracts]

GBIF facilitates digitisation and global dissemination of primary biodiversity data, so that people from all countries can benefit from the use of the information. This web site provides information about the current state of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), an international initiative.

Global Health  1973-   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Produced by the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, this Ovid database provides comprehensive coverage of the international public-health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety, nutrition policy, and epidemiology.

Guide to poisonous plants     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Poisonous Plant Guide is constructed to enable location of a plant by either knowing the common or botanical name of the plant. Alternatively if the plant is not known, but the disease symptom is, it is possible to search by the presenting clinical sign.

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

The very popular CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online. Corresponding to the 96th edition in content, this new version enables quick and easy access to everything the Handbook has to offer. You can browse through the Table of Contents or search for a specific piece of data.

Inherited diseases in dogs     [Web Sites]

Information about inherited diseases in dogs for owners and breeders.

Inspec  1896-   [Indexes and Abstracts]

INSPEC is the leading database for the world's literature in physics, electrical and electronics engineering, computing, and information technology. It corresponds to the print publications Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronic Abstracts, and Computer and Control Abstracts.

IPA     [Indexes and Abstracts]

IPA (Ingenuity Pathways Analysis) is a curated database and analysis system that allows researchers to search, analyze and graphically view molecular interactions, biological functions and diseases.

iSpecies.org  2006   [Indexes and Abstracts]

iSpecies is a species search engine... a test of E O Wilson's idea of a web page for each species. The data displayed are generated "on the fly" by querying other data sources.

ITIS: integrated taxonomic information system     [Indexes and Abstracts]

ITIS provides basic scientific information on the nomenclature, taxonomy, and common names in English, French and Spanish, of large numbers of life forms. It also acts as a gateway to additional information by providing users with an innovative "Internet Search Portal". It facilitates access to other specialized databases in such areas as biotechnology, genomics, botany, entomology, bibliographies, or to numerous collections of biological specimen and observation data. For each scientific name, ITIS will include the authority (author and date), taxonomic rank, associated synonyms and vernacular names where available, a unique taxonomic serial number, data source information (publications, experts, etc.) and data quality indicators.

IVIS     [Web Sites]

The International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) provides full-text access to books, conference proceedings, consensus statements and guidelines, journals and online courses. IVIS is free to veterinarians, veterinary students, and animal health professionals. A brief registration is required.

Macaulay Library  2000   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Sound recordings for basic research, education, conservation, habitat assessment, media, and commercial projects. The collection is strongest in New World species, but includes Africa, Europe, and Asia. Archives and preserves an exhaustive sampling of the behaviors of each animal species using digital video and audio recordings.

Methods in Enzymology  1955 -   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

A standard source for methods and protocols in molecular biology. Some topics coverd are: guide to yeast genetics and molecular biology, branch chain amino acids, recombinant DNA, molecular evolution

MIT Press CogNet Library Books     [Indexes and Abstracts]

CogNet provides a collection of searchable electronic texts for the cognitive and brain sciences containing works from the MIT Press, as well as information on new research, job listings, discussion groups and information on seminars and lectures.

National Academies Press     [Indexes and Abstracts]

More than 4000 books in pdf format from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. (PDFs cannot be shared.)

NBII Wildlife Disease Information Node  2002   [Indexes and Abstracts]

WDIN is a collaborative project working to develop a Web-based monitoring and reporting system to provide state and federal resource managers, animal disease specialists, veterinary diagnostic laboratories, physicians, public health workers, educators, and the general public with access to data on wildlife diseases, mortality events, and other critical related information. Data are contributed voluntarily, with partners deciding which data they choose to share. The resulting distributed wildlife disease data warehouse can be a valuable resource for all to share and use to enhance the understanding, surveillance, management, control, and prevention of wildlife diseases around the world.

Netter presenter     [e-book]

An online image bank of Dr. Netter's classic anatomy & pathology illustrations along with many diagnostic imaging examples. Contains Atlas of Human Anatomy and Online Dissection module.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man     [Web Sites]

This catalog of human genes and genetic disorders produced by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information contains clinical synopses and daily updated text and references.

Physician Data Query (PDQ)     [Web Sites]

Contains summaries on a wide range of cancer topics; a registry of 8,000+ open and 19,000+ closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and a directory of professionals who provide genetics services. PDQ also contains the NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, and the NCI Drug Dictionary, which has information on 2,300+ agents used in the treatment of cancer or cancer-related conditions.

Plants database     [Web Sites]

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This information primarily promotes land conservation in the United States and its territories, but academic, educational, and general use is encouraged. PLANTS reduces government spending by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines.

Plants Poisonous to Livestock     [Web Sites]

A growing reference that includes plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora.

ProQuest Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.

ProQuest Agricultural Science Collection     [Indexes and Abstracts]

ProQuest Agriculture Journals contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. The database consists of around 300 titles, with most of them being available in full-text. ProQuest Agriculture Journals covers a wide range of agriculture-related topics.

ProQuest Biological Science Collection     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The collection contains biological science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Biological Sciences database. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, Biological Sciences provides access to literature from serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

PubMed Legacy (customized for Tufts)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The customized PubMed link provides access to NCBI's databases with links out to articles licensed by Tufts. Its MEDLINE content contains over 11 million journal citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and pre-clinical sciences. Full-text coverage of journals licensed or owned by Tufts is available via blue Tufts print and electronic icons on its Abstract display below each citation. Links to free full text and to Tufts' holdings appear to the right of the search results.

Sage Publications     [Electronic Journals Collection]

An extensive collection of journals, primarily in the social sciences, with coverage beginning in January of 1999. It includes titles such as Applied Psychological Measurement, Current Sociology, the European Journal of Women's Studies and Progress in Development Studies and 440 others.

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI)  1899   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the sciences. Coverage from 1899. Part of Web of Science.

ScienceDirect     [Database]

A database of over 2000 full text journal titles published by Elsevier covering the life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences.

Scopus  1966 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

An index to the scientific technical and medical literature covering 14,000 scholarly titles including 2,700 titles in Social Science, Psychology, and Economics. Updated daily. Full-text linking is available wherever the technology and the access arrangements permit and continues to expand as such arrangements allow.

SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive  2004   [Web Sites]

SORA is the world's first and largest open access ornithological publications archive. SORA provides access to an extensive library of ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years.

Springer Link     [Electronic Journals Collection]

An electronic information service provided by Springer Verlag, providing access to their e-journals (460+) and some book series. It is organized into Forms or Subject Libraries, 10 in all with a focus on Science and Technology, some Economics.

Springer Nature Experiments     [Database]

Springer Nature Experiments brings together content from SpringerProtocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols and Protocol Exchange - find, evaluate and implement experiments across the life sciences with the new research solution for protocols and methods from Springer Nature.

Springer Protocols     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiles protocols from Humana's book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.

STATRef     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Searchable database of drug compendia and medical and dental textbooks.

VIN     [Web Sites]

The Veterinary Information Network includes interactive message boards, reference center, full text library of books and conference proceedings, OSHA Center, continuing education courses, free classifieds and listings in a database used by pet owners. VIN is free to veterinary students, residents and faculty.

Web of Science Core Collection  1900 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides access to the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

Wiley Online Library     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Provided is full-text access to 300+ journals published by John Wiley & Sons. Subjects covered are: Business, Finance & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Psychology.

Zoological Record     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Covers the world's zoological and animal scientific literature. The "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics.