Library guide for Biotechnology

(Excerpia Medica) is the most comprehensive database in biomedicine and pharmacology and gives you access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects with over 11 million records. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database. Coverage: 1974 - present.

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree heading, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations.

WOS is a multi-disciplinary citation database covering over 10,000 of the world's highest impact research journals. It offers the unique "citation searching" feature , allowing users to see how many times a paper/author has been cited and by whom. It consists of the databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Scopus is one of the largest multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing databases of research literature and quality web sources. It offers access to over 25,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, with abstracts available back to 1966. Citation data is available from 1996. Coverage includes scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature including arts and humanities. There are also 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices as well as links to 'Articles in Press' from over 3,000 journals.

SciFinder-n covers biochemistry, organic, macromolecular, applied, physical, inorganic and analytical chemistry. Updated daily, it contains abstracts from more than 9,500 journals, patents, conferences and reports, plus records of over 35 million chemical substances and reactions. In addition, to the reference, substance, reaction, and supplier content found in SciFinder, SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping and more.