Use a library catalog to find books, journals, and other materials owned by the UCB libraries. You can also follow the links on our Electronic Books page for electronic book resources categorized by subject.
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OskiCat OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF) |
Most UCB libraries (more information) |
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Melvyl Melvyl Guide |
Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information) |
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| Electronic Books | Categorized links to books in molecular and cell biology, medicine, and other subjects (including protocols). |
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Search article databases to find journal articles, papers presented at conferences, and other sources. Most records include citations and abstracts with links to the full text of articles (when available). To access the full text, use the
button. (What's this?)
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BIOSIS Description: The most comprehensive biological sciences database. Sources: Over 6,000 journals, plus books and conference proceedings on a wide variety of biological and biomedical topics. Guides: HTML | PDF |
1926-present | Most |
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PubMed Description: More than 20 million biomedical citations from NLM's MEDLINE database, plus in-process citations and citations from other sources. PubMed also links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and complete genomes. Sources: About 5400 biomedical journals, plus books, author manuscripts, and other sources. Guides: HTML | PDF |
1947-present | Most |
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Web of Science Description: Covers all areas of science (Science Citation Index), plus the social sciences and arts & humanities. Cited reference searching allows you to search for articles that have cited a given work or author; related records show articles that share citations with a given work. Sources: More than 8300 journals in all areas of science. |
1900-present | Most |
Links to additional biological science article databases can be found here.
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