Biotechnology Subject Page

Most main lending books (3 week and 1 week) for your subject are located on the second floor. Search the Library Catalogue to find out what books we have or browse the shelves at the relevant number. Here are some of the main shelfmark numbers for biotechnology and related topics.

Subject	Book Shelf Mark
Biochemistry	572
Biology (General)	570
Biotechnology	660.0
Genetics	576.5
Immunology	616.079 and 571.96
Microbiology	576

E-books

The library currently provides access to thousands of  e-books. When you search the library catalogue you can refine your search by choosing "E-Books" on the left hand side of the screen. When you click on the link to view the book you may be asked to verify yourself as a registered student by logging in with your computer username and password (Novel login).

Apart from individual titles accessible via the catalogue, we also have searchable collections of e-books. Have a look at our e-books page for a full listing.

All our e-books can accessed off-campus.

Can’t find the book you are looking for?

Ask for help at the information desk. If we don’t have books listed on your recommended reading list you can contact your Subject Librarian or fill out the book suggestion form

Reference Books

Reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries can be a great place to start your research. Reference books are located on the ground floor beside the information desk and may not be borrowed. We also have a number of general reference books available electronically .

Some recommended reference books

Gale encyclopedia of science

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology

Gale encyclopedia of medicine

Encyclopedia of science, technology and ethics

Encyclopedia of Human Biology

Molecular biology and biotechnology: a comprehensive desk reference

Illustrated dictionary of immunology

Journals

The A-Z of journals is a listing of all our print and e-journals. It will tell you if the journal you are looking for is available in print here in the library and/or electronically on one of our databases. You can search this list by entering the title of the journal or you can get a list of journals in your chosen subject area by browsing.

Remember – search by journal title NOT article title.

See what journals are available for the following subjects:

Biology - General 

Biochemistry

Biophysics 

Cell Biology (Cytology) 

Genetics 

Microbiology & Immunology 

Biomedical Engineering

Sciences - General

To search for articles on your topic carry out a search on one of our databases.

Databases

The following is a list of the most important databases for Biotechnology and related subjects. A full list of all our databases is available from the A to Z of databases.

Some databases contain the full-text of the articles others provide you with a citation/abstract only. In the case of citation/abstract databases click on the this will search all our databases to see if the article you require is available

Key Biotechnology Databases – start your searching here

Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes the cited references from indexed articles.
Help: Database Guide (pdf)  | Search Tips (07:33 minutes)

MEDLINE
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

• MEDLINE via OVID   . Help Guide
• PubMed: freely available version of Medline. Tutorial
• MEDLINE via EBSCO 

ScienceDirect
Full-text access to over 1200 science, technology and medicine journals, including over 700 in the life sciences. E-tutorials

EMBASE  
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), is the most comprehensive database in biomedicine and pharmacology and gives you access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. The EMBASE journal collection is international with over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database.
Help

Biomedcentral
Full-text access to nearly 200 peer –reviewed biomedicine journals

Other databases

Academic Search Complete     
Full-text access to over 5,000 peer-reviewed journals in: business, communications, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, education and nursing.

Annual Reviews  
Authoratitive, analytic reviews in 30 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesising the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

Hindawi  
Hindawi is a fast growing academic publisher with 40+ journals in the fields of Biology & Medicine, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, and Mathematics. Hindawi is the only "Open Access" publisher with fully Open Access journals spanning a wide range of subjects in Science, Technology, and Medicine.

InformaHealthcare  
Previously hosted on InformaWorld, InformaHealthcare hosts nearly 200 journals in medicine, pharmacology, neurology and psychiatry. View a list of titles here.

Nature journals 
Full-text access to a number of Nature Publishing titles including Nature, one of the world’s most highly cited interdisciplinary science journals. List of titles available.  

Oxford Journals 
Consists of 169 online journals from many disciplines including scientific, technical and medical. Includes access to JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

SAGE journals online  
Full-text access to over 400 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine

SpringerLink
Full-text access to over 1,000 journals including over 300 life sciences and biomedical titles.

Wiley InterScience 
Full-text access to over 500 journals. Has good life sciences coverage.

Wilson Omnifile  
A multi-disciplinary database which includes full-text access to a large number of general science and applied science & technology journals.

You can also search across a number of databases at once using Summon

Advanced Search | What is Summon?

Subject gateways and directories of weblinks

Academic Info- Biotechnology Links and General Resources

Intute – Biological Sciences

BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources - Biotechnology

More weblinks will be appearing shortly.

Try using a subject specific search engine e.g. Scirus

Would you like to suggest a weblink? Email the Science Librarian