Research Guides @ Fordham: Biological Sciences: Databases

Biology Databases

Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new window
Digitized books, journals, images and collections from a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries creating a global “biodiversity commons” of significant biodiversity materials. Includes the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Biological Science Database This link opens in a new window
On ProQuest's platform. Provides access to a wide range of biology topics, including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.

BioRxiv
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

BioMed Central BMC This link opens in a new window
Several hundred peer-reviewed open access journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine subject areas from Springer Science+Business Media.
Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
Brings scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology into a single platform where biologists and birders can find comprehensive life history information on birds from around the world. Illustrated.
Formerly "Birds of North America Online."
Encyclopedia of Life This link opens in a new window
Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library. Thousands of articles on biological sciences.
Environmental Studies - Gale In Context (formerly GREENR) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive resource on environmental topics that includes news, commentary, documents, conference reports, statistics, audio, video, images. Updated daily.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of environment journals and monographs covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. Some full text.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracts of over 384,000 items on the human impact to the environment, as well as full text for nearly 5,000.
International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology This link opens in a new window
This title features over 450 entries contributed by an international team of scholars and represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference relating to biological anthropology.
National Agricultural Library SEARCH This link opens in a new window
SEARCH is the USDA National Agricultural Library's main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) This link opens in a new window
A resource providing access to biomedical and genomic information created by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Multi-Disciplinary Science Databases

Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines with millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Full text of Annual Reviews on subscription, mostly in the sciences. No access to Economics and Computer Science titles.
ArXiv archive This link opens in a new window
A full-text, open archive and distribution server for theoretical and applied scientific research papers. Hosted by Cornell University. Coverage 1991 to the present.
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Full text of subscribed journals and four collections - Business, Management and Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
Nature Journal This link opens in a new window
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology.
Public Library of Science (PLOS) This link opens in a new window
A non-profit organization dedicated to making scientific literature freely available by publishing a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine. Includes submission of papers that have been shared
as preprints.
Science Database This link opens in a new window
On ProQuest's platform. A definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. Provides access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements vital to scientific and technical literature.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation database covering thousands of titles in Science, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Science, and Arts & Humanities going back to 1960.
Wiley Online Library - All Journals Database This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to all Wiley Journals Collection. Typical access is 1996/1997 to Present. Always click on the journal title to see specific years of access, even if there is no access icon visible on the front page.

Taxonomy Collections and Databases

These databases provide taxonomic information in biological sciences.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Contains authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
Linneaen Collections
From the collection of Carl Linnaeus, the "Father of Modern Taxonomy." Includes historic resources on insect, plant, fish, and shell taxonomies. Also includes correspondence, manuscripts, and dissertations.
National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
From the National Library of Agriculture, a reference resource providing profile information, organizations, and services about invasive species.

Library Services

ILLiad
Open an account with Interlibrary Loan to request access to books, articles, book chapters, etc. that Fordham does not own.
Document Delivery Request Form
If you would like a scan of a book chapter or a journal article in our print collection emailed to you, fill out the form linked above.
WorldCat
OCLC's subscription-based platform for precision searching of WorldCat. Offers robust options to search by title, author, subject heading, format, publisher, publication city, and more.

Biological Sciences: Databases

Biology Databases

Multi-Disciplinary Science Databases

Taxonomy Collections and Databases

Library Services

Reference & Instruction Department