Biology, Biosciences, Biomedical science & Biochemistry

Key Databases

An online interactive educational resource on human anatomy. Access is available to 3D Atlas a perfect tool for understanding structure and function of the human body, with detailed anatomical text covering every structure and Anatomy & Physiology providing comprehensive foundations in function from gross to microanatomy - 20-topic systemic resources filled with interactive models and animations, as well as case studies, clinical content and quizzing.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

Provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 34 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

Comprehensive source of information for nurses, and allied health professionals providing fast and easy access to top journals, evidence based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules. (Upgraded from CINAHL Plus to CINAHL Ultimate in September 2023)

Access: Students and staff based at University of Wolverhampton campuses and all distance learners with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: Partner students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot access this database

Comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources, covering over 40 million publications, preprints and other documents.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

MEDLINE with Full Text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It provides full text for 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

Access: Students and staff based at University of Wolverhampton campuses and all distance learners with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: Partner students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot access this database

PubMed is a free resource providing access to more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. This is not a full text resource however you can use the click "Free full text" on the filter sider bar to narrow results to resources that are available for free on the web. Please note that if you want to create a personal account you will need to sign up using one of the 3rd party logins listed on their page.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

ScienceDirect provides access to the scientific, technical and medical journals of Elsevier and participating publishers.
It contains more than 16 million articles, 2,500 journals, 250 full open access journals, 39,000 books and 330,000 topic pages.

For a complete list of our subscribed titles, click the "More information" link.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

SciFinder is a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.

Access: Students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: Partner staff at all sites cannot access this database

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature with more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

Web of Science is a research platform that provides access to: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes, Journal Citation Index and MEDLINE.

Access: All students and staff with a University of Wolverhampton login can access this database

Restrictions: None

Journals and other resources

Bioscience journals on BrowZine

NCBI Molecular biology / genomics databases
Many of the databases can be cross-searched via the text-based Entrez interface. Particularly useful for the seamless links from gene sequences to articles in Medline (PubMed).