Reed Library: Research Guide Proposed Layout: Databases

Databases By Type

Subscription Databases
Open Access Databases

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Locate full text analytic reviews in 33 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Coverage dates back to the 1930s for some publications.
General Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments. Key subjects include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
JoVE Science Education This link opens in a new window
JoVE Science Education is a "video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations."
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology, language, literature, and music.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The standard search tool from the National Library of Medicine for fields in health and medicine. Contains over 1000 full text journals.
PNAS Online This link opens in a new window
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Coverage from 1915-Present. Includes articles, commentaries and author profiles.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Maintained by the National Institutes of Health, PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access the full text of over 700 titles in the sciences, social sciences and mathematics.
Science Video Online This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive streaming video resource for the study of Scientific disciplines. The collection of films covers Environmental Studies, Natural History, and the Physical and Biological Sciences-- including coverage of Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology, Oceanography, Ecology, Astronomy, and Geography.
SciFinder This link opens in a new window
SciFinder Scholar is an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing direct access to research on chemicals, chemical reactions, & chemistry journals.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Search for citations to scholarly journal articles in all subject areas. Conduct cited reference searches for articles that cite a previously published work (1970 - present).

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Darwin Correspondence Project
Read and search the full texts of more than 12,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and ﬁnd information on 3,000 more. Discover complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1878.
Encyclopedia of Life
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice. This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.
Index to Organism Names (ION)
ION contains the organism names related data gathered from the scientific literature for Clarivate's Zoological Record® database.

Database Tutorials

Reed Library offers a number of video tutorials for popular databases in our collection.

Research Guide Proposed Layout: Databases

Featured Database: JoVE Core Biology

Databases By Type

Database Tutorials