See below for a list of recommended databases for Biotechnology, as well as recommended multidisciplinary & citation databases.
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WoS is a multidisciplinary citation database covering over 10,000 of the world's highest impact research journals. It also 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 three databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
Help & E-tutorials: Web of Science - Search Tips (05:37 minutes) | Web Of Science Library Guide
EMBASE (Excerpta 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. The EMBASE journal collection is international with over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database.
Coverage: 1974 - present
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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 one of the largest multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing databases of research literature and quality web sources. It offers access to over 16,000 titles from more than 4000 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.
Scopus Library Guide | E-tutorials and demos
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).