Research Database: General Reference

  • Academic OneFile

    1980+  Academic OneFile provides full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources

  • Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Twelve major natural history libraries, botanical libraries & research institutes including the MBLWHOI Library have collaborated to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. Over 12 million pages are searchable using the uBio species name-finding tool.

  • Biography in Context

    600,000+ biographies on more than 525,000 people.

  • BISC eReference Collection Index

    Digital reference library specializing in the biomedical and life sciences compiled by the members of the BioInformation Science Consortium

  • Elsevier Science Direct

    Single search interface to > 2,500 journals, books & reference works in life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences.

  • Foundation Directory

    US Foundations, corporate giving programs and grantmaking public charities. Contact library@mbl.edu for login and password. This database is restricted to WHOI users only.

  • Google Scholar

    From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

  • GPO Monthly Catalog

    1976+ Publications of the U.S. Government Printing Office.

  • Infotrac

    1980+ Collection of databases covering a wide variety of topics from health to social sciences for levels

  • Ingenta

    1988+ Searchable database of more than 30,000 multi-disciplinary journals. Full-text available via MBLWHOI Library subscriptions or credit card.

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