NCBI Handbook, 2nd Ed."geared to advanced users of NCBI. Provides understanding of how bioinformatics resources at NCBI work."
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)Part of the NCBI's collection of life sciences databases. According to their website, OMIM is "a compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes".
Search for Biomedical Inventions/Patents
Google Patents Search-Search Beta collection for the full-text. Google scanned patent documents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Find Journal Articles
Engineering Village (Compendex)Engineering Index, abstracts 1970 to present. This is comprehensive listing of engineering information: over 18.8 million records from 76 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. It is indexed specifically for engineers using the Engineering Index Thesaurus, making search results consistently accurate and relevant to engineering research. (No full-text: make sure to follow the link at the bottom of the abstract to look at all the LTU journal titles to try to find full-text.)
JOVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments: BioengineeringA different type of database, JoVE is the first peer-reviewed scientific video journal for biological, medical, chemical, and physical research indexed in Medline and PubMed. The Library currently has a subscription to the Bioengineering section of JoVE.
Material ConneXionA comprehensive database of more than 9,000 materials to provide the cutting edge tools needed today to create smarter, more sustainable material solutions.
PubMedMillions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Differs from PubMedCentral in that not all articles are full-text.
Science Databases (EBSCO)Includes medicine, health, astronomy, physical and natural sciences, environment and more, and Omnifile full-text and Applied Science, Environmental Index, and more.. Use Linking to determine full-text availability.
ScienceDirectScience, Technology, Health, Psychology, Management: full-text from 1995 to present - the GREEN box means full-text is available.
SciFinderOnline version of Chemical Abstracts. NOTE: You must register for an account the first time, see link below.
ScopusAn excellent citation database indexing over 15,000 scholarly journals on all topics. Includes abstracts and article reference lists. Find out who is citing whom. Use the "WorldCat" link to determine if electronic full-text is available.
Springer Science+Business Media JournalsIncludes 1,600 full-text journals on Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Business and Economics, Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Social Sciences, Medicine, and the Natural Sciences (Physics/Chemistry/Math). Note: to limit to LTU holdings, uncheck the box that says "include Preview-only content."
Free Resources
arXivarXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,701,603 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
BiosciEdNet - digital sources for biological sciencesThe BEN Collaborative mission is not only to provide seamless access to e-resources but to also serve as a catalyst for strengthening teaching and learning in the biological sciences.
Genotype-Tissue Expression Project GTExResource for scientists to study human gene expression and genetic variation. Provides tissue bank for future research, in particular, genetically inherited diseases.
Inspirehep.netINSPIRE is a trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high energy physics.
PLOS (Public Library of Science)Peer-reviewed journal in science and medicine, full-text. Includes Microbiology, Ecology, Microbiology, Neuroscience among many other disciplines.
PrePrint Biosciences Server- Cold Spring HarborbioRxiv (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.
PubMedMillions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Differs from PubMedCentral in that not all articles are full-text.