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Writing & Presentations for the Life Sciences

General Literature and Database Resources

The following is a partial listing of scientific information resources available through the University of Kentucky Libraries System. You are strongly urged to visit and use the following sites where there is a much more comprehensive listing of resources:

• ALL UK Electronic resources
• UK Agricultural Information Center AIC)
• Agriculture Databases and Resources
• Biology Databases and Resources
• Life Sciences Databases and Resources
• UK Medical Center Library
• AIC Electronic Resource Guide
• Full Text Online Journals
• UK Interlibrary Loan Services

Plagiarism Resources

• UK Student Rights and Responsibilities
• Plagiarism: what is it and how to avoid it (UK Academic Ombud)
• What is Plagiarism and Why is it Important (University of Arizona)
• Citing Sources and avoiding Plagirism (Duke University)

Specific Literature and Database Resources

Most of the following databases are available off-campus for UK faculty, staff, and students. Please use the off-campus access instructions for accessing the UK library system from off campuses locations.

• Off-campus instructions

Database	Comments
WebSPIRS	Access to the following databases (and more that are not listed):
Agricola	IDatabase which indexes primarily USDA-funded research in agricultural research journals and extension publications produced by the National Agriculture Library.
Bioethicsline Plus	Comprehensive database on ethics.
Biological Abstracts	Comprehensive database in the life sciences from 1980-present.
CAB Abstracts	Indexes over 7,000 journals and includes comprehensive abstracts with content back to 1910. Most comprehensive agricultural research database and has international coverage.
Medline	Includes all areas of medicine back to 1966. It has the same data as PubMed but in a different format.
Current Contents Search	CC Search is the electronic version of Current Contents, providing access to tables of contents and bibliographic data from over 7,000 of the world's leading scientific and scholarly journals and approximately 2,000 books.
CSA Illumina	Includes a section of 23 databases in the Biological Sciences ranging from fisheries to biotechnology.
Community of Science	Includes GeoRef, U.S. Patent Citations, Federal Register, CRIS and much more.
PubMed	Maintained by the National Library of Medicine and is used by the life sciences and medical communities. Includes tutorials and MeSH browsing capabilities
InfoKat	University of Kentucky Libraries online catalog, includes books, journals, government documents owned by the University of Kentucky.
Current Protocols	A great resource to current methods and full text protocols in the life sciences.
Web of Science	Electronic access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index from 1989 to date.