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Databases for Biological and Environental Sciences

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Multi-disciplinary database. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 12 500 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for over 8500 of these journals. --- In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for a total of more than 13 200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1400 journals.
Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL An international digital library of biodiversity. --- BHL includes more than 32 million pages of various biodiversity literature. Most of the material, but not all of it, is published before 1923.
CAB Abstracts A database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences. --- The database contains over 3.5 million records from over 11,000 journals. books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally. Subjects covered include animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering, economics, veterinary medicine, human nutrition, and rural development. Coverage is from 1973 to the present, with abstracts in English prepared from papers originally published in over 75 different languages. VetCD and BeastCD included.
Global Plants Global Plants is the world's largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.
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Select GreenFILE from EBSCOhost database list. There is also open access search via http://www.greeninfoonline.com/
Medic The Finnish medical bibliographic database. --- Medic provides references to articles from about 80 medical journals as well as monographs, reports of universities and research institutions, meeting proceedings and academic dissertations. Medic is produced by Meilahti Campus Library Terkko. --- Contains references to medical and health sciences litterature, published in Finland and not included in international databases. Some links to fulltext publications are also included.
MEDLINE (R) (Ovid) A premier international biomedical bibliographic database. --- Covering fields including biomedicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, allied health, and in addition biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources.
Proquest Databases Provides tens of reference databases, some fulltext databases. It's possible to make searches in all of them or in each of them or in selected databases.
PubMed A premier international biomedical bibliographic database. Citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. --- Includes citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. A free resource. --- MEDLINE is a premier international biomedical bibliographic database. Covering fields including biomedicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, allied health, and in addition biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
SciFinder-n SciFinder-n is a research discovery application that provides integrated access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
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How to register http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/chemistry/databases
Scopus (Elsevier) Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature. --- Subject areas covered --- * Life Sciences -- Health Sciences (including 100% coverage of Medline titles) -- Physical Sciences -- Social Sciences --- Worldwide coverage; more than half of Scopus content originates from Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. --- References go back to 1996, abstracts go back further.
Web of Science - Core Collection (Clarivate) WoS provides access to the following reference databases: Science Citation Expanded (SCI) 1945-, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) 1956-, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) 1975-, Book Citation Index 2005-; Conference Proceedings Citation Index 1990-. --- Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research.
Zoological Record (Ovid) Provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. Easily searched collection of references from over 5 000 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other non serial literature from over 100 countries. --- Zoological Record has long been recognized as the unofficial register of taxonomic names and systematics, but other topics are also given comprehensive treatment using indexing in both controlled- and natural-language format. An online thesaurus of around 6,000 controlled terms arranged in hierarchies makes it easy to locate appropriate search terms. Scope notes and related term references are also provided.

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Journal Databases for Biological and Environental Sciences

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Multi-disciplinary database. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 12 500 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for over 8500 of these journals. --- In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for a total of more than 13 200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1400 journals.
American Chemical Society Publications A comprehensive collection of information products and services in the chemical and related sciences. ACS Web Editions and ACS Journal Archives provide searchable access to 3 million pages of original chemistry dating back to 1879.
Annual Reviews: Biomedical/Life Sciences Critical reviews on the primary research literature. --- The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). --- Inludes Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry; Animal and Veterinary Biosciences (abstracts only); Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Biophysics; Cell and Developmental Biology; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Clinical Psychology; Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics; Entomology; Food Science and Technology; Genetics; Genomics and Human Genetics; Immunology; Marine Science; Medicine; Microbiology; Neuroscience; Nutrition; Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease; Pharmacology and Toxicology; Physiology; Phytopathology; Plant Biology; Psychology; Public Health
BioOne Complete A database of more than 200 titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek This is an extensive database of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers over 50 000 OA journals in many languages. --- You can perfom searches in English or in German.
JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments University of Helsinki has access to the following videosections: --- JoVE Biology Section JoVE Neuroscience JoVE Medicine JoVE Science Education Clinical Skills I ja II.
OECDiLibrary Online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It comprises Book collections by theme, periodicals and the OECD statistical databases.
Proquest Databases Provides tens of reference databases, some fulltext databases. It's possible to make searches in all of them or in each of them or in selected databases.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) A rich electronic environment for research journals, bibliographic databases, reference works and eBooks. Only part of this literature has been subscribed.
Springer Link Online information service for scientific, technical, and medical journals and books. --- SpringerLink offers electronic and printed literature from Springer-Verlag publisher. It also offers the work of other publishers, including Urban and Vogel, Steinkopff, and Birkhäuser.
Wiley Online Library (Wiley) Extensive database of electronic journals and books of natural sciences and medicine, also economics and social science and humanities is included.

