Alphabetical Shortcuts
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Straight to Web of Science
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Accelrys Available Chemicals Directory (may not work with some browsers). If asked to login, select the ‘Authenticate with Shibboleth’ option. Select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’ from the list, then enter your network login details if prompted.
ACD/I-Lab Physiochemical properties database. If asked to login, select the ‘Authenticate with Shibboleth’ option. Select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’ from the list, then enter your network login details if prompted.
AGBIOS Changed to CERA (see below)
AGRICOLA Open access. Renowned agriculture based bibliographic database (American)
Araport A one-stop-shop for Arabidopsis Thaliana genomics
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BBSRC Research Grant Database Both current and completed research
Biochemical Pathway Maps Digitised version of the Roche Chemical Pathways wall chart
Biochemistry Images
Biosis Citation Index Enter your network login details if prompted.
BIOSCI Forum for professionals in the Biological Sciences
BRENDA Comprehensive Enzyme Information
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Cases Database Open access (BMC). Medical case reports database
Cell Biology Image and Video Library
CERA GM Crop Database
Chemicalize Physiochemical property prediction tools with Lipinski-like filters. If asked to login, select the ‘Authenticate with Shibboleth’ option. Select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’ from the list, then enter your network login details if prompted.
Chemspider Molecule database drawing from 400+ datasources. If asked to login, select the ‘Authenticate with Shibboleth’ option. Select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’ from the list, then enter your network login details if prompted.
CiteSeer Scientific Digital Library
Clinical Trials Register UK
Current Contents Click on the login button, then select the Institutional login
Current Controlled Trials Metaregister
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DANS Search facility for the Dutch Institutes that place their work on the web
DETHERM Thermophysical properties of pure substances and mixtures. If asked to login, select the ‘Authenticate with Shibboleth’ option. Select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’ from the list, then enter your network login details if prompted.
Digital Flowers Annotated images of many plants
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Access online only if you are a Norfolk C.C. Libraries member. Please enter your Norfolk Libraries card number for access
Ensembl Annotation of Eukaryotic Genomes
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Food Additive Specifications United Nations
Food Composition USDA nutrient data
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GeneCards Human gene database
Genome Database by NCBI
Global Invasive Species Database
Google Guide How to use all of Google’s features
Google Scholar A broad search of scholarly literature
Gramene A comparative mapping resource for grains
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Herbs and botanicals database from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
I J
Infotrac Access online only if you are a Norfolk C.C. Libraries member. Please enter your Norfolk Libraries card number for access. (Infotrac is a searchable archive of major newspapers, including a complete record of The Times newspaper).
Journal Citation Reports Enter your network login details if prompted.
Journal TOC’s Table of Contents database capable of sending RSS feeds. Free registration required to save personal searches
M
Medline now PubMed, see below
N
National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) A collection of databases covering biomedical and genomic information
National Statistics Office Census data for the UK
Nutrient Data Laboratory US national nutrient standard reference database
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Libraries member. Please enter ‘NOR’ then your Norfolk Libraries card number for access
Oxford English Dictionary Compact version
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Patents – European Patent Office (with downloadable copies of patents, including other worldwide versions)
– Also other useful patent links for USA and Worldwide
Peptaibol Database Crystallography database
Plant GDB Plant sequences database with download facility
Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary Multimedia online learning facility
Plant Variety Database EU Agricultural and Vegetable plant variety database
PubChem Bioassay, Compound and Substance database
PubMed Open access scientific literature database
PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central Europe
Q R S T
Reaxys Select the ‘Institutional Sign-in’ option and select ‘UK Federation’, then on the next page start typing and select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’. Enter your network login details if prompted.
Stateman’s Yearbook Print available in library. Online alternative: CIA Factbook
TOXNET A collection of toxicology and environmental health databases which can be searched as one
U V W X Y Z
Web of Science Login with your network login details.
Zetoc Select the ‘Institutional Sign-in’ option and select ‘UK Federation’, then on the next page start typing and select ‘Norwich Bioscience Institutes’. Enter your network login details if prompted.