Databases

Finding Journal Literature

Unsure which database to use to search for your topic? Check out this guide to Choosing the Appropriate Biological Literature Database.

PubMed @ MSU 
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed/MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic index in biomedicine, indexing more than 5,000 biomedical journals.

• Biological Abstracts
• Web of Science
• Scopus
• SciFinder Scholar
• Faculty of 1000 Biology

Full Text Reference Sources

• EcoSal

  Continually updated Web resource from ASM based on the classic book: Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. It contains an archive of knowledge about the enteric bacterial cell with background and links to active databases of primary research information.

• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

  Contains articles written by scientists at the introductory and advanced level for all areas of biology. Good for background information on a topic.

Journal Citations

• Journal Citation Reports 
  Journal Citation Reports is available through ISI's Web of Knowledge. This is a resource tool for journal evaluation using citation data and gives impact factors for journals.  See also Journal Impact Factor Guide.