Getting Started:
Here are some good entry points to search for published research results, books, protocols, and data.
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Articles
Subject Focused
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
Click here for tutorial - CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCAB Abstracts is one of the largest agricultural databases covering international research literature in a wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition. Especially useful to find information for specific countries on these topics.
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General
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
Click here for tutorial - Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science (WoS) is a collection of databases that cover all topics. This link will take you to the page that searches all of these databases. To access more specific search tools you will need to search one database at a time using the dropdown menu.
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Books
Protocols
Protocols
Find detailed information about laboratory procedures.
- Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window
Data
- NCBIprovides access to an integrated collection of information about gene sequences, nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, and other similar material. Each item has references to the biomedical literature from PubMed
- ISU's DataShareIowa State University’s DataShare is an open access repository for sharing, publishing, and archiving research data created by Iowa State University scholars and researchers.
- Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Research Guide
- Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology Research Guide
- Biology Research Guide
- Chemical and Biological Engineering Research Guide
- Chemistry Research Guide
- Food Safety Research Guide
- Genetics, Development & Cell Biology Research Guide
- Microbiology Research Guide
- Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Veterinary Medicine Resources
