Welcome
I'm Liz Clarke, the Academic Librarian for Biological Sciences. Contact me if you need advice / help with using Library resources to support your study, teaching or research, or if you would like to recommend a book / journal for our collections.
SEARCH OUR COLLECTIONS
| Library Search | Library Search is the one-stop shop for searching all of our collections - physical and electronic. It attempts to pull in data from every database we have access to, and is a good place to start a search. |
| Find Databases | The Library subscribes to many databases, and to get the best results you'll need to search subject-specific databases individually (rather than through Library Search). |
| Find E‑Journals | Each database we subscribe to includes content from many different journals. If you want to look at articles from just one, use the Find E-journals tool to see which journals we have access to. |
More information on how to navigate these tools can be found in our SCI Guide to the Library
Key resources for Biological Sciences
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS)
Over 5,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles on life sciences written by leading researchers.
Medline
An index database. Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world from journals covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems and the biomedical sciences. Available via 3 alternative routes:
Oxford Scholarship-Biology Collection
Biology ebook collection from Oxford University Press
Scopus
Database of peer-reviewed journal articles in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities with links to full-text where available.
Web of Science /(Web of Knowledge)
Database of peer-reviewed journal articles and proceedings in all subjects with links to full text where available.
Other useful resources for Biological Sciences
Cite them right
Guide to referencing different information sources.
CSH Symposia on Quantitative Biology
Articles from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory annual conference on new developments in biological research.
EBook Central
Ebook collection
Google Scholar
Web search engine for scholarly literature, powerpoints etc.
NBI (JIC/IFR) Library Catalogue
Norfolk Biodiversity Information Service (NBIS)
POSTnotes
Good introductions to topics: follow up the references for further reading.
Science Direct
Database of journal articles published by Elsevier
Scitable
Genetics and cell biology, science communication and scientific career information provided by Nature Education.
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a genome database for Arabidopsis thaliana.
UK Government departments /agencies
Links to government publications from DEFRA, Food StandardsAgency etc.
Broken links? email e.clarke@uea.ac.uk
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Academic Librarian
Dr Liz Clarke
e.clarke@uea.ac.uk
Tel. 01603 591249
Room 1.16, Library
Office hours: Mon-Thurs 9 -13.30
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