Many of the sites listed below are links to journals that offer full text access to archived issues (usually 1997 - 1998). They may also offer access to abstracts of more recent articles (1997 - 2002). Several of the sites listed below serve as archives for full-text online journals themselves (e.g. High Wire Press). You may want to explore these first. Some web-sites of publishers usually offer the abstracts for free, but charge for full-text articles.
Archives of full-text journals and abstracts
| HighWire Press (Standford University) |
| Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals |
| Science Server (from Elsevier Press) |
| Synergy (from Blackwell Science)- offers 3 years of many of the leading science journals |
| NRC Research Press (search abstracts from Genome, Environ. Reviews + Canadian Journals of Cell Biology, Chemistry, Botany, Earth Sciences, Forestry, Microbiology, Zoology & more) |
| Springer-Verlag (search for abstracts in 485 journals in chemistry, environ. sciences, geosciences, life sciences, medicine & more). |
| SORA - Searchable Ornithological Research Archive |
| EDP Sciences - Many European journals, most with free access 1-year from publication |
Governement sponsored databases
| Government Research Center (pricey, but they offer free trials) |
| Agricola |
| PubMed |
| Grateful Med (Medline + others) |
| BioMedNet (abstracts,but also 5,000 free review articles from journals (from Elsevier Science Press) |
Specific Journals