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Subject Guide for Biotechnology: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases

See below for a list of recommended databases for Biotechnology, as well as recommended multidisciplinary & citation databases.

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Consult the A to Z of Library Databases to overview and access all available subscription databases.

Recommended Databases

Useful information on using EMBASE can be found at the Embase Support Center.

Select BIOSIS Citation Index from the drop down menu in Web of Science (Core Collection).

 

BIOSIS Citation Index adds citation indexing to BIOSIS content (coverage of journals, books and patents, along with taxonomic indexing). It’s the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research and includes cited references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms. BIOSIS Citation Index covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as Botany, Zoology, and Microbiology. It also includes related fields like Biomedical, Agriculture, Pharmacology, and Ecology. Interdisciplinary fields such as Medicine, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bioengineering, and Biotechnology are also included.

Scopus is a citation index so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper).