Subject Guides in the Health and Life Sciences

Resources in Life Sciences

This guide is designed to serve as a starting point for locating information on various aspects of life sciences.

Finding Journal Articles

• AGRICOLA 
• BIOSIS Previews: for help searching, download the Adobe PDF document Finding Articles Using BIOSIS
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• Entrez: life sciences search engine
• FishBase
• GeoRef
• Marine Oceanagraphic and Freshwater Resources (MOFR): for help searching, download the Adobe PDF document Finding Articles Using MOFR
• National Center for Biotechnology Information Taxonomy Browser
• PubMed at UCLA: for help searching, download the Adobe PDF document Finding Articles Using PubMed
• Web of Science: for help searching, download the Adobe PDF document Finding Science and Social Science Articles Using Web of Science
• Zoological Record: for help searching, download the Adobe PDF document Finding Articles Using Zoological Record

For more information on using databases effectively, see Dissecting a Database or Comparing Database Features.

Finding Specialized Information

• Guides to the literature
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks
• Taxonomic guides

Web Resources in Life Sciences