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Biochemistry Research Guide

Best Bet Databases in Biology > Biochemistry

Web of Science
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Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.
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Biological Abstracts
Comprehensive coverage of the life sciences literature, including journal articles, conference papers, and books relating to life sciences, 1969-present.
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SciFinder
Access available via SciFinder Web or SciFinder Scholar (client). SciFinder Web requires account registration with UMass Amherst email account. License terms require that users connect to SciFinder Web or SciFinder Scholar through a computer on the UMass Amherst network. Off-campus access using the client (Scholar) is available via dial-up connections to OIT only.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases of chemistry and related scientific fields. Mid 1800's -
Also known as: Chemical Abstracts
MEDLINE
CAPlus
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Additional Databases in Biology > Biochemistry

Academic Search Premier
A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
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ASM Online Journals
Eleven journals from the American Society for Microbiology, in full text. Full text from 1995 to present; abstracts from 1992.
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Beilstein
Beilstein will only work on a computer with a UMass Amherst IP address. A dial-up account from OIT will provide users with a UMass Amherst IP address.
Searching requires installation of CrossFire Commander client software. This software can be downloaded from http://minerva.library.wisc.edu
A compendium of organic chemistry data on over 7 million compounds, including structures, physical properties, reactions, and literature citations, 1800-present.
Also known as: Crossfire Reactions
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BioMed Central
Free (open source) access to federally funded peer-reviewed biomedical research in over 100 recent journals.
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BioOne One
Bioscience research journals in full text, 1998-present.
Also known as: BioOne.1
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Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Research methods for microbiology, genetics, bioinformatics, proteins, plant biology, neuroscience, lab organisms, and imaging. Current.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to the humanities, social sciences, and non-technical general sciences, 1980-present.
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Google Scholar
Use within UMass’ IP range to access many UMass online journal subscriptions. In Scholar Preferences, you can choose to export citations to RefWorks bibliographic manager.
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ISI Proceedings
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Indexes published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, and conventions in the sciences and social sciences, 2001-present.
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Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Comprehensive articles on topics in chemistry and chemical engineering, with bibliographies. Current.
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NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables Professional
Thermodynamic properties of organic compounds from National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC
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Standards for analytical chemists.
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PubMed
National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version.
Also known as: MEDLINE
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ScienceDirect
Full-text scholarly journals in the sciences and the social sciences. Dates of coverage vary: oldest is 1994-present.
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WorldCat
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The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries. Material not owned by UMass Amherst can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
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Zoological Record
Citations to periodical articles and other scholarly literature on zoology, biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, and genetics, 1864-present.
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