Use this guide to find key resources for Life Sciences research.
Start with University of Sussex's Library Search – It searches across all subjects and includes the university’s collections and subscriptions.
For deeper research, explore the subject-specific databases and tools listed here. The best resource to use depends on your topic, the type of sources you need, and your stage in the research process.
This page highlights good starting points and popular research databases used in Life Sciences. See other pages for more databases, key journals, and specialist research tools.
(Note: Chemistry has a separate guide.)
A database of over 50 Annual Review Journals, providing authoritative critical reviews of key research findings and developments across a broad range of scientific disciplines, including the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Written by leading scientists, the articles provide useful overviews of topics, summarizing and analysing the most highly cited research for a particular subject each year.
A full-text and abstract database of peer-reviewed scientific and technical research articles published by Elsevier. Covers a wide range of disciplines including physical sciences, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. Content dates from the early 19th century to the present.
A search tool for accessing citations and abstracts in biomedical and life sciences literature, bringing together content from MEDLINE, PubMed Central (PMC), and NCBI Bookshelf. Covers research articles, reviews, case reports, editorials, letters, and commentaries. Content is indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), allowing for precise topic searching.
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
A research methods resource created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Includes books, case studies, datasets, videos, and tools like the 'Methods Map' to support all stages of the research process. The University has access to the Core Collection and Sage Research Methods Cases.