Life Sciences

Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

Web of Science - Clarivate
Search a variety of databases, including Web of Science Core Collection. Search across all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones from the drop-down menu. Also includes access to Journal Citation Reports. You can also search BIOSIS on its own using the lnk provided on this page. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses may be removed.  Web of Science support page

BIOSIS Citation Index - Web of Science
Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies and more. You can cross-search BIOSIS along with other databases using the 'Web of Science' link on this page, although searching BIOSIS individually gives access to some unique search tools. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email address may be removed. Web of Science support page 

EBSCO: Life Sciences databases
Includes MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus and Academic Search Complete. You can also search MEDLINE on its own using the link provided on this page. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

MEDLINE - EBSCO
Millions of citations from biomedical journals. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities. You can also search MEDLINE along with a collection of other databases, using the EBSCO: Life Sciences databases link listed on this page. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

PubMed
Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.

PubMed Central (PMC)
Archive of full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles.

ProQuest: Science and Technology databases 
Cross search a variety of databases including the ProQuest Biological Science and Aquatic Science Collections. Search all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones by clicking on 'Change databases'. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

ScienceDirect
Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters. ScienceDirect help page.

Semantic Scholar
AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, providing citation graphs and one-sentence summaries for scholarly papers. Video tutorials.

Cochrane Library
A collection of health-related databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

arXiv: Quantitative Biology
Archive for electronic pre-prints in the field of quantitative biology.

agriRxiv
Pronounced ‘agri-archive’, this is a free, open access source of unpublished pre-prints across the agricultural sciences. 

BioMed Central - Springer Nature
Over 200 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology and medicine.

Cogprints
Electronic archive of papers in psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.

ClinMicroNow (American Society for Microbiology)
Authoritative clinical microbiology texts merged into one searchable resource.

VLeBooks
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for Life Sciences.

ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections.

School of Life Sciences - online reading lists
Access the recommended reading for your modules.

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
Features nearly 330 videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colour.

British Pharmacopoeia
Official collection of standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances.

ClinMicroNow (American Society for Microbiology)
Authoritative clinical microbiology texts merged into one searchable resource.

Digimap
Web-based service delivering digital map data and high-quality cartographic products. Keele is subscribed to Digimap 'Ultimate' which includes all of the core collections: Ordnance Survey including National Tree Map, Historic, Geology, Marine, Environment, Aerial, Lidar, Global, Society, Pilot, Verisk and agCensus. For access, select 'Log in', search for 'Keele University' and login with your Keele username and password. Once logged in, you will be required to sign up for a personal account and agree to their licence terms annually to use Digimap. Digimap help page.

JoVE Core: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video textbook for introductory biology courses.

JoVE Lab Manual: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video manual for undergraduate biology laboratory.

JoVE Science Education: Basic Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video protocols and concepts of basic experiments in biology. Keele is subscribed to the 'General Laboratory Techniques', 'Basic methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology', 'Biology I' and 'Biology II' collections.

JoVE Science Education: Advanced Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video protocols and concepts of advanced experiments in biology. Keele is subscribed to the 'Neuroscience', 'Developmental Biology', 'Genetics' and 'Cell Biology' collections.

JoVE Journal: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Peer-reviewed scientific video journal for research.

JoVE Journal: Neuroscience (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Peer-reviewed scientific video journal for research.

Medicines Complete - Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Includes current editions of: ASHP Injectable Drugs Information; BNF; BNF for Children; Clarke's Analysis of Drugs & Poisons; Clinical Calculators; Critical Illness; Dale and Appelbe's Pharmcy and Medicines Law; Drug Monitoring Checker; Drug Compatibility Checker; Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes; Herbal Medicines; Injectable Drugs Guide; Martindale’s ADR Checker; Martindale’s: The Complete Drug Reference; Palliative Care Formulary; Pharmaceutical Expedients; Stockley’s Drug Interactions; & Stockley’s Interaction Checker.
For access, if you are not automatically logged in please select 'Login', then 'Login via Shibboleth/Open Athens' and search for 'University of Keele'. Log in with your Keele username and password.

Nature Precedings
Pre-publication research and preliminary findings.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
The NCBI advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

Springer Protocols
Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences. Full-text access 1980-2022.

British Library EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Connected Papers
Looking for papers that are similar/connected to the ones that you are already using in your research? This website will instantly generate a clickable graph of related articles/papers for you.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research
An academic search engine powered by AI

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Biology Collection. Kanopy's Neuroscience Collection. 

Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.

Nature
Access to Nature, a leading weekly international science journal, from 1997 onwards.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

Science
Full text access to Science journal. Access is from 1880 to the current issue.

If you need help using any Library Resources, or have questions you’d like to ask you can always contact us: library.help@keele.ac.uk, or start live chat.

The Liaison Librarian for Life Sciences is Julie Beard. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills you can contact Julie and ask for an appointment: j.l.beard@keele.ac.uk

You can also come along to our ‘…In a Nutshell’ training sessions. These workshops introduce key academic skills in bitesize, 45 minute, practical sessions.

There’s also guides and tutorials linked below that should help you get started:

• Try our new online tutorial and learn how to use Library Search effectively
• If you’re just getting started using the Library you can view our Library tour video and Welcome to your Library.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.