Life Sciences: Key Databases
This guide contains resources, help and support from the library for Biomedical Science and Biomedical Engineering
The databases below are core for your subject area
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- MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowComplied by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, search MEDLINE for abstracts & citations for journal articles on health and life sciences topics including medicine, nursing and allied health.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowComplied by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, search PubMed for abstracts & citations some with full-text links for journal articles on health and life sciences topics including medicine, nursing and allied health.
- AMED This link opens in a new windowSearch for abstracts and citations of journal articles on alternative treatment topics including complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation.
- Biomedical & Life Sciences Lectures This link opens in a new windowDatabase of video lectures on biomedical, clinical and life sciences topics.
- Springer Compact This link opens in a new windowSpringer Compact includes access to over 2,000 full-text journals covering a wide range of health, humanities, medical, social sciences, science and technology subjects. Please note that access to all journals is not included.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowScienceDirect includes access to over 3,000 full-text journals from Elsevier covering a wide range of subjects including computer science, engineering, health sciences, life sciences and social sciences and humanities.
Learn more about ScienceDirect with the health databases video guides.
- Human Genome Project This link opens in a new windowThe Human Genome Project provides access to databases containing the complete set of human genes and the DNA base sequences.
- Human Protein Atlas This link opens in a new windowThe Human Protein Atlas portal is a publicly available database with millions of high-resolution images showing the spatial distribution of proteins in 44 different normal human tissues and 20 different cancer types, as well as 46 different human cell lines
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.
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