Scientific Literature Resources on the Internet

 

On-line literature sites that provide searchable information on articles in biology and medicine. Information on these sites includes article summaries (abstracts) and links to the original online text where available for free by the publishers.

PubMed A division of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offering abstracts on over 9 million biomedical research articles. No full text articles available, but links to articles from publishers offering free access to their journals become more common.
Medline Plus at the National Library of Medicine  Health topics, drug information, dictionary, organizations, publications, news, and library information from the US government
PubMed Central Search selected journals (limited number); free Electronic Publishing & On-line Journals from the National Institute of Health.

Biomed Central Search selected journals (limited number; free Electronic Publishing & On-line Journals from Current Science Group, a commercial operation. 

HighWire Press Search selected journals (limited number); free Electronic Publishing & On-line Journals from Stanford University. Note, these are journals publishing research in the life sciences and require some familiarity with technical and scientific jargon.  

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