Life Sciences and Health Science

Alternatives of Web of Science and Scopus Database-

• PubMed Central (3.1 Million full text peer reviewed articles related to biomedical and Life Sciences from National Institute of Health , USA)
• Dimensions.ai ismultidisciplinary bibliographic and citation database. It requires creation of personal login account (free).
• OpenAlex ismultidisciplinary bibliographic and citation database.

• Lens database serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled and harmonised from Microsoft Academic, PubMed and Crossref, enhanced with OpenAlex and UnPaywall open access information and links to ORCID.

• Consensus (AI based search Engine)use AI to make expert information accessible to all.

• Scite_1.2bcitation statements extracted and analyzed 187m articles, book chapters, preprints, and datasets.

Full text Subscribed e- Resources (From University Campus Only)

• Search Annual Reviews journals
• SearchSpringer Life Sciences
• Browse Oxford Academic by subject Biological Sciences
• Browse Taylor & Francis by Subject

· Browse by Subject Life Sciences at Wiley Journals (Subscribed content upto 2019)

• ACS Journals(searches every journal published by American Chemical Society) (Subscribed content upto 2021)
• RSC Journals (searches every journal published by Royal Society of Chemistry) (Subscribed content from 2016 to 2018)
• Science, AAAS (Subscribed content from 2016 to 2019)

Open Access Journal and Articles

• BioMed Central publishes high quality open access journals
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) (Biological & Medical Sc.)
• bioRxiv ( Preprint archive of Biology, Started in 2013 by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory)
• medRxiv ( Preprint archive of Medical and Bio-medical literature, Started by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Yale, BMJ)
• Search DOAJ by Subject Biology
• Search Core (Single Gateway)
• Use BASE search(Comprehensive Bibliographical search to Open Access Articles and data)
• CSIR-NIScPR Journals (Single Gateway to search all CSIR India journals)
• Research4Life (A content portal for academic and professional resources for education, research, and policymaking)
• OSF Preprints (Preprint article archives)
• Hindawi ( 437 + Peer reviewed Journals in S&T)
• Indian Academy of Science Journals (Open access)
• Bentham Open Access (Search 230 plus peer-reviewed open access journals)

Specific Subject Sources

• Science Central (Centralized Institutional repository harvester of DBT & DST)
• Faculty of 1000 biology (Biological Science)
• Open Biology (Biological Science from Royal Society)
• PeerJPrePrints (( Preprint archive of Biology)
• AGRICOLA (AGRICultural Online Access) Provides book and article citations to agricultural literature . Some links to full-text documents online. The database covers materials from as far back as the 15th century.
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
• BioOne (Biological, Ecological and Environmental Science)
• E Life Sciences
• Wolters Kluwer Health (Bio Medical Science)
• Cochrane Database (Bio Medical Science)

Research Data

• re3data (A global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It can be browsed by Subject, Country, and Content Type).
• Zenodo (Open Data Repositories Rich in Bio Science)
• Protein Data Bank archive (PDB) (Since 1971)

Open Text Books

• Open Text Book (Gateway to access text books of several prestigious Universities of USA)
• DOAB (A community-driven discovery service for more than 79000 open access peer reviewed books)