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Life Sciences Database List
This is a complete list of the databases most likely to be useful for Life Sciences at Napier. Follow the access links through to connect to electronic services. A few services are in print format only.
See also the Subject Focus pages to find out which ones are best for your individual subject.
Journal Articles Databases
These can help you identify useful journal articles: note the links to our helpsheets as you connect to the service.
You may still have more work to do to find the full text of the articles! See our web page on Locating Journal Articles.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (some FT)
Environmental Management (Info4Education)
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management via CSA Illumina
Expanded Academic ASAP (some FT)
ISI Web of Knowledge - Science citation index; Social sciences citation index; Web of science conference proceedings.
JSTOR Biological Sciences
Medline via Ovid or via CSA Illumina
Oceanic Abstracts via CSA Illumina
Plant science via CSA Illumina
SPORTDiscus via Ebsco
Wildpro (some FT)
Zetoc - search the British Library's Electronic table of contents
AIDS and cancer research abstracts via CSA Illumina
- may link to full text via SFX
ASFA Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts via CSA Illumina
- may link to full text via SFX
Biological Sciences via CSA Illumina
- may link to full text via SFX
Biology Digest via CSA Illumina
- may link to full text via SFX
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts via CSA Illumina
- may link to full text via SFX
CAB Abstracts via Ovid
CSA Illumina (contains multiple databses)
Expanded Academic ASAP
- wide range of subjects covered - contains some full text
Film literature index online
FindArticles - Arts and Entertainment
- all subjects - some full text but may not include images
IngentaConnect
- all subjects - contains some full text
ISI Web of Knowledge
- all subjects, strong on research - includes Arts and humanities citation index - may link to full text via SFX
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- may link to full text via SFX
LISA - Library and Information Science Abstracts
- may link to full text via SFX
LISTA: Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts
- may link to full text via SFX
Music Index
- all types of music - print format only, at Craighouse. Napier does not have a current subscription, but we have vols for 1949-1997.
Press (2001-April 2007).
- a merger of Printing Abstracts ( 1958-2001) and World publishing monitor (1991-2001). Before that, World publishing monitor was known as Electronic publishing abstracts (1983-1990) - print format only, at Craighouse.
RILM (Répertoire international de la littérature musicale)
- mainly classical music - print format only, at Craighouse. Napier does not have a current subscription, but we have vols.1-29, 1967-1995.
Zetoc
- all subjects covered - if articles are not available locally, anything you find here can be requested from the British Library via our Document Supply service
Other Databases
ABI/INFORM Global
- business articles, mixture of full-text and indexing/abstracting service - Index/Abstracts/FT
Newspaper articles
- Nexis UK contains the full text of a huge range of international newspapers - but no pictures, sadly.
Market reports:
Images and film clips:
- BFI Screenonline - a website devoted to the history of British film and television
- AHDS Visual Arts: Collections
- Film and Sound Online - a set of ten collections of film and video, providing about 300 hours of material on a wide range of subjects
- SCRAN - a resource base of Scottish material culture and human history
- Films from the Home Front - a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies.
- Capital Collections - a choice of images from the collections of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
TV schedules
- TRILT - Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching - listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards
Technical data
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