Microbiology (SUBJECT GUIDE): Articles & Databases

Note: As of November 2019, current content from Science should be accessed through the Academic Search Ultimate database. The complete archive—from 1880 to the present with a rolling 6-year embargo—also remains available through JSTOR.
A weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market.

A comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. Organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to delineate chapters. Includes not only taxonomy, but also prokaryotic biology and technology of taxa in a broad context. 4th ed., 11 volumes, 2013-2014.
Note: To search Prokaryotes, first select a volume and then type a keyword into the "Search within book" box.

Fully covers over 9,500 scholarly journals across 128 scientific disciplines. Specializes in cited reference searching for comprehensive identification of later works that have cited an article published in one of the covered journals. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection database. Coverage: 1900-present.

Covers over 4,300 scholarly journals in the life sciences, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology. Coverage: 1994-present.

Essentially equivalent to PubMed from the National Library of Medicine, but with full text for select journals. Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Over 4,800 current biomedical journals are indexed; full text for 1,470 journals. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Incorporates PREMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, AIDSLINE & more.

Includes full-text articles from over 80 high impact journals in biological, ecological and environmental studies.
Please Note: UW System-wide access to the full BioOne.1 collection ended on December 31st, 2018. Murphy Library retains access to content published through the end of 2018 and has begun individual subscriptions to select titles in the collection.

Full-text database with over 700 journals and magazines covering computing, technology and engineering disciplines.

This database includes full text access to science reference books, encyclopedias, essays, and biographies of scientists as well as full text articles from science periodicals. Access alternative interface

Includes 2,500 journals and 11,000 books published by Elsevier in the areas of health & life Sciences, physical sciences, and social & behavioral Sciences. Thanks to funding by academic initiatives, we now have the "complete" collection, which includes pre-1995 Journal Content with deep coverage available back to Volume 1, Issue 1 and practically all Elsevier online books, including Major Reference Works, Books Series, Handbooks, eBooks Front lists and Back lists back to 1995.