Biology


Academic search complete

Contains full-text peer reviewed journal articles as well as newspapers, blogs, wire services, and general interest periodicals from across all academic disciplines.

AGRICOLA

Includes citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions and is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic information covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences.

Annual reviews

Due to budget constraints and an increase in cost of more than 300% from the publisher, the KU Libraries can no longer afford to provide access to the complete Annual Reviews Collection, therefore the Libraries will only provide access to these titles effective January 1, 2018.  These titles can be accessed by searching the library catalog by journal title.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Search the collection of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.

BioOne Complete

Contains the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Birds of the World

From Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Birds of the World is a reference and research database featuring comprehensive life histories of more than 10,800 bird species and deep overviews of all 249 bird families. Includes scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology and ongoing updates by leading ornithologists, and is integrated with millions of bird records from eBird and media resources from the Macaulay Library. Birds of the World provides insight into the biology of  the world’s birdlife.

ScienceDirect

Provides citation access to books and over 2,000 journals published by Elsevier in the following disciplines: science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. Full-text content is available to most of the journal titles 1995 to the present.

SpringerLink

Provides online full-text access to journal titles from 1997 to 2016 (except for a small number of titles which are current) and to books published from 2005 to 2011. Published content is predominantly in the sciences, medicine, technology, business and economics.