Life Sciences Database List

Subject Areas

• Biological Sciences
• Herbal Medicine
• Sports & exercise science

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.

AIDS and cancer research abstracts ASFA Aquatic Sciences via CSA Illumina Biological Sciences via CSA Illumina Biology Digest via CSA Illumina Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts via CSA Illumina CAB Abstracts via Ovid CSA Illumina (contains multiple databses) 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

ABI/INFORM Global

• business articles, mixture of full-text and indexing/abstracting service - Index/Abstracts/FT

Alternative Press Index (1995-)

• printed index only, at Craighouse

ANTE - Abstracts in new technologies and engineering

• all technical subjects - may link to full text via SFX

Art index

• print version only, Merchiston abstracts section

Architectural publications index - search the index in electronic form as part of the RIBA online catalogue

• before searching, scroll down to Search Limits and change this from ALL to ARTICLES instead
• we also have the print version in Merchiston Library, Abstracts Section

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

• all social science subjects - may link to full text via SFX

BHI - British Humanities Index

• all humanities subjects - may link to full text via SFX

Design and applied arts index

• may link to full text via SFX

EBSCO Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection

• full text

Expanded Academic ASAP

• wide range of subjects covered - contains some full text

Film literature index online

• indexing only

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

Newspaper articles

• Nexis UK contains the full text of a huge range of international newspapers - but no pictures, sadly.

Market reports:

• Mintel marketing intelligence - full text
• Global market information database - full text

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

• British Standards Online
• CADCAMNet- full text - Napier has a limited number of users for this service.