LibGuides: Biotechnology: Articles, Journals, & Databases

Articles, Journals, & Databases

Below is the link to our full list of databases, as well as some key databases that may be helpful for you to consider.

Databases A-Z

Databases

arXiv An archive and distribution server for electronic pre-prints approved for posting after moderation, but not full peer review. Open access to 1,500,749 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Embase Covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree®.
Emerald Insight Publisher of the world's widest range of management and library & information services journals, as well as a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.
PubMed @ Duquesne Enables you to connect directly to Gumberg Library holdings via PubMed. PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as the out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
ScienceDirect Full text of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals published by Elsevier, Academic Press, and selected additional publishers from 1995 to present, and enables searching of abstracts of articles from more than 3,000 journals.
SciFinder Login with your personal username and password to search SciFinder. First Time Users must register before logging in: First time users
Scopus The largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. indexes content from 24,600 active titles and 5,000 publishers which is rigorously vetted and selected by an independent review board, and uses a rich underlying metadata architecture to connect people, published ideas and institutions.

Journals

Duquesne affiliates have access to several journals relevant to biotechnology. See a searchable list of journals at the link below.

Browzine - Biotechnology Journals (Opens New Window)
List of Biotechnology Journals (Opens New Window)
Nature - Biotechnology (Opens New Window) Nature Biotechnology is a monthly journal covering the science and business of biotechnology. It publishes new concepts in technology/methodology of relevance to the biological, biomedical, agricultural and environmental sciences as well as covers the commercial, political, ethical, legal, and societal aspects of this research.

Full Text Options

Finding Full Text
This guide explains the most frequently used ways to find full text at Duquesne.

LibKey Nomad
Once installed, this browser extension pops up in many databases and web pages to help you find full text. It takes less than one minute to install and get started.

Borrow From Other Libraries

ILLiad
When Gumberg does not have a journal article you need, order it for free using ILLiad. PDFs are typically delivered in 1-2 days.
EZBorrow
If Gumberg does not have a book you need, order it for free using EZBorrow. Books are typically delivered in 4-5 work days.