Contact Your Librarians!
Librarians are happy to help with any research questions, or to have a consultation in-person or virtually. Contact us below.
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to the U-M Library Science (General) guide! This guide outlines the library's resources for the planning, management, publication, and preservation of academic research. We describe the components of each section below:
For any and all questions, contact us at science.libs@umich.edu or schedule an appointment. We provide customized instruction and research consultation along every stage of the research lifecycle.
- PlanningCreating a Data Management Plan, Conducting a Literature Review, Writing a Grant Proposal
- ManagementVisualize and Analyze Data
- PublicationSelecting a Publication, Publishing Open Access, Communicating Research
- PreservationThe 2022 OSTP Memo, Curating Data, Submitting to a Repository
- Our WorkshopsA listing of upcoming and past library workshops relevant to science faculty and researchers.
Recommended Science Databases
For more specific databases by discipline, see the subject guides below.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowInternational multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCovering 12,000+ scholarly journals, plus selected books and published conference proceedings in all academic disciplines, the Web of Science Core Collection combines seven citation indexes which permit searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address.
- PubMed @ U-M (with MGet It links) This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 4,000 biomedical, nursing, dentistry and related journals, with over 27 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and related databases.
- SciFinder This link opens in a new windowCombined access to Chemical Abstracts CAPlus, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCAT databases and Medline. Search by chemical structure or substructure, reaction, name, formula, etc., or by natural language query.