Szilárd LibraryDatabases
This section includes links to databases for which we hold a subscription, such as the ISI Web of Knowledge. You can also find links to literature search tools, online catalogues of other libraries, specialist tools, and general resources. As we discover new sites of particular interest, we shall add them here.
Free Online Material incl. full-text articles
OpenDoar
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
Open Access Journals: DOAJ - one of the biggest, vetted OA journals collection
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Tools - Literature searching tools (sometimes free-text material)
B-A-S-E
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines containing also academic open access resources.
ISI Web of Knowledge
The following features are part of our subscription to the ISI Web of Knowledge, which is one of the world’s biggest citation databases, covering over 10,000 high impact journals and the corresponding current and retrospective science literature:
Web of Science is a search engine for the sciences
Journal Citation Reports lets you check the impact factor of a journal and its relevance.
Cited Reference Search an additional tool of finding researchers' articles.
OAIster
Digital resources and literature from open repositories as well as the deep net, also free-text material
Google Scholar
The well-known search engine aiming at academic publications and materials
HubMed: PubMed rewired
Save feeds, export to reference databases, upload references from PDFs into reference databases
LocatorPlus
Find journal abbreviations and other resources
MedPilot (DE)
MedPilot allows cross-searches in multiple databases.
DIMDI (DE)
DIMDI allows cross-searches in multiple databases
XploreMED
XplorMed is a server that supports exploratory literature searches in Medline
Highwire Press Stanford University
Tools - Protocols (subscriptions)
Current protocols in cell biology
Current protocols in cytometry
Current protocols in molecular biology
Current protocols in protein science
Springer Protocols - Platform for Methods in Molecular Biology (Heidelberg only).
(Go to the 'advanced search' link, and then select the MMB series from the series drop-down menue.)
- Biochemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Cell Biology
- Genetics/ Genomics
- Protein Science
Tools - EMBL generated resources
Bio-IT
The EMBL Bio-IT Portal for Computational Biology
EBIMed
EBIMed is a web application that combines Information Retrieval and Extraction from Medline
CiteXplore
CiteXplore combines literature search with text mining tools for biology
Tools - Online catalogues of libraries (sometimes free-text material)
VLIB – Max-Planck
Virtual library catalogue covering the most relevant libraries in the USA, UK and Germany
EZB
Electronic database covering journals
Système universitaire de documentation
Bibliographic information by French academic organisations.
Tools - additional databases from RSC
Catalysts & Catalysed reactions
General resources - Biology and life sciences
A central repository for online biology-related services by EMBL-EBI and the University of Manchester.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
The world's largest biomedical library
University of Heidelberg links for Biology
Harvard University links for Biology
Karolinska Institute Stockholm
Biology Browser
Information on the life sciences by Thomson Scientific
BiomedExperts
Database on researchers and networks
BioSupplyNet
The revised and updated BioToolKit provides access to over 1600 bioinformatics and neuroinformatics resources for the analysis and visualization of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome, and to neuroinformatics tools enabling visualization of neuroanatomic structure.
WikiPathways
WikiPathways is an open, public platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways by and for the scientific community.
General resources - Citing and reference tools
Writing a PhD thesis
There is material in the library; for a start you could have a look at the link above.