Open Access Databases and Search Engines for Life Science: An Overview

Document Type : Primary Research paper

Authors

1 Research Scholar, PG Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

2 Assistant Professor, PG Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Abstract

The Life Sciences is an interdisciplinary branch of Science. With growing amounts of Life Science data available and coming in from a variety of input points and burgeoning over time, figuring out approaches to best manage, establish, and control data so that it can be evaluated to extract significant and advantageous information is a challenge. In this paper, we describe the major open access databases and search engines useful in Life Science setting for finding and retrieving articles in academic journals, archives or other congregations of scientific and other articles.

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