Research Guides: Biology: Getting Started

Welcome to the Biology research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

Highlighted Resources

Gale eBooks Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.
PubMed
Comprehensive resource containing citations (not full articles) to biomedical articles and life science journals.

Using the library provided link will provide access to articles within Davidson College subscriptions for Davidson College students/staff/faculty.
Web of Science
An interdisciplinary resource with journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.

Global Plants Database
Database of digitized plant specimens and related materials from community contributors around the world. This resource also features reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs.
Merck Index Online
Contains entries on drugs and pharmaceuticals, common organic chemicals, and laboratory reagents. Entries include chemical names, molecular formula, chemical structure, physical data, literature references, and more.
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference contains short-entry and general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects from entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
While we do not have access to all of the titles in the full collection, the default search covers the titles that Davidson owns.