Electronic Resources - Life Sciences

This list does not include individual e-journals. Please use the E-journals A to Z service to search for e-journals by title.

Many resources require Keele usernames for off-campus access. Please see our E-Resources Access page for further information about this service.

Bibliographic Databases

These services enable you to find references for journal articles on a particular topic.  Some also index book chapters, conference papers and theses. They provide full bibliographic details for articles (references) and often abstracts (summaries).  Their extensive, international coverage means that items found by your search may not necessarily be available from the Library's collections.

If no full-text link is given for an article, clicking on the @Keele logo will search our e-journals and provide a link to the full-text if available, or direct you to where a paper copy may be found in the Library's print journal collection.  Items not available either online or in print can usually be obtained for a fee through the Inter-Library Requests service

  • Web of Knowlege (includes Web of Science)
    Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.  Includes Web of Science, Biosis Previews (life sciences and biomedical research) and MEDLINE.  Our Web of Knowledge Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • ProQuest Biological Sciences Databases
    This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • EBSCO Life Sciences Databases
    Includes MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus, SPORTDiscus and Academic Search Complete.  Our EBSCO Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • ScienceDirect
    Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters.  Our ScienceDirect Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
    Searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on medical and veterinary entomology, covering not only insects but other anthropods that are of medical and veterinary importance in the broadest sense.  Selected from the applied life sciences database CAB Abstracts, it is updated weekly online.  Click here for further information about this database.

Electronic Journal Collections

These are searchable collections of full-text e-journals.  They often lack the wide-ranging coverage of bibliographic databases, but the full-text of articles is immediately available in the majority of cases.

  • PubMed Central
    Archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.
  • BioMed Central
    Over 200 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology and medicine.
  • Cogprints
    Electronic archive of papers in psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.
  • JSTOR
    Digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
    Our JSTOR Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • SwetsWise
    Full-text access to over 3,000 journals covering many disciplines.  Our SwetsWise Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • SAGE Journals
    Over 600 peer-reviewed, full-text journals with coverage dating back to 1999.

Internet Search Engines and Gateways

  • Google Scholar
    Use Google to search specifically for scholarly literature.
  • Intute
    Gateway to evaluated, quality internet resources.  Subjects covered include: Agriculture, food and forestry, Biological sciences, Medicine, Nursing midwifery & allied health, Physical sciences, Veterinary medicine.
  • Neuroscience Information Framework
    Inventory of web-based neuroscience resources
  • Scientific Web Plus
    Science-based web search engine.
  • Scirus
    Science-only search engine.
  • VALDO
    Biomedical and life sciences search engine.
  • Internet Detective
    A free online tutorial offering practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites.
  • RefWorks
    This is an online reference management software tool which can be used to import, manage and save references from your research, enabling easy creation of bibliographies.  See our Refworks information page for further details.
  • Zetoc
    Use this site to set up "table of contents" email alerts to your inbox when new issues of journals are published.

E-Books

To search for e-books held by the Library, use the Library Catalogue and change the 'View Entire Collection' option to 'Electronic Resources'.  E-books can be read in full, online, 24-hours a day.  The following e-book collections may also be useful:

Our E-books Quick Guide will help you get started.

Newspapers

The following services provide full-text access to a large number of newspapers:

  • ProQuest UK News Stand
    Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.
  • Nexis UK
    A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.
  • The Times Digital Archive
    Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2006. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Theses

To search for theses held in the Library, use the Library Catalogue Advanced Search and set the material type to "THESIS".  The following resources may also be of use:

  • ETHOS
    The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.
  • Index to Theses
    A searchable listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. You can only access the Index to Theses from computers on the Keele network.
  • NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
    Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.
  • PhDData
    An index of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Other Useful Links

You may also find the resources listed on the Medicine subject pages useful:

Medicine - Undergraduate

Medicine - Postgraduate