Subject Guide: Neuroscience

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Online Resources

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Medline with full text (1966-present)
• PubMed (the NLM interface to Medline, includes sequence data)
• PsycINFO (1967-present) or PsycINFO Historical (1887-1966)
• SocIndex
• AnthroSource
• CINAHL plus with full text
• BIOSIS
• Web of Science
• JSTOR

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on people, terms and concepts.

• AccessScience an online science encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of the human brain QP376 .E586 2002
• Dictionary of Cognitive Science BF311 .V56713 2004
• The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science   BF31 .E522 2001
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
• The Gale encyclopedia of mental health

Web Resources

Brain Power. Image by DelosJ, from Flicker under Creative Commons (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2525/4194089520_f00295ee6d.jpg).

Here are a few web sites you might find useful:

• Society for Neuroscience
• Brain Facts - click here for Denison University Podcasts (iTunes)
• Brain Explorer
• The Human Brain Atlas
• MedlinePlus > Brain and nerves
• Neuroscience Information Framework
• BioMed Central > Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry Gateway
• Mednar (a Web search engine for medical information).
• National Science Digital Library
• Intute
• Neuroscience Education

Online Journals

Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:

• Nature
• Science 1997-present (access through the publisher Web site)
• Science 1880-2004 (access through JSTOR)
• Annual Review of Neuroscience
• Trends in Neuroscience
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Progress in Neurobiology
• To determine whether we have a journal available online, please search the CONSORT catalog or use the Electronic Journal Finder.