Research Guides: Basic Sciences (Health Sciences): Articles, Books, and Databases

Articles, Books, Databases

This page includes a select list of e-book, articles, and other resources of broad interest to basic scientists. For more help, please contact THL Basic Sciences Core at THLBasicSci@umich.edu.

Articles

E-Books

Products and Materials databases

Articles

These resources will connect you to articles. You can find individual journals (both print and online) through the Library's search.

Not all resources provide immediate access to full-text. Use MGet It to access full-text through M-Library's online collection.

Biosis Previews This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to life sciences research literature. Covers journals (5000+), reports, meetings (1500+), reviews, and books in all areas of biology.
EMBASE.com This link opens in a new window
More than 16 billion validated biomedical and pharmacological records from EMBASE and MEDLINE.
PubMed @ U-M (with MGet It links) This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 4,000 biomedical, nursing, dentistry and related journals, with over 27 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and related databases.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covering 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.

E-Book Resources

These resources will connect you to select e-books. For a more general search, please use the Library's catalog.

ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
Elsevier's single search product for the clinical health sciences. (NOTE: Access to pdfs of books requires creation of a personal account)
Springer eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides online full-text access to over 100,000 books in many subject areas published by Springer, one of the world's largest academic publishers. Includes nearly all books published by Springer in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese in different subject areas.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to online journals and books published by Wiley-Blackwell, covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

Products and Materials Databases

American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) Catalogs
ATCC is a private, nonprofit center which provides microorganisms, cell lines and molecular biology materials.
BenchSci
Find the best antibody to use in your experiment, based on published evidence in the literature.
Linscott's Directory of Immunological & Biological Reagents
Directory of more than 300,000 different products and services from hundreds of different commercial and governmental suppliers worldwide.