Biosciences

Providing access to quality Biosciences resources and subject support.

References and citations Working off-campus Using the library

Databases View more

Here are the key databases/online resources to start finding information in your subject area. Click on 'View more' to go to the full listing for the Library, and use the filters to find more for this subject and others.

Medline

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) bibliographic database containing references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE contains comprehensive coverage of information on medicine, nursing, clinical psychology, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the NLM there is a US bias in the resources offered.

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PubMed

A free resource containing references to literature in areas such as biosciences, medicine, health and life sciences, chemical sciences and bioengineering. Some overlap with the MEDLINE database.

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Embase

Embase is a biomedical database containing more than 30 million records. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from more than 8,500 biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. Indexing using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus and Emtree makes retrieval of information straightforward. Embase is a perfect complement to MedLine.

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BioMed Central

BioMed Central (BMC) is a collection of over 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. BMC offers a wide portfolio of subject fields on a single open access platform.

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Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

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Web of Science

Covers a wide variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching allowing you to discover who has referenced a particular work since it was published.

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SciFinder-n

Covers all areas of chemistry as well as biology, medicine, engineering, material science and more.

Complete the online registration form from on campus/ using the VPN. You will then receive a confirmation email before you can begin searching SciFinder Scholar.  Video guide available here

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Books E-books Catalogue

You can access books and e-books via the Catalogue (also known as Library Catalogue Plus) to search for and check their availability. The Catalogue also provides links to e-books and displays the shelf marks of physical books in the Library. We have detailed the shelf marks of the most popular topics below (the level is for the Library in Loughborough).

Subject / title Pilkington level Shelfmark
Biochemistry 1 572
Human biology 1 612
Human anatomy 1 611
Human Genetics 1 599.935

Videos View more

Use the videos to learn more about some resources or finding information.

PubMed: Advanced Search Builder
Medline: Introduction to searching

Frequently asked questions View more

Here are some of the most popular questions asked by students in this subject. If you have a different question, check 'View more' or ask your Academic Librarian.

From Library Catalogue Plus look at the options at the side of the page and click on ‘eBook’ in the ‘Format’ section to limit the results to eBooks. Click on ‘Get full text’ to open the eBook.

You need to search via the VPN and multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you are off campus, this link will show you how to download this onto your device.

New users will need to complete a registration form whilst on campus. Once registered you will be able to use SciFinder on and off campus, here is a SciFinder Quick Start Guide to get you started.

For referencing and bibliographies use Cite Them Right Harvard. You can also contact your Academic Librarian