Research Help
This guide provides information about accessing key resources in biology, as well as resources and tips for conducting and publishing research.
Need help? Please don't hesitate to contact us:
Helen Brown, Librarian - Vancouver
For quick research help, you can also contact Woodward Library via email and in-person, or use the AskAway chat service.
Mathew Vis-Dunbar, Librarian - Okanagan
mathew.vis-dunbar@ubc.ca | 250.807.8254
Key Resources
- ScopusSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation.
- Web of Science Core CollectionMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
- Zoological RecordCore database of articles and supplementary materials containing the world's zoological and animal science literature. Searchable on the Web of Science platform.
- SummonSummon is a single access point to find most of the UBC Library collections including: print books, ebooks, scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles, theses and dissertations, digitized items, conference proceedings, and images.
Online Reference Sources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)Find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
- NCBI Taxonomy BrowserFor browsing the taxonomic structure or for retrieving sequence data for a particular group of organisms.
- Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)An online encyclopedia of animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria with text, images, video, maps, and data.
- Entrez NCBI Database SearchDescribes and provides a link to each NCBI database, which searches data and literature on genes, proteins, chromosomes, and biochemicals. All NCBI databases can be searched simultaneously from this page.
- BioModelsStores a wide selection of mathematical models for biological systems in a freely accessible repository.
- Tree of Life Web ProjectProvides information about the evolutionary history of organisms, and allows navigation between different taxonomic levels through a phylogenetic tree.
