LibGuides: Biotechnology: Web Resources

There are many excellent open web resources that you may wish to use to supplement the Library's digital and physical resources. These include open-access journals, freely available databases, organizations' websites, and more. Explore the links below to help find and utilize these sources.

Open Access or Government Databases

National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI "advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information." Search multiple databases to find books, articles, datasets, clinical trials, and more.

MEDLINE Plus This link opens in a new window
From the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE Plus covers over 500 diseases and conditions. It includes a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and is hosted by the the US National Library of Medicine. Find free, full-text scholarly articles published on biomedical and life sciences topics.
bioRxiv
(Pronouned "bio archive") A free, online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Most articles have not yet gone through peer-review or been published in academic journals, and some may still be draft manuscripts.
CDC Wonder
The CDC's Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research provides access to a wide array of public health information, including statistical research data, reports, mortality data, and more.
PLOS ONE
A peer-reviewed journal which publishes significant advances across "science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities."
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles for multiple disciplines
World Wide Science
"Global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases"

More Places to Search

Google Scholar

Note: Did you know you can link Google Scholar to the Library? Select the icon with the three horizontal lines and then choose "Settings" and "Library links." Type "Salt Lake Community College Libraries" into the search bar, tick the box next to it, and choose "Save." You can look for links from the Google Scholar search results to the Library's resources on the right side of your results list.

ResearchGate
This is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to connect and share papers. Links to ResearchGate PDFs may appear in your Google Scholar results. You must sign up with a free account to use ResearchGate.

AI Tools for Research

Elicit AI
Requires an account. Elicit helps with literature reviews by finding articles based on a research question. It can provide summaries of abstracts. It does not provide ACCESS to the articles.
Research Rabbit
Requires an account. Research Rabbit maps connections between citations and sources. It does not provide ACCESS to any articles.

Additional Websites

Science.gov
Content provided by 13 federal agencies on a wide variety of scientific subjects.
FDA: Biotechnology
Find the FDA's "Biotechnology Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information" for industry.
NCBI: BLAST
NCBI's Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) "finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance."
Human Genome Project
Learn about genomics, the Human Genome Project, and research from the National Human Genome Research Institute. The latter includes free software tools to analyze genomic data.
dkNET
"dkNET is a search portal that helps researchers find research resources relevant to their research and keep up to date on new tools, services and mandates to support robust and reproducible science. Research resources include reagents, organisms, software tools, databases and services."
GEN: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Find industry news and research reports.
USDA: Biotechnology
Learn more information about biotechnology from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Trying to Get Access to a Specific Article?

If you are looking for a specific article and you hit a paywall, please do not pay for access! Try these methods to find what you need

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Search for the article by title in ProQuest Central.

Make an ILL request with ILLiad
ILL Guidelines
Unpaywall
Pro Tip: If you use Google Chrome as your preferred browser, try adding the free Chrome extension Unpaywall. It will show you a green, unlocked icon when there is a legal, full-text version of the article you want available. This extension is not compatible with the Library's databases.

Finally, try asking a librarian. They're whizzes at finding information! You can contact the Science, Mathematics and Engineering liaison librarian Amy Scheelke at Amy.Scheelke@slcc.edu.

Professional Associations

BIO | Biotechnology Industry Organization
This is the site of a biotechnology industry advocacy group. A number of services are provided of which the member company profiles and links may be the most useful. Also presents state and local issues, publications, conference announcements, and news.
American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A nonprofit scientific and educational organization with over 11,900 members. Most members teach and conduct research at colleges and universities.

Want to hone your research skills?

Contact the Science, Mathematics and Engineering liaison librarian: Amy.Scheelke@slcc.edu.

Schedule a 30-minute library consultation
Meet with Amy to chat about your project, research, or questions.