Biology
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bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. 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. Articles on bioRxiv are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Pharmacy
- Psychology
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: bioRxiv
- Publisher: bioRxiv
- Type of resource:
- Journals
BIOSIS Previews abstracts and indexes information in biology, biochemistry, and the life sciences from more than 5,500 sources around the world, including journal articles, meeting and conference reports, books, and patents.
BIOSIS Previews is now part of Web of Knowledge, which also incorporates Zoological Record.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Publisher: Thomson Reuters
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Chemical References
Use the resources below for information about chemical names, structures, and properties. These resources can be searched by chemical name, CAS Registry Number, molecular formula or weight, InChIKey, or by structure.
- ChemSpider
A chemical structure database providing fast access to over 34 million structures, properties, and associated information. (Also see SyntheticPages for chemical reactions.) - PubChem
PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Pharmacy
- Nursing & Allied Health
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: Varies
- Type of resource:
- Drug References
- Statistics & Data
Environment Complete covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Full text for hundreds of journals and over 200 monographs is included.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Business
- Technology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Business
- Technology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's database of chemistry information for scientists, students, and the general public. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and much more. PubChem's data comes from government agencies, chemical vendors, journal publishers, and other sources.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Pharmacy
- Technology
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Type of resource:
- Drug References
- Journals
- Statistics & Data
Online access to Salem Press' The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- Mathematics
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: Salem
- Type of resource:
- Encyclopedias
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of ebooks covering a wide array of academic subjects and features ebooks from leading publishers and university presses. All ebooks in this collection have unlimited user access.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Ebooks
Academic Search Premier replaced Academic Search Complete on 1/1/2024. More info …
Academic Search Premier provides fast access to articles from thousands of full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers across a wide range of topics, including the STEM disciplines, healthcare, education, social sciences, and the humanities. Along with hundreds of full-text periodicals, ASP has indexes and abstracts for thousands of articles which can be requested via interlibrary loan.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: EBSCO
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Academic Video Online is a streaming video collection containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The Academic Video Online collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.
AVO was previously named VAST: Academic Video Online.
Formerly known as VAST: Academic Video Online.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: Alexander Street Press
- Type of resource:
- Videos
Each year, Annual Reviews reviews the most significant primary research to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Area of coverage include biomedicine (including pharmacy), biology, chemistry, and the social sciences.
- Subject area(s):
- Pharmacy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Psychology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: Annual Reviews
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a multidisciplinary collection of reference ebooks. Areas of coverage include zoology, history, and the social sciences.
- Subject area(s):
- Biology
- General Topics
- History
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
- Type of resource:
- Ebooks
- Encyclopedias
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. MEDLINE contains citations from approximately 5,600 journals published worldwide. MEDLINE Complete provides the full text of over 2,500 of these journals.
PubMed, the NLM's own MEDLINE search interface, is available here.
- Subject area(s):
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Pharmacy
- Biology
- Kinesiology
- Psychology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: EBSCO
- Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Type of resource:
- Journals
medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Subject collections include pharmacy and nursing.
When citing article manuscripts from medRxiv, note medRxiv's caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.
- Subject area(s):
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Pharmacy
- Biology
- Psychology
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: medRxiv
- Publisher: medRxiv
- Type of resource:
- Journals
Use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus to get definitions of medical terms, and to discover the best search terms for finding relevant articles in the MEDLINE biomedical journal database.
The MeSH thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. MeSH terms are used for indexing, cataloging, and searching for biomedical and health-related information and documents. MeSH provides a consistent way to find content with different terminology but the same concepts. MeSH terms are arranged in a hierarchical structure so that broad searches will retrieve articles indexed with more narrow terms.
- Subject area(s):
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Pharmacy
- Biology
- Kinesiology
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Type of resource:
- Dictionaries
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides statistical information to guide actions and policies which improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS provides accurate, relevant, and timely health data. NCHS is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Subject area(s):
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Biology
- Kinesiology
- Pharmacy
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Type of resource:
- Statistics & Data
Google Patents indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA), Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), and China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
- Subject area(s):
- Technology
- Biology
- Business
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- No restrictions; available to everyone.
- Simultaneous users: unlimited
- Vendor: Google
- Type of resource:
- Primary Sources
R2 Digital Library hosts a selection of biomedical ebooks for pharmacy, nursing, and other health sciences. R2 offers ebooks from many leading biomedical publishers, including the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. Watch this 2-minute tutorial to get started using R2.
- Subject area(s):
- Kinesiology
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Pharmacy
- Psychology
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: Unlimited
- Vendor: Rittenhouse
- Publisher: Rittenhouse
- Type of resource:
- Ebooks
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CAS SciFindern is the latest scientific information solution from the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more in an easy-to-use interface.
- Subject area(s):
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Pharmacy
- Technology
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: 1
- Vendor: American Chemical Society
- Publisher: American Chemical Society
- Type of resource:
- Journals
WebCSD offers fast searching of the Cambridge Structural Database. Search facilities include 2D substructure, molecular similarity, text/numeric and reduced cell searching. Text, chemical diagrams, and 3D structural information can all be studied in the results browser using entry summaries and an embedded three-dimensional viewer.
- Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
- Simultaneous users: Unlimited
- Vendor: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
- Publisher: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
- Type of resource:
- Drug References