Open Access Services and Repositories

Directory of Open Access Repositories

Directory of Open Access Preprint Repositories – Biology / Life sciences

bioRxiv the preprint server for biology

EcoEvoRxiv preprints in ecology and evolutionary biology

agriRxiv preprints for agriculture and allied sciences

medRxiv the preprint server for health sciences

preprint info

List of preprint servers

Dictionaries and Thesauri

AFO - Luonnonvara- ja ympäristöontologia A tool for selecting terms for information retrieval and indexing documents related to agriculture, forestery, food, nutrition, household sciences, consumer research, rural development and environmental sciences. --- Contains Finnish index terms, English index terms, scientific names of plants, plant diseases, and pests.
AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus A multilingual structured thesaurus of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment). It consists of words or expressions (terms), in different languages and organized in relationships (e.g. broader", "narrower", and "related"), used to identify or search resources. Its main role is to standardize the indexing process in order to make searching simpler and more efficient, and to provide the user with the most relevant resources.
CAB Thesaurus The CAB Thesaurus is the essential search tool for all users of the CAB ABSTRACTS™ and Global Health databases and related products. The CAB Thesaurus is not only an invaluable aid for database users but it has many potential uses by individuals and organizations indexing their own information resources for both internal use and on the Internet.
Environmental Dictionary EnDic The Environmental Dictionary EnDic covers a wide field of environmental protection and nature conservation - e.g. such fields as meteorology, hydrology, environmental engineering, water supply and wastewater treatment, waste management, and the environmental policy of the EU.
Finto (Finnish thesaurus and ontology service) A Finnish thesaurus and ontology service, which includes General Finnish thesaurus YSA, Medical Subject Headings FinMeSH and Finnish Music Thesaurus MUSA and many more.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) The MeSH Browser is an online vocabulary look-up aid available for use with MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings). --- It is designed to help quickly locate descriptors of possible interest and to show the hierarchy in which descriptors of interest appear.
MOT Kielipalvelu Dictionaries Basic dictionaries: English-Finnish-English-Finnish, Swedish-Finnish-Swedish, German-Finnish-German, French-Finnish-French, Spanish-Finnish-Spanish, Finnish-Estonian-Finnish, Finnish-Russian-Finnish, --- In addition: the Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish; specialised dictionaries and vocabularies: medicine, biology, law, foreign trade -- Norstedts stora engelska ordbok; Schildts finlandssvensk ordbok; -- Collins Compact Thesaurus; English spell-checking
Oxford English Dictionary A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 600 000 words, both present and past. OED traces the usage of words through quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. --- Revised and new entries are added every three months.
Termix (based on MeSH and FinMeSH) Thesaurus based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and its Finnish translation FinMeSH. You can browse thesaurus hierarchically and click on direct search links to PubMed and Medic. --- The languages available are English and Finnish.
Tieteen termipankki The Bank of Finnish Terminology in Arts and Sciences (BFT) is a multidisciplinary project which aims to gather a permanent terminological database for all fields of research in Finland. The project has created this Semantic MediaWiki platform, which offers a collaborative environment.

Statistics

Agriculture and Rural Development A wide range of economic and statistical data on agriculture and rural development in the European Union.
EUROSTAT Statistics gathered by by the statistical office of EU from the National Statistical Institutes of the member states. --- Eurostat webpage contains statistics (partly as pdf), statistical bulletins and information about statistical publications. Updated continuously.
Luke Natural Resources Institute Finland – Statistics The Natural Resources Institute Finland produces and publishes Finland's statistics on food and natural resources. These statistics provide information on the trends and current state of all fields in which the institute operates. The Natural Resources Institute Finland serves as one of Finland's four statistics authorities.
Nordic Statistics Freely accessible database featuring statistics that facilitate comparisons between the Nordic countries based on a range of parameters and over time.
OECDiLibrary Online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It comprises Book collections by theme, periodicals and the OECD statistical databases.
Statistics Finland Statistics Finland is Finland's national statistical institute that produces impartial statistics on Finnish society. Our task is to process data accumulated from various data sources into statistics to support decision-making and for the use of citizens, researchers and others needing data.
THL Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare – Statistics and Data THL produces a range of statistics in the field of social welfare and health care to support decision-making, development and research.
UNdata UNdata is an internet-based data service which brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point.
UNESCO – Institute for Statistics Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.

Patents

Espacenet European Patent Office provides users with high-quality online patent data from more than 80 different countries.
Free Patents Online FreePatentsOnline (FPO) was developed to make patent research faster, easier, and more accessible than ever before. Further, it was built with the evolving model of the web and open access.
Google patents Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which are taken from the original USPTO database (which is in the public domain). All 7 million patents have been put in the database. Optical character recognition (OCR) has been performed on the pages to make them searchable. This searchability includes all US patents.
Patent Information Service – Finnish Patent and Registration Office Search for Finnish patent and utility model applications and registrations, supplementary protection certificates, and classic European patents validated in Finland. You will find basic details, documents, and information about status, validity and payments.
SciFinder-n (CAS)
Scopus (Elsevier)

Database Tutorials and Guides

EBSCOhost advanced searching video (2022, 2:36 min)
Ovid tutorials (i.e. CAB Abstracts)
ProQuest guide; advanced searching video (UTS Library 2020, 3:40 min)
ScienceDirect tutorials
Scopus tutorials
SpringerLink search tips
Web of Science search video (2021, 5:12 min)