E-Resources for Biological Sciences & Medicine

Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies with access to more than 7,000 peer reviewed journals and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.

Searches six ASFA databases: Aquaculture Abstracts, Marine Biotechnology Abstracts, Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality, Ocean Technology Policy & Non-Living Resources, Oceanic Abstracts, and Biological Sciences and Living Resources. Subjects covered include marine environments, policy and legislation, wildlife management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments.

General database covering all subject areas, including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Provides citations to more than 12,600 academic journals and magazines.

The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library contains a large collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. This database covers a variety of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

Indexes over 50 bioscience research journals focusing on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text access is available.

Provides access to journals, meetings, patents, and books in the areas of life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

Formally known as Birds of North America, this database has expanded to include Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, and Bird Families of the World. Provides 10,721 species accounts from all 249 bird families.The platform merges comprehensive life histories of bird species with range maps, illustrations, photographs, and video and audio recordings from Cornell's Macaulay Library.

Cumulative Index to nursing and allied health, including topics on nursing, allied health, biomedicine, consumer health, and health sciences librarianship. Materials indexed include professional journals, books, dissertations, standards of professional practice, and educational software. Some full text is provided.

Covidence provides guided online software for streamlining evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and gap maps. This software works with citation managers such as Zotero and Endnote, allowing users to filter studies with machine learning or record screening and voting records per studies. Covidence also screens abstracts and full text, creates risk of bias tables, and exports results to common statistical packages. 

To sign up for this trial, email Librarian Claire Curry with your name and ou.edu email address. The OU community has unlimited access and reviews during this trial period, but user accounts must be set up manually by invitation. 

OU Libraries is trialing this resource until April 30th, 2024. Please share your feedback on this resource.

Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

Determines influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in science fields as well as emerging research areas.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoBASE covers human and physical geography, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, ecology, nature conservation, international development, and related disciplines. Materials indexed include journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports.

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. It includes a growing herbaria community-contributed collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials. Also includes reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, and links to taxonomic literature.

Health and medical information intended for a nonspecialist audience. Materials indexed include magazines, reference books, and health pamphlets as well as academic journals. Includes more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports.

Provides access to scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, such as nursing, allied health, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. Some full text is available.

Covers the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture. Materials indexed include journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (technology and culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

This database is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Provides access to materials in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Full text is available.

Provides reference books, data sets, and information in the fields of chemistry, the life sciences, and materials science and engineering. Full text is available.

Index and abstracts to journals published internationally, covering medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other health fields.

Index and abstracts to journals published internationally, covering medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other health fields.